Just perfect. MJ will like this one when he comes back from Texas Tech.
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Design Award 2009: The Wolfe Den
The American Institute of Architects in Austin has awarded MJ Neal Architects a 2009 Design Award for the Wolfe Den. We started competing for these city design awards in 2003 and we’ve won every year except for 2006, when we didn’t enter.
You can see the winners for the last three years at the AIA site.
Please enjoy the new slide show below. It’s the selection that I’ve put together for the upcoming publication in Dwell and Dwell.com. There are shots that have already been posted here and there are brand new ones! Alex and Jamie look like movie stars:-)
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FIlm and Architecture anyone?
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 documentary filmmaking.
Film was also used as a creative expression medium and a presentation element but the emphasis was on it’s use as a knowledge base tool. All self-consciousness was left at the door. We wanted truth, passion, we particularly fought any “architect’s preciousness.” Focus was on obliterating mythologies and keeping it real, to open them up and to make them reach the bottom of the reality of the site and the people that inhabited it.
All students shared a pool of footage and learned from each other, sharing their findings and drawing their own conclusions.
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Devil’s Backbone’s Taking Shape
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Larkey Addition + Remodel Progress Report
The house is really fleshing out and I think these shots reflect how the house is starting to feel! We are excited about how this project is turning out.
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Presenting: The Wolfe Den
This is the result of the first photo-shoot. We had to pare it down to 25 shots for a presentation but we will post a wider selection soon. Enjoy, and let us know your thoughts!
BTW, the project has won its first award. Well, the vanity did. MJ and John Newbold collaborated to create this fantastic white concrete counter and sink.
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Port O
Long ago, MJ and I visited Port O’Connor. Kilean was little and was afraid of going to the water. I just go wild by the water. We just went back last weekend. As an aside, we may collaborate with our friend Toni Bravo with her production design for her apocalyptic piece at the Umlauf. We may be hanging some pictures. A couple of them may come from this shoot.
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La Segarra
Two years ago, now. My father still alive, barely, I visit my friends; I’ve known them since I was nineteen. My brothers, really. I wish I was there with you.
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Devil’s Backbone
Beginnings of a new project in the hill country located along the Devils backbone.
The images are the schematic study model showing a series of walls that define circulation and garden areas as well as indicate where the habitable structures might occur.
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