The interiors of the Fort Davis house. While the extension differentiates itself from the historic adobe on the exterior, the interior seeks to unify them. A design collaboration with @foxfoxstudio . Constructed by @methodbuildingco . Photos by @caseycdunn . Now featured in Dwell - link in bio.
Tucked into an eroded field of igneous magma formations, this extension to a historic adobe in Fort Davis quietly navigates the terrain and looks out to the ridge beyond. A design collaboration with @foxfoxstudio . Constructed by @methodbuildingco . Photos by @caseycdunn . Currently featured in Dwell - link in bio.
My review of Lina Bo Bardi: Material Ideologies is out in the latest Texas Architect Magazine. Link in bio.
Her desire to create a “poor” architecture that embraced and served all classes of people alienated her from her contemporaries. And, after all, she was an unaffiliated woman in a masculine profession and culture. Consequently, her name and work remained obscure outside of Brazil during her lifetime. Material Ideologies marks a culmination of scholarship and documentation that has continued to grow since her death. In her essay, Beatriz Colomina underscores this point as she writes: “Her shocking absence from all the canonic histories of modern architecture (from Tafuri to Frampton, to Colquhoun) has liberated her. She doesn’t fit their narrow moralistic stories. She breaks free. She confuses the discipline.”
Many thanks to AIA El Paso for the Merit Award for the MT7 project. I am proud to be a part of their regional chapter - and they really know how to throw a party.
The jury had this to say:
The MT7 project in Midland, Texas was very well detailed and executed. The design team successfully revealed and highlighted the original pan-joist concrete structure while seamlessly concealing the mechanical systems. The jury appreciated the overall planning of the office suite prioritizing the main social and semi-public spaces with views out to the park while arranging the private offices to respond to the fenestration and overarching organization of the historic high-rise. Also applauded was the care for and restoration of the original aluminum butterfly casement windows. Materiality, lighting, and furniture selections resonate back to the geologic motif and mid-century time period, so appropriate for this excellent project.
💛 to @gingerhere .
Event photos by Heriberto Ibarra for AIA El Paso.
Project: MT7
Location: Midland, Texas
Completed: 2022
Mineraux Imaginaries by Ignacio Acosta is an installation of multi-layered glass panels depicting imagined minerals transported from a 19th Century natural history museum. The vitrine is reinterpreted as a light box embedded in the walls and lit from within. The insanely beautiful glass was manufactured and painted by Mayer of Munich in Germany.
We planned and made the oak frames in Midland and installed with the GC. I coordinated the framing, electrical, LED panels and didn't stress a little about it.
We took a lot of care and pride in this back hall as the company required a lot of filing cabinets, which we tried to make beautiful and useful while peacefully coexisting with the installation.
Images by @claygrier .
