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Sesquicentennial Park Competition **« N*»« Houston Rice Design Alliance Fall 1986 Non-Pmfil Org. Rice University U.S. Postage Paid P.O. Box 1892 Houston. Texas Houslon, Texas 77251 Permit No. 754" The Architecture and Design Review of Houston \ Publication oflhe Rice Design Alliance $3.00 Sesquicentennial Park Competition **« n*»« Houston Monuments Stephen FOX Noguchi's Cullen Sculpture Garden ^-» »••«'- Sport and Public SpacesJ B •'«•«» Cite Flit 1986 InCite 4 Citelines 8 ForeCite L\ 8 The Sesquicentennial Park Design Competition Cite 12 Remember Houston 14 Romancing the Stone: The Cullen Sculpture Garden PlANTS 16 Fields of Play: Sport and Public Spaces Cover: Sam Houston Monument. Hermann 17 Citesurvey: Rubenstein Park. 1925, Enrico F. Cerracchio. sculptor. Group Building J. W. Northrop. Jr., architect (Photo by 18 Citeations ARETHE Paul Hester) 23 Hind Cite NATURE Editorial Committee Thomas Colbert Neil Printz John Gilderbloom Malcolm Quantril! Bruce C. Webb Elizabeth S. Glassman Eduardo Robles Chairman David Kaplan William F. Stern Phillip Lopate Drexel Turner OF OUR Jeffrey Karl Ochsner Peter D. Waldman BUSINESS Guest Editor: Drexel Turner The opinions expressed in Cite do not Managing Editor: Linda Leigh Sylvan necessarily represent the views of the Editorial Assistant: Nancy P, Henry Board of Directors of the Rice Design Graphic Designer: Alisa Bales Alliance. Typesetting and Production: Baxt & Associates Cite welcomes unsolicited manuscripts. Director of Advertising: Authors take full responsibility for Kathryn Easterly securing required consents and releases Publisher: Lynette M. Gannon and for the authenticity of their articles. All manuscripts will be considered by the During our thirty years in business The Spencer Company's client list Publication of this issue of Cite is Editorial Board. Suggestions for topics t\ supported in part by grants from the are also welcome. Address has grown impressively. 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He was the Craig Francis Cullman Visiting Professor in Drexel Turner is assistant to the dean of 6304 ALDER 669 1333- Fine Arts, Architecture, and Urban the School of Architecture at Rice Planning at Rice University, Spring 1986. University. .
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