Mark Gunderson, Dallas Architect
Dallas and Texas Architect
A Fort Worth architect, Mark Gunderson has had much influence on Dallas, both from his work as a juror on award committees to his presidency of the Dallas Architectural Foundation. Mark Gunderson is a modernist who designs perfectly executed buildings and an architectural historian who illuminates the work around us. Currently, he is designing several homes in the region and working as co-author to Buildings of Texas, a new 700 page volume in the series Buildings of the United States published by Oxford Press.
Example of Homes Architect Mark Gunderson Designed
Bishop Arts Photography Studio
The project remodels and expands an existing photography studio in a 1910’s brick commercial building located in an arts district / revitalization area in Dallas. The one-story spaces have concrete floors, original pressed metal ceilings and painted wood storefront. The building consists of five linear bays with simple-span wood framing transverse across masonry bearing walls, of which the studio project is an expansion from two bays to four.
Mark Gunderson Residence at Eagle Mountain Lake
The site is a wooded bluff which slopes thirty-five feet to the lake below and included an existing boat dock. After considerable discussion regarding the clients interest in boats, boatbuilding and wood construction techniques ( Shinto and Shaker joinery ) a concept was derived which placed two wood-sheathed volumes at 90 degrees to one another upon sandstone plinths which continued existing curved retaining walls into the house form.
Mark Gunderson Parker County Residence
This tripartite limestone construction is situated at the edge of a fifty-foot rock bluff overlooking the floodplain of the West Fork of the Trinity River. Its basic formal disposition and section derives from the distant view to the west and the adjacent wooded areas to the east as well as an architectural idea regarding the “refinement” of the bluff as it is engaged and then reconfigured and redefined by the house.
House on the Pecos River
The house is located in remote southwest Texas, on a limestone bluff 240 feet above a bend on the Pecos River. The Rio Grande River and Mexico are less than two miles to the south and the area, known as Schumla Bend, is rich with ancient pictographs and Indian artifacts.
