Honor Award
Desig n / Res ide n ti a l a n d G a rd e n Desi gn
Reed Hilderbrand
project name.
location.
Discovered Connections
Dallas, Texas
For this 1981 Edward Larrabee Barnes House
in Dallas, the designers saw their role as that
of interpreter of the architect’s original, but
unrealized vision. Barnes designed the house’s
pure volumes to negotiate the edge between a
suburban street and a natural stream corridor.
Twenty-five years later, the landscape was
overrun by invasive exotics, and the landscape
architects recognized that to understand the
relationship between home and landscape, the
site would require equally as intentional a hand
as the building.
The plan rehabilitates the stone terraces along
the house in their original modernist language
and extends new turf terraces for outdoor living
onto the slopes of the stream corridor. The
extensive removal of invasive vegetation at the
outset of the project revealed a rich mosaic of
ecotypes and microclimates lying latent and
poised to be cultivated and given expression.
Discovering a small patch of Texas blackland
prairie, the owner agreed to preserve and
expand this rare re source.
58 BSLA
100
This project is an object lesson that sustainability
and landscape preservation, especially in sensitive
ecologies, require intervention, management, and
maintenance.