About Charles Davis Smith
Dallas-based photographer Charles Davis Smith weaves his training as an architect and skill with the camera into memorable images that celebrate the architectural experience. A collaborator and artist at his core, he employs a keen understanding of design in the aesthetic and technical approaches to each image. His work has appeared in publications worldwide and has earned a multitude of design awards for his clients.
As an undergraduate architecture student at Texas A&M University, Charles understood the power of images to convey an architect’s design intent, their usefulness as tools of learning and inspiration, and their necessity as stand-ins for the actual experience of a building.
LOCATION: Dallas, Texas
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Located on a small triangular lot near Bull Creek in Austin, this house addition was required to comply with complex ordinance regulations which drastically constrain the possibility to add area to an 800 square-foot house originally built in the 1950’s.
The home office addition not only complements the existing house and balances the dynamic West Austin lot, but also provides a newly framed portal to the creek and its rich landscape beyond.
The Autohaus is a car collectors’ garage and residence in central Texas. The design features compact living quarters, expressed as a single mass, floating above an open area for flexible gathering and automobile calibration/display.
22 Billets House is a renovation project completed in 2016 by Norman D. Ward Architect. The house is located in Fort Worth, Texas.
Cottonwood House is a single family house designed by Bernbaum-Magadini Architects. The house is located in Dallas, Texas, US. From the architect: A home for entertaining friends and family was the inspiration for this 7500 SF home. Although the couple were empty nesters they wanted plenty of room for children, spouses and grandchildren to come and
Bracketed Space House is a spacious Texas dwelling designed by American studio Matt Fajkus Architecture.Â
This Austin house was completed recently by Matt Fajkus Architecture. Description by Matt Fajkus Architecture: Austin’s Bouldin Creek neighborhood provides a unique and ever-changing context to the Main Stay House. The challenges were both cultural and site-specific. The Main Stay House exists as a simple and straightforward proposal – an architectural experiment on domesticity –
