Posts Tagged ‘architect’

A friend comes to pick up her child from a play-date with our son and she announces excitedly that we are in Dwell. I smile and I say I know! Isn’t it great, we’ve been on Dwell a couple times, which one did you see! And she goes, no, you are in the “100 Houses [...]


The American Institute of Austin, Austin chapter is posting some of the award videos they make every year. I’ll post our wins as they become available. This project of ours was the honor award in 2008. Here’s why, according to the judges. more about “PIlates Studio: Honor award, the Judg…“, posted with vodpod


The owner requested that the house have the feel of a “cabin”. A place of solace and repose in the middle of the city. It also was important to respect the delicate lines and low profile of the existing mid century modern house designed by the late A.D. Stenger, one of Austin’s great modernist architects. [...]


Duval Studio

22Mar10

The program was to provide workspace for a multi-disciplinary creative studio. The location was in the last remaining intact interior of a small completely masonry (interior and exterior) strip center designed and built in the late forties. New additions are of wood and steel to contrast the existing raw masonry. Everything new is installed so [...]


Viviane’s pictures in display at the Den and visitors. Photo Cory Ryan       Hip Attitude on Credenza at Wolfe Den. Photo: Cory Ryan           She shot several areas  you may have not seen because we haven’t posted. The hidden bath. Photo Cory Ryan       I love this [...]


I know you’ve been dying to see the Wolfe Den and get a tour… well… this weekend is the AIA Homes tour and the Wolfe Den is one of the selected homes. MJ and many gorgeous, young, and talented docents will be available all weekend to answer your burning questions about this fabulous home that [...]


Our slideshow is in the front page of Dwell. On the print version, we are in the “Houses we Love” section. Coolness. I love, love Dwell… and they are awesome to deal with, on top of it.


THAT is a bottle of Prado Enea Muga 1982 a Rioja Gran Reserva that we’ve had for years. We had very good reasons to open it. We just won our fifth TSA design award! It was GREAT, both the wine and the winning:-) Thanks, Texas Society of Architects. Jurors were Philip Freelon, FAIA, president of [...]


We, us, MJ Neal, AIA and Viviane Vives, taught a graduate advanced design studio at the University of Texas, Arlington. This video explores how the use of film as a research tool in architecture informed the students’ projects and changed them. The students achieved a completely different relationship to the site by the use of [...]


We are proud to be in this fine book and I’m particularly happy that my pictures are getting published all over the place. I’m enjoying photography more and more, as I have been mentioning in this blog. I’m preparing an exhibition… I’ll post about it soon. Anyway, the focus of the book is sustainability. I [...]


more about “untitled“, posted with vodpod


The Wolfe Den is in it’s final stages. Little details are being completed like the front door handle and the landscaping is being installed. Becca of Rain Lilly Design has dubbed the front stone entry design “macho minimalism”. I really like that! I’m going to steal it;) Enjoy, I am. more about “untitled“, posted with [...]


MJ went to the Okhlahoma State University to lecture and he took the opportunity to go see the Price Tower, the only skyscraper that Frank Lloyd Wright got to build. Cal Lane was exhibiting her exploded lace cars there, amazing stuff, not only it is beautiful art, but it is recycling too! Here’s a very [...]


Some spanking new sketches by MJ for a remodel of an Arts and Crafs cottage in the University area. more about “32nd Street Remodel“, posted with vodpod


more about “untitled“, posted with vodpod A few images from the last site visit. Alex chats as John and Mike of Living Art Austin lean on the rift cut white oak guardrail just freshly installed. Dennis has the spoon tub installed and the shower running.



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