News & Press

“A spare, modernist house is as elegant as its setting is rugged.”

“The horizontal lines of the steel, concrete and metal structure seem to have sprung from the land; views of the desert stretch for miles in every direction.”

____________________________________________________________

“A vibrant center of minimalist and contemporary art thrives in the Texas desert.”

“Because of Judd, Flavin, and others, Marfa today is a pilgrimage site on the international art landscape.”

____________________________________________________________

“The 8,000-square-foot house they built spreads out on the highest rise of a 3,000-acre, antelope-crossed desert plain outside of town, but seems remarkably modest, almost fragile, on approach.”

“The living room, on the other hand, looks out rather than in. Blocky, unapologetic in scale, it juts into the barren landscape at its own powerful angle, offering an untoppable view of the Davis Mountains. A terrace over the carport provides another view outward — up to the heavens for stargazing.”

“ This house inspires us to search through the multiple meanings of the word light — from illumination to nonheaviness to levity to the heavens. Here, a deep and unresolved tension remains between the ordinary and the exalted, the humble and the grand, the material and the immaterial. Bringing all these qualities together, at peace, in a single building is a difficult quest. Its full resolution might require the passage of time.”

____________________________________________________________

Miles and Miles of Texas “Alpine, Marfa, Van Horn, and the great American West beckon. Where you go doesn’t really matter, because you’re already Somewhere Else.”

____________________________________________________________

Architect Carlos Jiménez

”In the clarity of that light, even the most ordinary objects — a train sign, a traffic light, a mailbox — acquire the dignity of beauty. And in the landscape, the greens can look as rich as something in Ireland. Grasses go from a light silver to brownish yellow like wheat fields. The mountains can be cobalt blue or iridescent purple or almost black because of the intensity of the light behind them. It’s mesmerizing.”

____________________________________________________________

60 Minutes

Marfa, Texas: The Capitol of Quirkiness