Sure.

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So whole or veneer masonry, mirroring the exterior, it is?

super large format tiles a la stone peak or similar?

This became our issue - hubby thinks drywall and 2x4 is "lowest common denominator"... it's a slipperly slope.

Ennis House, FLW.

Another of my "inspiration" pics that got lost in the architect's "vision".

Yep, Tom Wolfe may have given the best description of Edward Durell Stone:

"...The moment the New Delhi embassy was unveiled, Stone was dropped like an embezzler by le monde of fashionable architecture, which is to say, the university-based world of the European compounds. Gold here and luxurious there and marbled and curvilinear everywhere […] How very bour— No it was bourgeois ne plus ultra. There was no way that even Mies himself, master of the bronze wide-flange beam, could have argued his way out of a production like this one. What made it more galling was that Stone didn’t even try. He kissed off the International Style..."

Mebbe don't go there...

worthy - your inspiration pics are rather warm - are you sure your architect is giving you the bones of a house that can be this warm?

"Soft" brutalism was the general idea. But it's ended up more International Modern. So I guess I should run with that and eschew Mayan on this one.

An alleged friend suggested you might consider Hippie Revival for your interior concept:

Mebbe a great photo to get the architect's attention in an otherwise dull meeting...make sure you first have all the drawings you are gonna ever need from him...

Sort of a lived-in Victorian.

Yes...I think that might have a similar effect on the architect.

I suggest you keep this photo in the drawer for a while. Only a thought...