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Written in an accessible style, Henry's work places Texas architecture in the wider context of American architectural history by tracing the development of building in the state from late Victorian styles, and the rise of neoclassicism, to the advent of the International Style.... His work provides a welter of new facts, both about the era's buildings and the architects who designed them, and he has catalogued and described most of the important landmarks of the period. -- Southwestern Historical Quarterly ., .a significant contribution to the study of Texas architecture.... -- Drury Blakeley Alexander, author of Texas Homes of the Nineteenth Century Texas architecture of the twentieth century encompasses a wide range of building styles, from an internationally inspired modernism to the Spanish Colonial Revival that recalls Texas' earliest European heritage. This book is the first comprehensive survey of Texas architecture of the first half of the twentieth century. More than just a catalog of buildings and styles, the book is a social history of Texas architecture. Jay C. Henry discusses and illustrates buildings from around the state, drawing a majority of his examples from the ten to twelve largest cities and from the work of major architects and firms, including C. H. Page and Brother, Trost and Trost, Lang and Witchell, Sanguinet and Staats, Atlee B. and Robert M. Ayres, David Williams, and O'Neil Ford. The majority of buildings he considers are public ones, but a separate chapter traces the evolution of private housing from late-Victorian styles through the regional and international modernism of the 1930s. Nearly 400 black-and-white photographs complement thetext. Written to be accessible to general readers interested in architecture, as well as to architectural professionals, this work shows how Texas both participated in and differed from prevailing American architectural traditions.

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PublisherUniversity of Texas Press

ISBN-100292730721

ISBN-139780292730724

eBay Product ID (ePID)95212

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LanguageEnglish

TopicBibliographies & Indexes, History / General, Architecture, Référence

AuthorJay C. Henry

IllustratorYes

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Item Length11in

Item Height1in

Item Width8.5in

Item Weight48.7 Oz

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Publication NameArchitecture in Texas : 1895-1945

Lccn92-028931

Dewey Decimal720/.9764/09041

Lc Classification NumberNa730.T5.H46 1993

Table of ContentPreface and AcknowledgmentsI. The Historiography of American and Texas Architecture in the Twentieth CenturyII. The Survival of Past TraditionsThe Richardsonian Romanesque Victorian ClassicismThe Shingle StyleThe Ecclesiastical GothicIII. Progressive Modes of DesignJames E. Flanders of DallasTrost and Trost of El PasoLang and Witchell of DallasSanguinet and Staats of Fort Worth and HoustonAtlee B. Ayres and George Willis of San AntonioOther Progressive ManifestationsProgressive Survivals in the 1920'sConclusionIV. Academic Eclecticism: 1900-1940The Academic Eclectic CourthousePost Offices and LibrariesCity Halls and Fire StationsMiscellaneous Public BuildingsSchool BuildingsCollegiate ArchitectureEcclesiastical ArchitectureSemipublic Institutions: Railroad Stations, Banks, and Lodge HallsTheaters and Retail ArchitectureHotel DesignThe Office BuildingV. Regional Eclecticism: 1900-1940Sources Outside TexasThe Mission Revival in TexasRegional Campus DesignRegional Romanesque and Mediterranean StylesThe Pueblo and Meso-American RevivalsThe Spanish Colonial RevivalVI. Modernistic Modes of Design: 1928-1940Modernistic Institutional DesignThe Modernistic Skyscraper in Texas Modernistic Commercial DesignVII. Residential Design: Modes and Typologies, 1895-1940The Late-Victorian House: A Resolution of Picturesque and Formal ValuesFormalist Design: 1900-1917The Bungalow Mode and Its PermutationsPicturesque Design: 1918-1930Vernacular Tendencies of the 1930sRegional and International Modernism of the 1930'sVIII. International and Regional Modernism in the Public Sphere: 1930-1945Public Housing During the Depression and WarNotesBibliographyIndex

Publication Year1993

TypeTextbook

ReviewsWritten in an accessible style, Henry's work places Texas architecture in the wider context of American architectural history by tracing the development of building in the state from late Victorian styles, and the rise of neoclassicism, to the advent of the International Style.... His work provides a welter of new facts, both about the era's buildings and the architects who designed them, and he has catalogued and described most of the important landmarks of the period.

FormatHardcover

Target AudienceScholarly & Professional

Number of Pages382 Pages