In the Making: A Texas Ranch House with Michael Imber

In the Making spotlights the architects, designers, and artisans using historical precedent to address contemporary challenges. Each episode is a deep dive into a select project, revealing the unique history, environment, and human ingenuity that shaped the design process.

In the first episode, architect Michael Imber raises the curtain on his firm’s newly built project, a stone ranch house in West Texas. The design draws inspiration from the state’s rich history of the ranch house archetype, and combines influences from Mission-style colonial edifices, U.S. Cavalry frontier forts, and public parks constructed by the Works Progress Administration in the twentieth century. Michael leads viewers on a tour of the stunning result: a house hewn from local Texas stone and oak beams, like a fortress that commands a view of the formidable prairie landscape, but also offering its inhabitants a comforting place of respite.

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