Wow! This looks really neat – a documentary about architectural photographer Julius Schulman, directed by Eric Bricker. The movie is playing at the Regal Arbor Cinema this weekend. It looks like the director will take questions after the 2:50 show tomorrow. Here are links and details:

• Julius Shulman film website
• AIA Austin Screening details

One of the great things about specializing in modern architecture is that I often have access to architectural drawings & models of a home (in addition to beautiful photos). In the case of 1011 Canyon Edge I have some of the original architectural drawings, but also a Sketchup model:

Since Google enabled the integration of Sketchup models into Google Earth, I thought it would be cool to record a flyby through the canyon. Let me know what you think in the comments below, and don’t forget to come by the open house on Sunday!

Required Disclaimer: The Sketchup model and/or google earth data may not be to scale or 100% accurate.

See 16 modern homes in Austin this Saturday via the Austin Modern Home Tour.  Full details here: modernhometouraustin.com

There are a lot of nice homes on the tour, I’m probably most interested in seeing this one, as I’ve admired their cantilevered pool from Lake Austin:

This Thursday is the last lecture in the 2009 Architecture at the Umlauf season. I’m very excited to hear Tom Hurt speak as he designed one of my favorite listings at 1101 Canyon Edge (on the AIA tour in 2006). 

Architecture at the Umlauf – Thursday, 11/5/09, 7:30 PM

See you there!

I just finished posting about the new foundation (I’m slacking), but today you can see photos of our new kitchen on Cindy Black’s Hello Kitchen Blog. Here is one of the great photos taken by Valarie Campbell:

Click on over to Hello Kitchen for more photos & details. I’ll provide background on some of our design decisions in a future post. Thanks to Cindy for a great post and of course to our architect (Robert Shelton), builder (Modern) and contractor/cabinet craftsman (Michael Dickson).

For reference, here is the before photo: