Dennis Holloway, An Architect in Northern New Mexico

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Although my professors were all modernists, for most of my professional career I have marched to a different drum. Seeking a true American architecture--buildings that grow organically from this land--I have had the good fortune to meet many Native American genii who showed me, with wit, that there is an idiom of architecture as different from the European as the European is different from the Asian, African or Australian. It is a language of architecture that is conditioned by centuries of experiment and experience with the climate and minute environmental conditions of this continent. This Native idiom of architecture seems to me the only appropriate way to speak of shelter on Turtle Island...

Little Bighorn Indian Memorial Competition | Ronald Davis Residence | Strong-Dimond Residence

Picuris Holistic Health | Jemez Tourism Center | Native American Preparatory School Competition

(See more VR pictures on these projects on the List below.)

The Projects:

NEW PROJECTS 2001
Guest House
(Project, Traditional Hispano and Tewa Indian idiom hybrid)
Las Companas (Santa Fe), New Mexico
Entry in the National Design Competition for an Indian Memorial at The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, 1997
Team: Dennis Holloway, Ronald Davis, Gabriel Gonzales, & Barbara Bentley
Colorado Solar Hogan Demonstration
(passive solar, active solar, photovoltaics)
Univerity of Colorado/Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, 1987-1990
UPDATE: Artist Studio & Residence for Ronald Davis (Navaho hogan idiom in pumice-crete),
Arroyo Hondo (Taos County), New Mexico, 1990
UPDATE: Artist Studio & Residence for Mag Dimond & Charles Strong
(traditional pueblo adobe),
Talpa (Taos County), New Mexico, 1991
Jemez Pueblo Tourism Center (Project)
(traditional adobe) Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico, 1995
Pueblo Home for Nyla and Albert Rinehart,
(traditional adobe, passive solaradobe) Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
Holistic Health Center
(Unbuilt project in traditional pueblo adobe, passive solar),
Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico, 1995
Residence for Ron & Arlene Estevan
(passive solar adobe),
Nambe (Santa Fe County), New Mexico, 1996
New Native American Preparatory School
(Competition / Project passive solar adobe),
Rowe, New Mexico, 1993
Oo-oonah Art Center Additions
(Project, passive solar adobe),
Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, 1995
Wellington Five Culture Museum
(Project, passive & active solar, photovoltaics)
Wellington, Colorado, 1993

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