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Max Architectural and Preservation Achievement of Architecturally Significant Home, Max Levy Architect

Max Levy, FAIA, helped save an architecturally significant home, the Stretto house designed by New York architect Steven Holl, from being torn down. This architecturally significant home built in 1991 was offered for sale for less than its 1.5 acre Preston Hollow land was valued. The house was headed for destruction. Its demise kept inching […]

The Characteristics of Homes People Love

For the people who really love their home, 10 characteristics that make them happy come up over and over again…

Why Are Early 20th Century Homes More Modern Than 21st Century Builder Modern Homes?

See how early 20th century modern homes built in the 1900s are more modern than 21st century modern homes that invoke a Victorian sensibility.

Can a Modern Home Also Be a Good Family Home?

How modern home inspired by early 20th century modern, Texas modern, midcentury modern, stark glass modern is a good family home

Bad Times. Best Architecture.

The silver lining of bad economic times if often the best architecture. See these examples.

House at Wind Point – Max Levy 2007 AIA Award

Max Levey designs sublime houses and this is one of them.

Impact on Homes That Make Us Happy

Douglas Newby is a national award-winning realtor who identifies architectural significance, value, and homes that make people happy. Insights offered in these articles include the nuance and evolution of neighborhoods, cities and Dallas. If you are interested in purchasing an Architecturally Significant Home, go to Douglas Newby & Associates real estate site DougNewby.com.

Architecturally Significant Homes

Douglas Newby Expertise

A life long curiosity and interest in art, culture and economics, and how they impact homes, neighborhoods and cities shape the prescient understanding Douglas Newby has for evolving real estate markets. His uncanny ability to see which homes and neighborhoods thrive and which will lag and when has been immensely beneficial to his clients and to the city. Ultimately, what is most important is homes that make us happy.