Downing Thomas, Dallas Architect
Past Dallas and Texas Architect
Downing Thomas and Bill Booziotis were principals in one of the most important firms in Dallas. While they successfully designed the Georgian-style Underwood Law Library at SMU, they were modernists at heart. You can see their early residential work along the Katy Trail at 3832 Turtle Creek Drive.
Projects range from the forty million dollar Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood, to a small retreat cabin on a North Texas farm.
Example of Homes Architects Downing Thomas Designed
Turtle Creek Area Architect Designed Home
Architect Bruce Bernbaum was the renovation architect of 3832 Turtle Creek Drive. Jerry Sporleader was the original owner of the home designed by Downing Thomas and Bill Booziotis. The Carrs have expanded the house using Michael Lee and Emily Summers. The house is at the base of a steep hill overlooking Turtle Creek and the high-rises in the distance. The Carrs state that they enjoy the simple lines, and true house feeling, and the contemporary setting in the middle of an urban area. On Turtle Creek Drive a person finds garages turned into townhouses, historic estates, modern houses, new houses, and yet their is nothing visually incongruous about the different approaches to this private drive.