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A Publication of the Rice Design Alliance Winter 1984 S2.00 The Architecture and Design Review of Houston

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Phillip Lopate on Public Space in Houston 2 Cite Winter 1984 InCite

3 Citelines 6 Citeations 8 Citesurvey m& 10 A Fourth Ward Overview 13 Wielding the HACHet at Allen Parkway Village Cite 14 An Update From Freedman's Town 17 The Greening of Allen Parkway Village Cover: House on Robin Street. A shotgun 15 Pursuing the Unicorn: Public Space cottage typical of those built in the Fourth in Houston 0** Ward (Photo by Paul Hester) 22 HindCite

Editorial Committee

John Kaliski Elizabeth S. Glassman Peter C. Papademetriou Chairman Mark A. Hewitt Macey Reasoner Richard Keating Andrew John Rudnick Raymond D. Brochstein O.Jack Mitchell William F. Stem Dana Cuff W.James Murdaugh Drexel Turner Herman Dyal, Jr. Janet M, O'Brien Bruce C Webb *jmK• Guest Editor: John Kaliski Cite welcomes unsolicited manuscripts. Managing Editor Linda Leigh Sylvan Authots take full responsibility for Design Director: Herman Dyal, Jr. securing required consents and releases •:'::••':•' + Graphic Designer Lorraine Wild and for the authenticity of their articles. Publisher: Lynette M. Gannon All manuscripts will be considered by the Editorial Board. Suggestions for topics The opinions expressed in Cite do not are also welcome. Address correspon- necessarily represent the views of the dence to: Managing Editor, Cite, Rice Board of Directors of the Rice Design Design Alliance, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Alliance. Texas 77251.

Rice Design Alliance Board of Directors 1984-1985

W. James Murdaugh Judy L. Allen Burdette Keeland President Sally G. Avery Karl Laurence Kilian Raymond D. Brochstein Howard Barnstone Truett Latimer President-Elect Paul G. Bell James L. Marshall, Jr. Andrew John Rudnick Giorgio Borlenghi J. Pittman McGehee *<*»* - n n tfA Vice President Joseph P. Colaco O. Jack Mitchell *..^* Leslie Barry Davidson Austin Coleman Peter C. Papademetriou .»* •<»* tf> Secretary Frank F. Douglas Richard W. Payne fix**:* & Daniel K, Hedges Herman Dyal, Jr. Macey Reasoner rf* Treasurer Stephen Fox Danny Samuels .,;/#:*• i<» Elizabeth S. Glassman Barrie Scardino -*:*•* LaNeil Gregory Pierre M. Schlumberger Lorraine P. Roberts Elizabeth P.Griffin Margaret C. Skidmore • m • Executive Director Antony Harbour William F. Stern FEBRUARY 22-MARCH 15, 1985 • • • Mark A. Hewitt Drexel Turner • • • John Kaliski Bruce C. Webb Richard Keating Gordon G. Wittenberg

Corporate Members of the Rice Design Alii THE ESSENTIAL NEW Anchorage Foundation, Inc. Moody-Rambin Interests Anchorage Foundation of Texas Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc. HOUSTON ARCHITECTURE BOOK Associated General Contractors of W.O. Neuhaus and Associates America, Inc. PIC Realty P.G. Bell Company RepublicBank Houston W.S. Bellows Construction Corporation The Russo Companies Lan Bentsen Interests Skidmore, Owings and Merrill HOUSTON'S Brochsteins, Inc. William F. Stern and Associates GALLERY OF ARCHITECTURE: Century Development Corporation 3D/International Gensler and Associates/Architects Turner Construction Company of Texas A WALKING TOUR Gerald D. Hines Interests Urban Investment and Development OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON R. Michael Huffington Company of Texas, Inc. Interfin Corporation Wolff, Morgan & Company Lloyd Jones Fillpot and Associates, Inc.

Published by Notes on Contributors

The Houston Chapter Dana Cuff is an assistant professor of Janet M. O'Brien is a Houston architect. of the architecture at the School of Architecture She was managing editor of the first issue American Institute of Architects at Rice University. of Threshold, the journal of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Stephan Fox is a Fellow of the Anchorage at Chicago. Foundation of Texas. Text; Phyllis Harris Bethany Ramey is an Austin architect. Diane Y. Ghirardo teaches the history Drexel Turner is assistant to the dean of Photography: Joe Aker Richard Payne, AIA and theory of architecture at the Univer- sity of Southern California; she formerly the School of Architecture at Rice Univer- taught at Texas A&M University. sity and assistant professor of planning.

Mark A. Hewitt is a Houston architect Bruce C. Webb is associate professor and A guidebook for Houston's Central Business District that cata- and assistant professor of architecture at director of Graduate Studies in the College logues 51 buildings and public spaces (dating 1879-1984), illus- Rice University. of Architecture, . trating 44 of them. Each entry gives the name, date, location, architect and developer, followed by a brief stylistic description Phillip Lopate is a professor of English at that includes, where applicable, public art and sculpture. the University of Houston and is pursuing utban studies at Columbia University. His last book was Bachelorhood.

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