Garden & Gun: An Awe Inspiring Lone Star Ranch
Ted Flato’s family homestead, Kickapoo Ranch, has doubled as an architectural incubator for the growing design firm for almost four decades.
July 1, 2024“Over Lake Flato’s forty-year history, the firm has piloted other design concepts at Kickapoo: outdoor showers, sleeping porches, ample overhangs. Flato engineered photovoltaic technology here, too, achieving net-zero energy usage for every structure south of Kickapoo Creek, which slices between Malou’s house and the architect’s family dwellings. ‘The ranch is a laboratory within our office,’ he says. ‘We’re testing things designwise, but also using this as a gathering place to talk about ideas.'”