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siding would have to do. And while that traditional and labor-intensive method is now most associated with Japanese architect Terunobu Fugimori (whose twisted and crooked buildings look like homes for the strange creatures in Hayao Miyazaki's animated films), Landrum opted instead for the austere and lofty profile of the 1920s-era Bauhaus box. According to Zuzette, the desire for a design that looks recognizably modern was the result of her husband's fond childhood memories of visiting his great-aunt, the philanthropist Nina Cullinan, whose modern house was designed by the great Houston architect Hugo V. Neuhaus Jr. in 1953. At the time, Miss Nina's exquisite house was unusual for Houston because it was designed around a central courtyard; it, along with Neuhaus' own internally focused house (built on a deluxe property sandwiched between Bayou Bend and Rienzi) and Dominique and John de Menil's courtyard house designed by New York architect Philip Johnson, provided a new planning strategy for suburban architecture where mostly solid walls face the street instead of curtained-off picture windows. At the Cullinan house, the complementary minimal landscaping was designed in collaboration with Sarah Lake in San Antonio. Curved fingers branch off from the darkcolored gravel driveway to provide extra guest parking spaces. The drive continues past an external, freestanding ...the two-story, mostly windowless, black-painted Cullinan house — a tense mass of interlocking cubes — makes no effort to fit in... Master bed in Missoni bedding from Internum with patchwork-hide cover. Chinese end tables from Balinskas Architectural Imports. Bauhaus lamps by Robert Dudley Best. Photographs Misha Hollenbach, from New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles. Vintage settee in the master bedroom sitting area was passed down from Greg's mother, Claire Alexander Cullinan. Missoni pillow from Internum. Large-scale work in the round by Houston artist Shane Tolbert. Walls and ceiling are Pratt & Lambert Rubidoux. Floor is whitewashed pine decking. SEPTEMBER | PAGE 67 | 2013