Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desert

Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desert

Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desert
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

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