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Xeros Residence in Phoenix

Posted: January 22nd, 2009

Living in Phoenix means living in dry heat. Watch the orange sun slip towards the earth’s yardarm, see the dusty light ripple and drop as another day settles on this desert city. When the sun goes down the lights go on, and one home’s lights shine brighter — or at least differently — than the rest.

The Xeros residence ( Xeros is the Greek word for dry ) is a one bedroom, 2,200 square foot home designed by Matthew Trzebiatowski of Blank Studio. It won the 2008 Project of the Year by Residential Architect.

The home’s perch and corrugated steel, its wire mesh and sharp lines make it a natural crowd-pleaser. It has been featured in numerous architectural and modern home magazines, and was recently named one of the best 10 projects of 2008 by Fast Company.

Says Trzebiatowski: “I wanted to wrap one material around the entire house—as sort of an architectural lingerie.”

Xeros Residence

Xeros Residence

Xeros Residence

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blank studio (Phoenix)

Posted: December 28th, 2008

blank studio

www.blankspaces.net

1441 east sunnyside drive
phoenix, arizona 85020
phone: 602 331 3310
fax: 602 331 3525


sellModern features architects from around the world who concentrate on modern work. This month’s featured firm is blank studio.

blank studio was created to honor the capacity for architecture to challenge, inspire and elevate design awareness in an environment that is directed toward increasingly simplistic and synthetic solutions. The design process centers upon investigation and synthesis, the experiential use of space, and the engagement of the senses. Within this inclusive method of design, blank studio endeavors through its work, to transcend meaninglessness and create that which is a testimony to the potential of the designed environment.

In addition to realized projects, blank studio actively participates in the theoretical realm as well, through teaching and by taking part in various local and international design competitions. As an emerging concern in our natural and built environments today, explorations into sustainable technology and practices inform much of the current work of blank studio.

the studio

Matthew G Trzebiatowski, AIA (Wisconsin, 1972) earned a Masters’ Degree from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning (SARUP) in 1997. Trzebiatowski is a registered architect in Arizona and Wisconsin and is currently a faculty member at Collins College of Design and Technology. Trzebiatowski established blank studio in 2001 with his wife, Lisa, while working with an internationally recognized architectural studio in Phoenix.

Lisa R Trzebiatowski, BA, MSW (Michigan, 1976) Trzebiatowski earned a BA in Psychology and Masters’ Degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1999 in addition to completion of fine arts studies and published research in the field of experimental psychology. Trzebiatowski co-founded blank studio in 2001.

Michael R Powell (Michigan, 1973) Powell earned a Master of Architecture Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 and joined blank studio in 2006.

Photos: Raimund Koch

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