Richardson Robertson III, International Architect
International Architect
Dallas, since the 1920s, has been strongly influenced by the Spanish Colonial architecture of Southern California. Richardson Robertson has done brilliant work in Beverly Hills and has designed for Dallas two significant residential projects in the same style.
The home he designed on Beverly Drive across from the country club is very large, but so effectively taps into the psyche of Highland Park that it blends into the architectural landscape of original homes nearby. He is currently the project architect for Las Lomas development, a new town of commercial and residential development that includes 15,000 people north of Los Angeles. He is also designing Setauket Village, a village center on the North Shore of Long Island in metropolitan New York City.
In 2003, Richardson Robertson III received the Los Angeles architect of the year, Stars of Design Award and the French design award, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for this BelAir, California estate home.
Example of Homes Architect Richardson Robertson III Designed
Rick Robertson – Beverly Drive, Highland Park
4001 Beverly Drive, Dallas, Texas
Architecturally Significant Home
The many compliments of this new home indicate that it has struck a chord with Dallas. This Romanesque styled home is built out of Texas fossilized limestone. We see many new homes in Dallas that are romanticized revivals of Georgian, Tudor or Italian homes. The exterior of these homes are often very polished with bulging cast stone trim and oversized windows. This Beverly home, designed by Rick Robertson, originally from Dallas, revives a style, but it is the 1920s and 1930s homes found in Beverly Hills or the Italian styles expressed in Palm Beach. Around the corner from Highland Park Village, designed by Wilbur Cook of Beverly Hills in the 1930s, a person quickly makes the subliminal connection that this house belongs here. The smaller apertures of the doors and windows reflect the original architectural period. The tile and cruder finish softens the grandeur of the home built of Palm Beach proportions. This home reflects the intended mood and look and feel of Beverly Drive when it was first developed.
