Architecture in Texas, 1895-1945 /

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Author / Creator:Henry, Jay C., 1939-
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Austin : University of Texas Press, 1993.
Description:viii, 364 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2437691
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ISBN:0292730721 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-334) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • I. The Historiography of American and Texas Architecture in the Twentieth Century
  • II. The Survival of Past Traditions
  • The Richardsonian Romanesque Victorian Classicism
  • The Shingle Style
  • The Ecclesiastical Gothic
  • III. Progressive Modes of Design
  • James E. Flanders of Dallas
  • Trost and Trost of El Paso
  • Lang and Witchell of Dallas
  • Sanguinet and Staats of Fort Worth and Houston
  • Atlee B. Ayres and George Willis of San Antonio
  • Other Progressive Manifestations
  • Progressive Survivals in the 1920's
  • Conclusion
  • IV. Academic Eclecticism: 1900-1940
  • The Academic Eclectic Courthouse
  • Post Offices and Libraries
  • City Halls and Fire Stations
  • Miscellaneous Public Buildings
  • School Buildings
  • Collegiate Architecture
  • Ecclesiastical Architecture
  • Semipublic Institutions: Railroad Stations, Banks, and Lodge Halls
  • Theaters and Retail Architecture
  • Hotel Design
  • The Office Building
  • V. Regional Eclecticism: 1900-1940
  • Sources Outside Texas
  • The Mission Revival in Texas
  • Regional Campus Design
  • Regional Romanesque and Mediterranean Styles
  • The Pueblo and Meso-American Revivals
  • The Spanish Colonial Revival
  • VI. Modernistic Modes of Design: 1928-1940
  • Modernistic Institutional Design
  • The Modernistic Skyscraper in Texas Modernistic Commercial Design
  • VII. Residential Design: Modes and Typologies, 1895-1940
  • The Late-Victorian House: A Resolution of Picturesque and Formal Values
  • Formalist Design: 1900-1917
  • The Bungalow Mode and Its Permutations
  • Picturesque Design: 1918-1930
  • Vernacular Tendencies of the 1930s
  • Regional and International Modernism of the 1930's
  • VIII. International and Regional Modernism in the Public Sphere: 1930-1945
  • Public Housing During the Depression and War
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index