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Contents Viewpoint: Texas Architect is the official publication of The Texas Society of Architects. TSA is the official or­ Beauty vs. Interest ...... 11 ganization of the Texas Region of the American In­ Introducing a revamped guest-editorial stitute or Architects. page, which henceforth will be a pe­ Larry Paul Fuller ...... Editor riodic department in Texas Architect Michael McCullar .. Associate Editor featuring guest viewpoints and observa­ John Lash Advertising Director Sandy Otey Circulation Manager tions concerning the built environment, Hyder Joseph Brown, A IA . . Editorial Consultant the profession of architecture and the Contributing Editors quality of /ife in Texas. David Braden, FAIA, James Coote, Clovis Heim­ ,ath, FAIA, Peter Papademetriou, David Wood­ cock Editorial Policy Committee In the News ...... 12 Larry Good, Chairman, David Brown;ng, Ben Cani­ zaro, Jack Craycroft, Bronson Dorsey, Dennis Felix, Craig Kennedy, Mort Levy, Jack Meek, About this Issue ...... 19 Barry Weiner Texas Architect is published six times yearly by the Texas Society of Architects, 2121 Austin National Design ...... 20 Rank Tower, Congress al Sixth, Austin, Texas 78701. Editor Larry Paul Fuller explores the Telephone: 512/ 478-7386. Subscription price is $8.00 nature of design in a broad-ranging per year for addresses within the continental United discourse on what it is, what makes it States excepting Hawaii and Alaska. Editorial contributions, correspondence, and ad\'er­ good or bad, what all it entails, how it tising ma1erial invited by the editor. Usually, no pay· pervades our lives. Plus, a look at design ment will be made for articles. Publisher gives per­ trends in Texas, including interviews mission for reproduction of all or part of editorial with leading Texas designers. material herein if publication credit is given Texas Architect and the author wben indicated. Publica1ions which normally pay for articles are requested to give consideration to the author of reproduced byline Australian Architecture: feature material. A Texas Counterpart ...... 28 Appcarnnce, of names and pictures of products Lawrence Speck, assistant professor of and services in either editorial or advertising does architecture at The University of Texas not constitute an endorsement of same by either the at Austin, draws from a year spent Texas Society of Architects or the American Institute of Archilecls. Nor docs edilorial comment necessarily recently in Australia as a Fulbright Fel­ reflect an official opinion of either organizalion. low to compare the remarkably parallel TSA Officers development of architecture in Texas George Loving, FAIA, Abilene ..... President and Australia, our geographic counter­ Boone Powell, San Antonio ... President-Elect Vice-President part halfway around the world. Bob Garland, El Paso Lee Roy Hahnfeld, Fort Worth Vice-President ]\fort Levy, Houston ... Vice-President James Meyer, Richardson Vice-President Student Activities Center ...... 40 Daniel Ogden, McAllen ...... Vice-President The Houston firm Caudill Rowlett Scott James R. Rucker, Wichita Falls ...... Secretary designs an innovative air-supported Nancy R. McAdams, Austin ...... Treasurer structure for the University of Santa Jay W. Barnes, FAIA, Austin . . . AJA Regional Director Clara in California, one of JO coequal Theodore S. Maffiu, Jr., FAIA, winners in TSA's 1978 Design Awards Palestine ...... AJA Regional Director Program. Pat Spillman, F AJA, Dallas ...... AIA Regional Director P reston M. Bollon, FAIA, Houston . . . Immediate Past President Alternative Architecture Des Taylor, Austin . . . . Executive Vice-President TSA. Board of Dir ectors Comes to El Paso ...... 42 1\1. R. Newberry Abilene Chapter On the Cover: A report 011 El Paso architect Geo/frey Chuck Croft Austin Chapter Wright's introduction to West Texas of Duane Cote Brazos Chaptcr "Design" design by Corpus Chri,ti Chapter the conti1111ally experimental "Light­ Donald Greene Dennis Felix, co­ fame, A. Clu1ts Dallas Chapter ordinator of sign­ weight Tension Structure," pioneered by W. E. Ku)kendall Et Paso Chapter agel graphic design German architect Frei Otto. Robert Le!\Jond Fon Worth Chapter Kenneth Bentsen, FAIA Houston Chapter at Caudill Rowlett Calvin Walker Lower Rio Grande Valley Chapter Scott (CRS) in Tom Mills Lubbock Chapter Houston, executed New Texas Fellows ...... 44 Carroll Sinclair Northeast Texas Chapter James Dockery San Antonio Chapter Brief career profiles 011 I 1 Texas archi­ with the firm's Computer Aided Draft­ D. Rex Goode Southeast Texas Chap1er A IA ing (CAD) system by its manager Dave tects elected this year to the Col- Darrell Fleming Texas Panhandle Chapter Hughey. Pictured above is the system's lege of Fellows. John Dudley \Vaco Chapter central processing unit. Kcnnelh Fields West Texas Chapter J. G. Dixon. Jr. . . Wichita Falls Chapter Susan Dieterich Association of Letters ...... 72 Student Chapters/ AIA

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< i1v ______Sta te ______Zip, ______Viewpoint: Beauty vs. Interest The definition of "architecture," as solescence" is a generator of fads. Our accepted by the American Institute of daily life is constantly beset by the ad­ Architects, is: an art, science and pro­ vertising media espousing that concept; it fession that weds fu11ctio11, the planning touches almost everything we encounter and relationships of spaces which meet and so affects our thinking that it is human needs; structure, the method of almost impossible to have established enclosing a space; and beauty, that qual­ values. Still, people do react subcon­ ity of art without which no building can sciously to what they sec and experience. qualify as architecture. It is the latter One of the most influential factors in part of the definition, "beauty," to which our American way of life appears to be I draw particular attention, and which the need for entertainment and excite­ Webster's Dictionary defines as: 'That ment; what better demonstration of this quality or aggregate of qualities in a than hundreds of thousands of people thing which gives pleasure to the senses standing in line to be scared spitless by and exalts the mind." such movies as Jaws, Towering ln/emo, Architectural examples receiving the and Godzilla. I suppose there is some most publicity in recent times reflect a explanation for this related to an affluent trend toward bold forms, heavy and mas­ society that has much but is restless. Raymond H. Brogniez sive in feeling. There is less delicacy, often bored and knows little about enter­ Associate Professor of fewer graceful lines, a more ponderous taining itself. Television caters to this statement in the newer buildings. Func­ need in a variety of programs. Another Architecture tionality does not appear to be a major reflection of this condition is the great Texas Tech University consideration, and yet many spaces do and growing attendance at spo1iing serve their purposes, and with a pleasing events of all kinds, which in itself is quite more engineer/ technologist oriented, atmosphere. In viewing the two aspects, a normal interest, but not when the those traits in turn are reflected in the however, one external and the other in­ crowds exhibit a mania for mayhem. product of their efforts. ternal, one recognizes a reversal of the Could it be that this frencticism is re­ Jn architecture the Renaissance influ­ functionalist concept of "form follows flected in the vari-form, multi-faceted, ence began to succumb to the technologi­ function." At present the form is receiv­ acutely angular, ponderous architecture cal advances fostered by the Industrial ing the primary concern of the designer. of today? Arc architects subconsciously Revolution. The trend continues; greater The question is, are the newer buildings responding to this craving for excitement technological achievements in our society beautiful? by attempting to startle the public? Per­ have more and more influence on our daily lives. As a matter of fact, we arc Being Beautiful haps it's the trend, the "in" thing in de­ sign, and if so. that is not a satisfactory drowned by the flood of "new things"­ Functionalism does not preclude beau­ justification for bad architecture; there is to the point of our becoming unseeing ty. Over the centuries, the two have often no justification for bad architecture, not and indifferent to much of the produc­ been in pleasing un ion, but functionalism even with the rationale that "there are tion. may or may not involve a concept of good architects and bad architects ... For a long time it has been recognized beauty. Utility and fitness may be regard­ so we get bad architecture." that the one thing that separates archi­ ed as the measure of excellence or per­ tects from engineers is the architects' Architect as Artist fection of a product, but not necessarily concern for and conscious effort at cre­ of its beauty. The Renaissance period (I 5th century) ating "beauty" in their edifices, develop­ Of the three analogies relevant to func­ in Europe is recognized as a time of un­ ing an esthetically pleasing statement. tionalism-organic, moral and mechanic paralleled artistic expression. It was a The rather obvious decl ine in the archi­ -the latter is more closely allied to the widespread intellectual movement seek­ tect's concern for beauty, and the height­ question at hand. The mechanic analogy ing to transcend Medieval art in all its ened interest in odd forms, suggests a is based on the conviction that beauty, or forms. including architecture; it sought a trend toward engineering and technolo­ at least a kind of formal perfection, re­ renewed expression of Classical beauty. gy. a narrowing of the gap that separates sults automatically from the most perfect There is no question about its success, architects and engineers. mechanical efficiency, or that perfectly but. as is usually the case. amongst the engineered creations achieve beauty with­ glitter of the glorious there were some To See out a conscious search for it. very poor results. In this country much of the populace Beauty, of course, is not viewed the A contributing factor to such splendid has become insensitive and unseeing, same by everyone. and yet there are works of architecture as the great Gothic caught in such a frenzy of daily activities some things that are universally recog­ cathedrals, the chateaux, palaces and that it is numbed by constant change at nized as ''being beautiful." Such objects tombs, was that the architects were also every turn. Little time is taken to ponder receiving that designation usually have artists and sculptors. such as Michelan­ the developing scene. to analyze, to won­ endured criticism over a long period of gelo. Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, to der, to see. The fact should be apparent time, and the scrutiny and dissection by name a few of the more well known. that our milling masses of humanity arc qualified authorities and the general pub­ Such capabilities in the arts were found resigned to accept what confronts them; lic. Such evaluations remove the label of to produce an artistic architecture. It they make no demands for something "fad" (temporary fashion or craze). would seem to follow, then, that if archi­ T he economic theory of "planned ob- tects arc less artistically talented and Co111inued on page 70.

May / June 1979 11 In the News LEFT: Architect Jim Meyer (middle, of the /Vchard.,·on firm Jl1111e.v H. Meyer & As.wciate.1·,) .nirvey.v t0mlldO danllllJI! to the Wichita Falls home of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Speed. BELOW: (left to right) Gary Nitschke (of Charles Harper & Associates i11 Wichita Flllls), Steve Tlep­ tig (Te.xas A&M student) and Richard Higgins (of the Wichita Falls firm Win­ gler & Sharp) counsel tornado victims in one of two "one-stop" disaster relief centers.

TSA Disaster Action in Action Following Wichita Falls Tornado inspection at the request of the owner, we provide a damage assessmen t survey "Giant Tornado Lays Waste to City," each of two ·'One-Stop Centers" which sheet which the victim may use in co,, cried the April 12 editi on of the Wich­ had been set up lo provide a full range junction with loan applications, aid ll' ita Falls Jfrcord Nc,ws, the first city of local, state and federal assistance for quests or insurance settlements. In add, newspaper to reach the streets after the tornado victims. t ion, we counsel them against hurriedly devastating April l O tornado which left From April 16 to May 3, some 70 entering into contractual agreements for 47 persons dead, some 20,000 homeless out-of-lown architects and about 50 stu­ constructi on services, realizing they and an estimated $700 million in prop­ dents from Texas A&M and The Uni­ might be particularly vulncrnblc to any­ erty damage in the Wichita Falls area. versity of Texas at Arlington helped one engaged in unscrupulous buildrng According to cycwilness account\, process and conduct more lh,in 1,500 enterprises." black. storm clouds over Wichita Falls damage assessment surveys. Taylor emphasizes that another im­ bcgat three twisting funnels about 6 According lo the office of Wichirn mediate task is to encourage city offi p.m. Tuesday, April 10, which danced Falls architect Charles Harper, who cials to recognize the importance of in the air then merged to form one tor­ helped coordinate the Disaster Action long-range development and planning. nado half a mile wide at its base, touch­ effort, the most recent figures show that "We arc interested in helping them real­ ing ground on the city's southwest edge the tornado left 4,257 structures totally ize their opportunities for an even better and plowing a palh of destruction north­ destroyed in its wake, including single­ city and a higher quality of life than east for eight miles. family dwellings, apartments and con­ they enjoyed before the disaster." Among the first disaster relief teams dominiums, mobile homes ana business­ to respond lo what proved to be one of es. More than 700 stn1cturcs suffered the worst Texas tornados in memory major damage, with 1,659 suffering was ·1 SA's Disaster Action, Inc., a vol­ minor damage. Of the total $700 million Correction unteer group comprised of architects in property damage, $260 mi llion was The TSA editorial staff regrets the and architecture sllldcnts from across insured. (Among the totally destroyed omission of a block of text from a the slate who began trickling into Wich­ structures was the office of Wichita full-page San Valle ad which ran on ita F~1lls over the following Easter week­ Falls architect Kill ebrew-Rucker Asso­ page 4 of TSA Handbook '79. The end to survey and assess property ciates.) ad should have read, beneath the damage for area homeowners and busi­ TSA Executive Vice President Taylor San Valle logo in the lower right­ nessmen. explains the role of TSA Disaster Action hand corner of the page: " 17 l 7 No. Within 24 hours after initial tele­ as being "a mechanism through which Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, Cali­ phone contact was made with the di:,as­ the architectural profession in Texas can fornia 90028: (213) 464-7289. El ler area, TSA Executive Vice President respond effectively and efficiently to the Paso: (915) 751-1163. Dallas: (214) Des Taylor and Director of Publications needs of communities attempting to re­ 748-4286. The nation's largest pro­ Larry Paul Fuller had arrived in Wich­ build following any disaster resulting in ducer of genuine clay roofing prod­ ita Palls-at the request of local archi­ destruction lo the built environment." ucts. Distributors throughout the tects and the Texas Department of "As a free public service," Taylor southwest for Gladding McBcan Public Safety- lo establish a base of says, "we assist property owners by genuine clay barrel tile and inter­ operations for TSA Disaster Aclion. helping them assess the extent of dam­ locking shingles." Operations faci lities were secured at age to their property. 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though the competition was open to ar­ chitects from across the country. Jury members were Enslie 0. Oglesby, Jr., FAIA, principal in the Dallas firm The Oglesby Group, Inc.; Robert A. M. mies Stern, a practicing architect in New York • City and associate professor of architec­ ture at Columbia University; and Thom­ as W. Ventulett llf, FAIA, of the Atlanta Rice Stadium. firm Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates. TSA San Antonio Chapter Receives Editorial Praise • For Support of Master Plan TSA's San Antonio chapter recently wassily received editorial-page praise from two .. city newspapers for its "sensible" en­ dorsement of the controversial goals-and­ "' objectives po11ion of the city's new mas­ - ter plan. .. "We th ink it is a mark of progress and even excellence," wrote the San Antonio a Cameron Iron Works. Express in a March 26 editorial, "that the (planning) commission's work has the endorsement of the San Antonio Chapter of the American Jnstitute of • thonet Architects." E In the works for years, a master plan for San Antonio finally reached fruition a in March due largely to the separation in J976 of planning and zoning responsi­ bilities in the city's planning and zoning 0 commission. A revised Planning Com­ Ill mission then was able to devote full time to developing a master plan. ... eames Receiving a draft of the commission's a- master plan for review during a March meeting, the chapter voted to adopt a South Addition, John Sealy Hospital. resolution endorsing the plan's contro­ a versial chapter four, "Goals and Objec­ tives," which encourages central-city revitalization at the expense, its opponents charge, of suburban development. • In an April 2 editorial, the San An­ tonio Light cited the chapter's resolution barcelona as "one of the most sensible statements" so fa r concerning the plan's goals and made to order tables objectives. bookcases The chapter resolution bases the en­ desks, etc. St. John Vianney Parish Activity Center. dosement, in part, on the fact that the Circle 11 on Reader Inquiry Card May/June 1979 15 SHUTTER HINGES master plan "encourages continued re­ vitalization of the central city and of architecturally imaginative existing neighborhoods," "addresses the functionally fabricated promotion of a heal thy urban economy," "encourages optimum revitalization of From Casting Division come these AIW's cultural and natural resources," and reproductions of two very old hinge designs "promotes dynamic growth in a manner ... still in use on historic San Antonio buildings. that permits the provision of u rban These designs from yesterday work well for today services to all residents within the city's on shutters, dutch doors, and exterior doors. financial capability." Available in cast iron, nodular iron or non-corrosive commer­ cial bronze (#115). Dr. C. Paul Boner, Write for our spec sheet. Acoustical 'Dean ,' Dies in Austin at Age 79 Dr. C. Paul Boner, internationally known physicist in the field of acoustics and recognized "dean" of acoustical con­ sultants for Texas architects, died in A us­ tin April 12 at the age of 79.

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Hines Announces Plans For Multi-Use Complex in Peking Houston developer Gerald D. Hines has announced the signing of a protocol agreement with the Peoples Republic of China to develop a 3.5 million-square­ f oot multi-use complex in Peking. To be called the China Foreign Trade Center. the complex will be built on a 40-acrc site in downtown Peking and Circle 14 on Reader Inquiry Card will include office, residential. hotel and convention facilities for the use of firms doing business with the Peoples Re­ public. Hines Interests is part of a consortium of American companies involved in the project. The "China Foreign Trade Cen­ ter Development Group," as the con­ sortium is called. is comprised of Chase Manhattan Corporation. New York; Kaiser Engineers, Inc., Oakland, Calif., a subsidiary of Raymond International; and Turner International. a subsidiary of Painting - Sculpture - Fiber Turner Construction in New York. At Finders Service presstime, according to Hines, architects for the project .have not been chosen. Contract signing ceremonies in March Presenting quality and service to in the Chinese capital concluded negotia­ tions between the Chinese Ministry of The Design Profession Foreign Trade and the development group. Leonard Woodcock, U.S. Am­ bassador to C hina, was present at the signing. According to the protocol agreement. Chase Manhattan will provide up to $30 million in loans to the Peoples Republic for preliminary design and engineering studies which will be conducted for the remainder of 1979. 3317 mckinney, suite 102, dallas, texas 75204 Construction is scheduled to begin in 214/526-0800 1980, following finalization of design

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C,rcle 16 on Reader Jnqu,ry Card About this Issue It is not difficult, in the chronic editorial treatment of architecture, to dwell so much on the physical fo rm of buildings that the creative process behind them is overlooked. It is difficult, however, to remedy that situation, to somehow isolate design as a specific-yet general­ phenomenon and give it the attention it deserves. One difficulty is knowing where to begin; another is knowing where to end-which brings into focus the central point of th is issue: Design is everywhere and, in a sense, every thing. Design was desanctified, somewhat, with the end of the Modern Movement and its dictum that if humanity's habitations and posses­ sions were well-designed, harmony and joy would reign forever. But if design has been desanctified, it still hasn't disappeared. And in this issue, we take a look at it-not for the purpose of re-creating its magi­ cal aura- but merely to give it justifiable recognition as a universal phenomenon which touches all our lives and almost every aspect of our existence. Misconceptions about design are nearly as prevalent as design itself. We go to a boutique asking for "designer jeans" and pay extra money fo r "design edition., cars, as if not all jeans and not all cars were "designed." Design is often looked upon as something nice if one can afford it-rather like a factory extra or a set of white-wall tires, instead of something intrinsic and essential and all-pervasive. If in this issue we can help clarify such misconceptions, perhaps stimulate a measure of imaginative reflection, then we will be pleased. And we can say it was by design.- LPF

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ON THE NATURE OF DESIGN when programmatic ideas and goals arc teapot. Frank Douglas, an architect and That design is a concept of such cos­ somehow translated into an image of head of graphic design at 3D/lnterna­ mic concern and ultimate significance­ physical form." tional in Houston, observes that "suc­ form out of nothingness, order out of Another important distinction is con­ cessful designers in all visual fields chaos-perhaps explains why, even as cerned with purpose. Some designed seem to share certain basic sensitivities a human expression, it is regarded with objects are largely utilitarian. as in the that relate to line, color, texture and awe and enshrouded somewhat in mys­ case of a drill bit, for example, whose form, and they have in common a ca­ tery. Design, in its very essence, is appearance is of little consequence as pacity to express their ideas graphically. creation. long as it "works." Other objects-a Their dissimilarilies stem from pursuit But of course all of us are designers, painting. a printed page-are largely of their individual interests, their spe­ to some extent; we create through choice visual and are said to "function" or to cialization." a combination of clothes to wear each meet their purpose if they create a re­ The fact that all design acts have day, execute a daily pattern of activities, sponse or effect communication. Still common elements enhances the validity impose a certain order on the arrange­ other objects-a building, a blender­ of efforts to devise a general definition. ment of our possessions. Indeed, all of are products of both utilitarian and Many definitions utilize the concept of human existence can be perceived in the visual concerns and comprise the largest order, as in "a conscious effort to im­ context of mankind's quest for order. of these three categories. In general, pose meaningful order," or "searching Our concern here, however, is design as however. the widespread connotation of for and prescribing order and meaning." an activity practiced in what we have design, and the context in which it is Frank Douglas' spontaneous definition: come to refer to as the "design disci­ most often discussed-justifiably or not "a structuring and ordering of ele­ plines," which are distinguished pri­ -is visual or aesthetic appeal, as op­ ments." James Coote very concisely calls marily by differences in scale, and in­ posed to function. it "seeking meaningful relationships." clude fashion, graphic, industrial, inte­ Though design can be perceived and In textbooks and articles on the sub­ rior, architectural, landscape and urban differentiated in a variety of ways, cer­ ject, design is often expressed in terms design. tain fundamental concepts and princi­ of problem-solving. The designer has a Bucky Fuller. in his own inimitable ples are common to virtually all types design problem; the end product is the way, reminds us that the term "design" of design, whether the end product hap­ solution. Certain parameters are isolated can be "either a weightless, metaphysi­ pens to be a building, a motorcycle or a and, through trial and error and a pro­ cal conception or a physical pattern." cess of elimination. a right answer is That is, we refer to design-without found (although never the only right qualification and often even interchange­ We appreciate the cooperation o/ our inter­ answer). Many designers, for example, newees: Arcl1itect11re-.\1arc Tucker, director of ably-as either an idea or the end t1rchirect11ral design~ JD/ International. Houston: begin by devising a formal "problem Dai id Woodeock. of the Texas A&.\1 UnherJit,­ result of an idea, the physical form that architecrur.? /acully; Sinclair 8/,u:k, Michael Bene­ statement" and seem to emphasize ap­ dikt. James Coote and Lawrmce Spuk, of the embodies it. t1rchitec111re /acult1· at The Unfrersity of Texas at plication of the scientific method as the Austin. Lo,u/Jcape Arclutecls-Bob Richardson. In the view of James Coote, of the Austin olf1ce of MJ'rkk. Ne,.·man & Dahlberg, essential element in the design process. Dallas. Grnpliic Design-Frank Douglas. JD/l11ter- UT-Austin architecture faculty, design 11ational; Dennis Felix, Caudill Rowlett Scott; and although still acknowledging the role of in architecture is referred to "either as a Jim Glass, The Kel11n Group De,ig11 O/fice (all in the "creative spark." Interestingly, Ho11s1on). Industrial Desi~n-.Wichael Reese and whole process, from beginning to end Ro,• Nicholson, Michael Ruse & Compan)', Aus­ however, in a recent round-table dis­ tin. Fashion Design-la)' Jacks, Jay Jacks, Inter• result, or as a particular segment of the national. Dallas. Interior Design and F11rniture cussion, three members of the UT­ Design- Wes Byrtl, Nol'iko/1, Incorporated, Fort process-that small, magical moment Worth. Austin architecture faculty (Michael

20 Texas Architect Dress by Jay lacks, Jay Jacks International, Dallas; "Ginko Bilboa" table by Gunter Eberle, Vee/a Contract, Dallas.

Benedikt, Sinclair Black, James Coote) ON DESIGN QUALITY design. demurred at the use of "problem solv­ Whatever we might perceive as being Traditionally, most discussions on de­ ing" as a term for design. "Design is the the nature of design- art or science or sign quality have been reducible to an most complex human activity there is," something in between- we ultimately issue expressed as function vs. aesthetics. Black said, "far too complex to be de­ are obliged to deal, either consciously or Should the design emphasis be placed fined as problem-solving. It's not a mat­ subconsciously, with the question of de­ on working well or looking well? The ter of multiple choice; even the simplest sign quality. Just what is good design? Bauhaus answer, reflecting the machine project cannot be defined as a limited Which pair of shoes is best? Which pair aesthetic, was "anything that works well set of possibilities." looks the best, and which / eels the best? will, of necessity, look well." David Benedikt affirmed that, in the context Which pair represents the best design? Woodcock, of the architecture faculty at of teaching design, his language is "fair­ And why are spike heels so "good" T exas A&M, recognizes a certain ele­ ly sanitized of the term 'problem.' " this year, anyway? ment of truth in that philosophy: " I "Design is very much bound up with Just as there are general definitions don't think machines are the most beau­ creativity," be said. "It's not choosing, intended to apply to all types of design, tiful things in the world simply because or solving problems; it's mental inven­ there are standard sets of criteria offered they work efficiently. On the other tion and contriving. It's like climbing a as a basis for evaluating a design. John hand, generally speaking, something that tree and inventing the branches as you Pile, in a recent issue of Industrial De­ works well is going to look reasonably go along. Problem-and-solution termi­ sign, presents the following three-part well if it responds to the constraints that nology implies that one sits down and formula: 1) It must do its job, solve a are placed upon it-things like climate, puzzles the thing out like any good real human problem, be useful and culture, locale, setting." (Such responses mathematician could." functional; 2) it must be well made of are part of what James Coote labels as Coote theorizes that design came to suitable materials, through application ''appropriateness," a concept that heads be called problem-solving "during the of well-chosen structures and techniques; his list of criteria for good design.) 60s in the context of trying to make art 3) it must embody these technical quali­ Sinclair Black's answer to the func­ a science at a time when science was ties in form (shape, color and any other tion vs. aesthetics question is that "func­ held in such high esteem. Art has always aspects we can sense) that clearly ex­ tional concerns and aesthetic concerns been held in some disrepute in this presses its reality. arc in no way mutually exclusive. There country-rather untrustworthy, not In the context of industrial design, is no contradiction. In other words, both given to industry or making money. So Michael Reese might choose to refine are necessary; neither is sufficient." Or, it was very natural that one way to this formula with such concepts as safe­ as design authority Christopher Alexan­ authenticate it would be to make it a ty, serviceability, maintainability, pro­ der expressed it, good design is "putting science." ducibility, efficiency and economy, content and form into frictionless co­ whereas graphic designer Frank Doug­ existence." las might place the emphasis on com­ Lawrence Speck, also of the UT-Aus­ munication. Remembering that some tin architecture faculty, points out that design is almost purely functional, and "good design of a cocktail dress is some is almost purely visual, it is as different from good design of a build­ difficult to contrive a universal set of ing or car. Dior comes out with a new criteria for design quality as it is to de­ fashion line and its primary appeal vise an appropriate general definition of is that it's outrageous or shocking, not

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that it'<, necessarily comfortable, durable impediment to use, that which doesn't she contrasted design c,hibits at the and so forth. It's for status or show. intrude itself, '\omething you shouldn't Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper­ Anhionablc" synonymous? And, more media and change is central to ic." As scripped of all extraneous trim to em­ imrortantly, how s asks a probing quc!>Cion: museum, or bcauciful objects of any interior-, con~ultant, subscribes to "Can one really say that the guy driv111g definition or persuasion," H uxtable goes the notion that "good design docs not down the road with a pair of rubhcr on to compare the Modcrn's Design preclude its being fashionable, but fash­ dice dangling from his mirror has bad C'olleccion with a recent exhibition at ion unlike good design- is an ephem­ taste? He knows what he Iii.es and the Cooper-Hewitt entitled, "Take Your eral. emotional thing that doesn't last. bought it because someone made it Choice: Contemporary Product De­ And taste. which is innuenccd by fash­ available to him. Any designed object sign." The Cooper-H ewill display, ion, is as variable a'I the seasons." Byrd has co be appreciated on an individual organi£ed by Richard Oliver, the mLhC­ believes that good design is timclc!.s in level: elitist standards shouldn't be um's Curator of Conccmporary Archi­ that it always addresses a real need, forced on anyone." tecture and Design, consisted of several functions simply and well, and is an Revisionist Approach objects in each of ten catcgorics­ honest cxrres.-;ion of the craft and ma­ Though he didn't label it as such. toastcrs, tcler,honcs, cameras, calcula­ tcrit1I med. "Only the external expres­ Glass was voicing a revisionist approach tors, etc. representing a variety of sion will identify with the tastes or styles co design appreciation, an i11c/111fri.w. inccrcscingly juxtaposed design solutions t)f the moment." racher than l'xc/11.rfrist, view. This phi­ for each product. The assortment re­ Environmental graphic designer J im losophy was espoused and elucidated flects both an historical and analytical GI.ts<; observes that, in some cases, good quite tidily in a recent Nl'w York Timi'.\ interest, which Huxtable secs as a "con­ design i!> merely that which offers no r,iece by Ada Louise I luxtable in which trast co the Olympian proselytizing that

22 Texas Architect Wo,·en Dacron gra/1., ,:really enhancing 1he recovery rale from such opera/ions af lire coronar)' b)-'pass. by Dr. Michael DeBakey, president and chancellor of Ba>'­ /or College of Medicine, Houston, and chairman of its department of surgery; custom cowboy boot, Charlie Dunn, Texas Traditions, Austin.

has marked the pronouncements of the less." can walk righl up to it, perhaps lean design apostles of the modern move­ James Coote also defines taste as a set against it, and il provides shelter. You ment. There is perspective, wit, infor­ of preferences but clings tenaciously to can sit there and enjoy the shade, per­ mation and innuendo here, as well as the belief that "lurking among all that haps read a book. and think nothing objects you can love or hate." democracy is an aristocracy." That is, more about the tree itself. Or, if you arc The point of the exhibit, in H uxtable's "good taste, the best taste, as it applies so inclined. you can look up into its estimation, is that design is a process to anything is the taste of the people branches, into the leaves and the light, which responds to so many variables most informed about the subject, the at the intricacy of its bark, and it will that the number of acreptable ways to people who can bring to bear the broad­ reward your inspeclion. Tt serves a basic design anything at a particular time is est experiential judgment. Good taste, function anyone can appreciate, yet it virtually limitless. She does not seem at in that sense, is always exclusivist, and stands up as well to reflective vision." all disturbed by the apparent reality not i11clusivist." Benedikt maintains that the very best that consumer judgments arc made "on Michael Benedikt suggests a more buildings. those considered to be "time­ the basis of subjective feelings, individ­ /1111da111mtal definition of good taste less," arc not necessarily in continual ual needs and emotional responses rath­ in quite literal terms, utilizing a gastro­ good favor, but they are periodically er than any objective evaluation of how nomic analogy: '·In analyzing various being rediscovered. They are buildings close the design may come to some cuisines, we always find that the food with enough substance to invite con~ ant hypothetical ideal." which yields or reflects good taste can interpretation. Adding yet another ci,­ In one view, then, taste can be con­ be evaluated by very specific criteria. mension, James Coote, agreeing entirely strued non-judgmentally as merely a set such as the number and range of herbs with Benedikt, further observes that the of preferences, and the term "good de­ used, the subtlety of distinctions, and best design, and the highest form of any sign" becomes almost hopelessly elusive, the amount of education or refinement art. not only has always had substance, if not an altogether moot issue. But required to appreciate d ifferent dishes. but "it has always occurred when the there still are those who, although will­ Likewise, bad taste in food is reflected lea.vi means have been used to convey ing to admit that elitist design standards by a lack of subtlety, the use of a few or hold the greatest content." should not be forced upon the public, overpowering ingredients-great indif­ More, Not Less arc not quite wi ll ing to say that, without ference and few distinctions. Good taste Marc Tucker, director of architectur­ qualification, anything goes and every­ is a matter of refinement and complex­ al design for 3D/lntcrnational in Hous­ thing is even almost all right. David ity:• ton, observes that, in the context of Woodcock calls simply for an "in­ Complexity and Substance judging architecture, "we are now begin­ formed" taste. He decries the "Archie In relating his observation to design ning lo look for ·more' instead of 'less.' Bunker syndrome, the attitude that says. quality, Benedikt points oul that good In the past, architects have lhought of 'l know what l like; l don't care if it's design, like good taste (and, for that the best-designed building as the most good design or not,' which simply means matter, good music or art), is very much efficient one, the most economical visu­ they don't know the difference. It's OK related to complexity and substance. It ally acceptable answer to the program. for people to say, 'I know what I like,' bears up to analysis at more than one Now we arc beginning to recognize the but they should have a rationale for level. A good bu ilding. for example, need to go beyond a statement of effi­ making thei r decisions. They should at Benedikt describes as being "somewhat ciency to include an clement o( art." least reflect some thought, and many like a tree in thal its form is, on one The "art" that Lawrence Speck would such comments one hears are thought- level. very clear; il is inviting, and you like to see in buildings occurs when the May/June 1979 23 Torchier, ambient li11htit1g Jurni111re which re/lects light from ceiling for e1·en distrib11tio11, h.v Michael !

building takes on the nature of life products, there does seem to be a coun­ ON DESIGN IN TEXAS around it. "You don't come with some terbalancing reemergence of what Law­ Though we might be reluctant to grand design scheme and superimpose rence Speck terms "the consumer's admit it, Texas is 1101 a center for design it on whatever program you're given. inclination to kick the tires"- a revived -at least not in the same sense that Out of what you're given, something interest in quality and durability which New York is, or Paris or Chicago or sparks that's almost magical-the great­ is having its impact on design. California. And furthermore, it is com­ est coalescence of situation and require­ Of course, such ecological and en­ monly suspected, if not actually true, ment- and produces something you vironmental concerns are particularly that members of established design cir­ couldn't possibly have envisioned with­ relevant for this current age of design cles traditionally have viewed Texas' out those particular circumstances. It's in which we finally are being forced to creative efforts with a certain air of a physical and visual embodiment of a confront the consequences of our throw­ condescension as being perhaps a bit bit of life; and that's real art." away approach to Jiving. Ours is an age declasse. But some of that may be Environmental Issues of re-evaluation influenced by back-to­ changing. Increasingly, part of the "more" ex­ nature, back-to-basics thought. It is an Fashion pected of good design of all types is that age of practicality that was ripe for In fashion design, for example, sev­ it make some conscious acknowledge­ something like the High Tech move­ eral Dallas designers-among them ment of environmental issues. Js it en­ ment, which espouses the ad hoc appro­ Victor Costa, Jim Ellis and Jay Jacks­ ergy-efficient, in terms of requirements priation of utilitarian, industrial equip­ seem to be meeting with a measure of for operation, as well as the energy­ ment and materials, out of context, as success on the national scene. "Unfor­ intensity of its materials and the process home furnishings. Yet, significantly, tunately," observes Jacks, "they some­ required to assemble its parts? Does it High-Tech is at the same time High­ times still have to buy you in New York pollute? In the case of packaging, is it Chic; a movement born out of resis­ before you can make it back here in biodegradable, or better still, recyclable? tance to fashion and artificial values has Texas. But you'll be seeing a gateway Is the object durable, so as to prolong itself become quite fashionable. This opening up. Even the Europeans arc the expenditure of resources to replace paradox is but one indicator of the com­ beginning to quit looking down their it? And, in general, is it a product worth plexity of our age, a time when we can noses at us." Jacks predicts that more producing? at once look with irresolution on the and better designers will be working in Michael Reese laments the still-preva­ future of our planet, yet somehow be­ Texas and that "you're going to see bet­ lent proliferation of evanescent products come freer, more sensual, more "Ba­ ter-made clothes with more styling-a that constitute the American junk mar­ roque" in our approach to life. It is a move away from the image we've al­ ket, pointing out that "design results in complexity mirrored in design, which ways been known for, which is T-shirts an expenditure of both human and nat­ always serves as a reflection of its cul­ and blue jeans." Meanwhile, "range ural resources. The expenditure toward ture. 1f these are difficult times, the clothes" and the "Texas look" continue transistorized toilet paper dispensers issue of "good design" is clearly a diffi­ to be the rage from New York to Japan. and the like could be more prudently cult question. Furniture directed somewhere else. Human re­ Also in the Metroplex, furniture de­ sources, in a sense, are just as valuable sign has made some inroads, notably in as natural resources. And a lot of hu­ the case of Novikoff in Fort Worth, and man energy is wasted on junk." But, at Vecta in Dallas. "The area here is so least in the case of legitimate and useful fertile from the standpoint of corporate 24 Texas Architect Drill Bit. /or medium-hard abrasit·e ro hard formation. corporate design bJ' Security Dfrision, Dresser lndustriesJ Houston; Packaging /or Adams Extract. utilizing original 19(>9 logo, designed by Fred W. A.dams, president.

budgets, large building complexes and for them." Reese observes that as more as that of other design disciplines. "If the influx of new corporations," says and more corporate headquarters are you start building from scratch on the Wes Byrd of Novikoff, "that the time is moved to Texas, the demand for indus­ prairie," says Texan Lawrence Speck, ripe for Texas design groups to grow in trial designers is increasing. .. it takes a long time to accumulate cri­ influence on a national level." Landscape and Urban teria for good design and an awareness Graphics The disciplines of landscape architec­ of it. People in environments that have In graphic design, observes Jim Glass, ture and urban design also seem to be been around a long time, that are richer, the best schools are still in N cw York underdeveloped here. Landscape archi­ that have stood the test of time, or that and on the West Coast, and most of the tect Bob Richardson, who runs the Aus­ have been violated- those people have best editorial artists end up in New tin office of the Dallas firm Myrick, more points of reference from which to York where the magazines are. "It's not Newman and Dahlberg, maintains that judge environments. They are, perhaps, that you can't find top-notch graphic "many Texas architects, owners and de­ more demanding, more discriminating." design in Texas," Glass says. "Annual velopers still are not thinking in terms of This phenomenon, coupled with Texas' reports of the big Texas banks and cor­ total site; they are thinking only of the still-discernible frontier spirit and its un­ porations are just as slick as anybody's. building, and then what amenities-such deniable wealth, has resulted io a kind It's just that you have to look harder for as parking, storm drainage or exterior of "anything goes" attitude toward it, and be willing to pay for it, because lighting-should be added to make the buildings which can be viewed both it is not as readily available." And, building work." Unlike the situation in positively and negatively. although New York is the acknowledged some other parts of the country, where On the one hand, Texas architecture headquarters for major magazines, Tex­ landscape architects traditionally have reflects an admirable vitality and va­ as' cadre of regional publications­ been part of the design team, Richard­ riety. "There is a certain boldness here particularly Texas Monthly-has re­ son says landscape architectural services - a daringness and breadth of vision­ ceived national attention as being among are underutilized in Texas. "Landscape which the economy allows us to have," the best in the country, both in terms of architecture follows right along with the says David Woodcock. "It's a visionary content and design. architectural progressiveness of estab­ state and always has been. Despite an Industrial Design lished design centers," Richardson says. element of conservatism, there is recep­ Industrial design--cxcept perhaps for "The Northeast is older and more well tiveness. It's the kind of conservatism tools or drill bits-is not at all well es­ established. They have had to deal with that says, 'ifs your right and my right to tablished in Texas. Austin industrial their urban problems, their urban blight, do things as we each sec fit.'" Marc designer Michael Reese says his consult­ their Jack of open space. We're still too Tucker calls Texas the "can-do location. ing firm is one of only a half-dozen or young- and we have too much open We don't have the restraints, the restric­ so he knows of in the whole state. But space-to have faced those same kinds tions. We have a kind of frontier free­ Reese is not complaining. The fact that of problems. The average person here is dom, a willingness to do the unheard of, industrial design-generally meant to not yet screaming for that piece of open which has produced large projects, dar­ mean the design of consumer products space downtown." ing projects-like the Galleria, which -is not well established in Texas "is a Texas Architecture was a first, or Houston Center, or Hous­ definite advantage if you have a sophis­ Texas' age, the fact that the state is ton's Magic Circle development- bold ticated talent," Reese says. "The firms relatively young and still is developing, projects by people with vision. It's a mat­ who do need such services tend to come is a factor that re-emerges in evaluating ter of thinking big, in true Texas style." to you instead of your having to look the status of Texas architecture as well But in the opinion of some observers,

May/June 1979 25 TOTAL Design if boldness and prosperity have pro­ duced "bigger," they haven't always Ill this age of specialization, it migl,t a unique discipline and eliminates the produced "better." Lawrence Speck at first seem illogical tl,at so many possibility of /res/, insigl,t derfred from architectural firms appear to be 11101·­ working with consultants outside tl,e maintains that when they have not been i11g toward generalization in tl,eir corporate umbrella. Other architects properly channeled, "daringness and ra11.~e of serl'ices. From many of the maintain tl,at, at least from the larger vision have yielded a sort of brash, larger firms, a clielll can order archi­ clie11ts' point of 1•iew, tl,e total package gaudy, flashy look-what in many cir­ tecture and planning, engineering, in­ is tl,e most logical a11d attractfre ser­ cles is called bad taste. It's the exuber­ terior arcl,itecture, grapl,ic design­ vice format. One such firm is JD/ln­ ant, the unbridled, the outrageous, e1·e11 construction ma11agement--al/ in temational of Houston, w!,ose very whose appeal is as a status thing-a 011e tidy package. But of course, in name-Dfrersified Design Disciplines rather shaJlow approach to design." reality, this phe110111e11on merely rep­ -reinforces tl,e multi-seTl'ice ap­ Easterner James Coote confirms that resents specialization 011 a grand .tcale: proacl,. To illustrate the concept, we the primary quality an Easterner notices whole departments of indfridual spe­ hm·e assembled tl,e following assort­ cialists are formed within each disci­ ment of photograpl,s representing JD's as being absent in Texas is reticence. pline, resulting in a giant pool from Century Center Hotel project in A tlan­ '"We were taught that good taste is whicl, the appropriate mix of expertise ta, for which the firm proi•ided arc/1i­ a matter of restraint, of omitting things, can he specially assembled for eacl, tecture, interior architecture, graphics of not being showy, but being very project. and mechanical, electrical and plumb­ selective. Ifs the idea that good design Some arcl,itects rebel at the "total i11R en,gi11eeri11,r:--a range of design ex­ frequently has very subtle, quiet quali­ desiRn" concept of practice, saying it tending, quite literally, from building ties that sort of sneak up on you." muddles the purity of arcl,itecture as to swizzle stick. David Woodcock theorizes that much of what is unrefined in Texas design represents "an overeagerness to destroy what we have perceived as a country bumpkin image. We've tried to import New York to Texas, and it hasn't worked." But Woodcock also perceives an encouraging trend that has emerged within the last few years-"a resurgence of things Texan, an acknowledgement that we don't have to be ashamed or concerned about obliterating the past. There is a growing concern for what someone has called a cultural anchor. That is, before we lose sight of it, let's find out what it is that makes us Texan and look for ways of maintaining and expressing that, through appropriate re­ sponses to climate, culture and the way things are." Of course, in a way, it is pointless to generalize about design limited to Texas, an entity formed by an arbitrary bound­ ary and composed of people who are becoming more and more like people anywhere else in the nation. ("What i,; Texas?" asks Marc Tucker. "Texas is a state of mind.") But one thing is quanti­ fiably certain: in Texas there is money. There is growth here, prosperity which translates into opportunity for the design profession. The challenge is to make the most of the opportunity through re­ sponsible approaches to design in all disciplines. Quoting a popular ditty, Sinclair Black reminds us that money is not enough, that prosperity does not necessarily generate the highest design accomplishments: "Money talks," he says, ··but it don't sing and dance." Photos by Gordon H. Schenck, Jr.

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I A Texas Counterpart By Lawrence Speck 28 Texas Arch itec t Timber cabin, western Australia, circa 1830.

When 1 was a boy in Houston, I was ence of frontier toughness and intemper­ las/Ft. Worth, Austin, San Antonio and told that a hole dug deep enough straight ate progress. Their parallel but inde­ El Paso are strung along similar north through the center of the earth from pendent formulation of so many envi­ latitudes.) Temperature, rainfall and fer­ Texas would eventually reach China. Jt ronmental similarities suggests a near ti lity of land varied widely within each was a lie. The other side of the world is inevitability of character drawn from region, and settlement distribution was actually Australia-a place which bears kindred climates, geographies, periods of checkered to match. some striking and even uncanny environ­ growth and economic influences. A The colonists' first structures in both mental similarities to Texas, its geo­ quick comparison of their environmental places were primitive timber cabins or graphic counterpart half-way around the development both affirms and brings into stone huts built from available materials globe. question current environmental direc­ and fashioned with crude frontier crafts­ The international stereotype of both tions in each place. manship. Simple gabled roofs sheltered Texas and Australia conjures images of When the first major influx of colo­ plain boxes which contained one or two end less wide-open spaces dotted in one nists came to Texas in the l 820s, the rooms, a door, a fireplace and a few instance with longhorns. jackrabbits and British had just begun widespread settle­ small windows. It did not take the Yan­ cowboys and in the other with kangaroos, ment in Australia, founding four of the kee settlers in Texas or the British colo­ dingoes and sandgroppers. Both places six capital cities in the period 1825-1836. nists in Australia long, however, to em­ can easily prove such popular myths in Both Texas and Australia began as farm bellish the building prototypes which isolated spots, but currently are better country, the richest, most fertile land they had brought from their more tem­ epitomized by brash, dynamic cities with being claimed fi rst. The climates were perate climates with extensive, deep sprawling green suburbs. In the univer­ similar. (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, porches to protect against the hot sun. salized 20th century, Texas and Aus­ Adelaide and Perth cluster from east to The dominant "front" porch in Texas tralia retain a strong and tantalizing west around 30-35 degrees south latitude was occasionally utilized in Australia, imagability which is a complex conflu- in much the same way that Houston, Dal- but a complete wrap-around verandah

May/June 1979 29 Residency house, western Auslralia, circa 1835.

Deep front porch, circa 1835.

"Dog nm," circa 1840. providing ouldoor shady areas on all reflect a greater affluence. The occasion­ sides of the house was more common. al pure examples of architcclural "slyles" Open central halls sometimes cut through which had been imporled early on-not the houses, providing an additional place only by Anglo-Saxon colonists, but also to catch some shade and breeze, as in the by the Germans, Spanish, Dutch and familiar Texas "dog-run." French-were now combined with the By the mid-19th century, growth of more common and pragmatic local ver­ population in both Texas and Aus- nacular to make new hybrid bui ldings. A tralia spread settlement lo less fertile Georgian derivalive (Greek Revival) was areas with lower rainfall where self­ popular in bolh Texas and Australia sufficient farming was impossible. The from 1840 to 1870, probably because of independent homestead producing a wide its adaptability to porch forms and its variety of crops and animal products to ease of simplification. Tudor and Golhic meet all its inhabitants' needs was re­ sources were also common in Australia placed by extensive cropping and grazing. during the same period. In Texas, cotton and cattle became the After 1870, the flamboyance of Vic­ Main S1reet, Ma/don, Victoria. mainstays of progressively larger farms torian architecture found a natural home and ranches. Jn Australia, it was wheat in each place. The opulent Wcrribce and sheep which formed the economic Park near Melbourne crowned an estate backbone of slation life. The introduc­ that could have been the set for Giant tion of mechanized transport facilitated except that sheep filled its paddocks specialization. and the locations, sizes rather than cattle. Rich. earthy colors, and layouts of towns and cities came to exotic patterns and textures and un­ reflect the impact of railroads and the bridled eclecticism characterized prefer­ commerce which they nourished. ence in both places. Richardsonian Country towns flourished as collection Romanesque with its robust solidity and and distribution points serving large dis­ playful exuberance was particularly pop­ tricts. A straightforward street architec­ ular for public buildings. Queen Anne Greek Revival, Melbourne, 1846. ture developed in both places, consisting was favored for residential work. Towers, of simple building volumes with deep turrets. ornate caves and, of course, high­ front porches. once again, as the major ly decorated porches encased complex, embellishment. Broad, lively main streets articulated plans. bustled with Saturday business from farm Outstanding local architects emerged families. The continuous verandahs on as leaders in their regions-Edmund either side became shady spots for meet­ Blackett and George Temple Poole in ing "neighbors" or just watching the Australia; J. Reily Gordon, Alfred Giles. passing parade. and Nicholas Clayton in Texas. Affluent As farms, ranches and stations pros­ and stylish living became more common pered, homesteads and towns came to not only among the older cattle and

30 Texas Arch itect Queen Ann club house, Perth. sheep barons, but also among newer freely. Their deep caves, low-pitched mineral-rich families who reaped profits roofs, horizontal lines and organic mass­ from the Australian gold discoveries in ing were fully integrated into local Victoria and Kalgoorlie and from the vocabularies. Texas oil boom. Entire districts of late But it was perhaps the w01;k of Cali­ and belated Victoriana developed in fornians Charles and Henry Greene Galveston, Austin, Dallas, and San An­ which had the most impact on residen­ tonio, as well as in Bendigo, Melbourne tial building in Texas and Australia in and Sydney. the '20s and '30s. The popular bunga­ The early 20th century saw a return low style dominated residential build­ to a greater purity of style in both Texas ing, particularly in moderate and lower and Australia. A revived classicism price ranges. Its exposed wood fram­ produced the similarly ornate Scottish ing used as minimal ornamentation, Rite Cathedral in Dallas of 1914 and the its loose asymmetrical composition and, Town Hall in York, Western Australia, of course, its ubiquitous overhangs and of 1911. Spanish revivals with red tile porches were all natural solutions for roofs and local buff colored stone were both climate and lifestyle. Australian Ricl1ardsonian Romanesque, Perth. deemed appropriate both for the Univer­ versions incorporated local preferences sity of Texas campus in Austin beginning for red brick, whimsical white trim and in 1908 and for the University of West­ tile or metal roofs. Texas versions fa­ ern Australia campus near Perth begin­ vored narrow clapboard siding with occa­ ning in I 914. But revivalism had lost sional brick piers or posts, classicized much of its energy, and by the 1920s wood trim and shingle roofs. new ideas had emerged on a global scale The period between the wars was a which began to influence building even time of significant expansion for both in the Texan and Australian hinterlands. Texas and Australia. Sizable towns The 1912 international competition turned into real cities. Communication for a city plan for Canberra had been and transportation links unified disperse won by Chicagoan Walter Burley Grif­ districts. Pride and identity evoked an Town Hall, York. fin, a young and enthusiastic disciple of impulse toward independence and asser­ Frank Lloyd Wright. His architectural tiveness. An indigenous architecture practice in Australia, beginning in 1914, began to be identified and pursued in introduced a modified Prairie Style both places. Architects such as Walter which had immediate impact. Similarly, Burley Griffin in Australia and David R. architects such as Trost and Trost in El Will iams and O'Neil Ford in Texas Paso brought the idiom of Wright fairly sought a conscious expression of local literally to Texas as illustrated by the climate, landscape and building tradition Trost House of 1908. The original, intact in their work. A great many other build­ imports of Wright's style were modified ings were produced by now-forgotten

May/ June 1979 31 King George Tower, Sydney, 1974.

Bungalow, western Australia. firms which incorporated bits and pieces and Australian cities, producing intermin­ of pioneer simplicity, pragmatic sensibil­ able sprawling suburbs which engulf ity, Georgian grace, Victorian flamboy­ bustling, tower-filled downtowns. The in­ ance, organic freedom and bungalow fluence of international modernism is modesty into what could be broadly strongly felt. Mechanical air-condition­ identified as 20th century Texan and ing, high technology and an image of Australian vernaculars. Unlike their sleek, clean perfection have transformed more sctf:consciously regional counter­ the hot rugged prairies into modern parts of the same period, they are with­ metropolises. out identifiable style, even in individual Texas, in particular, has responded parts. T hey_arc original. sensible and, strongly to the forms of modern archi­ perhaps, ordinary. They exude a quiet tecture and has even invited some of its sense of place and a sort of timeless leading lights (Wright, Mies, Johnson, amicability with their surroundings. Kahn, SOM, etc.) to build here. Due in Since World War IJ, building in both part to an in itially abundant presence of Texas and Australia has responded to cheap energy, logical considerations of phenomenal growth. Each has doubled local climate, geography and traditions A, in population since 1945, reaching rough­ largely have been surmounted by seduc­ ~ ly 13 million in 1978. The growth in tive national and international move­ % urban centers has been even more strik­ ments. The dominant trend has been to ing. In Australia, the most rapidly urban­ ignore regional conditions. izing country in the world, 85 percent Australia also has espoused modernism of the people now li ve in cities. In Texas, enthusiastically, but a hard-headed Aus­ the most rapidly urbanizing state in the sie individualism has compelled a con­ ------United States, 80 percent of the popula­ stant questioning of both its credos and - tion arc urban dwellers. The population forms. What has been adopted, by and I of Sydney now bests Dallas/Ft. Worth ----- large, is a modified modernism adjusted - by only a few hundred thousand. Mel­ to local condi{ions and, to some extent, I - bourne and Houston rnn neck-and-neck, integrated into longstanding traditions. ~ while Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth are The thin-skinned glass box never has reasonable matches in size for San An­ been accepted intact for Australian sky­ ~ tonio. El Paso and Austin. Even among lines. The desire for sensible and visible ~ secondary cities the parallel continues sun control could not be compromised with Canberra similar in size to Corpus that fa r. ~ Christi, Wollongong to Lubbock, New­ Virtually every tall building in Aus­ castle to Amarillo and Hobart to Beau­ tralian cities exhibits some overt con­ ~ mont. sciousness of the sun. John Andrews' Love affairs with the car and the King George Tower in Sydney is encased ~~ single-family house prevail in all Texan in a shroud of tinted solar screens. Mc- 32 Texas Architect Allendale Square, Perth, 1977.

Cameron Park, Belconnen, 1977.

Connel, Smith and Johnson's Law Court mark house in its decorated caves and to Building in the same city uses recel.scs the Mediterranean revival o( earlier cam­ and awnings. And both systems arc pus buildings in its red tile roof. varied according to orientation. Cam­ Continuity with appropriate and well eron, Chisholm and Nichol's Allendale developed traditions relating to climate, Square in Perth is stepped in plan to landforms and history arc by no means avoid cast- or west-facing windows alto­ universal among new buildings in Aus­ gether. Even Harry Seidler, perhaps the tralia, but they arc common. Similar ges­ most doctrinaire modernist practicing in tures in Te,as to an equally rich and Australia, balances structural and sculp­ ,ophisticatcd regional background exi~t. tural expression with practical quantities but arc not as common. They have Murdock University by Gus Ferguson. and placement of glass. played a bit part to the overwhelming Concessions to local condition, arc lead of national and international trends common in high-ri,e Australian office of style. bC1ildings a genre which itself is a prod­ Perhaps there is a les~(Jn to be re­ uct of international modernism. In more learned from our own past and from longstanding and traditional building both the past and present of our counter­ types. regional considerations wield even part down under. Design trends and more influence. John Andrews' student awareness in building can be convincing­ housing near Canberra, for example, re­ ly assimilated into an evolving vernacu­ calls common 19th century porch lar architecture. New buildings can con­ construction in its curved, corrugated tinue to draw. through all eras, on an roof shapes. The adjacent Cameron Park appropriate sense of place. Herein lies in Bclconncn Town Center. also hy An­ the basjs for continuity and intrinsic drews, is encased in modernized loggias qualit y in the built environment. and verandahs similar in function to those attached to the earliest Au\tralian Lawre11ce Speck, a 11atfre Texan, !,olds town building. Guild Building by Gus Ferguson. More literal interpretations of tradition a bachelor's degree exist as well. Gus Ferguson's Murdock a11d a master's de­ University campus ouhidc Perth has the gree in architect11re feel of a bush farm with stark. simple from MIT, a11d is shapes and colors that are reminiscent of c11rrentfy teaching local shearing sheds. The Guild Building fourth- and fifth­ (student union) at nearby University of year design at The U11i11enity of Texas at Western Australia by the same architect A usti11 Schoof of Architecture. The pre­ recalls t 9th century pubs 111 it,; ceding article stems /rom a year 1,e spent deep, double-decker porches, but alludes i11 A11strafia (/978) as a FufbriRhf Fel­ to the Victoriana of an adjacent land- low.

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Circle 19 on Reader Inquiry Card Design Award Texas Architecture 1978

Student Activities Center The "wave of the future," CRS design principal Paul Kennon, FAIA, calls it. It "shows the way to a new esthetic, like a sailboat design-poetic function." An innovative facility was largely what lhe University of Santa Clara had in mind when it commissioned the Hous­ ton firm Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS), in association with Albert A. Hoover & Associates of Palo Alto, to design a stu­ dent activities center which would have to be built on seismically unstable soil and a limited budget, as wcII as attract students with "something different." The facility also would have to accommodate 5,000 spectators for athletic events and 6,000 persons for lectures and convoca­ tions. Under the leadership of Kennon, CRS president, the design team sought to cre­ ate a "non-building" image with a struc­ ture large, light, stable and economical enough to meet program criteria. The result: two translucent air-supported structures. one 300 feet long and 200 feet wide with a teflon-coated, fiberglass membrane roof with steel restraining cables, encapsulating a 5,000-seat arena and two auxiliary areas. A smaller auxil­ iary structure houses a swimming pool overlooked by student lounge and dining areas, with a vinyl-coated, nylon roof

40 Texas Architect Paul Kennon, F A/A

over the pool which is retractable to allow students to take advantage of good weather. The skin is supported by air pressure maintained by an environmental control system. Deflation, should it occur, would be controlled by four back-up fans and a vertical support system consisting of a light bridge truss and special railings above the bleachers. Landscaped berms define the limits of the structures and act as buffers against heavy industrial activity east of campus. The berms also provide maximum bear­ ing for the structures, necessary because of the poor soil conditions. The trans­ lucent roof allows energy-saving natural light to be exploited during the day and permits landscaping of interior berms.

Architects: Caudill Rowlett Scott, Hous­ ton, in association with Albert A. Hoover & Associates, Palo Alto Design Principal: Paul Kennon, FA/A Mechanical and Electrical: G.M. & T.R. Simonson, San Francisco Structural: PregnoffI Matheu/ Kellam/ Beebe, San Francisco Landscape: Arutunian/ Kinney Asso­ ciates, Palo Alto General Contractor: Johnson & Mape Construction Company, Palo Alto

May/J une 1979 41 The "Lightweight Tension Structure" (LTS), fairly well established in Europe Alternative Shelter as a design solution for such voluminous building types as stadiums, pavillions, exhibition halls and terminals, is only in Comes to El Paso its infancy in the United States. But at least one Texas architect has attempted to span the gap between L TS innovation in Europe and LTS application in West Texas, where its primary function-light shelter and shade-responds appropri­ ately to the region. El Paso architect Geoffrey Wright, in the alternative tradition of his mentor, German architect Frei Otto, has recently completed two lightweight tension stmc­ tures in El Paso-a 2,600-square-foot "shade house" for the Texas A&M Re­ search Center and a shade structure for a female lndian elephant named "Mona" in the El Paso Zoo. Both structures feature common struc­ tural characteristics of L TS: a prcstrcsscd outer covering stretched between pipe columns or trusses, firmly anchored to the ground in reinforced concrete, and in form more of a response to the dictates and forces of nature than to a precon­ ceived "design."

42 Texas Architect FACING PAGE: Shade house at Texas A&M Research Center in El Paso. LEFT (and below): Elephant shade structure at El Paso Zoo. BELOW: Architect Geoffrey Wright and model for proposed park pavillion.

The research center shade house, built demolished bridges and other war-torn web, the spindles of bone fiber within for acclimating seedlings of a desert structures. Frustrating shortages of build­ the human femur, or the thin film of shrub on their way from the greenhouse ing materials lead Otto to experiment soap formed when children dip a plastic to the field, is made of prestressed poly­ with building more with less, a very prac­ loop into a bottle of soap to blow bubbles propylene fabric stretched over flower­ tical variation of Mies van der Rohe's into the air. The force that holds that shaped columns and supported by pipe axiom that grew into a professional pas­ soap film in place, Wright explains, is columns on the edge. In the center an sion for Otto, who went on to study ar­ surface tension, an inherent structural additional flower-shaped tie-down pro­ chitecture and eventually to found the strength that is not dependent upon grav­ vides extra curvature and serves as an Institute for Lightweight Structures at ity for its stability. anchor (along with 20 "dead-man" an­ the University of Stuttgart. chors) against the often fierce West There. in 1974, looking for overseas Currently collecting data for a doc­ Texas winds. toral dissertation on the applications of working experience after graduating The shade structure at the El Paso lightweight tension structures in outer from The University of Texas at Austin Zoo consists of five chainlink trellises space, Wright is enthusiastic about LTS with a bachelor's degree in architecture, spanned between curving cantilevered and its potential as an inexpensive, effi­ Wright first developed his own interest steel-pipe trusses set in concrete founda­ in lightweight tension structures. He cient and habitable architecture for the tions. Concrete planter boxes, serving studied with Otto for three years, work­ future. Conceding that L TS is still a little also to anchor the structure, contain "far out" to some people, Wright empha­ ing on projects ranging from a stage honeysuckle, jasmine and wisteria vines sizes that the concept is still very much covering for the English rock band "Pink which will eventually (in two to five Floyd" to the design of special light­ in the experimental stage, an ongoing years) grow lo cover the chainlink outer weight structures for the new govern­ innovfllion in structure and form that covering. ment center in Saudi Arabia. will be a long while developing a stock Texas examples of lightweight tension approach. "Every building I've done with structures represent an ongoing experi­ The essence of L TS, Wright says, is Frei," Wright says, "has required its own ment in alternative architecture initiated "form-finding rather than form-design­ unique modeling technique; each one is by Frei Otto shortly after World War 11. ing. observing natural Jaws, forces and something different. l think that's part of As a German prisoner of war in a prison biological constructions and applying Frei's nature. He would rather make camp at Chartres, France, Otto was in those laws scientifically to architectmal pioneering steps than re-do what's al­ charge of a working party rebuilding design." Analogies include the spider's ready been done."

May/ June 1979 43 that could affect legislation. organize educational seminars and assist member groups in saving endangered buildings. New Texas Fellows Beran's preservation efforts in Dallas have included help in establishing the downtown West End Historic District and the South Boulevard and Park Row Historic District. As a board member of Eleven the Dallas County Heritage Society, he Texas Architects also helped create Old City Park, a ·'working museum" of turn-of-the-cen­ Elected this Year to tury buildings near downtown. AIA College of Fellows Designing for the present, Beran has won awards and recognition for the Edwin Beran James Bishop Armstrong Cork Co. Glass Container Plant in Waxahachie. and the Farney Engineering Company manufacturing and office facility and the World Trade Center. both in Dallas. A native of Caldwell, Beran is a 1949 graduate of the UT-Austin School of Architecture. and recipient of AIA's Student Medal as outstanding student in design that same year. After his appren­ William Cannady Clovis Heimsath Franklin Lawyer Thomas McK ittrick ticeship. he joined with Overton Shelmire in 1958 to form Beran & Shclmire, Eleven Texas architecf:r were among Architects. 95 A/ A members nationwide elected to the Instit11te's College of Fellows this year. with formal investit11re to take place James A. Bishop d11ring the A / A national conl'ention June James A. Bishop and Associates 3-7 in Kansas City. Houston Fellowship is a lifetime honor be­ stowed for outstanding contrib11tions to In 1946. after three years of architec­ Jack M itchell Harold Prinz the architectural profession. Aside from tural studies at the University of Okla­ the Gold Medal- wl,ich may be awarded homa and three years of World War II each year to one architect from any part Army service, Jim Bishop came to Hous­ of the world- A/A Fellowship is the ton to begin a career in architecture. Instit11te's highest honor. All AJA Fellows H is first step was a two year stint in may use the initials FA /A after their the research and planning department of names, symbolizing the high esteem in Foley's Depart ment Store, which marked which they are held by the profession. the beginning of a continuing involve­ With the following brief sketches of ment in retail design and planning. He their careers, Texas Architect recognizes joined an architectural firm in 1948. was Charles Thomsen and pays tribute to these TSA members licensed in 1953. and worked on many of who over the years hm·e accomplished so Houston's first postwar shopping centers much for themsefres, their profession and and department stores. for those who hm•e beheld their work. He established his own practice in 1961 and since that time has expanded Edwin E. Beran his design repertoire to include banks. Beran & Shelmire medical clinics and other commercial projects as well as shopping centers. H is Dallas practice has involved work in Texas. Well before historic preservation be­ Louisiana and Oklahoma, with an aver­ James Wiley came fashionable. Ed Beran. a founding age working staff of 12 to I 5. principal of the Dallas firm Beran & A member of the TSA Houston chap­ Shelmire, was devoting time and effort to ter since 1953. Bishop has served on preserving Texas' architectural heritage. various committees. as chapter president As a member of the founding commit­ and as director for four years. He also tee of the Texas Federation of Historic has been involved in historic preserva­ Preservation Organizations, Beran helped tion. and for three years served as chair­ pull together the state's fragmented pres­ man of TSA's Committee on H istoric ervation groups into a collective body Resources.

44 Texas Architect William T. Cannady Houston. the wood space-truss for Water­ Thomas L. McKittrick Willia m T. Cannady & wood National Country Club and the McKittrick, Drennan, Associates first solar application for a ir-conditioning Richardson and Wallace Houston in Houston, in the Memorial Postal Ser­ Houston vice facility. Houston architect William Cannady In tradition, Heimsath helped in the As partner-in-charge or principal de­ divides his time between the academic revival of Montrose, an old inner-city signer for nine out of 15 projects for design studio and the real-world office. residential area in Houston, and is now which MDRW has won design awards A full professor at Rice, Cannady is also active in rural Fayette County. He was since its founding in 1962, Tom McK it­ principal of the Houston firm William T. the architect for the Fayette County trick has contributed much to lhe firm's Cannady & Associates, and neither his Museum-Library in La Grange, Clayton developing expertise in educational facil­ practice nor his professorship is a part­ House and Festival Hill in Round Top, ity design. which has come to comprise time effort. the CCD Building for St. John's Church 75 percent of the firm's projects. Of its Though often grueling. at least nine in Fayetteville and is currently moving 15 award-winning designs, nine were months out of the year, Cannady's work­ and restoring several early T exas homes. public schools, fi ve of which were de­ ing schedule is the perfect blend, he says. Heimsath received a master's degree in signed under McKittrick's direction. combining theory and experiment with architecture from Yale, spenl a year in A native Houstonian, McKittrick was progressive application. Much of his Rome on a Fulbri ght Scholarship and graduated from Rice University in H ous­ award-winning work, in fact, is based on taught architecture for three years at ton in 1957 with a bachelor's degree in research he conducted with his students Ri ce. He is also author of the books architecture. He joined A JA in 1963, a over the years in Rice design studios. Behavioral Architecture (McGraw-Hill, year after founding the Houston firm Working alone or in association with 1977) and Pioneer Texas Buildings (Uni­ with Ted Richardson and Peck Drennan. other architects, Cannady has won 15 versity of Texas Press, 1968). In 1964 he began serving TSA's Houston local, state and national design awards chapter as a member of the chapter's for 13 projects since founding h is firm in P rogram Committee and since then has 1965. H is award-winning projects in the served on several chapler committees and Houston area include the St. Barnabas Franklin D. Lawyer participated in two chapter public service Episcopal Church, the Cannady House, Caudill Rowlett Scott programs. entitled "Blueprints for the the Commons Townhouse project. the Houston Future," held in 1965 and 1975. Crane House, the Walker's Mark Town­ Presently, on the national level, Mc­ Franklin D. Lawyer. senior vice presi­ house project and the Lovett Square Kittrick is chairman of the A JA Com­ dent of CRS, is responsible for directing Condominium project. mittee on Architecture for Education design on major educational facilities for Cannady received his bachelor's de­ (CAE), to which he was appointed in the Houston fi rm. and in that role has gree in architecture from the University 1974. Tn 1976 he chaired CAE's Energy remained on the cutting edge of innova­ of California at Berkeley in J96 l and Task Fo rce. and in 1977 testified for his master's degree in architecture from tion in educational design- both techni­ AlA before a U.S. congressional sub­ Harvard University in 1962. He also has cal and philosophical. committee on the national School Energy worked as a design group leader for His award-winning projects include Bill (H.R. 5996). CRS, did post-graduate work at the Bart­ Texas Eastern University in Tyler (see Tn I 980, McKittrick will begin a six­ lett School of Architecture, University of Texas Architect, Sept./Oct. '78); Wake year term as ATA represenlative to the London, and was vice president of Omni­ Forest Fine Arts Center, Winston Salem, International Union of Architects' work­ plan in H ouston. N.C. (Texas Architect, Jan./Feb. '78); ing group on educational spaces. Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Mass.; and the University of Houston Fine Arts Center. Additional 0. Jack Mitchell educational facility projects under his Dean, Rice School of Clovis Heimsath design direction include the University of Architecture Clovis Heimsath Associates Maiduguri. Maiduguri, Nigeria, and the Houston Fayetteville Saudi Co ll ege for Girls, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Jack Mitchell. dean of the School of Clovis H eimsath, who Jives on an Lawyer is especially concerned with A rch itecture at Rice, has maintained a active farm and works in the small cen­ energy conservation in the design process well-balanced interest in the essential tral Texas town of Fayetteville near his­ and has co-authored books and written triad of the d iscipline- design, education toric Round Top. sees himself as one of articles on lhat subject for Nations and service to the profession- since be­ a new breed of "post-modern" architects, Schools, American School and University ginning his career in 1954 with a bache­ interested in innovation, design and tech­ and Systems for Education. lor's degree in architecture from Wash­ nology, yet equally involved with tradi­ L awyer received his bachelor of archi­ ington University in St. Louis. tion. tecture degree in 1949 from Oklahoma With undergraduate degree and some In innovation, Heimsath worked with State U niversity and his master's of working and teaching experience under the Johnson Space Center for three years architecture from The Cranbrook Acad­ his belt. Mitchell returned to school in adapting space technology to urban emy of Art in 1951. He is an active 1959 for graduate work at the University needs; he developed the double-curvature member of AfA, TSA and T SA's Hous­ of Pennsylvania, where he received mas­ roof for the Church of the Epiphany in ton chapler. ter's degrees in architecture and city

May/ June 1979 45 planning in 1961. Dallas Planning Council. versity Construction Fund) to commis­ Returning to his hometown of Little Prinz received his bachelor's degree in sion a study of methods for improving Rock, Ark., Mitchell went to work for architecture in 1941 from Texas A&M. the management of their projects. In his the Little Rock firm Wittenberg, Delony report, Thomsen borrowed the name and Davidson, and was to receive recog­ "Fast-Track" from a CRS in-house study nition for several projects, notably an Charles Tapley of the same subject. and coined a new award-winning low-income housing proj­ Charles Tapley Associates term in the construction industry. ect in Hot Springs. Houston Thomsen formed CM as a CRS sub­ In 1966 he was invited to teach fifth­ Architect and landscape architect sidiary in 1971. Since then, the company year design at Rice, accepted their offer Charles Tapley, principal of the Houston has grown into an international firm in­ and soon planned and organized Rice's firm Charles Tapley Associates, firmly volved in 225 projects in the United graduate urban design program. Mitchell believes in an architecture that comple­ States and 12 other countries. also chaired university committees to ments and enhances the natural environ­ Thomsen received his bachelor's de­ found two urban research organizations ment, not one that displaces it. He prac­ gree in architecture in 1957 from the -Southwest Center for Urban Research tices- and wins awards fo r- what he University of Oklahoma and his master's (1968) and the Rice Center (1972). He preaches, which basically is a reverence degree in architecture from MIT in became director of the school of archi­ for the nature of a building site as it I 963. He has served on AIA's Commit­ tecture in 1974 and dean in 1978. stands before the bulldozers arrive. tee-on Architectural Research, Commit­ In addition, Mitchell has been actively And as far as stimulating design chal­ tee on Architecture for Education and involved in improving the NCARB ex­ lenges go, Tapley thinks few areas of the Committee on Federal Agencies. amination process. He chaired a commit­ architecture pose more than camp and Currently he is chairman of AIA's Proj­ tee in 1971 to restructure the exam by park design, where associating structure ect Delivery Task Force and a member adding two new major components­ with site potential is a critical and on­ of the joint AJA/ AGC/ ACEC Commit­ programming and environmental analysis. going concern. tee on Construction Management. Currently, he is lecturing on the prob­ His award-winning projects include lems of growth and change in Houston Camp Allen, for the Episcopal Archdio­ James E. Wiley and the role of urban design as an effec­ cese of Texas (see Texas Architect, The Oglesby Group tive solution. Sept./Oct. '77), and Lake Livingston Dallas State Park (Texas Architect, July/ Aug. Much of the credit for the Oglesby '78). H is firm also designed two of Group's award-winning track record in Harold E. Prinz Houston's 1976 Bicentennial projects, Harold E. Prinz, Architect Dallas goes to firm partner James Wiley, Tranquility Park and Buffalo Bayou who has played a leading role for more Dallas Park. In the process, the firm has re­ than 20 years in developing the Group's From the beginning of his one-man ceived nine local and national design reputation as a "total design" firm. practice in 1966, Dallas architect Harold awards and six AJA/ Houston Chamber Wiley is responsible for overall man­ E. P rinz wanted to keep his overhead of Commerce environmental awards. agement of the Group and has served as low and the quality of his work high. Tapley also has served as director of principal-in-charge for such award-win­ After two successful partnerships, from TSA's Houston chapter, president of the ning projects as the UT Health Science 1946 to I 965, during which time he won Houston Arboretum and Botanical So­ Center Administration Building. the UT­ several state and national design awards ciety and director of Houston's Con­ Dallas McDermott Library and the for projects in the Dallas area, P rinz was temporary Arts Museum. He received a American Heart Association National responsible for a wide range of practice­ bachelor of arts degree in architecture in Center. oriented duties- from client relations to 1954 and a bachelor's of science in archi­ Presently the 1978 President-E lect of design, presentation drawings to project tecture in 1955, both from Rice Univer­ TSA's Dallas chapter, Wiley has long supervision. H is professional versatility sity. where he also has been a visiting been active in chapter activities, working proved an asset in his new role as sole lecturer and adjunct professor off and in such areas as historic preservation, proprietor. Working alone, for the most on since 1972. environmental conservation and public part, Prinz has tackled projects big and relations. He also has served as adjunct small with style and professionalism, Charles B. Thomsen assistant professor of design at UT­ maintaining a consistently high-level of CM, Constructors/ Managers Arlington, where he currently sits on the quality in his finished products, and dean's Professional Advisory Council, keeping his clients happy. Houston and as design critic and juror for design His award winning projects include his Charles T homsen, president of CM, studios at UT-Arlington and the Univer­ own Dallas residence, the U.S. Post Of­ Constructors/ Managers, the construc­ sity of New Mexico. fice-Medical Center in Dallas, the North tion-management affiliate of CRS G roup, A native of West Texas, Wiley re­ Dallas Municipal Center and the Build­ Inc., Houston, has shown that there can ceived his bachelor's degree in architec­ ing for Oak Cliff Savings. be as much creativity in the management ture from Texas Tech University in In addition to his design awards, Prinz of the process as in the design of the 1950. He worked in Dallas briefly, then received a special certificate of Merit in product. spent a year in Cambridge, Mass., in the I 957 from TSA's Dallas Chapter for In charge of developing the Group's office of architect Carl Koch, before re­ planning. designing and supervising in­ New York practice in 1967, Thomsen turning to Dallas in 1956 to join with stallation of an exhibit for the Greater convinced a client (New York State Uni- Dallas architect Enslie Oglesby.

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Circle 30 on Reader Inquiry Card Clfcle 31 on Reader Inquiry Card 56 Texas Architect to expand the editorial scope and dis­ BRICK PAVERS tribution of the magazine to reach a wider market. CERAMIC TILE The magazine's primary focus from the outset, according to editor Judy An- &MARBLE 1krton, has been to showcase the pho­ tography of local people. A "Gallery" We invite you to view one ,cction each month features photographs of the most distinctive from five different photographers, ama­ teurs and professionals alike. "You don't collections of hard surface have to be a pro to have your work materials and architectural accepted," Anderton says. "You just have to be good." sp~cialties available in the Photographic Portfolio, P.O. Box Southwest. '20013, Dallas 75265. Telephone: (214) 741 -3486. HOUSTON SHOWROOM NOW OPEN Masonry Institute Of Houston/ Galveston Presents 1979 Design Awards The Masonry fnsti tute of Houston/ < ,.i lvcston presented its 1979 masonry ,ksign awards to four Houston architec­ tural firms during an awards dinner April J.7 at the Hyatt Regency in Houston.

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Wi nning the program's top honor- the Nicholas Clayton Award for Outstanding Let's Talk Textures ... Masonry Design- was S. I. Morris Asso­ And colors, and quality vinyls. All bread and butter basi_cs. Designed natcs for design of the Houston Museum with Texas in mind. Heavily stocked in Houston to meet tight schedules. 13 textures - jutes, stones, weaves, stipples, suedes - in 120 colors. ,11 Fine Art's Alfred C. Glassell School " Let's Talk Texture," a 27 inch texture compliment. That's of the 111 Art. (Sec Texas Architect, Jan./Feb. one books you should have before starting your next interiors project. 79.) Copies available at your request. fhrce other design awards were pre- 1·nted for Excellence in Design wi th Wallpapers, Inc. of Houston Masonry to the Houston firms Mitchell, 6110 Richmond, Houston (713) 781-5510 P.O. Box 31318, Dallas (214) 739-2490 < ·arlson and Associates for the Colonial Circle 33 on Reader Inquiry Card May/ June 1979 57 Park Recreation Center in Houston; EFL Forms Field Service Services will include development of Golcmon & Rolfe Associates for the Division in Austin educational facility specifications for new Sarah Vickers Chancellor Elementary buildings and modernization projects; School in Alicf; and Pierce, Goodwin, The New York-based Educational Fa­ planning for optimal space utilization; Alexander for the South Addition to cilities Laboratories (EFL). a non-profit planning for facility rehabilitation and John Scaly Hospital in Galveston which research organization, has established a replacement; facility surveys for use in also won an Honorable Mention in this new regional field service division in long-range and master planning; special­ ycar·s TSA Houston chapter design Austin, headed by Ben Graves, HATA. ized facility planning; community in­ awards program (sec page 15). EFL/Southwest will provide planning volvement in faci lity planning; prepara­ Jurors for this year's design awards and advisory services to elementary and tion for bond issues; and post-occupancy program were Boston architects Peter secondary schools, school districts and evaluation. Chcrmaycff, Joseph Maybank, J. Timo­ post-secondary educational institutions thy Anderson, Thomas Green and Rob­ located primarily in the southwestern ert Sturgis. FATA. United States. Austin Unveils Phase I Of 20-Year Downtown Revitalization Plan The Austin city council has unveiled phase I of a downtown revitalization plan that will include a 300-room hotel, an entertainment mall, office buildings, garden apartments and condominiums, parking facilities and an elevated tram­ way. Project manager Dave Nesbitt of the American City Corp., which was hired by the city last October to develop the plan, presented the $163 million phase I revitalization package to a standing­ room-only crowd April 18 during a spe­ cial call session of the city council in Austin's Municipal Auditorium. To allay any skepticism over whether the plan would ever get off the ground, Nesbitt said he has talked lo "I 5 or 20 developers who arc ready to ante up at the appropriate time." Proposed boundaries for the phase I redevelopment area are IH-35 to the cast, Lamar Blvd. to the west, Fourth Street to the north and Town Lake to the South. Phase I would be a four-to-seven-year part of an overall 20-year redevelopment plan for Austin which eventually would be tied into the Waller Creek develop­ ment near downtown and a proposed re­ vitalization project in East Austin.

ASI D Regional Conference Slated for Dallas July 6-7 The regional conference of the Ameri­ can Society of Interior Designers (ASID) will be held J uly 6-7 in Dallas. The program will include a seminar on open-office planning July 7 at the Hillon Inn, chaired by Len Carlin, editor of Contract magazine; a seminar on an­ tiques at the Anatole Hotel, featuring a presentation of "The White House Col­ lection" by Clement Rogers; a presenta­ tion by William Ezelle Jones on 18th century furniture; and a talk by Robert C,rc/e 34 on Reader Inquiry Card 58 Texas Architect ",hoenfcl

1-'irst National Place. GET THE POINT? ~­ fo respond to the diagonal siting of • 1 he existing First National Bank Building Join the PRQAv·steam ,11.:ross the street, and to create a dramatic f!Q: fin ,!egister ed Qverlays provides s avi ngs in draft i ng time <'ntranceway, architects designed the of­ nnd chec;:k i ng time. Team Drnfting ut:l l h 1ng t h e l'ldvnntages o f • I 1ce building to be parallelogram in pr"etoe ptu-bar resl$tr~c:ion o f 1>rec-p-..nched droft.1n& film w111 enhance your Architect ural and EngineE"tfng drawings. ,hape, with the northwest diagonal fa. rnclc staggered in a reverse "wedding • lake" fashion. To further the continuity nf design, the concrete frame office building is faced with the same brick as • production tf>tlm! lhe bank huilding, and an underground pt·destrian walkway will connect the of­ I 1cc building with the bank and two ad­ Joining parking structures. The 120,000-square-foot First Nation­ ,11 Place will feature a continuous ex­ l<·rio r balcony at the seventh (penthouse) I Joor as well as private triangular-shaped halconies on floors two through six. ln ,tddition, the bank will open a 5,000- ,quare-foot mini-bank facility on the first t loor of the office building which will include walk-up tellers and an eight-lane drive-in bank facility.

New Technical Center Going Up in Houston Scheduled for completion in January TEXAS REPROFESSIONALS 1980 is a 76,000-square-foot technical RIDGWAY'S, INC. 5711 HILLCROFT P.O. BOX 36150 HOUSTON, TEXAS 77036 (7 13)782-8580 <'l'nter for AMF Tuboscope, a Houston­ hased supplier of pipe inspection and Circle 35 on Reader Inquiry Card May/June 1979 59 architectural designer Thomas B. Burke Castlebury-Held showrooms in the Dal­ to its staff. las and Houston D ecorative Centers. Gensler and Associates, Architects, Bases are of terra cotta and shades are Houston, has announced the opening of of split yellow-stick wicker lined with new offices in H ouston's Wel!Tech linen. Castlebury-Held, 390 D ecorative Building, 700 Rusk St., Houston 77002. Center, Dallas 75207. Telephone: (214) Telephone: (7 13) 228-8050. 748-8826. The Dallas firm Hatfield Halcomb Stack chairs from the Lotus series by Architects has announced the opening of Artopex, a Canadian line of contempo­ its new offices at The Centre, Suite 500, rary office furniture, were recently in­ 4 101 McEwen, Dallas 75234. Telephone: troduced to the Southwest in the show­ (2 14) 233-9151. rooms of Edmund Kirk Associates in Thompson/ Parkey Associates, Inc., Oak Lawn Plaza, Dallas. The chairs are Dallas, has announced the appointment "La Lampara." made of a chrome-plated tubular steel of Ronald E. Harwick to the position of associate in the firm. El Paso architect John M . Carson has announced the formation of the new architectural and real estate development Roach: Paints for the firm Carson Consultants Incorporated, 6420 Escondido Drive, Suite C, El Paso 79912. Telephone: (915) 584-1 I 04. Fort Worth architects Johnny Griffay Professional and D on Brown have announced the formation of the firm Gr iffay & Brown, •' , •t. r 'J, r,.. ~ < : J. Architects/Planners, with offices in the rort Worth Club Building, Suite 306, Fort Worth 76102. Telephone: (817) .,,'' B2-7672. Austin architect Michael Elliot has announced the opening of his office for the practice of architecture, Michael Dean Elliot, Architect, AJA, at 1202-E, West Sixth St., Austin 78703. Telephone: ( 5 12) 4 78-4586. The San Antonio firm CGR, Inc., Cerna-Garza-Raba, has announced the promotion of four firm members to the position of associate: Ronald P. Goth­ herg, Marvin A. Jung, Jr., T. J. P alm. Jr., and Walter H. Scott, Jr.

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American Tile Supply has announced the opening of a new warehouse and showroom in Austin at 3 100 Industrial T errace, Austin 78759. Telephone: (512) 837-2843. Firm representatives have announced So when you specify paints, specify Roach. Paints for the Professional. And don't forget the special Architect's Hot Line. the establishment o f a new Fort Worth Just Phone (toll-free) 800-492-6766. fu rniture company, Gilbert Furniture In­ dustries, with a showroom at 645 World rradc Center in Dallas and a marketing thrust toward the architectural commu­ nity. G ilbert Furniture Industries, Inc., 2945 Stuart Drive, Fort Worth 76104. Telephone: (8 17) 921-533 1. The new "Las Lamparas" collection of Phone (214) 748-9421 , 1306 River Street lamps designed and produced by Caslle­ S I N C E 1934 DALLAS. TEXAS 75202 hury-Hcld are now available through Circle 37 on Reader lnqu,ry Card May/ June 1979 61 3234 Dallas Trade Mart Dala•, Tex•• 152<11

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In Brief . .. San Antonio Was: Seen Through a Magic Lantern. Cecilia Steinfeldt. San Antonio Museum Association. San An­ tonio. 245 pages. $ 14.95 (paperback), $21.95 (hardback), $50 (deluxe edition). The ·'magic lantern" was popular in the late 19th century to cast large pho­ tographic images on the wall as the fore­ runner of the modern slide projector. using glass plates as "slides" transferred from photographs. A large collection of these plates. owned by the family of former San Antonio mayor Albert Steves, was recently made available to the San Antonio Museum Association (SAMA) which has combined them with a text by C,rc/e 44 on Reader Inquiry Card 66 Texas Architect

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C,rcle 48 on Reader Inquiry Card M.iy / June 1979 69 Letters Editor: Congratulations on the March/ April 1979 issue of Sam~ le Then ,end 10, you, oopy. Texas Architect. Magazines which cause me to stop what I'm 16 detailed color pages on doing and read them as soon as they arrive are strong pieces of our newest units & systems. paper. Such was the current issue. Plasteco. Inc . PO Sox 24158 Tom Shcfclman's "House of Words," Mike McCullar's cover Our 79 Houston. Texas 77029 story, Larry Fuller's (and photographer Bill Kennedy's) "House a a (713) 674-7689 of Comfort," and Ken Rehler's article on the microcomputer in architectural practice all present strong ideas which are com­ C t I09 pelling. And the reporting of design awards and the news sec­ tion on schools are greatly appreciated here.

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Editor: T hank you for the fine piece on the revitalization o( Austin's Sixth Street in the March/ April issue of Texas Archi­ tect. It is of no consequence•that my first name was incorrectly stated ( Robert, not David), bul it is a grievous omission that Allan Nutt was not named as the associate architect of the Encinal. Allan has worked hard and creatively on this project and deserves appropriate recognition.

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