"After moving to Marfa in the 1970s, Judd purchased 22 buildings in the small Chihuahua desert town and transformed them into spaces to live, work, and display art. Among them are a former military complex turned residence and galleries for his large-scale pieces, an adobe house for his paintings and collection of antique Swedish and Shaker furniture, and an old Safeway for his art studio."
"As with most of his architectural work in Marfa, Judd exercised a light touch with his renovations. He sandblasted paint from the exterior, removed anything inside that wasn't original to the building, then brought in tables and desks he designed. The ground floor storefront became a place for him to display architectural drawings and models and receive clients (his architecture studio was in a former bank building across the street); the second floor held apartments."
"The two-story brick building built in 1907 looks almost exactly as Judd left it when he died in 1994, but now it features environmentally conscious building methods, some contemporary and some traditional, including energy-efficient windows, rooftop solar, and a passive cooling technique called night flushing."
Donald Judd's two-story 1907 brick architecture office in Marfa, Texas, has been renovated to retain its original appearance while integrating sustainable systems. The project includes energy-efficient windows, rooftop solar panels, and night flushing, a passive cooling technique. Houston-based architect Troy Schaum and the Donald Judd Foundation collaborated on the restoration to balance historic preservation with climate-responsive design. Judd previously purchased and adapted 22 buildings across Marfa for residences, studios, and galleries, exercising minimal interventions such as sandblasting paint and removing non-original elements. The renovated ground floor continues to function as display and client space, with apartments above.
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