Modern

• Neighborhood: Lobello Estates
• Architect: Cliff Welch
• Year Built: 2023

Architect Kevin Alter designed this architecturally significant modern home in Highland Park in 2018.

• Neighborhood: First Section of Old Highland Park
• Architect: AlterStudio Architecture
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

Max Levy, FAIA, designed this home to embrace nature. He did this by designing the home to fully enjoy the five large live oak trees on the property and to reflect the greenways and the sense of nature in the neighborhood.

• Neighborhood: Greenway Parks
• Architect: Max Levy
• Interior Designer: Wendy Konradi
• Landscape Architect: David Hocker
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Status: Sold

At the beginning of his career, Joe McCall, FAIA, helped design for Oglesby Architects the home at 3727 Miramar, and now towards the end of his career Joe McCall designed this spectacular architecturally significant modern home at 3801 Miramar. Both of these homes enjoy a deep setback, enhancing their combined views of nature.

• Neighborhood: Second Section of Old Highland Park
• Architect: Joe McCall
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

Architect Bentley Tibbs designed this home on a large lot in the Lakewood Heights neighborhood of Old East Dallas to reflect the style and evolution of the neighborhood and a home that provides enjoyment for a family.

• Neighborhood: Lakewood Heights
• Architect: Bentley Tibbs
• Acres: 0.23
• Living Area: 3557
• Year Built: 2008
• Status: Sold

• Neighborhood: Knox to Blackburn
• Architect: Ron Wommack
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Year Built: 2008

• Neighborhood: Mount Vernon
• Architect: Don Chapell
• Architectural Style: Sarasota Modern

Joshua Nimmo designed an architecturally significant modern home that furthers the evolution of good design. This home also clarifies and amplifies the vision of Urban Reserve, an enclave of modern homes in an ecologically and aesthetically enlightened neighborhood.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Joshua Nimmo
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.27
• Living Area: 2600
• Year Built: 2014
• Status: Sold

Architect Scott Marek has designed several modern homes in Urban Reserve, a Dallas enclave of modern homes. My favorite one is this modern home he designed at 60 Vanguard Way.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Scott Marek
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Living Area: 4647
• Year Built: 2016
• Status: Sold

• Neighborhood: Fifth Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston
• Architect: Cliff Welch
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

• Neighborhood: Turtle Creek Highrise Area
• Architect: Cliff Welch
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

This inspired modern home designed by architect Frank Welch expresses the best in a modern home. You will find it on an extraordinary site, in a fabulous neighborhood (Turtle Creek Park), and in a vibrant city (Dallas).

• Neighborhood: Turtle Creek Park
• Architect: Frank Welch
• Landscape Architect: Michael Kinler
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.2
• Living Area: 5230
• Year Built: 2004

• Neighborhood: Lansdowne Estates
• Architect: Cliff Welch
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

Bud Oglesby, FAIA, with Oglesby Architects, designed the best residential public spaces in Dallas. Bud Oglesby designed modern homes as large as 10,000 square feet or, like this modern Oglesby condominium on Armstrong and Travis, homes with 2,392 square feet.

• Neighborhood: Knox to Blackburn
• Architect: Bud Oglesby
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Living Area: 2392
• Year Built: 1981
• Status: Sold

• Architect: A. Gruppo Architects
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

Max Levy, FAIA, designed the addition for this Steven Holl-designed modern home in Preston Hollow.

• Neighborhood: Preston Hollow
• Architect: Max Levy
• Renovate Architect: Max Levy
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

• Neighborhood: Chapel Hill Estates
• Architect: Cliff Welch
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

Lionel Morrison received an AIA Honor Award for this 3,600 square-foot Travis townhouse located a block from Knox Street and Travis Walk that he designed in 1999. Now it is even better.

• Neighborhood: Knox to Blackburn
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.09
• Living Area: 3850
• Year Built: 1999
• Status: Sold

The most desirable Preston Hollow lots are on quiet streets and often in the middle of a block of other wide estate lots. A site like this provides privacy and a sweeping drive through an allée of Live Oak trees that conveys the original natural elegance of Preston Hollow.

• Neighborhood: Lobello Estates
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 1.21
• Living Area: 5549
• Year Built: 1960
• Status: Sold

Cliff Welch has designed this home to be built on West Lake Highlands overlooking White Rock Lake. Resin panels, white stucco and concrete blocks create a simple but dynamic 3,600 square foot main home surrounded by porches and verandahs and a 1,000 square foot guest house.

• Neighborhood: Peninsula
• Architect: Cliff Welch
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

This contemporary home by Scott Specht in Dallas on Miron drive reflects a home that engages the entire Preston Hollow site, embraces nature, emphasizes openness and views with the utilization of 18-foot long by 10-foot high sliding panels of glass.

• Neighborhood: Rockbrook Estates
• Architect: Scott Specht
• Renovate Architect:
• Year Built: 2017

• Neighborhood: Northwest Dallas
• Renovate Architect: Max Levy
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Building Name: House on a Creek

• Architect: Cliff Welch
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

Architects Jason and Signe Smith of smitharc, continue to demonstrate the architecture that is essential to expressing the desires and personalities of their clients.

• Neighborhood: Rockbrook Estates
• Architect: Signe & Jason Smith
• Year Built: 2014

The personalities of the owners of the modern home in the Shorecrest Estate neighborhood are expressed by thea materials – bold, rugged, and modern juxtaposed with clean linear geometric patterns of stacked stone that are subtle and sleek.

• Neighborhood: Shorecrest Estates
• Architect: Signe & Jason Smith
• Year Built: 2014

In this Preston Hollow modern home the difference in the International modern style desired by one spouse was contrasted beautifully with the softer Texas modern desires of the other spouse.  The result is a beautiful interplay of materials and forms that are elegantly expressed in this home.

• Neighborhood: Mayflower Estates
• Architect: Signe & Jason Smith
• Year Built: 2013

• Neighborhood: Northern Heights
• Architect: Lionel Morrison

• Neighborhood: Northern Heights
• Architect: Cliff Welch
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

Todd Hamilton, AIA, is an accomplished architect who designed this 6,000 sf modern home with acute awareness of the environment and design savvy that incorporated 900 sf of photovoltaic cells on the second floor roof, two planted green flat roofs facing the street, and eleven 200 foot deep geothermal wells for efficient heating and cooling.

• Neighborhood: Meadowood Estates
• Architect: Todd Hamilton
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

• Neighborhood: Northern Heights
• Architect: Max Levy

See how one talented Texas contemporary architect approaches the renovation design on the work of another award winning architect, resulting in great architecture created by Norman Ward, AIA, and Bill Booziotis, FAIA.

• Architect: Bill Booziotis
• Renovate Architect: Norman D. Ward
• Architectural Style: Contemporary Style Architecture
• Year Built: 1978

The early modern home at 5017 Swiss Avenue expresses the architectural influence of Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan. The carved band of Sullivanesque detail, the Sullivanesque relief ornamentation on the dormer,under the deep eaves, and on the panel between the second story windows are outstanding examples of the Progressive Style and Prairie School architecture.

• Neighborhood: Swiss Avenue Historic District
• Architect: Svend Fruit
• Architectural Style: Prairie
• Acres: 0.52
• Living Area: 5300
• Year Built: 1907
• Status: Sold

Architect Lionel Morrison energized the interest in modern homes with his series of modern single-family attached homes on Springbrook. Dallas has always had many of the best modern homes in the country. This modern home and the ones around it began the current wave of interest in modern architecture sweeping Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Northern Heights
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Living Area: 2442
• Year Built: 1990
• Status: Sold

Here in the Northern Heights neighborhood that is found along the Katy Trail, on the edge of Highland Park and within walking distance to Knox/Henderson, West Village or Turtle Creek, you will find this three-story modern single-family attached three-bedroom home with a swimming pool. The home has large art walls and voluminous spaces.

• Neighborhood: Northern Heights
• Acres: 0.09
• Living Area: 3359
• Year Built: 2007
• Status: Sold

The house is positioned on the site’s upper plateau’s edge. Views to the west overlook Eagle Mountain Lake. Eastern daylight enters the depths of the house by lifting the roof plane and inserting clearstory glass above the living room and kitchen.

• Architect: Norman D. Ward
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Year Built: 2012
• Building Name: Horizons

The House of Three Rooms is an architectural project that I admire and Marc shared how he approached this modern home. Marc McCollom: I designed it to be gracious, with generously scaled spaces that were cleanly composed and clearly organized.

• Neighborhood: Fourth Section of Old Highland Park
• Architect: Marc McCollom
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

A contemporary house in the Katy Trail corridor of Old Highland Park. Two very large spaces with many windows are connected by double passageways or by a long corridor lined with windows. Every room has prominent views of the side courtyard with a perimeter of Cypress trees, creating a sophisticated canopy and serene space.

• Neighborhood: Katy Trail Corridor of Old Highland Park
• Architectural Style: Contemporary Style Architecture
• Status: Sold

Here is a Lionel Morrison architect designed 3,100 square foot home enjoying the luxury of a .70 acre Preston Hollow site. Open spaces and walls of glass looking into the garden convey modernism at its best.

• Neighborhood: Maywood Estates
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.7
• Living Area: 3171
• Year Built: 1994
• Status: Sold

George Woo, FAIA, protégé of I.M. Pei, selected this three acre site 19 miles south of Dallas to design this postmodern home. With 3,012 square feet, it is sited on the side of a hill to allow a view over the cedar trees to Joe Pool Lake seven miles away.

• Neighborhood: Cedar Hill, Texas
• Architect: George Woo
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 1.01
• Living Area: 2592
• Year Built: 1988

Green architecture, modern design, and Bluffview setting. The result is a dynamic home, environmentally sound, one that is bold and graceful, and a home that celebrates the attractiveness of the Bluffiview neighborhood.

• Neighborhood: Bluffview
• Architect: Gary Gene Olp
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.52
• Living Area: 3647
• Year Built: 2000

Frank Welch, FAIA, designed this modern home for the prominent family who developed Bent Tree. It is no wonder they chose this lot for their own modern estate home. Preston Trails golf course and a greenbelt wrap around this home, providing several acre views of green with a backdrop of forest in the distance.

• Neighborhood: Bent Tree
• Architect: Frank Welch
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 1.08
• Living Area: 5726
• Year Built: 1974
• Status: Sold

• Architect: Max Levy
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

Sited on two beautiful acres and backed up to a greenbelt, this asking price reflects just land value and the fabulous architect designed home is an incredible bonus. Located in Bent Tree, this is the finest International Style modern home built in Dallas since the International Style home designed by Roscoe Dewitt, AIA, for Stanley Marcus on acreage in 1937.

• Neighborhood: Bent Tree
• Architect: James Nagle
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 1.99
• Living Area: 5181
• Year Built: 1976
• Status: Sold

Architect Lionel Morrison designed his finest modern town house at 4331 Travis. Beautiful natural light and low voltage light illuminate this stunning 3,865 square foot residence.

• Neighborhood: Knox to Blackburn
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.09
• Living Area: 3850
• Year Built: 1999
• Status: Sold

Tucked back from Travis and Armstrong there is an exquisite period piece of Modernism. This is the best Bud Oglesby designed condominium I have seen. The protected and intimate scale of these residences is quite elegant in a setting of restaurants and galleries.

• Neighborhood: Knox to Blackburn
• Architect: Bud Oglesby
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.93
• Living Area: 2100
• Year Built: 1981
• Status: Sold

Architect Bill Booziotis designed this 3,760 square foot home in the small, gated enclave sharing a private park along Turtle Creek in Christopher Place. Recent renovations include a new kitchen, new bathrooms, and bamboo and Paduak wood flooring.

• Neighborhood: Christopher Place
• Architect: Bill Booziotis
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.09
• Living Area: 3760
• Year Built: 1973
• Status: Sold

Edward Durell Stone was one of a handful of international architects who had the ability to design prominent skyscrapers, the symbol of the 20th century, modern museums looking at art and collections in a new way, and homes combining technology with humanity.

• Neighborhood: Preston Hollow Addition
• Architect: Edward Durell Stone
• Acres: 1.22
• Living Area: 10735
• Year Built: 1957
• Status: Sold

Architect James Langford who worked with I.M. Pei on the Meyerson Symphony Center, designed this spectacular Highland Park three-story residence with a rooftop pool and view of the Dallas skyline and the Katy Trail.

• Neighborhood: Fourth Section of Old Highland Park
• Architect: James Langford
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.17
• Living Area: 5462
• Year Built: 2003
• Status: Sold

The stylish urban elegance of this home is combined with a 1/3 acre of land that stretches along the Katy Trail. The walls of split face cast stone and stucco further delineate the geometric composition of this three story home overlooking the greenbelt of Turtle Creek.

• Neighborhood: Turtle Creek Park
• Interior Designer: Wilson & Associates
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.38
• Living Area: 4478
• Year Built: 2000
• Status: Sold

Bob James designed this AIA award-winning home to blend into the neighborhood and provide dramatic views by the surrounding creek and woods. With 3,450 square feet, it is both stylish and practical sited on one-half acre overlooking Royal Branch Creek and a public wilderness park behind it.

• Neighborhood: Brookshire Park
• Architect: Robert James
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.73
• Living Area: 3525
• Year Built: 2000
• Building Name: Vicki’s Creek House
• Status: Sold

This Dallas modern home was designed by architect, Antoine Predock who incorporated the client’s passion for collecting modern art and bird-watching into the concept of the home. While the Austin Stone front facade is perceived heavy, the interior opens up to reveal large open spaces created by 20 foot ceilings and windows, steel bridges shaded by a canopy of trees that connect the buildings and various points in the home and, surrounding the vaulted walkways, the ground transformed into a habitat filled in with lush vegetation to attract the birds.

• Neighborhood: Turtle Creek Acreage of Old Highland Park
• Architect: Antoine Predock
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 1.07
• Living Area: 10434
• Year Built: 1995

This private penthouse occupies an entire floor atop the W hotel & residences tower overlooking downtown Dallas. Designed as both an urban residence for a large family and as a space to host large events, the design incorporates luxurious materials in an evolving sequence of spaces.

• Neighborhood: Downtown Dallas
• Architect: Signe & Jason Smith
• Building Name: W Penthouse Residence

• Neighborhood: Strait Lane
• Architect: Philip Johnson
• Renovate Architect: Svend Fruit
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 3.16
• Living Area: 12094
• Year Built: 1964
• Building Name: The Beck House

A Bent Tree lot was found overlooking the Preston Trails greenbelt. This home takes its cue from the modernism cubes of the Frank Welch home designed in the 1970s when this suburban neighborhood was first developed.

• Neighborhood: Bent Tree
• Architect: Max Levy
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.54
• Living Area: 3963
• Year Built: 2000
• Building Name: Sunlit House

4037 Druid is public in scale, and architecturally exciting in a very traditional suburban neighborhood. A modern house is often looked at as stern, rather than as a warm accessible home in which to live.

• Neighborhood: University Park Estates
• Architect: Rob Allen & Jim Buie
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.53
• Living Area: 6842
• Year Built: 1993

In the Belmont Addition neighborhood of Dallas, between the restaurants of Greenville Avenue and ten blocks from the trails around White Rock Lake, you will find this 1,400 square foot early modern home immersed in nature.

• Neighborhood: Belmont Conservation District
• Architectural Style: Craftsman
• Acres: 0.2
• Living Area: 1400
• Year Built: 1926
• Status: Sold

This house renovation includes a requirement for a new elevator which opened the opportunity to showcase the Owner’s art collection and add drama and natural lighting to the existing diminutive and dark entry foyer.

• Neighborhood: Park Bridge Court
• Architect: Signe & Jason Smith
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Year Built: 2007

• Neighborhood: Deep Ellum
• Architect: Cliff Welch
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Year Built: 1948

Edward Larrabee Barnes was selected to design the Dallas Museum of Art. Ralph and Nelba Greenley, who were very involved in the Dallas Museum of Art project, retained Edward Larrabee Barnes to design their home at 4608 Meadowood.

• Neighborhood: Meadowood Estates
• Architect: Edward Larrabee Barnes
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 3.77
• Living Area: 10398
• Year Built: 1990

This home designed by Lionel Morrison and completed in 2003 departs from the stark white exteriors of Morrison’s other significant and award winning homes. This home reflects his use of windows and courtyards to erase exterior and interior boundaries.

• Neighborhood: Devonshire
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.6
• Living Area: 4701
• Year Built: 2001

This modern townhouse was the architectural project that Dallas AIA Chapter selected as one of the Dallas 50 Significant Homes for their 50th Anniversary. The prestigious selected committee recognized Lionel Morrison’s use of space and natural light to create a delightful and sophisticated modern residence in a re-emerging neighborhood close to downtown.

• Neighborhood: SMU Neighborhoods West
• Architect: Sharon Odum
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.09
• Year Built: 2003

We all know modern homes that have straight lines and sharp edges but they are tricky and ever contrived. This home has a simple shape, its design submits to the site and the exterior materials are honest and straight-forward – concrete, steel, stucco, glass and teak.

• Neighborhood: Turtle Creek Park
• Architect: Frank Welch
• Landscape Architect: Michael Kinler
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.2
• Living Area: 5230
• Year Built: 2004

• Neighborhood: Park Bridge Court
• Renovate Architect: Bentley Tibbs
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.09
• Living Area: 3657
• Year Built: 1981

Luther Sadler designed this home in 1936 in a more streamlined style with its smooth stucco wall surface, its balcony with an emphasis on the horizontal piping for its balustrades and curved corner.

• Neighborhood: Lakewood
• Architect: Charles S. Dilbeck
• Architectural Style: Art Moderne
• Acres: 0.22
• Living Area: 3830
• Year Built: 1936

The Texas Centennial Exposition offered this as a contemporary model home in 1936. The International style is also apparent in this home with its corner windows. The flat roof with a pronounced ledge at the roofline and flat balcony are also Art Moderne features.

• Neighborhood: Lakewood
• Architect: Luther E. Sadler
• Architectural Style: Art Moderne
• Acres: 0.24
• Living Area: 3068
• Year Built: 1936

This DeWitt and Washburn architect designed modern home with a flat roof and wide overhangs is now situated on three acres and remains one of the most important and first international style residences in Texas.

• Neighborhood: Lakewood
• Architect: Roscoe DeWitt
• Architectural Style: International Style Architecture
• Acres: 2.87
• Living Area: 9558
• Year Built: 1937

• Neighborhood: Northwest Hills
• Architect: Charles Moore
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.75
• Living Area: 6803
• Year Built: 1985

Architects Boerder-Snyder designed this three and one-half story contemporary residence with full windows and balconies to take advantage of the surrounding towering trees. This home, built in 1992, is found in Northern Heights, a special neighborhood filled with architect designed homes around the corner from the parks of Turtle Creek and the retail of Knox Street.

• Neighborhood: Northern Heights
• Architect: Boerder-Snyder
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.09
• Living Area: 2848
• Year Built: 1992

• Neighborhood: Park Bridge Court
• Architect: Kenneth Burgess
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.11
• Living Area: 4300
• Year Built: 1987

Here is an architect designed home that perfectly matches its owners. One of the city’s finest modern architects and owners with European taste create a home that successfully marries the French influence of recent homes in Preston Hollow with the modernism of the Oglesby group.

• Neighborhood: Lobello Estates
• Architect: Bud Oglesby
• Acres: 1.83
• Living Area: 6157
• Year Built: 1985

This modern townhouse was the architectural project that Dallas AIA Chapter selected as one of the Dallas 50 Significant Homes for their 50th Anniversary. The prestigious selected committee recognized Lionel Morrison’s use of space and natural light to create a delightful and sophisticated modern residence in a re-emerging neighborhood close to downtown.

• Neighborhood: Northern Heights
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.17
• Living Area: 2662
• Year Built: 1990

This house renovation augments an existing mid-century modernist design for a growing family. The entire ground floor of the structure was revitalized including reconfigurations to include a library, powder room, and an updated dining room and kitchen. A new glass and steel pavilion addition includes a sitting room and children’s study. New courtyard and pool designs reinforce the connection of indoor and outdoor spaces.

• Neighborhood: Greenway Parks
• Architect: Signe & Jason Smith
• Year Built: 2004

This home on Rockbrook was designed in 1993 by Steven Holl. Thin curved roof planes shelter open and closed spaces. Four sharply detailed concrete masses correspond to the dams on the creek. The effect is a structure firmly anchored and simultaneously in flight.

• Neighborhood: Meadowood Estates
• Architect: Steven Holl
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 1.46
• Living Area: 5485
• Year Built: 1993
• Building Name: Stretto House

• Neighborhood: Northern Hills
• Architect: Michael Malone
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.23
• Living Area: 3528
• Year Built: 1932

5400 Surrey Circle was designed in 1996 by Gary Cunningham and Sharon Odom. Beautifully placed on the lot, the interior accentuates the feel of the wooded exterior. Architect Daphne Perry was commissioned to do the custom tapestries.

• Neighborhood: Northwest Hills
• Architect: Gary Cunningham
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.57
• Living Area: 3360
• Year Built: 1994

This house renovation reverses decades of ad-hoc additions to a midcentury modernist house while capitalizing on the uncommonly lush and secluded urban site. Working in the modernist language of the original house, long horizontal forms, dramatic cantilevers and large expanses of glass characterize the new 2-story structure.

• Neighborhood: Bluffview
• Architect: Signe & Jason Smith
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Year Built: 2006

In 1950, Frank Lloyd Wright began his only residential project in Dallas. This home, designed for John Gillin, was completed after three years of construction in 1958, Wright’s last home constructed before his death.

• Neighborhood: Sunnybrook Estates
• Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
• Architectural Style: Arizona
• Acres: 7.3
• Living Area: 10042
• Year Built: 1958

Howard Rachofsky encouraged and allowed Richard Meier to explore and experiment in this 10,000 square foot home on Preston Road. The seemingly simple, effortlessly floating stark facade belies its massive and intricate structure that gives it its grace.

• Neighborhood: Preston Hollow Addition
• Architect: Richard Meier
• Landscape Architect: Armstrong-Berger
• Architectural Style: Contemporary Style Architecture
• Acres: 3.21
• Living Area: 8891
• Year Built: 1997
• Building Name: The Rachofsky House

• Neighborhood: Jan Mar
• Architect: Frank Welch
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 1
• Living Area: 6618
• Year Built: 1991

Ron Wommack designed a home in the spirit of the neighborhood. It is precisely in scale with the 50 to 80 year old homes around it. The garage is detached, as are most of the original neighborhood garages, and the hardy plank is white to relate to the other neighborhood structures.

• Architect: Ron Wommack
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Year Built: 2008

• Neighborhood: Knox to Blackburn
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Acres: 0.08
• Living Area: 3517
• Year Built: 2001

• Neighborhood: Preston Homes Addition
• Architect: Gary Cunningham
• Acres: 0.2
• Living Area: 3110
• Year Built: 2000

• Architect: Max Levy
• Architectural Style: Contemporary Style Architecture

This is the only single-family home in Northern Heights adjacent to the Katy Trail. A creased plane of glazed openings embrace the pool and backdrop of the dense 30 ft wall of trees, bushes and plants along the trail.

• Neighborhood: Northern Heights
• Architect: Gail Adams
• Architectural Style: Contemporary Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.21
• Living Area: 3610
• Year Built: 1995

Architect Bill Booziotis designed this modern home on a 10,000 square foot lot located on Royal Way, a cul de sac of 28 properties. An open floor plan with the floating wall between living areas creates bright and open spaces.

• Neighborhood: Royal Way
• Architect: Bill Booziotis
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.2
• Living Area: 4025
• Year Built: 1978

• Neighborhood: Sunnybrook Estates
• Architect: David George
• Year Built: 2011

• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Building Name: Dallas Modern Home Built by Sebastian Construction

• Neighborhood: Sunnybrook Estates
• Architect: Mark Hoesterey

SHM Architects known for the clean simple designs produce yet another gem in Highland Park. The use of minimal materials produce an architectural triumph.

• Neighborhood: Sixth Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston
• Architect: SHM Architects

Architectural massing, stone and wood come together to create phenomenal spaces in Preston Hollow neighborhood.

• Neighborhood: Meadowood Estates
• Architect: SHM Architects

Tod Williams of TWBT Associates Architects designed this 4,336 square foot contemporary house in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 4336
• Year Built: 2008

Architect Scott Marek designed this architecturally significant 3,900 square foot modern home in the Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 3900
• Year Built: 2007

Bruce Bernbaum and Patricia Magadini are prolific architects in Dallas who designed this 2,478 square foot contemporary home on Vanguard Way in the Urban Reserve Dallas neighborhood.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Bernbaum Magadini
• Living Area: 2478
• Year Built: 2007

• Neighborhood: East Dallas
• Architect: Cliff Welch
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture

This contemporary 2,076 square foot residence at 9 Vanguard Way in the Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas was designed by architect Joshua Nimmo.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Joshua Nimmo
• Living Area: 2076
• Year Built: 2013

Maria Gomez of GFF Architects designed this contemporary 2,458 square foot home in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas at 10 Vanguard Way.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 2458
• Year Built: 2007

This 1,748 square foot modern masterpiece designed by Architect Robert Meckfessel of DSGN Architects is located at 11 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Robert Meckfessel
• Living Area: 1748
• Year Built: 2006

Modern designed 2,043 square foot residence by Architect Dennis Chiessa at 12 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 2043
• Year Built: 2014

Brent Brown of Brown Architects designed this 3,008 square foot Modern Residence located at 14 Vanguard Way in the Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 3008
• Year Built: 2006

Thad Reeves and Andrew Nance designed this home as the site dictated. This modern home is sited on the north edge of the main pond of Urban Reserve, a small, modern home development

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: A. Gruppo Architects
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Living Area: 2761
• Year Built: 2014

Dynamic Modern Design by A. Gruppo Architect Thad Reeves at 17 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.  A 2,812 square foot modern home.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: A. Gruppo Architects
• Living Area: 2812
• Year Built: 2016

Environmentally designed 3,922 square foot modern home by Integro Architects located at 18 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 3922
• Year Built: 2016

Architect Russell Buchanan designed this 2,152 square foot modern home at 19 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Russell Buchanan
• Living Area: 2152
• Year Built: 2015

Scott Marek of Marek Architecture designed this 2,308 square foot Modern Home at 20 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 2308
• Year Built: 2017

Architect-Designed 3,379 square foot modern home by architect Sergio Chavez of Sports Architecture firm located at 21 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 3379
• Year Built: 2006

Architect-Designed 3,824 square foot modern home by Vince Snyder Architecture located at 22 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 3824
• Year Built: 2007

Architect Mark Domiteaux custom designed the 2,131 square foot modern home at 23 Vanguard Way in this environmentally conscious East Dallas neighborhood of Urban Reserve.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Mark Domiteaux
• Living Area: 2131
• Year Built: 2015

Scott Marek of Marek Architecture Designed 2,429 square foot Modern House at 24 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve Neighborhood of East Dallas Featured on the AIA Dallas Tour of Homes

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 2429
• Year Built: 2014

This 2,054 square foot modern residence in East Dallas designed by Dan Shipley/Shipley Architects, is located at 25 Vanguard Way in the Urban Reserve neighborhood.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Dan Shipley
• Living Area: 2054
• Year Built: 2008

Architect Bang Dang of Far+Dang architect firm designed this 2,537 square foot modern home at 27 Vanguard Way in the Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: FAR+DANG
• Living Area: 2537
• Year Built: 2016

Architect-Designed Bang Dang of Far+Dang 2,654 square foot open concept modern home at 28 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: FAR+DANG
• Acres: 0.24
• Living Area: 2654
• Year Built: 2017

Russell Buchanan Architect-designed 1,958 square foot contemporary house at 29 Vanguard Way in the premier modern Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Russell Buchanan
• Living Area: 1958
• Year Built: 2007

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 3221
• Year Built: 2017

Troy Architects designed this 2,120 square foot convenient modern home in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas at 31 Vanguard Way, a community of efficient modern homes.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 2120
• Year Built: 2015

Robert Meckfessel of DSGN Architects designed this 1,702 square foot  modern house at 33 Vanguard Way in the Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas, a community of efficient modern homes.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Robert Meckfessel
• Acres: 5001
• Living Area: 1702
• Year Built: 2007

Jesus Rodriguez designed 2,519 square foot architecturally significant residence in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas at 34 Vanguard Way, a community of efficient modern homes.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Acres: 9322
• Living Area: 2519
• Year Built: 2016

Ross Conway of Gensler Dallas Architects designed this 1,844 square foot modern residence in Urban Reserve neighborhood at 37 Vanguard Way of East Dallas, a community of efficient modern homes.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 1844
• Year Built: 2012

Joshua Nimmo of Nimmo Architecture designed this architecturally significant 2,134 square foot modern home at 38 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Joshua Nimmo
• Living Area: 2134
• Year Built: 2014

Architect Ross Conway of Gensler Dallas designed this 2,269 square foot modern house at 39 Vanguard Way in the East Dallas Urban Reserve neighborhood.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 2269
• Year Built: 2017

Architect-Designed Thomas Krahenbuhl of TKTR Architects 2,144 square foot modern residence at 41 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 2144
• Year Built: 2008

Architect-Designed Integro Architects 3,632 square foot modern home at 42 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 3632
• Year Built: 2014

Architect Robert Meckfessel of DSGN Architects designed this 1,200 square foot efficient modern residence at 43 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Robert Meckfessel
• Living Area: 1200
• Year Built: 2010

Architect Dan Shipley designed this 1,960 square foot significant modern home in East Dallas’ notable Urban Reserve neighborhood at 45 Vanguard Way.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Dan Shipley
• Living Area: 1960
• Year Built: 2007

Architect Bang Dang of Far+Dang designed this 2,382 square foot efficient modern home at 47 Vanguard Way in the Urban Reserve neighborhood located in East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: FAR+DANG
• Living Area: 2382
• Year Built: 2015

Architect Lionel Morrison designed this 2,807 square foot contemporary home at 51 Vanguard Way in the East Dallas Urban Reserve neighborhood.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Living Area: 2807
• Year Built: 2006

Architect-designed by Jonathan Delcambre, this 4,031 square foot contemporary residence in the Urban Reserve neighborhood, located at 54 Vanguard Way, in East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 4031
• Year Built: 2014

Shipley Architects/Dan Shipley designed the 2,560 square foot modern significant home in the Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas, located at 58 Vanguard Way.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Dan Shipley
• Living Area: 2560
• Year Built: 2013

Architect-designed 2,341 square foot contemporary house by architect Max Levy in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas, located at 64 Vanguard Way.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Max Levy
• Living Area: 2341
• Year Built: 2007

Architect Bang Dang with Far+Dang designed this 2,656 square foot modern home in the Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas, located at 68 Vanguard Way.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: FAR+DANG
• Living Area: 2656
• Year Built: 2015

Architecturally significant 3,826 square foot contemporary home in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas, located at 72 Vanguard Way, architect-designed by Integro.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 3826

Architecturally significant 5,048 square foot modern residence by Architect Jonathan Delcambre in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas located at 76 Vanguard Way.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 5048
• Year Built: 2015

Architecturally significant 3,399 square foot modern residence by GFF Architects at 80 Vanguard Way, located in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 3399
• Year Built: 2015

Architect Scott Marek designed this 2,583 square foot modern house in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas, located at 84 Vanguard Way.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Living Area: 2583

• Architect: Max Levy

This is the best one-bedroom home at One Arts. Beyond the best location, the best site is ultimately what determines the happiness a home provides and its future value.Here, the One Arts building designed by Lionel Morrison, has the best location in the Dallas Arts District.

• Neighborhood: Downtown Dallas
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Living Area: 1264
• Year Built: 2005
• Status: Sold

This modern home is the second collaboration between a celebrated furniture designer and Lionel Morrison, an award-winning architect. The progression of materials and technology in this contemporary home make a floor plan similar to the first home even more graceful, sleek, and serene.

• Neighborhood: Sunnybrook Estates
• Architect: Lionel Morrison