berkshire residence

via materialicious de Justin le 17/12/08

Project: Berkshire Residence
Architecture Firm: Morrison Seifert Murphy
Architect: Lionel Morrison, FAIA
Location: Dallas, Texas
Floor Area: 5500 sq. ft.

"This site is in a traditional single-family neighborhood with large mature trees in front and a busy thoroughfare in the rear. These opportunities and limitations became the genesis of the design of the house. The plan of the house is a U-shape that turns its back toward the noisy thoroughfare and opens to a courtyard that is shaded by the existing canopy of trees. The mass of the house shields and protects the courtyard from traffic noise beyond. The courtyard is the soul of the house with most of the rooms on the ground level opening directly onto it. The act of discovery is deliberately orchestrated beginning with a broken pathway leading past a tall, sentinel-like stucco wall to the front gate of teak set into translucent glass sidelights. Beyond the gate one traverses a covered walkway enjoying views of the courtyard and the spaces that surround it en-route to the front door. Upon entering, a gallery is revealed that opens to a display of outdoor sculpture and thus punctuates the entry sequence. Finally from the main living space adjacent to the entry gallery an axial perspective of the courtyard is revealed and the entire concept becomes apparent. By virtue of the large sliding doors from the living room and sliding pocket doors from the master suite and cabana, the indoor and outdoor spaces become one. The flexibility of this arrangement makes the home perfectly suited to daily living as well as large scale entertaining by the owners. This is the only modern home in this neighborhood and probably the largest. I chose the dark, gray-green color in order to make the house blend into the existing canopy and to visually diminish its size. This house, in my more typical white rendition, would have overpowered the neighborhood. As completed, the house is a good neighbor, blending as planned with the trees and looking wonderful against the bright blue Texas sky."

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Victoria Sambunaris

via Women in Photography de HAFNY le 26/08/08

Untitled, Gilette, WY, 2007  |  All Images courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery

Statement

For most of my photographic life, my interest has been the landscape. I have journeyed extensively in my car throughout the northeast, down to the Rio Grande, through basin and range, across the western plains, down to the Salton Sea, into the Petrified Forrest, around the mines of Nevada.  I have journeyed to Alaska venturing 500 miles on a gravel road, crossing the Arctic Circle and the Brooks Range to arrive in Prudhoe Bay; I have resided on an abandoned air force base on the salt flats of Utah with the Enola Gay hangar out my window; I have penetrated the obscure caverns snaking throughout the south and encircled the calderas of Hawaii mesmerized by the enormous cavity upon the earth taking particular interest in the vast transformation of the landscape. My work in search of subject matter has taken me on seemingly every road, parkway, thruway, highway, freeway and turnpike between the coasts and beyond as I traverse the American landscape.

As I drive, my mind’s eye scans the periphery of the road until it seizes upon phenomena that are ubiquitous and familiar to a particular region but are anomalies to an ordinary eye: massive distribution facilities, complex transport systems, colossal mining operations, infinite industrial expanse, majestic mountain gaps, exploding mud pots. My intent is to decontextualize the sites that I photograph by taking a neutral viewpoint, shedding judgment and transcending any obvious historical, symbolic or social meaning. As such I approach the subject in an exemplary manner, allowing viewers their own notions and meanings.

As a photographer, I originally developed my process for finding photographic content by getting lost on highways and freeways and chancing upon sites that would trigger unaccountably familiar responses. Whether pondering landscapes of human manipulation or geophysical occurrences, the particular issues of physicality that define our place here and now: scale, containment, space, light and compression have become the locus of my work.  I am captivated by the idea of how we inhabit our landscapes as we forge ahead in our development.  The suggestion of what fills our lives is somehow telling and strangely consoling. Over the years, each body of work has taken me further and further from my base in New York to discover and uncover places.  Once there, I remain to experience and to explore the mystery of what a particular place contains.

Bio

Born in 1964, Sambunaris graduated from the Yale MFA program in 1999. Her work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Women in the Arts as well as the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, which granted her a Foundation Fellowship in Marfa, Texas.  Artist's Gallery Website: www.yanceyrichardson.com

Untitled, Near Echo, UT (diptych joint view-panels) 2007

Untitled, Fire Hole Region, WY, 2007

Untitled, Gilette, WY, 2007

Untitled, Flaming Gorge, near Dutch John, UT, 2007

Untitled, Coaldale, PA, 2007

Untitled, Wendover, UT, 2007

Untitled, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007

Untitled, Carlton, NV, 2007

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