Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desert Hardcover – November 9, 2021 by Helen Thompson

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Author: Thompson Helen

Color: White

Package Dimensions: 0x254x567

Number Of Pages: 240

Release Date: 09-11-2021

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First survey of modernist and contemporary architecture and interiors in the richly layered architectural history of Santa Fe

Santa Fe Modern reveals the high desert landscape as an ideal setting for bold, abstracted forms of modernist houses. Wide swaths of glass, deep-set portals, long porches, and courtyards allow vistas, color, and light to become integral parts of the very being of a house, emboldening a way to experience a personal connection to the desert landscape. The architects featured draw from the New Mexican architectural heritage–they use ancient materials such as adobe in combination with steel and glass, and they apply this language to the proportions and demands exacted by today’s world. The houses they have designed are confident examples of architecture that is particular to the New Mexico landscape and climate, and yet simultaneously evoke the rigorous expressions of modernism. The vigor and the allure of modern art and architecture hearten each other in a way that is visible and exciting, and this book demonstrates the synergistic relationship between art, architecture, and the land.

Review

“Santa Fe Modern would look good in the centre of any room, however, it also provides a much deeper conversation and approach to the natural and built environment.”

—Aesthetica
“The final volume of author Helen Thompson’s “Modern” trilogy arrives filled with the sort of comfortably contemporary homes and lean interiors the author is known for finding, exploring and deconstructing for our voyeuristic delight. But most exciting, this is the first book-length overview of modernist and contemporary architecture and interiors in the city best known for its historic adobes.”
—360 West“Santa Fe Modern is the first to illustrate how architectural ideas that are both new and ancient have redefined the city and its culture.”

—Modern Luxury Interiors Texas

About the Author

Helen Thompson is a nationally known writer on interior design and architecture. Formerly a food writer and editor for
Texas Monthly, she was the Texas city editor for
Metropolitan Home and has written and produced articles for
Elle Decor,
Architectural Digest,
House Beautiful,
Martha Stewart Living,
Western Interiors,
Traditional Home,
and Veranda. She is also the author of
Marfa Modern and
Texas Made, Texas Modern and a contributor to
Hocker 2005-2020 Landscapes, all Monacelli titles, as well as
The Big Texas Steakhouse Cookbook, and
The Mansion on Turtle Creek Cookbook. She lives in Santa Fe.

Casey Dunn is an Austin-based architectural and landscape photographer whose work has appeared in
Dwell, the
New York Times Magazine,
Interior Design,
Architectural Digest,
Architectural Record, and
Paper City Magazine. He is the photographer for
Marfa Modern,
Texas Made, Texas Modern, and
Oasis (Potter, 2020).