Architect, Gary Olp
Gary Olp has been designing residential projects since the mid 1980s expressing his contemporary architecture in organic shapes, smooth surfaces, and accentuated by the warm tones and textures of the steel struts, beams, and elements allowed to oxidize.

Architect, Max Levy
Beautiful hand sketches and carefully delineated details ultimately become extraordinary residences. Max Levy's exploration of light and shadows remains an inspiration for other architects.

Rob Allen & Jim Buie of Longview, Texas, are architects who designed one of the few purely modern homes in Volk Estates. This white asymmetrical home uses sleek but rugged materials in which to raise a family. Modern architectural projects are often associated with grand estates, museums, or very private eccentric homes. 4037 Druid is public in scale, and architecturally exciting in a very traditional suburban neighborhood. A modern house is often looked at as stern, rather than as a warm accessible home in which to live. The demarcation between the sidewalk and stoned concrete floor of the center hall sometimes disappears for children and their neighborhood friends roller-blading, cycling or just running through. This is an inviting, elegant and robust home.

Larry Boerder, a Dallas architect, grew up in a family of architects. In an era where most professors are teaching modern theory, he investigated historical styles. His Master's thesis was on the homes on Swiss Avenue. He did the illustrations for the book by Virginia and Lee McAlester, Great American Homes and Their Architectural Styles. He has designed dozens of new homes that are not overwrought with European detailing to reflect eclectic styles with twenty-first century amenities.

Boerder-Snyder is best known for their contemporary town houses, modern attached single-family homes and duplexes. They have also designed many single-family residences and other projects.

Dallas architect, Bill Booziotis has been a civic leader in both the architectural community and the Dallas community. His highly respected work can be seen in projects from his design of museums, churches, and university buildings to sleek modern single-family homes and the restoration of Dallas' most important historic homes. His clean, elegant approach can also be seen in many of Dallas' most prestigious high-rises, like the Mansion Residences and The Claridge.

DC Broadstone has designed many large Preston Hollow and Highland Park estate homes. He has also been responsible for massive additions to existing homes, such as the Anton Korn designed home on Preston Road. His virtuosity can also be seen in the renovation and expansion designs he did for the Charles Dilbeck home on Chatham Hill. Here you will see tumble brick details and forms that are indistinguishable from what Charles Dilbeck would have designed himself.

Russell Buchanan is both an artist and an architect. His inventive and exquisite eye succeeds in both stand-alone furniture or residential projects.

Dallas architect, Steve Chambers has designed homes from the Hill Country to Highland Park. His use of stone, standing seam metal roofs and porches work equally well in both environments.

Gary Cunningham is the most exuberant modernist in Dallas. Gary Cunningham received an intense education at Cistercian School. He then went to the University of Texas at Austin and worked for the St. Louis firm Helmut-Obata-Kassebaum (HOK). Rick Brettell describes his work as "a complex process of strong juxtapositions, diverse materials and architectural accident." Gary Cunningham explores inexpensive and expensive pre-fabricated and indigenous materials, while actively engaging himself, the craftsmen and contractors involved with the project. His design is visually stimulating -- a perfectly orchestrated explosion of materials and textures creating a graceful space, inviting the person to look outward into the surrounding environment.

Ivy League educated Richard Davis has designed many of the largest estate homes in Dallas. His work can be seen from the renovation and expansion of the Georgian home at 6801 Baltimore to the eclectic estate home on Meadowbrook.

Svend Fruit created Bodron+Fruit with interior designer, Mil Bodron. They're most known for their renovation of important modern homes designed in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, by regional and national architects. In 2002, Svend Fruit received much acclaim for the modern home he designed on Shadywood in Bluffview.

An academic background in art and art history at Trinity University and a Master of Architecture degree combining historic preservation and architectural history, prepared Wilson Fuqua to design some of the most elegant eclectic homes in Dallas. These interpretations of European styles do not rigidly copy the detailing, but certainly capture the spirit. He has also successfully renovated and expanded homes designed by many of Dallas' early twentieth century architects, including Hal Thomson.

Robbie Fusch, of Fusch Serold & Partners, has designed many of the most elaborate estate homes in Dallas, faithfully capturing the European flourishes that you will find in France and England. Drawing on the classical design of the European estate homes built from the 1500s to the 1850s, this Renaissance and neoclassical influence is accurately and elegantly conveyed in these 21st century homes Robbie Fusch designs for his clients.

Many architects never build a home for themselves. Many couples find it difficult to even go through the process of building a home. Kathy and Graham Greene accomplished both, as architects and as a couple. This 50-50 effort created a modern home that can hardly be found from the street. The precision and space of the house has a nautical inspiration. The house opens into the lot dense with trees that greatly influenced the design. Bluffview is the perfect neighborhood for architects like the Greene's to design homes that are smart and aware of the surroundings.

A Fort Worth architect, Mark Gunderson has had much influence on Dallas, both from his work as a juror on award committees to his presidency of the Dallas Architectural Foundation. Mark Gunderson is a modernist who designs perfectly executed buildings and an architectural historian who illuminates the work around us. Currently, he is designing several homes in the region and working as co-author to Buildings of Texas, a new 700 page volume in the series Buildings of the United States published by Oxford Press.

Dallas architect, E.G. Hamilton has most recently designed a modern home for himself on Abbott. He is a founding partner of Omni Plan, best known for designing North Park. He designed one of Dallas' most significant homes on Crescent with his continuous planes delineating interior and exterior rooms and spaces. E. G. Hamilton said, "Architects can't talk about good taste," but you can see, both in his work and in that of his protege, Lionel Morrison, an elegance of approach and attitude.

This home has been rebuilt and renovated, along with an elaborate and open chef's kitchen. The character and charm have been maintained on this 1918 home. There is also a new garage and even additional living space in the basement that has been finished.

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Ted Larson and Paul Pedigo established their firm in 1985. They previously worked together on the restoration of the state capitol and other monumental buildings. They have since renovated and expanded homes designed by Hal Thomson and Anton Korn, along with many other important twentieth century architects. The regional quality of their work can be seen in new residences, park buildings and other projects that express their interpretation of Texas Modernism. Ted Larson adapts well to the desires of the client, which can be seen at the delightful Charleston style home he designed in University Park at 3036 Westminster.

Dallas architect, Max Levy left Fort Worth to study at the University of California at Berkeley when culture and architectural context were being violently reexamined. Returning to Dallas, he trained with the gentleman of Dallas architecture, the exalted modernist, Bud Oglesby. Now, a solo practitioner, he explores indigenous architecture in a current context. Beautiful hand sketches and carefully delineated details ultimately become extraordinary residences. Their elegance is shrouded in humility as they submit to the environment but remain compelling and dramatic. His exploration of light and shadows remains an inspiration for other architects.

This modern home close to the Katy Trail, Turtle Creek and Knox Neighborhood exudes style, grace and environmental exuberance.

Joe McCall is the lead designer for Oglesby/Greene. An AIA fellow, he has designed graceful modern residences, churches and commercial buildings, and renovated converted lofts. He has made a major impact on the architectural direction of Dallas.

Award-winning architect, Robert Meckfessel AIA of dsgn associates Inc. has designed meritorious homes in Dallas and abroad, many of which have been recognized for their innovation and architectural excellence.

Dallas architect, Lionel Morrison, working in concert with Susan Seifert, has created the largest body of modern work in Dallas. He is a reductionist whose austere design celebrates space, the interaction of volume and voids. His buildings painted do not distract from the space with ornamental color, generally relying on white for exterior and wall surfaces. Lionel Morrison can also be credited with introducing the first modern single-family attached home in Dallas found along the Katy Trail. His clean, stark architecture is recognizable as is the influence of his early employer, architect E. G. Hamilton. Both Morrison and Hamilton preferred an open plan versus rooms and cubicles. Mies van der Rohe was an inspiration for both, as was the Barcelona Pavilion that had clean spaces and walls of one surface, either marble or wood. Single planes of unadorned material cutting through public and private spaces on the interior and exterior, define his buildings. His practice is equally divided between commercial and residential work, which also includes a strong practice in South America.

John Mullen has contributed to Dallas as a preservationist, an architect, and businessman. As an architect and partner, his design was instrumental in the success of The Container Store. He is one of the first board members of Preservation Dallas and he is active in the conservation of Greenway Parks. He has designed Texas Modern homes such as the one at 3609 Euclid.

Gary Olp was one of the hand picked students admitted to the University of Cincinatti known for Michael Graves and other prestigious architects. He received a chapter AIA award for his first professional project, a new clubhouse for a century old revered country club in Ohio. Gary has been designing residential projects since the mid 1980s expressing his contemporary architecture in organic shapes, smooth surfaces, and accentuated by the warm tones and textures of the steel struts, beams, and elements allowed to oxidize. His homes are sited to capture the southeasterly breezes and soft east and north light and to shield harsh west sun.

David Oswalt, a Dallas architect, has been very active and is one of the leading renovation architects in Lakewood and East Dallas. He has also done significant renovation design on Park Cities homes, including those originally designed by Charles Dilbeck.

Daphne Perry Is an architect and artist. She is often called upon by her follow architects to create weavings and floor coverings for the homes they design. She is based in Fort Worth and is married to architect Mark Gunderson. She designed 4312 Fairfax in Highland Park, which replaced a larger home that was torn down. She also did the renovation design for the most exciting condominium In Park Towers, the 1950s highrise between Turtle Creek and the Katy Trail.

James Pratt of James Pratt Architecture/Urban Design Inc., has been one of the most influential architects in Dallas. James Pratt was the author of Dallas Visions, a comprehensive land plan and concept for Dallas' future. He has been the restoration architect for the Dallas County courthouse and designed one of Dallas' most significant homes in the middle part of the twentieth century at 9035 Broken Arrow. Its bridge, descending into the middle of the home, influenced Deedie Rose in her collaboration with Antoine Predock. Harvard educated, Pratt understands design, he understands Texas and the importance of its influence and heritage.

Jamie Rohe and his wife, interior designer Cherie Rohe, design romantic interpretations of period eclectic homes. His talent is evident from the home he designed at 4805 St. Johns in Highland Park.

Frank Ryburn has designed Texas Modern homes, renovated homes and has been retained by patrons of art and architecture who appreciate his fine work. He was the renovation architect for his own home, a stone house at the top of the hill in Turtle Creek Park.

Mark Serold, a partner in Fusch-Serold & Partners, has been the lead designer on many significant Dallas estate homes. His design of the residence at 9400 Hathaway illustrates his talent.

After Dan Shipley graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, he worked for both a large firm, HKS, and one of the most important small Dallas architectural firms, Thomas and Booziotis. He approaches the smallest detail of a project or a building with an inventive eye that is not contrived, but celebrates the materials in place or brought to the project. He has found beautiful solutions to projects other prominent architects would find too confusing to consider. He has received many awards for these efforts and in 2003 the American Institute of Architects elevated him to the College of Fellows.

Cole Smith, a partner at Smith, Ekblad & Associates, is one of the most prominent and important architects in Dallas. He has faithfully recreated designs from Europe and secured craftsmen and tradesmen from around the world to detail these eclectic homes. He is responsible for one of the most magnificent homes in Dallas at 5323 Park Lane.

Dean Smith, the son of Cole Smith, is a partner with architecture firm Smith, Ekblad & Associates, one of the most prominent residential firms in Dallas. Dean Smith has contributed to many of these residences and specifically designed many himself, including the home at 3900 Stonebridge, high on the bluff overlooking Turtle Creek.

David Stocker is a partner and lead designer for Stocker Hoesterey Montenegro Architects. He joins Mark Hoesterey, who studied at Texas Tech, and Enrique Montenegro, who studied at Rice, in designing a wide range of homes with reoccurring design threads that permeate the home regardless of the style. Their homes with elegant façades appeal to those who desire classic eclectic homes but the façades also reflect the interior space where the firm’s design work begins.

Bentley Tibbs received his architecture degree from Texas A&M University and his architectural training from Frank Welch. Bentley Tibbs was the architect for the exterior renovation for the referenced Turtle Creek Circle home. He is a modernist who has designed and renovated both residential and commercial projects which utilize simple materials, rich colors, and natural light that exude calmness and serenity. His close attention to detail and respect for the spatial, formal, and cultural aspects of other historical periods create a beautiful space without losing the cleanness of a modern design.

Weldon Turner is the founding principal of Turner, Boaz. Weldon Turner is best known for summer estate homes that have been featured in House Beautiful, Better Homes & Gardens and Architectural Digest and can be found in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado. His firm designs large estate homes in Preston Hollow and Highland Park.

Cliff Welch received his training with Bud Oglesby and worked as a principal at Design International. His current work reflects his interest in 1950s modernism and his roots in Texas. His city and country residences successfully capture the essence of Texas Modernism and design.

Frank Welch trained with O'Neil Ford and has been a prominent architect in Dallas with the largest body of work in the Texas Modern style. An artist, a photographer, a mentor, Frank Welch continues to influence and design exquisite Modern and Texas Modern houses in Dallas' finest neighborhoods and desired locations.

Like many of Dallas' finest architects, he was influenced by Bud Oglesgy whom he worked for early in his career. He combines the sophisticated knowledge of natural light that was a trademark of Oglesby, but the raw honest materials that reflects his West Texas upbringing. This combination is most apparent in some of the finest warehouse loft conversions in the city.

Harold Leidner, a Dallas landscape architect, apprenticed with Boyd & Heidrich and trained with Naud Burnett and Howard Garrett, and was the principal landscape architect with Lambert’s before he founded Harold Leidner Company in 1990. Harold Leidner deliberately established a small landscape design firm with a major presence for important projects. His design team is dedicated to what their clients value most in landscape design. Harold Leidner is known for his contribution to significant Dallas estate homes designed by Dallas architects. You may contact him at 972.418.5244 to find out his full range of service regarding landscape design and installation.