Douglas Newby Insights - Page 31
Home Frames Sunlight
On a flat, featureless, North Dallas lot, this Max Levy 1997 designed geometric home is also almost flat and featureless. Blocks of rectangular shapes without windows make up the front façade. A first glance at the home turns into a riveting stare at the sunlit leaves that protrude from a section of the home. This is another Max play with sunlight that we will see in the next post tomorrow. The box trellis emerging from the roof suggests one pathway for the sunlight of this sunlit house.
#Sunlit #MaxLevy #Sunlight #Architect #Architecture #Design #Contemporary #ModernHome #BentTree #Dallas #cityhouse #modern
Interior Shares Exterior
When the interior and exterior materials of the home are the same, the home is melded into the site and beautifully blended into the landscape. Views to the outside rooms reveal the same materials as the interior rooms. The distinction of the interior and exterior of the home is subliminally blurred. The precisely finished interior exudes modernity while the materials convey nature.
#Fir #Interior #InteriorDesign #Modern #Design #ModernHome #MaxLevy #Dallas #DallasNeighborhood #Contemporary #Architect #Architecture #bluffview #design
Rainwater Cascades to Pond
Here’s another example of a Max Levy, elegant, modern detail. Juxtaposed with a home effortlessly blending into its site, we see sleek engineering that visually delights as we watch water conveyed from the roof to the terrace to the pond. Simple in its function, it is elaborate in its effect. Architectural poetry punctuates the architectural narrative of this modern home.
#Basin #Rainwater #Modern #Design #ModernHome #MaxLevy #Dallas #DallasNeighborhood #Contemporary #ArchitecturalPoetry #Architect #Architecture
Burnished Concrete and Fir
A quarry pond sets the tone for this home overlooking it. Architect Max Levy designed this home in 1997. The burnished concrete and fir blend into the site, further tying the house to the pond, rainwater is collected from the roof, channeled to a basin on the breezeway entry terrace, which then cascades down a runnel to the pond. This modern home built at the end of the 20th century launched the proliferation of good modern homes in this Devonshire neighborhood.
#MaxLevy #Devonshire #Modern #Architect #Architecture #Contemporary #BurnishedConcrete #Fir #Design #Rainwater #Terrace #QuarryPond #DallasNeighborhood #CityHouse #ModernHome
Roger Winter Returns
Roger Winter, one of the last of the Texas art legends that began receiving Texas and national attention in the 1960’s, returned to Dallas from New York for an opening he was in and curated at the Kirk Hopper Gallery. Roger Winter is seen here standing in front of a painting he did in 1969 that includes a portrait of him in the upper corner. This fabulous work is owned by Quin Mathews who has a great eye for art and a brilliant way of expressing art. This show included work of the late David McManaway and his protégé Robin Ragin along with other friends and contemporaries of Roger Winter. This art exhibition and Roger Winter’s return makes one long for a Texas art museum in Dallas.
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Texas Art Legends
A montage of young Texas artists, now legends, was included in the show at Kirk Hopper Gallery exhibiting the works of Roger Winter, David McManaway, and other Texas legends, along with David McManaway’s protégé Robin Ragin. This montage of artists promoted a 1971 group show at SMU. It is fun to see David McManaway, (pictured in foreground) Roger Winter, Jim Love, Roy Fridge, Bill Komodore, Hal Pauley, and Herb Rogalla pictured here when they were young, good friends, and successful emerging artists. I recall watching them interact and personally influencing each other as well as their work influenced each other. Their work and reputation continued to grow over the years as they were collected by major museums and patrons. Word is patron and muse Solange is coming to town Saturday to visit gallery. This show It is a good reminder we need a Texas art museum in Dallas celebrating the different eras of Texas artists. Maybe Rick Brettell and Claude Albritton can create a Texas art museum in Fair Park? Dallas becomes a more international art city when it first understands its own history of art and artists.
#DavidMcManaway #RogerWinter #BillKomodore #JimLove #RoyFridge #DallasArtists #TexasArtists #KirkHopperGallery #70sArtists #DMA #ArtOpening #Dallas #DeepEllum #City #TremontArtists
Skylights and Trellises
The open rooms in this modern home are stitched together by linear skylights. Trellises above the skylights soften the sunlight. The resulting patterns of sunlight and shadow throughout the home further the continuity of the spaces and provide intimacy to this large home designed by Architect Max Levy in 1997.
#MaxLevy #Architect #Architecture #Contemporary #Modern #Design #ModernHome #Dallas #ModernInterior #Skylights #Sunlight #interiordesign
Elevated Design
The rear terrace of this Max Levy 1997 designed home is ceremonial and modern. Driveways thread through a line of trees. A series of elevated roofs lifted over the terrace brings one’s attention to the sun and shields the home’s interior and exterior living spaces from the harsh sun. This home also pushed architecturally significant modern design into the Dallas suburbs.
#MaxLevy #Modern #Dallas #DallasArchitecture #Architecture #Architect #Design #ModernHome #Dallas #Addison #Terrace #Porch #Contemporary
Porte Cochere Shares Rainwater
Some of the homes Max Levy designs, like this modern home built in 1997, can appear simple, even spare. However, like all the homes Max Levy designs, a finer look reveals subtle details that are elegant and almost mischievous. Here, besides the rainwater behind captured, one’s imagination is captured as the rainwater is captured, and directed from the porte-cochere to a stand of horsetail reed.
#Porte-cochere #HorsetailReed #Modern #Design #Dallas #Architecture #Architect #DallasArchitecture #MaxLevy #Contemporary #ModernHome
Receptive Interior
One is received, in this 1988 home designed by architect Max Levy, with open spaces, that even when interior doors are closed, the space remains visually open. Preston Hollow has always projected a certain country lane relief from a large city. Here is a home that is relaxed, sophisticated, modern, and celebrates Dallas.
#ModernInterior #OpenSpace #MaxLevy #Modern #Dallas #PrestonHollow #Design #Architect #Architecture #Interior #Contemporary #modernhome #cityhouse