A Quiet Conversation With Space

Written by Karine Monie   

Tucked inside a refined building designed in the 1980s by Dallas modernist icon Bud Oglesby, this 2,400-square-foot home in Uptown Dallas offers more than just elegant proportions and natural light. It’s a space that holds memory—both architectural and personal.

Designed by Joshua Rice for a young woman deeply involved in the arts and early childhood education, the apartment was imagined as a quietly confident home, free from trends yet rich in substance. “From the beginning, the goal was to create something enduring,” Rice explains. “A space where form and feeling are in quiet dialogue.”

​ROOTED IN LEGACY

The building’s original architecture served as both foundation and muse. With its balanced volumes, humble materials, and Oglesby’s signature restraint, Rice approached the project with reverence. “Every decision was filtered through a single lens: what to preserve, what to reinterpret, and how to let the space feel like her own.”

While the home draws subtle references from early California and New Mexican modernism, the true inspiration was the client herself—a thoughtful, confident young woman raised in a family with deep ties to Dallas’s art and design community. “Her eye and intuition shaped everything,” Rice notes. “She trusted the process and embraced the nuance.”

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https://www.yuzumagazine.com/joshua-rice

Photography: Lacey Land