Texas Porch in a City

The upcoming Thursday conversation about architects Pratt, Box and Henderson, Shaping Dallas Architecture, has me thinking about James Pratt and his contribution to architecture. The home pictured in the Bluffview neighborhood of Dallas is an architecturally significant home that I enthusiastically described in my TEDx talk, Homes That Make Us Happy, advocating the importance of architects. This mid-century Texas modern home was built behind a ravine which led James Pratt to design a footbridge over the ravine to long porches wrapping around the house and ascending to the roof where one would enter the front door and descend into the living room. James Pratt and his firm approached the City in the same way he approached a residential site, cognizant of protecting and accentuating the environment and bringing joy to the inhabitants for decades. Think what it would be like if we had a highway instead of Turtle Creek Boulevard linking Highland Park to downtown Dallas and dozens of other contributions long-forgotten or unrecognized. This will be a fascinating and important conversation.
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