Welcome to A Well-Made Object, a site dedicated to the film about Dallas architect, Howard Meyer.

In the late 1980’s, as his architectural practice was ending and his archive was being transferred to the collection of the University of Texas Alexander Architectural Archive, Meyer’s past client Carolyn Clark worked with Dallas filmmaker Jim Murray to produce a short film devoted to Meyer’s life and work.

The film project was completed in rough form in 1991 but the project lay dormant for a number of years until reinitiated in the spring of 2009 by Mrs. Clark.

Working with filmmaker J. Mitchell Johnson and architect W. Mark Gunderson, AIA, a new film has been made to current standards which revises major portions of the original material and utilizes outtakes unseen in that film. View the film (in two parts) through the links below: