modern design+build’s Principal and Founder, Jan Garcia Sotelo III, weighs in on the rise in pool construction in Austin, as featured in Axios Austin.

Falling Leaves pool project as featured on Architectural Digest, June 2023. READ MORE

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United Kingdom, 2021– BUILD Magazine has announced winners of the 2021 Architecture Awards. To find out more about these prestigious awards, and the dedicated professionals selected for them, please visit http://www.build-review.com/ where you can view our winners supplement and full winners list. READ MORE.

John Gaines Park and Swim Center, featured in Texas Architect, September/October 2020. READ MORE.

Until recently, Austin builder Jan Sotelo had constructed homes using mostly only traditional materials: concrete, steel, glass and wood. But everything changed when local designer Darwin Harrison asked him to bring to life the drawings he made for his new residence with partner Robert Buckner. READ MORE.

WATER PLAYGROUND, DRIPPING SPRINGS — This is not so much a pool as it is a water park. Located on a 100-acre property in Dripping Springs, this 125,000-gallon pool—which was designed by Darwin Harrison and constructed by Modern Design+Build—is so large it has areas for both children and adults to enjoy. READ MORE.

A vast array of new homes around Austin feature flat roofs, unadorned square and rectangular structures, and walls of glass. Beautiful from the street but, really, how comfortable is a modern home? Don’t all those hard, white surfaces feel cold? How do people live in such giant, open rooms, anyway? And where is that cozy spot, the one for a quiet chat or reading, craved by human beings since the world began? READ MORE.

This home on Lakemoore Drive, in Austin’s Bull Creek neighborhood, has its roots on the farm, but its soul plows a more modern vibe. The project got its start when a couple tried to remodel their existing house to meet the needs of their young family and lifestyle. When they found they just couldn’t achieve what they wanted, they looked down the street and bought an empty lot 1,000 feet away. READ MORE.

Jan and Keli Sotelo lived in their mid-century home for three years before deciding what changes they wanted to make. “We waited till it spoke to us,” Jan says.

A good idea, it turns out, because the house in question is no ordinary house. It’s a landmark, a mid-century jewel-box not just designed by Arthur Fehr of the celebrated Austin firm Fehr & Granger but actually the home Fehr built for himself and his family.

The house is one of five residences featured Saturday as part of “Austin 1964,” Preservation Austin’s annual homes tour, which this year celebrates mid-century modern architecture. READ MORE.