[4] He is currently the Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor at University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.
[5] Heymann sited the buildings and a swimming pool "into an almost imperceptible rise amid an existing grove of live oaks and cedar elms.
"[6] During the design process, Heymann would outline potential layouts on the ground so the Bushes could visualize how the house would work in each setting.
"She has a lot of experience from seeing the carefully organized houses that her dad built, and she has a very, very good eye," he says.
[5] They are positioned using basic passive solar principles, absorbing winter sunlight, while being shaded in summer.
"[5] The design takes maximum advantage of the breeze by being long and narrow – most of the house is only one room wide.
"[6] Heymann says, "it’s a very simple idea: Outside is cold or warm, you’re in the sun or the shade or the wind, or you’re not, but that’s something you trust.
[17] In 2000, Heymann was selected by the Architectural League of New York for inclusion in its Emerging Voices series.
[20] Heymann has been a Visiting Artist / Scholar / Fellow at the American Academy in Rome,[21] the Dora Maar House through the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,[22] the Rockefeler Foundation at Bellagio,[1] and the Bogliasco Foundation Liguria Study Center.
[23] He has been a resident artist in photography at the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, and with the Arctic Circle Program.
Pei and Partners, before receiving his Master of Architecture Degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 1988.