"These old bungalows had an insightful way of carving out a community in a sprawling city like Houston,” says architect Carlos Jimenez, looking down Willard Street in the eccentric inner-loop neighborhood Montrose, where new site-maximizing townhouses threaten to outnumber the original single-family cottages. “Their porches create a collective, a way of understanding a city street. We have to reinterpret that in contemporary ways.” On the block where he works and lives, the architect has created a “small urban community of three,” comprised of his own home, his architecture studio with an attached apartment, and, most recently, a new residential project.
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