The residents were keen on retaining elements of the original house, chiefly the brick walls and metal-framed casement windows (which have become increasingly rare and prohibitively expensive to replace). Alter liked that not every aspect of the project was brand new. “I’m not an architect that wants to wipe away the past and start over fresh. In architecture, meaning is construed in many ways–some of that is simply in what one designs, but some of it is in a place’s history.” Photo 3 of 10 in Modern Renovation in Austin by Wilson Barr

Modern Renovation in Austin

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The residents were keen on retaining elements of the original house, chiefly the brick walls and metal-framed casement windows (which have become increasingly rare and prohibitively expensive to replace). Alter liked that not every aspect of the project was brand new. “I’m not an architect that wants to wipe away the past and start over fresh. In architecture, meaning is construed in many ways–some of that is simply in what one designs, but some of it is in a place’s history.”