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Texas Made/Texas Modern: The House and the Land

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“Dunn’s photos are inviting and supremely confident, and Thompson’s choices are revealing and fascinating. For anyone intrigued by architectural modernism (or for anyone purchasing a home who needs to steal some great ideas!).”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Two years after releasing Marfa Modern, a book on the interiors of homes in Marfa, author Helen Thompson and photographer Casey Dunn are at again. This time, the Austin duo details modernism in Texas in Texas Made/Texas Modern. Using 19 projects from around the state, the book examines the relationship of the house to the site, the materials used and how structures function in the harsh climate.”—Austin Home

“A gorgeous display of modernist architecture and interior design that’s particularly Texan.”
—Shelf Awareness
 

About the Author

Helen Thompson is a nationally known writer whose areas of specialty are interior design, architecture, kitchen design, and food. Helen was formerly a food writer and editor for Texas Monthly magazine, where she worked for 17 years. She was also the Texas city editor for Metropolitan Home magazine for 14 years. While at Metropolitan Home, Helen wrote about houses, restaurants, and gardens and produced many of the features shot in Texas during those years. She has also written and produced articles for Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Martha Stewart Living, Western Interiors, Traditional Home, Veranda, Country Home, and many other magazines. She is also the author of Marfa Modern, The Big Texas Steakhouse Cookbook, and The Mansion on Turtle Creek Cookbook.

Casey Dunn is an Austin-based architectural and landscape photographer whose work has appeared in Dwell, the New York Times Magazine, Interior Design, Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, and Paper City Magazine.

From the Publisher

el paso, texas

El Paso, Texas

The sparkling remnants of the abandoned quartz mine became the inspiration for the massing of the new house: A modernist white lime stucco rectangle balancing atop and perpendicular to a rectangular building rendered in a rubble style that’s commonly seen around the city.

San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio, Texas

“This is a house with a lot of history,” says San Antonio-based architect Tobin Smith. And, it’s not afraid to show it. The pink brick and Saltillo tile residence is a singular example of a house designed by O’Neil Ford that still is essentially in its original condition.

Weatherford, Texas

Weatherford, Texas

“We wanted to be simple and direct,” says project architect Brian Comeaux, “and to use the existing five-bedroom ranch house as the anchor in a compound.”

Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

The neighborhood’s Bohemian past informed architect Paul Lamb’s intuition about what the house could feel like—casual, imaginative, and a place where life is lived to the fullest. “The site is powerful,” says architect Paul Lamb. “Materials can be robust and we have room to breathe.”

Marfa, Texas

Marfa, Texas

Architect Michael Morrow wondered how to embrace the sky, which was what had attracted the peripatetic client to Marfa in the first place. “It dawned on me,” says Morrow, “to put light boxes on the roof so that the house would have views of the sky and also would have light inside.”

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