Architect: Stephen B. Chambers Architects, Inc., with schematic and design development provided by Ralph Hawkins, FAIA, LEED AP, and HKS, Inc.

"We love all the light, love the stone. The pervading stone wall is almost a work of art in itself—every piece of stone is different, and the light hits it differently. It's my favorite feature. And the glass, and the trees."

- Susan Hawkins

This residence in Bluffview area of Dallas is executed with clarity and simplicity of the owner’s modernist sensibilities, integrated with our firm’s regionalist convictions. In collaboration with the client who is an architect himself, we created a home that is thoroughly modern in its use of space, light, massing, and proportion.

Regional character was achieved through the abstraction of elements of Texas culture.  The home features a massive central wall with stone lintels which penetrates the external walls of the house.  It uses a regional matrix of massive Texas limestone blocks, standing seam metal roof, dry stack stone wall at entry, and deep-shaded back porch, characteristic of Texas Hill Country homes.

Feature Story in 2008 Dallas Interiors

Also visit the detailed Case Study of how this house was built.

Front view		Dining room	Kitchen into family room
Living room		Rear pool view	Stairs

Also visit the detailed Case Study of how this house was built.

All photos, Blake Marvin, HKS