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Text by Brian A. Spencer
All images ©Bill Timmerman
Architect : Michael P. Johnson Design Studio

Of the multitude of structures built across the country each year, few ever become elevated to a level considered the “art of architecture” by architectural critics and/or historians.  The vast majority of these houses and buildings remain mundane, held to a design level that will appease the taste of that great middle group or, as Frank Lloyd Wright referred to us: “the great mediocrity.”

Architectural critics judge the impression of a building in the immediate sense, before the building has had he chance to prove itself.  Historians, on the other hand, have the benefit of hindsight, advising of the building’s architectural qualities after the second, third of fourth generation has passed.  Seldom is a classic realized at the moment.

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Architectural Design | Blank Studio
Photographers | timmerman photography

Designed by Blank Studio, this slim -two stories house with mezzanine intrigued me by its form, meterials selection and interesting space arrangement. They blend the architecture with its surrounding physically and functionally as well as aesthetically. Here is from the architect;

The Xeros project is sited within a late 1950’s era neighborhood where the urban grid of Phoenix, Arizona is overtaken by the organic land forms of the north phoenix mountain preserve. Located at the end of two dead-end streets, the Xeros residence is positioned upon the upward slope of a 50’x 250’ double lot facing the mountain preserve to the north and the city center to the south. Read the rest of this entry »