Fort Worth Archiecture
By now, you’ve probably heard about the Fort Worth I. M. Pei home. A story this big doesn’t stay under wraps. The exclusive appeared in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal: A Rare I.M. Pei-Designed Home in Texas Hits the Market for $22 Million. Rare indeed, because the Chinese American architect behind the Louvre Pyramid —…
I have to confess that the Santa Fe reference provoked the slightest unease about this house. I’m old enough to remember a national craze in the 1980s for “Santa Fe style” which morphed into a commercial package that included a color palette of sweet teal, pepto pink, and terra cotta and a surfeit of Francisco…
This dazzling Overton Park Midcentury Modern time capsule looks as if it was built yesterday or conjured up for a period feature film. In fact, the house was built in 1957 in the then-new development of Overton Park for prominent civic leader Leon Brachman who died at the age of 90 in 2010. Brachman engaged…
“He quite clearly and unselfconsciously sees architecture as an art and is unwavering in pursuing that goal. That makes him unique. This sometimes lonely quest has placed Emery Young at the very top of his community of architects.” That was Dallas architect Frank Welch’s assessment of Emery Young’s work. Emery Young died in 2016, preceding…
