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TEXAS DESIGN WEEK DALLAS IS A TICKETED EVENT. TO PURCHASE TICKETS, AND FOR COMPLETE SCHEDULE, GO TO TEXASDESIGNWEEK.COM. Poetry in Motion: Bobby McAlpine S elf-described as a fierce romantic — and seconded by us — architect Bobby McAlpine founded his firm, McAlpine, 30 years ago and has designed homes, private chapels, a rehabilitated town, restaurants, and follies across the country for passionate clients. His calling cards are a diverse array of traditional styles and regional vernaculars, drawing from Elizabethan and Dutch to colonial Caribbean and agrarian American. In his third book, McAlpine: Romantic Modernism (Rizzoli), he describes classicism and modernism as the silver and gold crayons in the box of 64 colors that he's held back yet wanted to use for so long. "Under the heading of romanticism," he says, "I can claim them as my medium to empower all else I've learned along the way. Pure classicism and modernism are daunting in their dogma. When you throw the cloak of romanticism over them, they become more subtle and even more powerful. They turn a house made of warm butter into something that possesses an 'across the crowded room' kind of attraction, as immediate as a flash of lightning or the roll of thunder." In this new body of work, McAlpine embraces his long-coveted silver and gold crayons, creating houses that "are not the gentlest, but rather those that possess the most voltage. This work is about going further than poetry." The book opens with his own newly designed home; other projects include a neoclassical pavilion by the sea in the Bahamas, a masonry dwelling in the rolling hills of Virginia, and a quintessential American country house in Tennessee. CV: With offices in Atlanta, Nashville, New York, and Montgomery, the firm has been listed on the AD100 and the Elle Decor A List, and projects have been published in Veranda, Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and House Beautiful. What, When, Where: Bobby McAlpine will speak and sign his new book Wednesday, November 1, 1:30 to 3:30 pm, at JD Staron showroom, 1025 N. Stemmons, Suite 280. For tickets go to texasdesignweek.com. "In modernism, there is freethinking rebellion." — Bobby McAlpine "Pure classicism and modernism are daunting in their dogma. When you throw the cloak of romanticism over them, they become more subtle and even more powerful. They turn a house made of warm butter into something that possesses an 'across the crowded room' kind of attraction, as immediate as a flash of lightning or the roll of thunder." — Bobby McAlpine A waterfront house that's like a lit lantern at night. In Bobby McAlpine's home, an ethereal subterranean room. SIMON UPTON