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.
Walkyries, oil on panel, is featured in the Hunt residence.
“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.”
—Monacelli Press, Santa Fe Modern
“Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desert” by Helen Thompson and photography by Casey Dunn . Editing by Elizabeth White at Monacelli Press. Forward by Laura Carpenter.
Other surveys and other books include Santa Fe Literary Review; and Contemporary Art of the Southwest
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