How one architect is remaking Dallas in his own modern image, one skyscraper at a time | marklamster
Architect Ron Stelmarksi stands in front of the Galbraith apartments, one of his projects, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 in downtown Dallas.A few months ago, the architect Ron Stelmarski was offered a six-figure sum for his car, a bubbly black Porsche 911 from the early 1990s, by a collector who saw it parked in front of his Lake Highlands home. For an architect, even a successful one, that is a lot of money, but Stelmarski turned it down.
It is not a soft and fuzzy aesthetic, but cool and sharp-edged. “We’re not trying to decorate anything,” he says of his design philosophy. “I’m trying to find the essence of the programming.”Stelmarski is an anonymous figure, in large part, because he does not practice under his own name, but leads a large team of architects. Since 2011, he has been the design director of the Dallas office of
The Richards Group Building, looking over the North Central Expressway, designed by Ron Stelmarski of Perkins&Will. That praise extends even from the city’s leading independent practitioners, who are not typically prone to extol the virtues of their corporate colleagues. “He seems to think like a small-firm, hands-on guy while heading up design for a large firm,” says Gary “Corky” Cunningham, perhaps the city’s most recognized architect.
The 53-year-old was born in Cleveland and raised in Chesterland, Ohio, a small town about 30 miles to the east. As a child, his first exposure to architecture came watching a team of Amish builders construct the family home. “It was pretty fascinating,” he says. “When the wood frame was up you could walk sideways through all the walls and see where your bedroom was going to be.”
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