Mediterranean 'Style' Architecture
Regions 'Style' of Architecture - When style is a bad word
 To
use the Mediterranean region's vernacular building materials
and design characteristics in the Texas Hill Country will
render a successfully convincing Mediterranean 'style' residence,
if executed with skill by your architect. But with one more
ingredient you can proceed beyond 'style' and create something
truly noteworthy —a traditional Mediterranean residence
poised for habitation in the Texas Hill Country. This ingredient
is the illusion of Age!
By adding the ingredient of Age, we mean
building so as the completed space in which you will live
does not appear to be designed by one architect and built
by one builder. In other words, your home has evolved over
the generations, and perhaps centuries, to what it is today.
An architect skilled in the crafts of design and construction
can accomplish this.
Try to imagine a modern, contemporary space
for living, a sculpture for living within, with which the
Mediterranean region inspires impetus. A house perhaps 200
years old that has been carefully and sensitively restored
for its contemporary descendants. Not being of adequate space
for today’s contemporary uses, the new owners have added
spaces, not in the traditional building methods, but in the
most contemporary methods and techniques with materials available
to them today. Using glass, steel and contemporary lighting
in contrast with the ancient Mediterranean stone load -bearing
walls, together we have created art in which to live. We have
created something beyond Mediterranean style —we have
created Architecture with a capital "A".
What we have come to recognize as a regions
'style' of architecture is a product of its vernacular building
materials, it’s predominate design characteristics and
romantic illusions of its past. It is as hard to characterize
Mediterranean 'style' architecture as it is to characterize
American 'style' architecture. Each region is large and rich
with diversity. Spain, France, Monaco, Greece, Italy, Turkey
and the former Yugoslavia share the northern coastline of
the Mediterranean Sea and each has, within herself, evolved
a 'style' and many sub styles. If you are attracted to the
Mediterranean 'style', you will want to decide how seriously
to interpret this example of architecture when it comes time
to designing and building your custom residence, addition
or remodel in the Texas Hill Country. [+]
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