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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 May/June 1979 3 THE NICHOLAS CLAYTON AWARDS PROGRAM, The Alfred C. Glassel! School of Art "Clean and uncompromised . .. an ironic. opposite energy conseNation solution to more opaque buildings . .. stands with both strength and modesty at the same time ... strong interior including stark central space should respond well to artwork d isplayed within it." John Sealy Hospital, South Addition "Ambitious and strong ... towers and recesses reflect an energy consciousness .. form allows light pene tration to interi or public spaces." EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN WITH MASONRY The Alfred C. Glassel! School of Art in Houston has been bestowed the Nicholas Clayton Award for outstanding masonry design. Architect: S. I. Morris Associates; Owner: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Contractor: McGregor Construction Company; Mason Contractor: McGregor Construction Company. The architectural firm selected glass block masonry construction for its ap pearance, low maintenance and energy conserving characteristics. The building is a two-level structure Colonial Park Recreation Center with an enclosed area of 41.669 square "Handsome composition of form derived feet. Ground floor functions include a from its programatic elements. not applied two-story exhibition space enclosed by a or arbitrary sources ... careful detailing of continuous skylight above. brick." A jury of five members of The Boston Society of Architects also designated three buildings to receive awards for Excellence in Design with Masonry: The John Sealy Hospital, South Addition,