by Mary Margaret Vasquez | Dec 30, 2024 | Architecture
Casa Luis Barragán is so spectacular in its design that to walk through it in person feels like a divine experience. Visiting Casa Luis Barragán was a highlight of my year. The architect was a favorite discovery while in design school. His sparse monastic spaces and...
by Mary Margaret Vasquez | Apr 9, 2024 | Architecture
Casa Vicens, Barcelona, displays a different side of Gaudi that is more geometric but still wildly original and inspiring. Casa Vicens was Antoni Gaudi’s first architectural commission. A wealthy stock broker entrusted Gaudi in 1883 to design a summer garden...
by Mary Margaret Vasquez | Nov 10, 2023 | Architecture
The luxury of home takes on new meaning as far too many people in the world are bereft of one due to incessant destruction caused by war. New definiton of luxury of home. In June 2019, The Telegraph wrote that 70 million people were displaced due to war, persecution,...
by Mary Margaret Vasquez | Feb 15, 2022 | Architecture
Just an hour from Orlando lies a magical place from another time where the wonderful Wallace (Neff) left his mark. In search of wonderful Wallace, a few friends and I recently made the drive to a place called Mountain Lake. This development of 3,500 acres, located in...
by Mary Margaret Vasquez | Nov 30, 2020 | Architecture
Beverly Drive in Highland Park, Texas is a wide street in the heart of town filled with some of the loveliest houses like in a movie. Growing up in the Park Cities in Dallas, I thought Beverly Drive was the ultimate street. It is located in the heart of Highland Park...
by Mary Margaret Vasquez | Nov 1, 2020 | Architecture
Steve Feller, a local architect, has helped Winter Park retain its charm by designing homes and renovations that are true to the original vision of our town. Stately homes have dotted Winter Park since the town’s establishment in 1887. “Winter Park is a...
