Architects Susan and Gordon Wittenberg and Mark Oberholzer designed a pair of steel-framed houses—one facing the street, the other an interior parking court—that are surfaced externally with corrugated-steel siding, and with steel decking and concrete floor slabs completely exposed inside. A quality of lightness suffuses the houses, which seem ethereal despite their three-story heights.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Double House", [Houston, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-HN47.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 344-344.
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