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Steve Chambers

Steve is a Residential Architect and a licensed interior designer. He achieves unique styles by enquiring into what his clients think would be their ideal home and building a home that meets their stylistic aspirations while centering the design of their home around their daily habits.

Stories from Steve Chambers

Geneva: Parting Look and Self-Discovery
Steve Chambers
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Julius Comroe described serendipity this way: to look for a needle in a haystack and get out of it with the farmer's daughter. When I was about to graduate from high school, my grand tour "college visitation" was to drive with my dad to one Texas architecture school, Texas Tech. It was not the school, just a school we thought I might like. I walked around a bit and then my dad said, "what do you think, Steve?" I said, "looks good to me. How do I enroll?" College visitations are not done this way anymore, but neither is the education of an architect.
Lausanne's Art and Architecture
Steve Chambers
Thursday, March 1st, 2012

 

For me, insanity is super sanity. Normal is psychotic. Normal is lack of imagination, lack of creativity. Jean Dubuffet

In the second week of February in Switzerland and France, most school children have their "ski holiday." Rental cars are scarce as families pack and leave for a week. As it turns out, this was an unexpected gift for us.

Principles of Universal Design Facilitate Aging-In-Place
Steve Chambers
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
I can recall as a young boy my fascination with "automatic doors." Stepping on those floor mats was the solution to taking my dad places in his wheelchair...I could keep pushing him, as doors 'magically' opened for us. I didn't know the term Universal Design, yet I lived it.
New England Stone Walls, An American Stonehenge
Steve Chambers
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast
...'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Roadside Attractions: Graffiti As Art?
Steve Chambers
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Banksy, the internationally renowned graffiti artist and self-proclaimed vandal, had been using a rat (r-a-t) as his signature for years when someone said to him "that's a clever anagram of art. " I had to pretend I'd known that all along," said Banksy.

 

Graffiti wall in Williamsburg section of BrooklynGraffiti images and lettering--scratched, scrawled, or painted on public and private property--have existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.
Historic Restoration: A Museum in the Streets
Steve Chambers
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
This week as we celebrate the anniversary of our country's independence, it seems fitting that we should write about a setting where an important Revolutionary War battle took place. This small village is but one of many in America that demonstrates the mettle of our forefathers. Ridgefield, Connecticut, is situated in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains.
safe room
Storm Shelters We Designed and Should Have Built for Ourselves
Steve Chambers
Monday, May 30th, 2011
It was just another typical spring evening in Texas this week-humid warm air moving into the upper atmosphere. The Civil Defense sirens near our Town Hall begin their ominous wail. I reluctantly take the mirror off the wall of the interior downstairs bathroom. My wife gathers blankets and pillows and any other softening-the blow items she can find. We take our places and huddle together in the bathtub listening to the beating of ping-pong size hail pounding windows, doors, roof, and sides of our home.
Twentieth Century Modern
Steve Chambers
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
When I heard that Preservation Texas inaugurated its first ever Texas Modern Month, being celebrated the entire month of April 2011, I wanted to share my experience in the Mid-Century Modern home in which I lived from the age of six until I left home for college. I grew up in Dallas in a Mid-Century Modern home built by my parents and designed by the late Dallas architect, Joe Gordon, in 1952.
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