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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jay C. HenryPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780292722804ISBN 10: 029272280 Pages: 382 Publication Date: 01 October 1993 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface 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 IndexReviewsWritten 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 Author InformationThe late Jay C. Henry was a professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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