Douglas Newby Insights - Page 32
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.
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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.
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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.
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Squint of Sunlight
West sunlight in Texas can make one squint. Here the home designed by Max Levy in 1988 does the squinting for you. Slivers of glass between bookshelves allow light but does not allow harsh sunlight to overpower the person or the room. Here is a delightful detail that makes a major impact on the home visually and environmentally.
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Agrarian and Urbane
In 1988 Max Levy designed a modern home with agrarian influences. Gabled roofs reflect Texas as does the front porch. The trellised front porch creating a transition to the landscape is a Max Levy interpretation of this classic form. Regarding the design, Max Levy suggests, “Urbane detailing, like an Aaron Copland piece of music, acknowledges the city.”
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Max Significance
Max Levy has emerged as a link to the great architects of the past, i.e., Bud Oglesby and Frank Welch, and those younger architects joining him in winning awards now. My first thoughtful exploration of Max Levy, FAIA, and his work came when I chaired the Dallas AIA 50th Anniversary, 50 Significant Homes project. Discovering and reviewing significant homes in Dallas built in the 20th century, I came to see Max as an architect that embraced and was inspired by the nuance and broad strokes of nature, while loving the city and designing the homes for Dallas. My appreciation of Max’s work and approach has only grown as I have watched his work over the last 25 years. This Preston Hollow home provided my first Max revelation when it was selected as a significant home. It made me much more aware of Max’s architectural affection for sunlight and the effects sunlight can have in a house and on a house. In Texas, diffused light has always been important. Max illuminated this aspect of architecture by distinctly emphasizing sunlight and shadows. The play of light is a constant theme in the homes he has designed over the 30 years since this Preston Hollow home was built. While each home is distinctly different, reoccurring themes appear in his work. I will be doing a series of ten city houses Max has designed the last 30 years. In addition to sunlight, we will see houses that submit to the landscape and houses that define a featureless lot; homes that are respectful of the neighborhood and simultaneously advance design; we will see homes that redefine a neighborhood and increase its value. Finally, we will see how Max accentuates the brilliance of another architect’s design, further complimenting that design when renovating and adding onto an architecturally significant home.
Dallas has many extraordinary architects whose work can be seen regionally and across the country. These architects have been influenced by many of the same influences and each other. Max Levy’s always probing and evolving work will continue to have impact on architects and architecture for decades and, I am confident, for generations.
#MaxLevy #Architecture #Architect #Modern #Dallas
SMU Backyard
For years we have thought of a beautiful SMU campus as being entered by Bishop Boulevard and surrounded by Highland Park and University Park. The surrounding perimeter was equally beautiful, made up of architect-designed homes and churches. These included the Mark Lemmon designed, architecturally significant, Normandy style home on Mockingbird, the elegant Methodist Church architect Mark Lemmon designed on Hillcrest, and the University Park neoclassical and Georgian homes on the other side of SMU continuing the look of the SMU sorority houses close by. Now all of that has changed. Rather than from Highland Park, entering SMU on Bishop Boulevard, looking at the domed Dallas Hall at the end of the vista, one now enters SMU Boulevard from Central Expressway or Greenville Avenue and continues through a corridor of athletic fields, stadiums, arenas and operational plants before the academic buildings begin. The shift in the organization and physical layout of this growing campus also means SMU is now surrounded by a much different environment than Highland Park homes. SMU is now adjacent to bars, commercial buildings, mass transit tracks, power plants, mid-rise apartments, and an urban edge. An academic sanctuary has penetrated the bubble and becomes an urban campus with an urban edge!
#SMU #SMUCampus #SMUParkingLot #UrbanEdge #Dallas #KatyTrail #PathToTrinityGroves #CampusPlan #Architect #Architecture @SMUDallas #urbanplanning #urbanuniversity