Luis Fernández-Galiano   For Carlos Jiménez, architecture is a poetic craft. Dedicated in body and soul to art and friendship, his buildings are lyrical places of intersection between light and nature, spaces of encounter lit by flashes of color. Infected from a very early a

Stephen Fox   Over thirty years of work, Jiménez has stayed faithful to an efficient yet calm and poetic architecture, one that sets fashions and eccentricities aside. 

Sarah Whiting   O you window, measure of longing, / refilling so many times / as one life spills over and hurries / toward an other life. / You who divide and who bring together, / as changeable as the sea— / a mirror, suddenly, / reflecting and blending / our faces

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Began in 1983, the architect’s professional studio in Houston is an ongoing project that has seen multiple variations of a live and work environment through the years. Additions, alterations, subtractions, and transformations have comprised an ensemb

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The site for the 10,000 square feet new printing workshop of Houston Fine Art Press was a distressed 39 feet wide by 300 feet long sliver of land located in one of southwest Houston’s industrial warehouse districts. Suggesting a factory-like characte

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Surrounded by the luxuriant landscape that stretches along Buffalo Bayou – the 52-mile waterway, the only one in Houston, connecting the city to the Gulf of Mexico –, the 5,000 square feet Beauchamp House is a major transformation of – and addition t

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Located in a marginal area of the Houston Heights neighborhood, the three-storey wood framed house sits in the middle of its 33 feet wide by 135 feet deep site. Oriented along its predominant south-north axis and prevailing south breeze, the house is

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 4,500 square foot art Lynn Goode gallery is located in a mixed-use neighborhood known as Houston’s ‘gallery corridor.’ Three existing matured oak trees define the two-storey structure, a wood framed building circumscribed within the volume of the

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 5,500 square feet house occupies the entirety of its double lot property becoming a walled-in compound with two singular courtyards. The totally enclosed courtyards underline the client’s desire for absolute privacy. The L-shaped plan is divided

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 60,000 square feet hybrid building is part of a planned expansion set out by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 1990. The L-shaped three-level structure consolidates all of the administrative offices for the entire institution and provides an ar

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 1,200 square foot house occupies the front end of a corner property in one of Houston’s most desired neighborhoods, and within walking distance to the city’s museum district. The project consists of a radical transformation of an original 1920s b

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The house is located on North Boulevard, one of Houston’s most beautiful streets where marvelous giant oak trees have given the place the grandness of canopied urban enclaves. The design solution for the 4,000 square foot house addresses the client’s

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 40,000 square foot building consolidates the various studio and classroom spaces – originally scattered throughout the college campus – into a single unifying structure. Sited at the farthest southeast section of the Williams College campus, the

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 2,200 square foot house is the most recent transformation of a project that began in 1993. The present design consists of integrating a one story addition to the original house. The resulting L-shaped configuration encloses a lush garden/courtyar

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 4,000 square foot one-story Irwin Union Bank branch is a prototype intent on maximizing spatial flexibility, site and technological adaptability for the bank. The simple square plan has a central vaulted space where flexible and open offices are

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The Cummins Engine Company, enlightened patron of the small town of Columbus, decided in 1997 to provide its employees and general public a child caring facility. The one level 22,000 square foot building occupies a corner site in the midst of the Cu

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 60,000 square foot diesel engine distributorship and repair facility of Cummins Engine Company is located on the North side of Loop 610. The building’s main elevation integrates three critical components of the program: office area, vestibule/par

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The Peeler Art Center is sited on a corner property at the western edge of the main campus. The building’s primary elevation faces north where three large window monitors single out the painting and drawing studios at the top level. Distributed on tw

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The two-story wood frame and stucco house occupies a residual lot in Houston Heights, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the most important city of Texas. The 2,100 square foot dwelling maximizes the strict limits of a narrow site already occupied by

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Although an independent structure, the 2,400 square foot library is a pavilion-like infill in its densely wooded property, where several structures go up. It connects the existing main house and guesthouse via ramps, balconies, a staircase and paths.

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The house is a one-story structure, whose uniform width threads interior and exterior spaces to create two distinct and protected courtyards. The sheer exposure and vulnerability of the site inspired an architecture of boundaries and limits. Sited on

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The building program called for a 120,000 square foot facility to consolidate all of the company’s executive and clerical offices, storage and mailing services. The selected site faces Interstate 69, a busy highway that links Indianapolis with Fort W

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 2,600 square foot house is located near Memorial Park, Houston’s largest nature reserve and public park. The house is carefully fitted amid existing trees. One of these, a matured live-oak tree prominently sited at the front of the property, is f

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Located on a 32-acre site 5 miles south of Rice University’s main complex, the Rice Library Service Center (RLSC) is located in the latter half and was the first structure built on the property, introducing a palette of materials and textures as an e

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Located south of Rice University’s main campus, the 2,400 square foot house occupies a typical 50 by 100 foot city lot with street frontage to the north and alleyway access to the south. The house slopes from north to south, from two levels to a sing

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Since the Tyler School of Art of Temple University was founded in the early 1930s, the school occupied a bucolic suburb in North Philadelphia. Tyler’s scattered residential-scaled buildings had, by 2003, fallen in disrepair leading the University to

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 3,600 square foot studio is designed to meet the live and work needs of a Houston photographer. Located in a residential neighborhood not far from Houston’s Museum District, the studio is a loft-like setting where working and living flow and inte

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Located next to Carlos Jiménez Studio on Willard Street in Houston, the Crowley House undertakes another variation on an urban ensemble that the architect has been working on since 1983. Parallel to the studio, the 3,000 square foot house defines and

Carlos Jiménez   United States   In 1996 the former Big Bend Feed Company was purchased with the intent of converting its warehouse spaces into Marfa’s main performance space. Sited next to the railroad tracks, the building was not only renovated but doubly insulated to attenuate th

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The Hotel Saint George is in downtown Marfa, the fabled Southwest Texas town, known for the beauty of its Chihuahua desert landscape and the installations of the artist Donald Judd and specific works by some of his contemporaries. The hotel is a thre

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Located adjacent to the Hotel Saint George and next to Marfa’s main railroad tracks, the 11,000 square foot interior and outdoor space serves the hotel and the town’s community at large as a multipurpose hall. Its warehouse-like, versatile program pr

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 5,500 square foot courtyard house consists of three intersecting volumes: a single height garage and entry bar facing the street, and a two story structure oriented to the west to block the harsh Houston light. This volume is divided into two dis

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In his foreword to the monograph on the work of Carlos Jiménez that was published by the Catalonian publisher Gustavo Gili (Barcelona, 1991), Aldo Rossi uses the first person to talk about the architect, and both Kurt Forster and Sylvia Lavin, in ess

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Won Buddhism is a modern and reformed type of Buddhism established in Korea in 1916. Its primary goal is to teach how to use the mind well toward enlightenment and equilibrium. There are several congregations around the world and a few of them in the