SELECTED WORK · 1982 — PRESENTA studio practice in quiet, modern residential architecture — rooted in the light and landscape of Texas and the American Southwest.
For more than four decades, the studio has worked closely with a small number of clients each year, shaping houses that prize restraint, daylight, and a careful relationship to place. The catalogue below collects built work, work in progress, and a handful of furniture pieces.
ARCHITECTURE · 18 projectsArchitecture
Northaven
Dallas, Texas
A discreet street wall opens to a long inner garden, organizing the house around shade, water, and quiet light.
Bassi Ranch
Hill Country, Texas
77 Via Pampa
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A working ranch reconceived as a series of low limestone bars threaded through live oaks, sharing a single deep porch.
Routh
Dallas, Texas
A two-story residence with a quiet brick street facade and a wide rear opening to a mature garden.
Versailles
Dallas, Texas
Abbott
Dallas, Texas
A formal plan and elevation, with a long water axis and clipped hedges framing the entry sequence.
A modest single-story house organized around an interior courtyard and a long, shaded living porch.
Princeton
A compact adobe residence reorganized around a south-facing loggia and a long, unbroken view to the Jemez.
Brookview
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas Museum of Art
Vanguard Way
Dallas, Texas
A restrained brick pavilion set into a wooded lot, opening entirely to a raised garden terrace at the rear.
Early collaborative work on interior and gallery spaces for the museum's downtown building — a formative civic project.
Crisp white stucco volumes are carved by a single black-steel canopy that signals the entry.
Arthouse
Dallas, Texas
Avondale
Houston, Texas
An infill house on a narrow lot, organized vertically around a courtyard so every room receives southern light.
A house designed around a private contemporary art collection — daylight tempered, walls held flat and uninterrupted.
Berkshire
Highland Park, Texas
A renovation and rear addition that reorients a traditional house toward a new garden and pool pavilion.
Glendora
Dallas, Texas
A compact urban infill — restrained stucco facades, a slot of glass at the entry, a private rear garden.
University Park, Texas
Two parallel bars define a central courtyard; brick, oak, and bronze hold the material palette steady throughout.
UPCOMING · 1 projectUpcoming
10 Primrose Circle
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2019
A house currently under construction in Santa Fe, designed by Lionel Morrison for himself. Text and images to follow.
FURNITURE · 2 projectsFurniture
Landscape Forms
2019
An outdoor seating series for Landscape Forms — cast aluminum frames, slatted teak, designed for civic landscapes.
Sutherland Bench
2017
A long teak garden bench produced by Sutherland — a single horizontal line resting on two tapered supports.