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Santa Fe Modern

Contemporary Design in the High Desert
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Santa Fe Modern showcases the pioneering blend of modernist architecture and New Mexican heritage in Santa Fe's high desert landscape. Featuring homes with expansive glass, deep portals, and courtyards, the book highlights how architects combine traditional adobe with steel and glass to create structures that resonate with the desert's light and colour, while embracing modernism's clean expressions.
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Ideal for enthusiasts of modern architecture, interior design, and cultural heritage, as well as readers interested in the evolution of regional architectural styles in the American Southwest.

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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

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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, colour, 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 vigour 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.

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Featured in the Wall Street Journal and Robb Report's 2021 Holiday Gift Guides.

Aesthetica praises the book's aesthetic appeal and its thoughtful discourse on the interplay between natural and built environments.

360 West notes that it is the first comprehensive overview of modernist architecture and interiors in Santa Fe, complementing Helen Thompson's acclaimed 'Modern' trilogy.

Modern Luxury Interiors Texas highlights how the book illustrates the fusion of ancient and new architectural ideas shaping Santa Fe's culture.

Bloomberg Pursuits declares Santa Fe a burgeoning centre for modern architecture, showcased brilliantly in this publication.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781580935616

Publisher: Monacelli Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 October 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Monacelli Press

Illustration: 220 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Photographs by Casey Dunn

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 218.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 1252g

Pages: 240

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).

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