HDM. A voice rising from the desert.
HIGH DESERT MODERNISM (HDM) is our own bespoke regional design language. We are continually crafting and exploring it. We eschew modernism for the sake of modernism, and instead reference a bulleted manifesto of ideas and actual people that inform, shape and guide us. These are the HDM talking points. Our spontaneous conversation starters. We fold and shape these into our own design language, and imbue each project with a desert philosophy. This exercise is probably more for me than you as we develop and hone HDM together, but you get the idea.
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Design and Build for the Intermountain West. Human scale. Appropriate ceiling heights. Honest materials. Useful, not wasteful. Humble gestures. Moments of Compression and Reveal.
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Do you see your house in high desert or mountain technicolor? Imagine it and the coyote will draw. If you have build vision, we have construction know how.
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A stronger voice to what it means to hold a sense of place. Rooted. Space to roam and discover. Restraint by necessity. Limited water. Scrappy self reliance and humility. A faith in your purpose. A understanding of your vulnerability. Quietude. Tranquility. Solitude. Duality of Light and Dark. Stillness and motion.
Purposeful, often dual purpose. Flexibility.
All of the above because building is poetry.
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Let the coyote do the drawing. Call or fill out the form and he’ll howl. A cool sustainable mountain home is waiting.
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Cost-plus and done.
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Your ideas. Aesthetic Collaboration. Cool product. Read more about navigating mountain homes here.
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![Under The Sun Ranch created in collaboration with Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple. Raw Cedar wood cladding meets modern aluminum windows and details.]()
Under The Sun Ranch
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![EcoWood ebony stain is used on rustic cedar siding next to Corten panels. Cantlievered rooflines create a wrap-around covered ranch porch.]()
The Aussie
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![Scandinavian inspired home with old-world stucco plaster exterior walls and large modern aluminum windows. Warm rustic cedar wood siding is juxtaposed against the clean modern white stucco.]()
Abbey Way
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![Rustic stone, cedar wood siding and warm pine soffits, create raw and natural materiality for this modern glass windowed home. All the windows open to expose mountain indoor/outdoor living spaces.]()
The Slider
