Publisher's Synopsis
The Crowley house, sited on a flat hilltop, enjoys sweeping vistas of Marfa's compelling landscape: a unique combination of rolling grass dunes and chiseled mountain ranges. The sheer exposure and vulnerability of the site, inspired an architecture of boundaries and limits, that nonetheless takes full advantage of unobstructed views across the vast Chihuahuan desert. The spare setting is magnified by the extraordinary quality of light available almost anytime of the year and which is particular to this region of southwest Texas. The ever-surprising tonality of this keen light transforms ordinary objects and features into magical interludes throughout the day. The house is a one-story structure, whose single-room depth threads interior and exterior to form an interrelated whole. This book explores Crowley in detail.
