Bart Prince is a normal man as you'll meet, but the homes he creates seem far-out.
Bart Prince walks through a "pivot door" to enter his studio from the outside. The design is one of countless ways the world-renowned Albuquerque architect upends classic notions of how a house should look and function.
"I didn't want it to just be a door," he said. "It's more of a panel designed to be a piece of the wall. When you push it open, it becomes a sculptural element you can see from both sides."
Prince is as normal a man as you'll meet, but the homes he creates seem far-out. Wacky.
But what's truly wacky is how much sense they make.
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Architect Bart Prince looks out from the balcony of his home near the University Area. Copper dinosaurs stand sentinel adjacent to the house on Monte Vista Boulevard. Prince's innovative work is the subject of many discussions inside - and outside - the architectural community.
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Christopher Mead submitted a 10-page list of things he wanted in the house he shares with wife Michele Penhall, and architect Bart Prince delivered. "For him," Mead says of Prince, "the beauty of the space matters. But it's perfectly adjusted to our requirements."
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Artwork hangs from the curved ceiling of Bart Prince's home. A teacher thought Prince's first drawings were just artwork, but the youngster knew even then he was conceptualizing something far different. "After I'd gotten this blue ribbon," Prince recalls, "I said, `That's a building.' "
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A sculpture of a home design can be found in architect Bart Prince's work space. "I don't start sketching the way some people do," he says. "I prefer to let it stay in my head as long as possible. As soon as you sketch something, you're committed."
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