Dallas Modern Architecture, Post 1950
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Max Levy designed this architecturally significant modern home in Far North Dallas and it is offered for sale by Douglas Newby.
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The architectural schools led by Harwell Hamilton Harris at the University of
Texas taught Modernism. International modernists were recruited to design
residences. The result was the most robust proliferation of contemporary
architecture in the country.
Modern architecture continued in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and into the twenty-first century.
Dallas architects Downing Thomas, Bill Booziotis, Mark Domiteaux, Lionel Morrison and others contributed to modern
residential architecture simultaneously with internationally known architects designing downtown skyscrapers.
Interest in modern architecture grows. While the city simultaneously longs for a past, it is encumbered by centuries
of tradition, prompting new modern homes.
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The most prestigious modern town houses are attached single-family homes. They are compatible in scale with surrounding older homes. They have a small private garden and are designed for efficient and dynamic space.
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The 1950's was a prosperous time for the country and the golden age for Dallas. Rapid expansion, prosperity, and land created untold opportunities for 1950's homes. Dallas is fortunate to have many remaining architect-designed homes from this era.
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Harwell Hamilton Harris was a leading architect in California when he was recruited to head the architecture program at the University of Texas at Austin. He brought with him his ideas of functional space and dramatic design.
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Modern technology and materials have allowed architects to expand and refine the themes developed by Mies van der Rohe and Corbusier.
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In 1951, Howard Meyer designed this International Modern style home for Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lipshy. It was beautifully restored by Carolyn and James Clark in 1981. Art and architectural historian Rick Brettell calls this "the finest International Modernist house in Texas."
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Comparable to Edward Durell Stone's international projects, this 1957 Park Lane
project was his most important and favorite residential work. While he is known
for his monumental projects, his interest in architecture began in Fayetteville,
Arkansas, where he entered a lumberyard sponsored birdhouse competition, which
he won. He was from a very wealthy family and had a much older brother, already
an architect, whom he joined in Boston. His brother sponsored him for the Boston
Architectural Club where he drew and studied. He then went to Harvard and MIT on
scholarship, studying architecture with an emphasis on the Beaux Arts style.
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In 1950, Frank Lloyd Wright began his only residential project in Dallas. This home, designed for John Gillin, was completed after three years of construction in 1958, Wright's last home constructed before his death.
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