THE CANYON HOUSE IS SITUATED ON A SPECTACULAR SITE OVERLOOKING THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY, AND THE MAJESTIC SANGRE DE CHRISTO MOUNTAINS, FURTHER EAST. THE HOUSE PLAN IS A SIMPLE PIN WHEEL, FROM WHICH SPATIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE HOUSE ARE PLANNED. ORIGINATING FROM A CENTRAL ENTRY FOYER, THE HOUSE UNFOLDS ALONG THE WINGS OF THE PIN WHEEL, STRETCHING INTO THE LANDSCAPE IN CARDINAL DIRECTIONS, GIVING THE HOUSE AN EXPANSIVE FEELING OF OPENESS, AND RICH, VARIED SPATIAL EXPERIENCES WITHIN THIS TWO-STORY HOME.

GEOGRAPHIC AND CULTURAL REFERENCES ARE INCORPORATED IN THE HOME’S MATERIALITY. EXTRAORDINARY HAND-PLACED STONE WORK FORMS THE BASIS FOR THIS HOME’S OMNI-PRESENT PHYSICAL STRUCTURE. INTERWEAVING WITHIN THIS STRUCTURE ARE HEAVY WOOD BEAMS AND COLUMNS WITH SPECIALITY STEEL FASTENERS AND ANCHORS, AND LARGE EXPANSES OF GLAZING TO LEVERAGE THE SITE’S STUNNING VIEWS. SITUATED ABOVE THE STONE ABUTMENTS IS A COPPER CLAD “CLOUD”, THE MASTER BEDROOM, WHICH HAS COMMANDING VIEWS OF THE UNIQUE AND TIMELESS AREA GEOLOGY.

“Wonderfully cinematic and conveniently isolated house in New Mexico” New York Times

“A New Mexico house to-die-for” Movie Web

“Gorgeous modernist home in the New Mexico hills” Film Journal

“One Good Memory” Longmire, written by Craig Johnson, Los Pueblos Residence, 2016

“Haywire” American Action thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh, Los Pueblos Residence, 2011

2004 AIA SANTA FE HONOR AWARD