You are here

Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast » Gulf Coast » Houston (Harris County) » South Central Houston » John Zemanek House

John Zemanek House

-A A +A
1968, John Zemanek. 1723 Colquitt St.
  • (Photograph by Gerald Moorhead )

The one- and two-story house that Zemanek designed and constructed for himself takes seriously the site where it was built. Using such ordinary materials as insulated cement panels, corrugated sheet roofing, and even the roof tiles of the bungalow that previously occupied the lot, Zemanek discovered the exceptional qualities of an ordinary place and used architecture to magnify and intensify these qualities.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
×

Data

What's Nearby

De Santos Gallery
The Menil Collection
Forty-Eight Foot House
Rothko Chapel
B. B. Gilmer House

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "John Zemanek House", [Houston, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-HN33.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 340-340.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,