The Advocate’s cover story for August features architects in front of neighborhood places they find inspiring. There were a few portraits that didn’t make it into the magazine because of circumstance. To find out about Cliff Welch, click the jump:
Cliff Welch is a Lake Highlands resident and he’s one of the more exciting residential architects working in Dallas. He’s also a really nice guy. (With huge biceps. I didn’t know architects were allowed to have guns like Cliff.)
He’s pictured in front of the Dallas Grand Hotel, an example of the type of mid-century architecture to which he’s referring in the following quote:
"If you look at some of the wonderful office buildings and houses and residential work that was done back in the late ’40s, the ’50s, the ’60s, you see that level of craft combined with early Modernism that’s just very exciting — cantilevered roofs or details with steel and glass. I’d hate to pick one particular building or house, but there’s a genre there — the Howard Meyer House on Nakoma, or work by O’Neal Ford. There’s beauty there that’s lacking from most of what we’re seeing get built today. One thing that’s changed is you had third and fourth generation carpenters and woodworkers and stonemasons that were available and on the project. And it’s difficult to find that level of expertise nowadays."
