Roadside Attraction.
In: New York Times Magazine, 2010-11-07, S. 47
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If you're going to build your dream house in a city that revolves around cars, why not plant it right on the side of a freeway? Ronnie Self, an architect, has done just that on a plot of land in a gritty but art-filled neighborhood with unobstructed views of the downtown skyline in Houston. Self, who teaches architecture at the University of Houston, lived for more than a dozen years in Paris, where he worked for Renzo Piano on projects like the Beyeler Foundation near Basel, Switzerland, and the Brancusi Workshop at the Centre Pompidou. When he returned to his native Texas and looked for a place to build a house (which he now shares with Bernard Bonnet, the book buyer for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), he found the Third Ward. A central neighborhood, it was filled with ramshackle shotgun houses, wood-frame bungalows and abandoned lots; the lot he bought was marked by a sign, written on a piece of plywood and nailed onto a tree. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Roadside Attraction.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | MIDDLETON, WILLIAM |
Zeitschrift: | New York Times Magazine, 2010-11-07, S. 47 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2010 |
Medientyp: | serialPeriodical |
ISSN: | 0028-7822 (print) |
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