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Bernbaum/Magadini Architects design the homes of the future for the families of today.

and Patricia Magadini continue to perfect the fine art of letting necessity become the mother of invention.

Innovative solutions in architecture were already the Dallas-based firm Bernbaum/Magadini’s stock and trade, yet the way Covid-19 rapidly change resident’s needs led them to lean into 2020’s word of the year— the pivot.

“When the whole lockdown thing happened, we were worried,” says Tricy Magadini. “We didn’t know what was going to happen—nobody knew! We pulled back a little bit, but our phone was still ringing. I don’t know what happened, but I guess people started looking at their houses. If they were spending a bunch of time at home, they said, ‘Let’s do something that we love.’”

As advocates for their clients, principals Bruce Bernbaum

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Along with a huge resurgence in creating separate workfrom-home spaces, the architects also refined add-ons like dedicated outdoor-facing closets complete with a refrigeration area for food and prescription deliveries.

Deliverymen can make drop-offs via accessing a code on the door, while homeowners “pick up” their packages through a locked door in the house.

The ever-present mudroom is revamped with shoe storage and sinks, and utility rooms have extra space

for craft areas or new appliances that steam or refresh clothes. The heart of the home—the kitchen—also gets a makeover with a back-of-the-house space holding a butler pantry, refrigerator, and dishwasher, allowing caterers and home cooks to create their magic behind the scenes. And finally, with outdoor space at a premium, porches with heated floors, ceiling fans, and outdoor kitchens became a finishing touch requested by every discerning homeowner.

“Another thing we’ve been hearing is people didn’t want their houses to be too open,” says Magadini.

“Everyone had kids moving back home, so the whole family dynamic changed. Having everyone in one big open space is not ideal.”

The ubiquitous spacious layouts of the contemporary era still include an open kitchen and family room. Even so, Bernbaum/Magadini are devising flexible satellite spaces that can serve as “whatever the homeowner wants it to be”—be it a studio, man cave, media room, or the ideal home office.

What hasn’t changed in the past year is the partner’s devotion to the design tenets that made them a success. Adjectives consistently used to describe their airy, glass-filled abodes are “calm,” “zen,” “textural,” and “light.” Since the partners founded their firm over two decades ago, they’ve refined their site-specific process to make the most of the terrain on which their designs reside. Materials like rich wood, Texas limestone, and stucco are chosen to complement the landscape, with natural elements highlighted as the focal points outside all of those expansive windows.

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house serves as an urban retreat that allows its owners to exhale from the exact moment they walk through the front door.

“The way we design is from the inside out,” says Magadini of their process. “We want to make sure the plan functions well. I know some architects start with the object and put the function inside it, but we start with how you want to live in your house. A beautiful lot with beautiful trees is going to inspire us to connect the house to the property. In Dallas, we don’t have a lot of opportunity to orient the house to the ocean or the mountains, but if we can use the site to our advantage,

we do it.” Friends since they met at the University of Arizona, Bernbaum and Magadini both relocated to Dallas (the former’s hometown) post-graduation.

After working for different architectural firms locally, they found themselves leasing office space next to each other. It seemed only natural for the two to dip in to help from time to time on each other’s projects.

Because two heads were better than one, they formed a partnership in 1998 that has endured through their

industry’s many ups and downs. The pairing works as well as it does due to their complementary skill sets.

“Several years ago, we had an office retreat and had to write down things we like to do and don’t like to do, and Bruce and I had the same list in opposing columns!

He’s very detail-oriented and great with managing the office—his construction drafts are as perfect as can be.

I do most of the design work and am an out-of-the-box

thinker. You can just tell by looking at the inside of our offices. I’ve got junk piled everywhere, and he’s got neat piles, and everything is organized and methodical.”

With 30 current projects in development, the future looks bright—Magadini says buyers have already snapped up several of the architects’ rare spec homes (including a soft contemporary on Manning Lane and another expansive abode on Bluffview). However, the market may evolve in the future, and whatever style of construction they explore, Bernbaum/Magadini’s intent remains the same. bmarchitects.com

“I think anybody who is building a new home with an architect is building their dream home. For me, that’s always the goal.”

– Tricy Magadini

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THE NATURAL WORLD

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// hopi 1986 mineral pigment, carbon, polymer emulsion on canvas 52 x 68 canvas | 54 x 70 framed

Awash in color, the oversized abstract paintings of artist Cobie Russell play with form in a subtle, meditative way.

Represented by Jean de Merry showroom in Dallas, Russell has bypassed the typical gallery system to build a name on her terms. Shifting from series to series as

the mood takes her, such disparate influences inspire her canvases as the elements, nautical sails, bodies of water, and the diffusion of light.

Although her career has developed organically, one might say Russell was destined to become a painter from the

// paso doble #1 + #2 2020 mineral pigments, carbon, graphite, polymer emulsion on canvas 68 x 54 canvas | 71.5 x 57.5 framed photo credit: elizabeth lavin

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moment she was born in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.

“I would say I had no choice,” she muses. “I was born into a family with a lot of artists, and when I started nursery school when I was two or three, my teachers were all art students. Their approach was to put a huge piece of paper on the floor and hand us the crayons. It was great because there were no confines and no limits, and that’s where I’ve been ever since—down on the floor.”

Shocked when other children drew within the lines, it was natural for Russell to take a different approach as

she developed her artistic practice. Because she grew up listening to friends and family describing their challenges executing work, what Russell calls the “language of struggle” helped her anticipate the moments when she might become frustrated during the moment of creation.

“The doubt, leaps, and distractions that arose didn’t cause me turmoil,” she recalls. “I just knew that was part of the road. Those were regular twists and turns, but it didn’t change the fact I was on my own road.”

Torn between attending art school or a liberal arts college, Russell ultimately decided to pursue a broader world

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view, attending Wells, an all-women’s college in upstate New York. She met her future husband, Gordon, during her studies and moved with him post-graduation to Austin, where he accepted a position as a teaching assistant at the University of Texas.

Previously enamored of the East Coast’s bucolic vistas, she found herself equally enchanted by the klieg-like sunshine of Texas.

“I couldn’t believe it; it was glorious! I could stand outside, and in two minutes, I was warm,” she laughs. “I thought, where has this been all my life?’”

As her husband built his career, she took positions substitute teaching, painting all the while. Gordon decided to return to school in Boston, but Russell knew Texas was the place for her. They eventually settled in the more a rtistically ambitious environs of Dallas, where she taught at Booker T. Washington Arts Magnet High School during the first year the institution offered an arts curriculum. Now the mother of two small children, Russell derived a delicate balance between her artistic practice

// alpha centauri 2019 | black star ink, carbon, graphite and mineral pigments in polymer on canvas 68 x 54 canvas | 70.5 x 65.5 framed

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and her work as a mother. Though family was her main focus, she found time for small shows in Los Angeles and Scottsdale, Arizona, painting in her home studio in her free time.

Serving on the Texas Commission for the Arts and Parkland Health and Hospital’s board of managers, she ultimately retired from corporate life in 2013. Donating her closet of business clothes to charity, from that moment she has spent days in a studio nestled in the top floor

of the couple’s 2,000-square-foot Highland Park home letting her imagination run free.

Her epic (most canvases range 74x60”) works found their way in collections of American Airlines, Neiman Marcus, and UT Southwestern, among others. Still, the business of galleries felt restrictive to Russell, and it wasn’t until her daughter Lindsay returned from Los Angeles and took on the manager’s role that she decided to go for a full-time career.

// genesis 2019 carbon, graphite and mineral pigments in polymer on canvas 70.25 x 64.5 canvas | 75 x 65.5 framed

Today, her “boundary-less” canvases may seem to firmly fit the category of abstract art, yet Russell feels there’s a bit more to her paintings than just beautiful colors and shapes.

“I know I’m an abstract artist because I’ve been told that, but when I do my work, it’s pretty realistic. It’s how I see the world,” she muses. “I wanted to be able to evoke a feeling or response in me to my own work. Painting is a communication and dialogue, and if I can get that conversation going and get it to the point where it’s coherent and complete, I stop painting. “ As she moves through her various series, both the macro and the micro in the nature serve as a template for her forms. Upstate landscapes, Texan light and the stillness of a New Mexico sunset all influence the palette.

“When in doubt, I always start from nature. It’s fractals.

You take something that’s microscopic, and that pattern in nature will also be in the cosmos. I love moving from the tiniest to the largest. I love looking at how light reflects the edges of a leaf and also how it is in a more cosmic form.

I’m big on the NASA website. I love that endless pace of things moving through space.”

// artemis #2 2019 polymer emulsion, graphite, and pastel pigment on canvas 52 x 40 canvas | 54 x 42 framed

Inspired by everyone from Alexander Calder to Willem De Kooning to Japanese circle artists, Russell also shifts the focus of her paintings through the seasons. Her facility with colors and light sensitivity means a picture she

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// first light 2017, mineral and pastel pigment, carbon, polymer emulsion on canvas 52 x 68 canvas | 54 x 70 framed

completes in the depths of January will have a very different feel than one she explores in May. “I can look at a canvas and tell you what month I did it in because of the color and the light. In the Southwest, we have a wonderful range of color and light, and in spring, we have a lot of pinks in May, and I’m in heaven. Everything seems to sing and work for me.”

And, as her practice brings her fulfillment, she also hopes it will do the same for everyone who views it. “There’s no limit—everything is moving forward, and I’m just going to let those ponies run, and they’ll run until they won’t run anymore. This is what I’ve always done, and I have fun with it. I’m hoping that if other people choose to look at my work, they’ll also have a sense of happiness and composure and joy.” jeandemerry.com

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Driving down Woodall-Rodgers Expressway you might catch a glimpse of a bright splash of color at the Perot Museum. It is well worth your time to stop by and encounter the main staircase that leads to Field Street because it has been turned into a bold art installation entitled “Giant Steps”.

The award-winning design by Dallas artist and architect Daniel M. Gunn will be on display through Memorial Day

and is a joint project of the African American Museum and the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and is sponsored

by Kroger. The work represents the extraordinary achievements of African-American leaders in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

“Far too often the important contributions made by African Americans to the advancement of STEM have been untold, unheard and unseen. This magnificent

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design from Daniel M. Gunn shines a much-needed light on these hidden figures,” said Dr. Linda Silver, Eugene McDermott CEO for the Perot Museum. ”Giant Steps often begin by first taking small steps, so we encourage everyone to climb these stairs and find inspiration for the future through learning about the past.”

• Shirley Ann Jackson, telecommunications inventor, the first African-American woman to earn an MIT doctorate.

Those faces depicted include:

• George Washington Carver, famed agricultural inventor and “Wizard of Tuskegee”.

• Dr. Charles Drew, known as the father of the blood bank

• Katherine Johnson and Mary Winston Jackson, NASA

• Dr. Mae Jemison, physician, engineer and the first African-American woman in space.

• Otis Frank Boykin, a Dallas engineer, entrepreneur and inventor with approximately 26 patents.

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scientists profiled in the movie Hidden Figures.

Daniel Gunn also included a couple of lesser known names, Paul Revere Williams, a prominent African-American architect based in Los Angeles and Norma Merrick Sklarek. Ms. Sklarek was the first African-American woman to officially become a licensed architect in both New York and California. She is also known for co-founding the largest woman-owned architecture firm in the United States back in 1985 and became the first African-American woman to co-found an architectural practice.

“These two trailblazers paved the way for me and many other African-American men and women to pursue careers in architecture. I was compelled to include these significant figures in architecture because African-Americans are not very visible in the field of architecture,” said Gunn. “In fact, only about 2 percent of all the architects in the United States are Black. That number is even smaller for Black women practicing architecture at only 0.4 percent.”

Gunn is a 36-year-old architect employed at Oglesby Greene Architects in downtown Dallas.

Born in Alabama, he has lived in New Jersey as well as Louisiana, where he graduated with an architecture degree from Louisiana Tech University in 2008. He picked up a pencil at age five and has been drawing and painting ever since. Gunn says, “When I’m not busy designing

buildings by day, I’m honing my skills with the paintbrush on canvas by night.”

The project began last fall, when the Perot Museum and African American Museum conducted a call for entries to create a vibrantly colored, eye-catching design that celebrates African-American leaders in science – from history and modern day – who have made significant contributions to STEM. To highlight the artistic talent in the Dallas/Fort Worth region, the Perot Museum opened the competition to African-American creative designers who reside in North Texas. Entries were judged by a diverse, blue-ribbon panel comprised of regional leaders

representing the arts, education and STEM business communities. The award included not only the installation of the winning artwork, but a $5,000 prize.

Experience the Giant Steps at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in downtown Dallas and then take a short drive or DART to Fair Park and visit the African American Museum. For more than 40 years, the African American Museum has stood as a cultural beacon in Dallas and is the only museum in the Southwest devoted to the collection, preservation and display of African American artistic, cultural and historical materials that relate to the African-American experience. perotmuseum.org

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