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NMll,ari Tr.uu Clu111,rr C'11rtol)n ON THE COVER: Harwood COM ING UP: Design and re Prtrn:nrr. Sa" Ant11nfn Cltaptrr Puul K. Smith & Partners. Inc .. search on making the working 1/,n s,.. ,1r,,m T,.,a, C'lwptrr. Jmrrh Ruu,, J, • W11<1• Chupw. J.,_, H Rh" Dallas. emphasized residential office work; a ponfolio of de ,..,nMrrr. Jr _, Wtn Tr.uu Cltupltt .. JUt A,r II L,,..,._ ,J,. W,rlt1roFo/l&Chap,rr · Dr cale in the Heanhstone. Sun sign showrooms; and a special Arm· f rrrmart Lr,_So1t Anmnir, t l'uhlk Mr,..i,,,1 City, Ari z. Photography by R. advertising focus on office Greg I lursley. furn ishings. I r rm Ard111rr 1 Mt1y lime 1988 3 LETTERS THORO SYSTEM [8PRODUCTS EDITOR: I have just rece ived my normally concealed behind the cornices copy of the I Mar/ Apr 1988 1 issue of on the fifth floor is d osed so that 80 Texas Dealers Texas Architert that contains Ray Don percent of the di reel sunlight is blocked. TiJley·s story about MBank Dallas·s This was a result of a sun-angle study new corporate headquarters. As project run at the Solar Lab at UT Arlington. Besl Service Building Materials manager for MCorp. I feel obliged to The "Soun::es"· column omiued Rich PO Box 17379 San Amorno 1exas ~0217 correct a few errors and omissions. ard L. Kreut z. 3D/1 principal-in-charge 512 349-4301 The gener.11 design theme of the bank for the project. I !is contributions during Blue Diamond Company hall interi or was produced by John Bur the crucial la!.t year of development and PO Bor 15787 Da11as Texas 7521 S gee Architects with Phi lip Johnson in implementation are immeasurable and I 214 428 1331 close association with 3D/lntemnrional would like 10 sec hb pan recogni zed. Lynwood Building Materials 1201 Wesl Elsmere (3D/I). 3D/I is singularly responsible Las1ly. we don·, agree thnt our bank San Amomo Texas 78201 for the interior design layou1 or the trad hall interior stands in delilli'lcc of any 512 732 9052 ing floor. the design and selecti on of all th ing. It does speak of our bank ·s phi Featherlite Bu ilding Producls Corp. PO Box35:, furnishings. and all work spaces that do losophy and its inherent optimism. The Abilene Texas 79604 not abut the "edges .. of tl1e bank Dow Jones had not even crossed 1800 915673 4201 hall. .. in other words, 30/1 was respon when we staned th is project live years Fealherlile Building Producls Corp. 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FA/A he cities of Texas are graced with entry plaza, employing colors keyed 10 a large inventory of buildings Lhose used in the canopy. A serpentine, T from the late 1970s and early magenta-colored wall, keying off bloom 1980s that represent the legacy of a time ing crepe myrtle bushes. is comple " hen Lhe rising Lide seemed 10 lift every mented by the new magenta, blue. and llcvcloper's yacht. Lean. clean Class A yellow mullions delineating the eight d,1,,ics. such as the Pennzoil Building. story curtain wall above the entry. This ,how the successes of these boom years. colorful approach gives the building iden But many of the period's Class B build tity from the freeway and makes it ings (distinguished from Class A by their friendly and inviting. A deck overlooking lc~s-desirable location. access. and the bayou provides a common gathering amenities) now look like period pieces: place that pleases tenants and prospect.c; almost all were created as free-standing alike and provides an exclamation point ~·comerrical objects. with liule regard for to the entry's bright, welcoming message. thl 1r users, and they fit today's expec1a- Budget prohibited the development of 1t11ns like yesterday's bell-bottoms. Color und a new canopy mark the new efllr)' of One a garage-stairwe ll entry lobby. However, Wrsr lt>np S0111h, 110w under cmutr111:titm. ll •moaning Lhe architectural shoncom parking access for visitors and tenants lnt-.. or these Class B buildings doesn't was made more welcoming by new h~ Ip the people who own them, however. ognized. the building and site must be re graphics. colors. and lighting fixtures. Owners wa.nt their buildings leased. And viewed, and its strcngLhs and weaknesses which bracket the doors between garage I think that increasing the leasability of identified. Code violations resulting from and building. The building's long corri , uch projects represenlS an opportunity earlier leasing practices must be resolved. dors were broken up by new portals iden for architects 10day. Market issues must be addressed. The tifying a series of mini-lobbies. One reccni renovation in Houston. un Rice Center. a local research group, re The building has been transfonned. denaken by my linn. illustrates the prob ports that the difference in cost between giving it a better relationship with its sur It mi. and the key issues to be addressed. Class A and B lease space has shrunk to roundings and providing better scale. One West Loop South (fonnerly The Ar $2.30 per square foot, half its 1983 leveL identifiability, and a processionaJ sense h,1rc1 unm. after a earby nature preserve). This makes identity and amenities in for both tenants and visitors. These im 1 .1 trapezoidal building along a busy Class B buildings even more important. provements amount to a change in the one-way freeway-service road. Access is At One West Loop South, the owner spirit of the building, and the manage cm,i ly missed, and often the glass-walled complained of the building's low visibil ment company says that occupancy now huilding seems to melt into the trees. Ex ity and entry image. while tenan L') cited stands at 65 percent. cept for the view, there were no features the lack of a lobby or gathering space. In a perfect world, perhaps, architects that took advantage of the building's rela Other problems were identified. Long. and clients would always design and tionship to either the nearby Buffalo unbroken corridors ran the length of the build with timeless perfection. Cn the R,1you or the Houston Arboretum. The building. Entry from the parking garage world we're given. however, the renova hu1l ding was foreclosed on in 1986: at was dark, while entry from the building tion of Class B buildings is tbe more that time the occupancy rate was nine front was discouraged by an underempha likely opportunity. Such project.<; are chal 1,crcent. sized door along with signs prohibiting lenging-as architects we have 10 give This type of project requi res an exer visitor parking. Finally. tenants had sup them the human-scale qualities they ci1'e in retroactive marketing- talking plied their own nonstandard graphics. should have had from the first. The chal " itb the leasing staff and both present creating a confusing jumble throughout. lenge beckons, because, like the moun ·md prospective tenants. Including tenants To address these issues, new visitor tain. it ·s there. --- in a pre-renovation survey can have the parking now provides easier access at the ,l!condary benefit of easing resistance 10 front. A new entry canopy greets and di Ray B. Bailey. FA/A , is preside111 of the l hange. Once tenant preferences are rec- rects visitors through a newly landscaped Houston firm Ray Bailey Architects. I <' W .f Ard1irect May June 1988 7 NE\VS Edited by Ray D011 Tilley Ph,11ogmph1 this fl"N' h,· Ron Ron,,ln/J CORPUS CHRISTI USHERS IN NEW CITY GOVERNMENT HOME On Mar. 27. civic leaders and towns people gathered in front of lhe new Cor pus Christi City Hall 10 dedicate the 150.000-square-foot. $11 .4-mill ion srruc ture. In all the exchanges of thanks and praise someone failed 10 recognize Taft Architects, How.ton. and Kipp. Richter & Associates. Corpus Christi, the associated architects who designed lhe project and oversaw its construction. But that's line, Taft Architects say jovially. because "the ceremony was over in 20 minutes, but the building's still there." Yet getting it there was an arduous ad Thi' """' C11r1111s Chris11 C11y Ha/1'.t .,1111111 111 we.ftcm tlm,•111awn shm1/d help revlta/1:e the ne,~lected area. venture. Voters approved a $ 15-million bond program in 1983 to finance the pro ject and construction began in 1984. A well ....1l1 ey now rcali1.c how good il is new city manager and management rcor lo have everyone under one roof.· · gani1--a1i on, however. brought about The City had leased part or aJ I of 11 changes in the noor plans. 1l1en in De buildings across the city before moving cember 1986 the entire project came 10 a in late February. Consolidation alone. hall when the conrractor. Norilidale Con Kipp says. will save $25,000 per month. struction Co.• Houston. defaulted. The new city hall houses 23 depanments, Norilidale ·s bonding company did not all organized in a cross-axial block act quickly 10 find a new contractor. says around a six-story central rotunda. Office., u,e 8 Te.tas Arcl1itec1 May /11111< 1988 SESQUICENTENNIAL PARK TAKES SHA.PE IN HOUSTON Cons1ruc1ion b proceeding on 1he "c~qu iceniennial Park. Hous1on's most ,ignifican1 park project of the decade (sec IA. Jul/A ug 1986). Ot11er downtown purk, 111 Houston provide pleasant spaces where office workers and visi 1on; can cn- 10, tou n1ains or sculpture. n,c Scsqui 7i•u1111/0U'J S1•sq111r,·111,•1111iul Purl., 011 811JJulv Buw,11 , i.\ llm,.ri,,11'.1 11w11 s1w1,ft1·m11 fl{JJ'/.. ,ifthr d1•,·t1tl1•. ~e11tcnnial Park. by contrast. is an ambi t1m1, co ll ecti ont of owers. fou ntains. and The second major s1ructure under con , ,..,._.~ that reach beyond the park ·1, . 1ruc1ion i~ 1he Gmehouse. which mark!> h1111n darie~ to highligh1 1he history and the park entrance for visitors arri ving monumenrnlity of the ci1y around i1. from the southwest along Texas Avenue. The park was designed by Team HOU . h is aligned with the proposed look-out rn111poscd of John Lcmr. Guy l lagstcttc, area on the opposite bank of the bayou 1mJ Robert Liner. who won the commis- and the RepublicBank building nearby. 1011111 1986 afler a n::uionwide competi- In addition. a fo uniain, larger than that 1111n. Archi tect Kerry Goelzer has since planned in earlier schemes, will cascade 1cplaccd Liner in the firm. The Rice De around the Buffalo Monument. while a ,1gn Alliance and Central Hous1on, Inc., smaller rountain will step down the i, lope Th~ p11r~ is l1ri11// /1111/1111•.rt to thr Wnrt/111111 Cr111rr ,ponsorcd the competition. After con next 10 the Gatehouse. Miscellaneous ele ,1ructi on b complete. the City will rnke ments under constructi on include access tory of the city and the forces thal con po,~cssion und opern1c the park. ramps and a canoe-launch ramp al the tribu1cd to i1s development."" The first phase of cons1ruction. fo base of the Gatehouse. Team HOU. while coordinating the l'll',ing on un m:re of land between the Finally, extensive landscaping on the construction administration for phase one \\ nrtham Cenrre and Buffalo Bayou. sile wi ll reinforce the conceptual organi of the project. is studying the design for ,1.1111.:d m Oc1ober 1987 and is scheduled :,.ati on or the park. According 10 a s1a1c the remaining phases of the park and an 1111 completion in late 1988. The pro mcn1 from the firm , phase one of Ihi s ticipa1ing a go-ahead from Ccn1ral Hous ll'l" led cost for the first phase is $4.37 landscaping "'involves the introduction of ton. Inc. million. making it, the designers say ruc 1he park and 1he beginning of a symbolic lully. the most expensive park per quare chronological journey explaining the llis- - Joel Wurren Bw·11u loot in the city. These costs were generated by difficul - 11c., in 1he program: part of tJi e park con NEW COMMISSION CELEBRATES ,truction includes rerouting two under- MORE THAN JUST BUILDINGS 1.'round ramps serving the Civic Center p.irl,., mg garage. Bui the <:ite is not just In October 1986. Austin ·s city council. ,ltl)' piece or downtown Hous1on real es- in tryi ng to get architects and developers 1iue. The soil is composed almost en1irely working together, created the Architec uf unstable fill . requiring concrete pilings tural Excellence Commission. The group. to be sunk to 35 feet below sea level. Be now called the Design Commission. has fore that. however. the site had to be broadened its ai ms to include 1he enti re , ampled so workers couJd avoid tJie foun built env ironment. not just architecture. dations of the old Farmers· Market, "We're really trying 10 get the general which occupied 1he c;ite bet ween I928 public involved in the design process:· 111d 1958. says Emily Lillie, architect and commis Other major architectural elements of sion chair. "We hope 10 get a mix of the park are part of Lnc first phase. people involved." The largest of iliese is the octagonal The group ·s eight architect:, and one Buffalo Monument, which wi ll house an arts administrator have no real fin ancial •~-yet-uncommissioned sculpture com backing. yet they are pursuing an ambi mcmornting the adjacent bayou·l> mythi tious program of public design education Breed & Company hardware ftnre. Austin ~a l namesake. The monument was de and recognition of outstanding design. ,,gned wiili a removable floor, plumbing The members convene monthly in a pub topics. The session is broadcast on com ,1ub-ouis. and a flexible lighting system. lic presentation on one of many design mun11y-access television, and then the re- I t,11.1 J\rrlti1t·1·1 M11y /11111.- /9Hll 9 OF NOTE Malcolm Quantrill, distinguished pro dedicated in 1990 at the Kennedy fessor at Texas A&M's College of Archi Space Center in Florida. tecture, will edit Frontiers, an Interna tional journal of architectural theory, The Dallas office of Hellmuth, Obata practice, and design. The first issue Is & Ka ssabaum, Inc., was awarded the scheduled for the fall ot 1989. "Highest Honor Award for Development Texas Distributors in Context" for the Dallas Galleria Toll Ablknt way Frontage Improvements from the Mile Jecuon K11chcns Dominique de Menll, art and archi PO Bo.-5193. 79605 915/098-0612 tecture patron from Houston, was North Central Texas Section of the American Planning Association. AusU11 elected an Honorary Member of the AJA Cabincll')' by SL Chari~ in recognition of her outstanding contri 2712 B« Cavca Rd,. Sunc 122 78746 S 12/327-6958 butions to the architectural profession Burdette W. Keeland, University of Houston professor of architecture, re lltaumllfll and the allied arts and sciences. With her Cu11om KJ1.ct~ru. late husband John, she brought financial ceived the Houston Chapter/AIA's Edu 2912 Eula m,cway. mm 409/899-~ cator Award at its annual gala. Nine of support and personal energy to the cul c ...,,... c 1trlstl tural life of Houston. Their collection of the 15 other award recipients at the gala Cabind Alrcmatlvca 434 1 S Alamcdo.. 7841 1 512/991 -22!0 more than 10,000 paintings, sculptures, were former Keeland students. and art objects is housed in the Menil Col Dallas Cabmc"'1Ut<1>, Inc. lection in Houston. The 1988 Heritage Society of Austin $400 E. Moddngbird, 7.1206 214/811-6200 awards program honored seven historic Kirchen Designs. Inc. Dallas architects Keith and Kathryn buildings. The buildings and their archi 14W Inwood Rd. 7SU4 l14fJ85-1Jl4 tects were Pierre Bremond House, Bell Rabuse, of Gromatzky Dupree & Associ Kirchcru, El<:. of Oalln ates, received one of five honorable & Hoffman; Edward Joel Palm House -40220u: Lawn, 75219 21'4,1521 -9691 mentions among 750 entries for their and Rogers-Lyons House, Emily Little; FonWonh entry in the Astronauts Memorial Design Scarbrough Building, Claude Pendley ; Kirchen Pl.,,ncn 33-00AIIJIClft Freeway, 761 11 &17/8)1-448J Competition. The memorial. which hon Scholz Garten, Tom Hatch; Dumble ors the 14 astronauts who have died Boatright House, David Hoffman: and Uarllnlffl Pucock Cuau,m Kuchem since the space program began, will be Newton House, Mark Rahe. 801 Eu, Onma, 71551 SIV423-67JJ Houstllfl Cabin<,. and OcaJcm. 1ne. 3637 West Alabruna. Suicc 380, TT027 7 I l/627-11970 Cabinet Srud,o 9711 Kary Frecwiiy, TT024 713/461-6124 A.ckway lloweworU 612 Wcac Bough La,,c, TT024 713/461 -JS95 Kirt Cnils Compru,y 2431 su.,.,.,. nous 7t)~?J-IIOl!6 Knc:hcn and 811h Conccpu 3636 Univa1icy Blvd., TTOOS 713/668-5671 VIIL\a< Khchcru and BallH 29'2 Chimney Rock, 770:16 713/266-7:166 M,clrol'I Corrocrin's mural m Kealur1t .l11ninr Hixlr lrvlns An:hlr«t-1 C;,ncqn suhing yideotape is added 10 their public IUEu1 JohnCarpc:nccrF"')'.. 75062 2141869-2999 "design library." Eventually. Little says, 1.0,.,_ Cvilorn K,w:hc:m the commission hopes to hold community 703-All. 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Houston. and Cm11bridgc Seven Associates, Cambridge, Masi,.; with C/A Conroe Moore Supply Co. Architects. Inc., l lous1on, urena ton-.ul 409n56-6663 tants: and Ray Johnson & Assoc.:ia tcs. Or lando. associated architects). Besides be Corpus Christi TOP · Orlando Arena; MIDDLE: Miami Ar('111J: ing home 10 an NBA-expansion team. the BOITOM. A11h11m llills E11tt•nai11n11.:111 C1•111t'r Ajax Supply Co. Magic. the building will act as a destina 512/855-6284 tion arena for Orlando (which boasts one 14.292-seat Miami Arena. which city of million permanent residents and over 20 ficials hope will also attract an NBA fran Dallas million tourists annually). attracting eve chise. along with rock shows and other Apex Supply Co. rything from concen ac1s and beauty pag events that now bypass Miami. Clad in 2 14n41-5463 eants 10 dog shows. Because of these Outed concreted masonry and insulated multiple demands, the arena has a quick metal panels. with a steel-truss roof, the El Paso Rio Grande Supply change playing fl oor that can accommo arena ill within a bloc'- or Me1rorail and 9 15/544- 7050 date any indoor sport (excep1 NHL People Mover stations. Planners say thi:. hockey) and six rows of retractahle seat should reduce adjacent parking require Fort Wort h ing. In addition. the arena will anchor a ments and stimulate transit ridership. Nonheast Plumbing Supply civic-development complex in Orlando's Architects from the Dallas office of 8 I 7n.81-8220 central business districL To increase the Detroit-based Rosseni Associates/Archi arena's visibility. panicularly at night. its tects Planners were invol ved wirh the de Houston nonh and south walls arc translucent sign of a third new multipurpose sports Moore Supply Co. glass. while the cast and west walls are and ente rt ainment facili ty, the 20.000- 713n.23-492 I glass block. The circulation pallern of the seat Auburn Hills Entertainment Center building is simple: all concessions are on in Auburn Hills, Mich. Clad in precast Nacogdoches Moore Supply Co the concourse level between the upper concrete panels faced in diapered brick (a 7 13/564-833 I and lower seating levels. while all the first for a major bui lding in the area. the public rest rooms are located in masonry architects say) and set in a 6 1.3-acre site Pharr clad corner pods. which double as hous wi th 5.100 parking spaces. the center is S & S Wholesaler.- Supply ing for the air-conditioning apparatus. an "designed as an uncompromiscd circular 5 12nR7-8855 arrangement that also reduces the ambi objec1... 1he modem equivalent of the ent noise in the arena itself. The arena Roman Coliseum," with a skin allegori San Angelo roof. utilizing a two-way truss system cally connoting a basketball net or circus AAA Wh olesale supported on four concrete pylons, is tent, according to the architects. The cen 915/653-33 11 pulled back from the interior wall. This ter, all privately funded , wil l be a new up reduces the apparent height or the build scale home for the Detroit Pistons. featur San Antonio lnhlma1ional Supply of San Antonio ing and creates open-air terraces on ing 180 private box suites, many at court 512n.23-4275 which patrons in high-priced sky boxes side, and other amenities lacking at other can promenade. Completion of the area arenas. Complelion is scheduled for Meyer Supply Orlundo Arena is scheduled for late 1988. fall 1988. 5 12n.24-I 73 I A joint venture of Lloyd Jones Fillpot Associates: C/A Architects, Inc.: and - ./WB Texarkana Cruz-Stark Associates or Coral Gables. Double Jay Supply Fla. designed the recently completed NEWS. co11ti1111ed 011 pa~e 19 2 14n93.221 1 12 Texas Architect Ma.1· 111111' /988 Wlul, ,,imc bdLhs simply l'Xist, the I 1Jl I b,1th beckons lnvit 111~ yrn I l'u 111, 1 n:l.ix. unwind Sooth<: your h,1 kd nerves ,md cmt·rgt· I 11 ,lwd 11 I Fljl•r l)dlh IC'dlurt·s the l'' 'LfER c C,rc/e 13 on Reader Inquiry Card 10 8840-00 EL-20·2597C How to choose the right sw·--· g pool builder How can an architea d1oosc jus1Lhc Can you offer me a guarantee right !>'wimmjng pool builder for tJ1dr or a warranty? projea? ~ at Qiliforni:1 P(x)ls and Look for a pool bu ikler who backs Spas 'WOUid like to offer some advice. their work c:alifornia Pools and Listen c:arefully lo how diITcn.:nl pool pas offer warranties, completion builders anstvcr these qu~ 1i ons. guarantees and performance What kinds ofpools bonds. Our goal is your satisfaction. do you build? 'lbu rmt) Om.I m,m) pool builders spe tialize in onl>' small, residential pools. 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So, call construaecl Thats why we've won so today. ~ ·re the right swimming pool many design awards. builder for your project. Texas Arizona California Nevada Au<,tin (512) 328-3"100 Tucson (602) 790-1742 Corporate (818) 443-l243 l..a.'i \egai; (702) 458-8177 l).ill:.L• i; ( 21'-1 ) 480-0888 El Monte (818) 442-2902 Cal ifornia only l-800-282-7665 Circle 14 on Reader Inquiry Card Texas Society of rchitects 1988 Design Awards Call For Entries: fo, 1988, C ,t,brnti"g its 34th J""'" year, TSA's Design Awards Program seeks to recognize Orlando Oiaz-Azcuy outstanding architectural Sn11 Frn11cisco projects by Texas firms and lo promote public interest in ar Diane Legge chitectural excellence. In the O,icngo past, winning projects by Texas architects have been se Mack Scogin lected from every region of At/n11ta the state, as well as other slates and other countries. Winners have come from one person offices and the state's largest firms; winning projects have ranged from simple one room buildings to elaborate high-rise offices. Texas architects are invited to submit one or more entries for consideration by an emi nent jury. Winners will be honored during TSA's Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Nov ember 18-20. Ln addition, the winning projects will be prominently displayed in the year-end issue of Texas Archi tect magazine and publicized statewide. Tum the page for illfom111tio11 011 co11leSI mies mu/ a11 t'litry form. Eligibility: Awards: Entry Package - For restora tions and Requirements adaptive-use projects, at An y new, adaptive-use, or Certificates will be pre Checklist: least one slide describing restoration project in General sented to the architects and conditions before the cur Design or lnterior Archltec clients of winning projects al Each entry package must rent work started. rure completed after January the TSA Annual Meeting in contain the following items, 1, 1983 is eligible. individuals San Antonio on November 20. which must all be mailed or One-page descriptive text: or firms may enter any num Selected slides of the winning delivered to the TSA offices in Each entry must include a ber of projects anywhere in entries will be shown at a the same container on or be written text describing the the world. ceremony honoring this year's fore the July 1 deadline: project, with the program Entries must be submitted winners. requirements and solution, by a TSA member who was For publicity purposes, ar • a boxed slide carousel with on one side of a letter-size registered as an architect with chitects of winning pro,jccts slides sheet of white paper. This the Texas Board of Architec must submit 12 copies of an • a one-page descriptive text paper must be folded and tural Examiners at the ti me 8"x10" blnck-ani.l -whitc • a completed and signed placed inside the slide the project was executed. glossy photograph of one entry form, in an envelope carousel box. Do 110 / write Where responsibility for a view of the winning project. marked with the entrant's your name or lh.e fi rm name 011 project is shared, the design Publicity photographs m ust name and taped to the out th.is text sl,eel. architect must be a TSA mem be received at the TSA offices side of the carousel box ber and all participants who by August 5. • an $85 registration fee (per Entry Form: substantially contributed to TSA will retain five slides of entry) in the envelope Blank entry forms are found the work must be credited. each winning project for ar along with the entry form on the next page. Photo Projects must be submitted chival purposes. For publica marked with the entrant's copies of the entry form in the name of the fi rm that tion. Texas Arcl,itcct magazine name and taped to the out shou Id be made for mul executed the commission. If will require original images side of the carousel box. tiple entries. Place the entry that fi rm has been dissolved - not duplicates-of each win form(s) in an envelope with or ils name has been changed, ning project. The original Slides: the fee(s) and tape the enve an individual or successor slides will be returned after • Each entry must consist of lope to the outside of the fi rm may enter projecti. in the the magazine has been no more than 20 slides. En carousel box. name of the fi rm in effect at printed. trants are responsible for the lime the project was exe submitting functioning Fee: cuted. Multiple entries of the Kodak Carousel slide trays lnclude a registration check same project by successor in in which the slides are in for $85 for each project sub d ividuals or firms wi ll not be Deadline: proper order and position. mitted. Place the check in accepted. an envelope with the entry For multi-building projects, The fee, entry fo rm, text, • The first slide of each entry form and tape it to the out the architect submitting the and slide submission must ar must be a ti tle slide, con side of the carousel box. project (or portion thereof) rive al the TSA offi ces in the taining the following Make checks or money or must designate authorship of same container and at the information: 1) project type ders payable to TSA. No tm each portion of the project. same lime, no later than 5 lsee entry Conni; 2) project try fees will be rcf1111ded. p.m., Friday, July 1, 1988. LIiie size [in gross square feetl; 1•11l ries will 1101 lw accepted. and 3) project location. • Following the ti tle slide, each entry must include: Judging: Return of Entries: For Additional - One slide of a site plan Information: or aerial photograph with a A three-member jury of Entries &om Austin, Dallas, eminent national practitioners Fort Worth, Houston, and San graphic scale and compass For questi ons about rules or points (interior architec wi ll pick the winners. Project Antonio will be returned to other information on the com authorship will remain con chapter offi ces by July 25. En h.ire projects are exempt petition, ca II Lucretia Cren cealed throughout the jury de tries from other chapters will from this requirement). welge at 512/478-7386. - At least one slide show liberations. Awards will be be mailed individually. given in two categories: Gen ing the plan of the project. eral Design and Interior For a multi-story building, Architecture. The list of pro include only those slides ject types on the entry form is necessary to describe Lhe only an aid to the jury and building arrangement and envelope. Sections and dot.~ nol imply that a winner will be chosen from each sub other drawings are option al. If included, section loca category. tion must be indicated on TSA reserves the right to d1sl111 ,1l ify entries not submit- the appropriate plans. 11.'d in ,1 ccordance with these - One text slide containing rules. a brief description of the project, including the pro gram requirements and so Fill out the entry form lution. on both sides of the card at the top of the facing page. I RY FORM Design Awards Owner (at project completion): _____ 11°1 11011 ,: 0111111,·h' on,· lorm Jll'r Entry Form 1 \ lr110111pkll' form, or PROJECT CREDITS Architect: (list firm name, key team members): 0 11 1°1 I 111f11rm,1tio11 m,1,· Entrant's 1111111 di, qu,1lifil:,1ti11n . Name:.______ \ 111,· \, ,11, 11 r 111 ·-.. 11,1 1t 1t · , 111 Title:.______,,11!-.1,it- ,1 1 ,Ill t'll\ t ·l11 J't' ,, , 111,·, "111J'll'l,·d ,·11 1n Firm Name: ______Consultants (landscape, structural, MEP, etc.): 1111·,1111,1,lt- lh,· , ·11, , ·1,,,,,. ,11>:1,11li.1,lw d, 111 tlw ,•u11t ,,r ~~; h1r 1.·,h.-h J'h'Jt', t ",,.,I Address: ______ l.1j•t· lltt· l'II\ 1• J11p1• l11 lf1t• l·.idt• Ill li1t• l.lrtlll '-l'i Pl ,, .., ,·111t-1,·,I .111.l Sl'llll 111,· General Contractor: ______City/Zip: ------ 111,· 1•o1, k,1f;" lt1f;,·1lw1 111 Telephone: \ 111111 '\t1r\\t llld l11\\t'T .1111 I\ :-s:-111 TBAE Registration Number. , 111t.1r11 1,1l 1t111,.il l I u ,r.-11,1 Photographer: ______tl\\l'h:1· .ti ~12 -t~,. -,~h Texas Architect Subscription Card Pia"' cn1cr 1hc fnlkw. 1n1 ,uh-nopclun for 111< i,,rm h'1ctl htkl" <;" '""'" per )Ur l'romar) """"'"' ,nd"'1ry (died. unc) Ni,n,c ______0 I Archilcctuml. Archllt'CIUrll EnJln«ron, Form. or A1ch11CC1 or Arch11CC1 blJmccr on Pt"11c l'nlc11cc Tlll<------,------0 2 C<1nwhon1 l:n1incmnJ,l Firm "' En,loett ,n l'maoc l'nlc:11 NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATE S BUSINESS REPLY MAIL FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO 3149 AUSTIN TEXAS POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE Texas Architect 114 West 7th . Suite 1400 Austin. Texa~ 78701 NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES BUSINES S REPLY MAIL FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO 31 49 AUSTIN TEXAS POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE Texas Architect 114 West 7th. Suite 1400 Austin. Texas 78701 IIOUSTON SYMPOSIUM COVERS THE ART OF MUSEUM DESIGN "The Museum: An and Architecture," ., .,ymposium sponsored by the Museum IS YOUR WORKERS' 11 f Fi ne Arts, Houston (MFAH). and the Rice Design Alliance and held on Mar. COMPENSATION INSURANCE 1 'i und 26, was a step, says direcLor Peter CARRIER PLAYING WITH MurLio, in the MFA H's expansion wiLh " ,1 major new building, which we hope 10 A FULL DECK? have open by the year 2000." The addi- 1mn will triple the size of the museum. It is lilting, then , that the event began llll an instructive note. In his keynote ad tlrc~s Pontus Hulten. director or the Pa lal..Zo Grassi in Venice. suggested. ,1mong several ideals. that visitors be di Potential rcc.! tcd toward works of art instead of past to pay dividends Toll thc.: m, and that the anist ·s studio be the free model for lighting. A good museum. he Knowledgeable access Casualty Analysts concluded. "is like a collective work of to answer .m-which is of course a contradiction." your Viennese Pritzker Laureate Hans Hol questions Periodlc k·in. in discussing his latest museum Information \\ Ork. added to Hulten 's advice. saying bulletins Ih at a direct commission, instead of a rnmpetition. allows the architect and di rector to work together earl y. Arnta lsozaki 's master planning for the Brooklyn Museum ( 1986-) parallels the Endaned by the next step in the MFAH 's program. Tam Sacllly of lsozaki said he responded to the classical An:hllects orders of the original museum with frame, grid, and smooth-wall "orders" de rived from 20th-century architecture. Charles Moore, talking about his work on the Hood Museum at Danmouth Col lege and the Williams College Museum of Art. offered the hot-fudge-sw1dae de sign model as preferable to the mashed potato-"a building sunk inside itself. .. If you haven't been dealt a full hand by your John Walsh, director of the J. Paul current workers' compensation insurance Geuy Museum. Los Angeles. presented Ri chard Meier's immense addition as a carrier, throw it in and let AA&C dea l you a case study in museum design. Later. winning hand! architectural historian Joseph Rykwert <;aid the museum has become ''quasi-, if not wholly religious in nature ... Fo r more information about the TSA Group Art and architectural historian Stanis Workers Compensation Plan's good deal, laus von Moos closed the presentations please contact Jennifer Miller at: with the Allen Museum addition at Ober lin College by Venturi. Rauch and Scott Brown, an example, he said, of "anti monumental nonarchitectural-ness'· in ASSOCIATION ADMINISTRATORS & CONSULTANTS, INC. stead of the "architecture-as-public-rela TSA Group Insurance Service Organization 19000 MacArthur Boulevard, Suite 500 tions-vehicle" seen in some cities today. Irvine, California 92715 1·800-854·0491 Toll Free -RDT le.ms Arrhitect Muy June 1988 Circle 19 on Reader Inquiry Card /9 NINE TEXANS NAMED NEW FELLOWS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS R. Stanley Bair, Richard W. Duane E. Landry, FA.IA Jennings, FAJA FA IA Houston llouston Dallas R. S. Bair Associates Sikes Jennings Ke ll y Landry & Landry Ft•/luw 1Jf Ct111struc1io11 & Brewer Architects and Sp,•1•ifi1 mitmJ ills1i1111r, L1'11drr in 11rdii1r1·111rnl Planners P1111 Prt'S//11'111 of l-lnu . Charles E. Burgess. Paul Kinnison, Jr., Jane L. Landry. FAlA FAJA FAIA Houston San Antonio Dallas Charles E. Burgess Kinnison and Landry & Landry AJA Architect Associates Architects and I.NJth•t Ill l'/Jl/.fll'iU'/lt/11 Puhln adl'lu::otl' 111 cm11- Planners .vl"it•1we.fm,r-1i111,• TSA d,•. 1111111i1y tlt·1·t•lo111111·111 um/ 11.•tHimt• TSA dt'Si>111· /11m,rr< cn 11.(rrl'Ulir111 S l'[ll• CJWUttf WIIIIU'I a11·,1rd wi11111•r .J. Jeffrey Conroy, Donald W. Ki rk, Jr., John Allen Pierce, FAJA FAIA FAIA Houston For1 Wort h Dallas Perki ns&Will Kirk Yoich Gist Inc. Comm1111i1y /1•ader 111 1·uri- ou., ar111•11i,•s, ,•xemplury (Chicago) Lrudt'r in romm1111111·- p/111111111g , Pax, rrt'f1rd 1111 1111111y /argl!· I\JA Nonmml ,·1mmu11r r grmwh Pre~idl!III Fort ~hmh vm/e 1111 //liC' a11d µrfrurl' lt•(lt/1•r for proctil'r 111a11 - 11/ Clwprer/A/1\ , 1'SA des111r,- Dt1/li1S•(Jft'il projC'CIS dl/l'tnl'/11 and ed11n11i,m ""'"'ti ll'illll<'T 20 1'1!.tas A.rd1111'cr Moy J 1111c / 9HH Before you put your pencil to die plan, measure the advantages of natural gas. Specifying gas in your architectural plan can make a huge difference. Clients know that for heating, water heating and large-tonnage air conditioning, gas is the most economical choice. Efficient gas not only reduces fuel usage, it lowers maintenance costs through longer equipment life. And its proven abundance makes gas the reliable energy source for the future. No other fuel goes such a long way to building client acceptance. TEXAS GAS UTILITIES ENERGAS ENTEX, IN C. LONE STAR GAS Ctrcle 21 on Reader lnqwry Card Masonry. The synergisn1 of materials-concrete block, stone and brick-and the hands of skilled, trained craftsmen. The result: Unmatched aesthetic qualities of texture, color, scale and moven1ent. Invaluable practical qualities of durability, energy efficiency, economy, flexibility, speed of construction and structural capability. Readily available for all buildings. Everywhere. Masonry lns1i1u1e or Texu:-. 'i 100 \\'c,1hci1m:1 Su 11c 2011 I Ii ,u,mu Tl' , a, 77056 71.'·%X ·6551I Circle 22 on Reader lnqu,ry Card ~.. 11 r\SO CHAPTER/AJA CITES I\ DESIGN-AWARD WINNERS I 1v1. urchi1ec1ure finns won a toial. of '" ,1w1uds in the El Paso Chapter/AIA's l11n7 Design Awards program. The com p1..·111mn drew 30 entries. including two by I I' l her Cordova Pres1idge Inc. for i1s \\ h11al,.cr Elemen1ary School design. both WhiwAer Ell'llll'IIWI') School. by Fischer C11rdm•t1 Tiu! Cliff ln11 , C1Jrsf/11 C,m.mlta,11.f° M erit All't1rtJ Prl'.mdge. ll't/11 Mil El Pam Cltaplt!r/AIA tlll'Ords. wi11 11er. uses a11J1ln/ro111 iu SI/IIIJ/ 011 a di/Ts edge. ot which won awards. If,,,,,,, Award Communi1y of Corpus Christi , by Booth The Dallas Chapter/A IA provided jury • Whitaker Elementary School (archi Keirsey Mijares. Architec1s members for the program. Judges in lC\: Lurc). by Fischer Cordova Presiidge • Cliff lnn. by Carson Consultanls, cluded Bill Booziotis. FAIA. Thomas & Im -\rchitects & Engineers Incorporaied Booz.ioth; Archi1ects; Lionel Morrison. • Rojas Commerce Park. by Alvidrez OMNIPLAN. Inc.; and WiJlis Winters, \/1•111 1wards Associa1es Inc. F&S Partners. Inc. · 'w l111aker Elementary School (in1eri t11 I, hy Fischer Cordova Prestidge Inc. Citation Award - RDT \1l h11ec1s & Engineers • Pe1er Piper Pizza, by Wofford and Multipurpose Facility for 1he Ca1holic Wofford. Archi1ec1ure & ln1erior Design IIOl STON, AUSTIN LOSE as 1he M. D. Anderson Hospilal and Tu came a partner in his father's office. I\\ 0 PROMINENT ARCHITECTS mor lns1j1u1e (Hous1on, 1954), the Firs! which was renamed C. H. Page & Son. Pasadena S1ate Bank {Pasadena. 1962). The new finn 's projec1s included the I wo archi1ec1s who figured centrally in and the corponue headquarters for Big 1errazzo noors of 1he State Capitol; Berg ,.1~ archi1ec1ure of 1he middle of the Three Industries (Hous1on, 1975), s1rom Air Force Base, Aus1in: John u·111u ry died recently: MacKi e & Kamrdlh's Sealy Hospi1al, Galvesion; 1he Brooks K,irl Kamrath. FAIA, Wrightian inspiration Air Force Base School of Aviation Medi "Im practiced in was evident. cine. San Antonio: and hundreds of staie. I l11us1on for 50 years. Charles H. Page. school. municipal. and other public build 1111d Charles H. Page, Jr.. worked in the ings throughou1 Texas. Jr a partner in 1he shadow or his fa1her. After his fa1her died in 1957, Page \u,tin finn C. H. eminent Austin archi- continued 1he prac1ice for several years, P,1gc & Son. 1ect Charles H. Page. then retired to Paris. Tex. Karl Kamralh was Karl Kamrath. FA/A Sr., during his proles- Clwrles N. Pa~e. Jr. ,1 runner wi1h the la1e sional career. He re- - RDT I rcderick J. MacKie in the firm Mac Kic ceived a bachelor's degree in archi1ec1ure & Kamrath. Houston. which they rrom UT Austin in 1932. and in 1936 be- NEWS. crmri1111ed 011 page 51 lnunded in 1937. In the early years. \1ucKie & Kamra1h designed the firs! modernist public building in Houston. the c·uy of Hous1on Fire Alann Building 11939). The linn soon gained rccogni1ion \\ ith several small houses that were pub- 11-; hed in Architectural Record and Archi tn tura/ Forum. The houses revealed \\ hat would be Kamraih ':, lifelong in1er i:~1 in organic archi1ec1ure: his model was I ra nk Lloyd Wright ·s Usonian design. · Scenic P ainting, M urals After World War Tl , MacKi e and · P r o ps I S tyrof oam Sculpture Kamrath began 10 design Larger public · D isplay D esign s and I nstallati ons ~ml corporate projects, often producing in 1lo uston 1hc lirs1 truly modem designs in 2402 West Seventh, Austin, Texas 78703 pJnicular building types. ln projects such I, ttis Arrltltt•1·1 May J1111e /9/1,8 Circle 23 on Reader lnqwry Card 23 AVION VILLAGE: ENDURING VALUES OF COMMUNITY By Willis Wimers Avion Village near n the spring of 1941. monihs before the at The 75-acre Avion Village site was located tack on Pearl 1-larbor. war was spreading in on open fann land south of the center of Grand Dallas, designed by I Europe and Asiu. und American defense in Prairie, one mile west of the NAA plant. Three Richard Neutra and dustries were rapidly expanding to meet the hundred dwelling units were placed in a horse David R. Williams need~ of the nation's allies. Production plants. shoe around the perimeter. arranged along nar shipyards. and military bases were cons1ruc1ed row cul-de-sac stree1s that ex1ended in from the and built for defense or enlarged across the counu-y and a critical surrounding roads toward a central open area or workers in 1941, hoit~i11g shortage developed. The Rooseveh ad community common. remains a rich minis1ra1ion. acutely aware of 1he increasing Among these there were 216 one-story need for defense hott~i ng. funded a vast number dwelling units. consisting of two- or three-bed source of ideas for of low-cost housing projects before and during room plans in either detached houses or du housing and com the war through the Federal Works Agency. plexes. These units faced away from the streets munity planning. Avion Village, bui lt to accommodate defense to front on green fingers of park land. which in workers at the North American Aviati on (NAA) tum connected back to the centraJ open area. plant west of Dallas in Grand Prairie. was one Twenty-one two-story apartment buildings, such housing project. Designed in 1940-41 by each containing four one-bedroom units. were Richard Neurra and David R. Williams, Avion located along the westernmost portion of the Village was a remarkable achievement in 1enns site. to act as a hard-edged buffer between the of both technology and planning. Today, almost one-story units and a planned major thorough 50 years after iL<; completion. the project re fare. A "community house" was located in an mains a rich source of ideas for subjects ranging open area at the southern end of the horseshoe. from prefabricated construction to wider and commanding views to and from the central more complex issues of community planning open space. These elements produced a site and housing. plan graciously balancing suburban density and a pervasive rural character. RIGHT: l/() dw1!1/i11Jl 1111its art• ar rayed um1111d u n•111ral C'nmm rm. with 84 two-swry 1111i1s frm11i11x the 1t·ts1- A CONVERGENCE OF em bo 1111dary and the n11111111111i1y MODERNISM AND REGIONALISM h11ildi11R at tht• .wmthl'm cdgl' of till' Ri chard Neurra brought to Av ion Village his OfJl'II Sf]OC'I', Thi' Ollt!•S(Of")' i1tlt1St'S long-held but never attained dream of design foci' away from rhe streets to from mr ing large-scale quality housing for low-income J,:Tl'<'II Ji11Jltrs of pork land. which ,·,11111ec1 (t) the ('t!llll'OI Cflllll/UIII, workers. Neutra 's most recent setback had come in 1938, when his plan for the ambitious Park Living Colony housing project in Jackson ville, Fla., was abandoned. It was a contact Neutra made through that failed project. how ever. that led 10 his work on Avion Village. Neutra's client on the Park Living Colony project was Col. Lawrence Westbrook, a Texan and a fonner administrator in the Works Prog ress Administration (WPA). As then-chainnan of the WPA advisory board, Westbrook also worked as a private developer and consultant for Large-scale federally subsidized housing ,, ll projects. After Jacksonville, Westbrook called on his fellow Texan David Williams. who was Texas Ardiirecr May June 1988 Jtltu u(At tmi \ '11/v,:, ABOVE: S11lw11111ial pmgress ,·a11 br see11 afta ""'Y /ll'o mmuht of ,·011struction at A1•i,m \filltJ}lt', The Cor11111 1111i1y 8111/dillll, at /t111w ri}/111. ll'U.f rhe first str11r111re eomplt•red a11d m·c·11p1t'll. Ah1ll'I! and to the riflht ore the 16 t'Xpt'rl mt11tul i,1111.rts l111ilt tn 11'/lrk thl' /111/p n111 rif the pref1Jhrira- 1io11 process. Tltt' " 't'Stern t'dfle of 1hr site ll'as defined by the 1wn•,Wt1f)' OJ1Urtm1'11t /111il1/i11gs. at far lefr, which \\'t're a/mow 1y1111pl,•1c whl'11 this plto1011raplt was 1ake11 ABOVE: Today. liule ofthe ori11inal l'ltoracter oftlte rom- 1111111i1y lmi/dl,111 is e1•ide111. Wi11dows a11d doors lta,·e been remol'ed or alter1•tf 011d tltt srruc111re ltas hecome a swra11e 1111 Cn1111m111ity Holl i11 1941. whe11 it c1111tai1wd a da11cl' hall, aaft room, 1111rsery. am/ njJirl',I and 111ai11tl'11am·e barn. r, 1t1s 11rd1i111c1 May Jww J9flX 25 .. I - - 1 1.. •-.1,-.,~- While Williams was able 10 see his housing schemes at Greenway Parks through to comple tion, Neutra had been concerning himself, in Los Angeles. with housing at a more theoretical level. Between 1923 and 1930, Ne ut:m not only designed some of the century's most significant houses for Los Angeles clients. he was also de veloping a planning project (never realized) for a city of one million, which he called "Rush City Reforn1ed.'' Neutra developed principles in Rush City Reformed that he would employ later in his communiry housing schemes. including the one for Avion Village. All dwellings, whether TOP LEFT: Du,·id \Vllliums's 11lu11 chief architect or tl:e National Youth Admini single-family units. duplexes. or apartments. al for Gree111,·a.1 Parks. Dallas. sholl's stration (NYA ), 10 assist Ncutra in securing ways faced green parkways, thus safely sepa pla1111i1111 t'ft'mt•111s lurer use,/ m other federal commissions. Williams had rating children at play from vehicular traffic. Al'io11 Vif/agr worked closely with Westbrook on a variety of Narrow streets at the rear of the dwellings pro TOP RIGHT: Nt!111ra's drctll'it1g state and federal re lief posts since 1933. He cer vided automobile access. Neutra also treated .tfwws ,,,,rsputi,·,· ofo h/11ck of tainly was also aware of Neutra·s work for the propert y as a " legal fiction." 10 destroy aparrmenrs. ,•ach finked /1y II rov Jacksonville and for the NYA in California. what he considered the self-centered confine t·ri•d ll't1lkway w o cm11111111111.1· lmihl- Prior to his long period of public service. ment of the individual home. Front lawns in his 111g .fro111 " Rusi, Ciry Rt,formed." David Williams maintained a successful resi schemes were park commons- shared. not cut up by chain-link fences. Neutra experimented ABOVE: N1•111ru's J Iil' 11/on for tht• dential practice in Dallas. He opened his studio 1111/1111/1 l'ur/.. L11·111g Coltmy, in 1923- Lhe same year that Neutra came to with these planning notions on three projects Jm·J.s11111·if/1 •, FIii .. \\'tts also r1·co America- and his residential work from the prior 10 Avion Village: Argent Place and the Jllflllated 01 Al'im1 \lillui;:e. early year:. marked the beginning of a steady Amity Compton Public Housing Project, both progression towards a regional sty le based on in Cali fo rnia: and the ill-fated Park Livi ng Col I 9th-century examples of Texa-, architecture. ony. By 1940. when he began work as chief One of Williams's first commissions in Dal planner and designer of Avion Village (with las was the master plan for Greenway Parks. a Williams as supervising architect and Roscoe high-priced residential neighborhood west of Dewi11 as resident architect), Neutra was more University Park: here he experimented with than prepared to see his ideas become reality. planning concepts mirrored in Avion Village 15 lf the "finger park" layout and cul-de-sac years later. As at Avian Village, homesites residential srreet of Avion Vi llage can be traced faced away from the street towards a central directly 10 the aborted Jacksonville plans, greenbelt-a "residential commons"- running Williams·s design for Greenway Parks must the length of each block. Automobile access similarl y be considered as a possible source. It was provided at the rear of each homesite. Ad is difficult 10 ascertain Williams·s role in the ditional parks were included in the plan. but design of Av ion Village: we can onl y assume were isolated from the residential commons. that he had some input into both the overall Greenway Parks lacked the cohesive fabric and planning and the design of the dwellings. In hierarchy of open spaces evident at Avian Vil deed, Williams and Neutra enjoyed a personal lage. but the planning principles were very simi friendship as close as their professional rela lar. tionship. Their ideas on housing certainly shared common ground. even if their modes of Texas Arr ltitecr May Ju 11/! 191/H LEFT: Key w plan ofrw n-smry apanmem 1111i1,r: I , Li1•i1111 room: 2 Bedmom, 3. KirchM: 4. Bathroom 5. Carporr: 6. Porchlbalrrmy. Nore htJw Nl'lllra maimaincd separate 1JT11·art' e111rics ro bo1l1 dow11srairs and 11pswirs avarrmem.,. BELOW: Life maga=ine showed Colo11t'I W1!Sfhronk smili11g 01 Vt•11cro Perry. who bathed to provide a pl,o- 1oge11ir 1·n,wl11sim1 rn the ho11u b11ildi11g t·omp1•1itio11. I) II Ill expression differed significantly. \\ 11l1.11m, ·s major contribu1.ion to the design of Iii ilwcllings probably arose from his predilec- 111111 l11r using. as a suggestive model, lJ1e re- 1111111I .,rchitectu re of Texas. This i:> perhaps I ,1 rdlected in the two-story units m Avion 1lt.1J!C. where the gallery porches and local "'·"1111ry reca ll indigenous building traditions. 1111 remainder of the complex-the one-story 111111 and communiry buildings- bear Neutra·s 111 ,1111c11ve mark as a designer: they arc rigorous 111d 1.nntrolled. recLilinear. unmistakably mod- ' 111 ,111d man-made. N1:u tr-J configured the dwelling-unit plans on ., lour-by-twelve-foot building module. defined h, prdabricated flat-roof panels. The main ''"1m, were mus 12 feet wide. with various k 11µ1 hs in increments of four feet. These rooms ABOVE and BELOW: The tl<'o.srnry apartml'lll hulldi11gs. whirh sho"' William.t's rryl/stir i11f111- •1 lw11ys faced the open green area and me living e11rl', h111·e hee111hr least t1 /tereclfro111 the origin11I desig11 Only some cnrries have heen enclosed . 11111111 was connected 10 a central gravel walk by ., lcpping-stone path. The kitchen. bathroom. •11 ll ,ometimes a third bedroom were si1uated at Ill hack side of the uni1. nearest me street Re r,1rdlcss of 1he direc1i on the houses faced. N ·111 ra ·s design shifted the roof panels 10 incor- 1~ •rnle an overhang on the south side- a simple 1111d clever solution for solar control. Neutra w,1\ also concerned with maintaining privacy l11.•1weeo individual units; he staggered each hou,c or duplex along 1he length of the stree1 10 1 te:ue a small yard in the front or the rear. de- 1111cd by 1hc blank wa lls of me uni ts 10 ei1her The upurtm1•n1 h11iltli11>:,, IJ11jJrr u major 1hom11ghfarr 10 rhe west. ,,.,,,,. Art'hit1•,·1 May Jum· / 98X 27 side. On the exterior of the one- and two-story dwellings at Avion Village. cheap materials and components were employed 10 express an ap propriate image for low-cost factory housing. The architectural expression was truly modem, in spirit and in function. " II is fitting," Neutra told the Dallas News. "that workers who are engaged in the most ad vanced branch of modem technological produc tion should be housed in modem homes." l),c,~ ,n~ "' "''"'' w,,11,.,1__ HOUSES IN LESS ABOVE:/\ typical hlock plu11 shows how Nemru achieved prfraey by THAN AN HOUR SIU!/l/l'ri11,i: 1111' Olll'·SWry 1111its. The contract for construc ti on of Avion Village was LEFf: Key: I . Li11i11g mom. 2 IJed· awarded to Dallas contractor I ~ I mom: J . Kitd11m: 4. Bathro11m: Henry C. Beck. and site work 5. Carport: 6. Parchlbako11y. The ·t~ [ I carports show11 i11 the pla11s of 1hes1• began Mar. 19. 1941. Con typical 011e·.Wory 1111its ll'ere 11m struction drawings were h11 ilt. hut a.1 de.fi!(11ed they would started the following week in /ta,·,• addt•d a 1·0111i1111n11s Jwri:011101 Dewi11 's office. with Donald dwracter tn the streew·ape. deem· Barthelme and Arch Swank. phasi:i1111 i11di1:id11a/ tlw1•lli11,:s. who later established prac I BELOW: Ne111ra·.1 skrtchcs of i111er1- tices and reputations or their nr,t and the ovcrlumgs l,e arru11ged own, working around the as .nm breaks 1111 the sow/, side of clock. They were soon joined l ~ ._____._ _ __J 1"111°/, 1111it. by a prefabrication specialist from the NYA offices in Washington, and six Village was announced for a additional draftsmen. Final drawings were ap site on the western edge of proved on April 9, and foundation slabs were Oak Cliff in Dallas. Despite poured the same day for the first eight unilS. protests from community From this point. 10 housing units were started leaders and private develop every day and the work force increased stead ers. this project-later named ily, until over 1,200 were on the site. Dallas Park-was bui lt to Unable to obtain satisfactory bids for the contain 300 units in one- and production of the prefabricated building parts, two-story buildings. like Beck's Central Contracting Company in late those in Grand Prairie. While April set up several circus tents in the center of the plans and massing of the the site where components for the dwellings two projects are similar. there were manufactured. The dwellings· walls were were significant differences wooden and included exterior pine-batte n sid that point up the most suc- ing in addition 10 plumbing and electrical con cessful aspects of Avion Village. From lhe start. nections. along with all che needed doors and the housing units at Dallas Park were turned to windows. With all Lhe bugs worked out of the face directl y onto the streets. Cut-de-sacs were prefabrication process during the construction employed. but the fi nger parks and central com of the first 16 houses. Central Contracting next mons were eliminated LO conserve land. sponsored a house-building competition in which two 50-man crews raced to build. fi nish, LATER CHANGES AT AVlON VILLAGE furnish. and occupy a complete unit. The win The plan for Av ion Village has remained vir ning Lime of 57 minutes 58 seconds was a tually unchanged for 47 years. but Neutra's fun "world record by several hours.'' Williams later damental conception of privacy and common recalled in a letter to Neutra. Life magazine space has been radically altered. The automo gave the contest a Feature. bile has been the main culprit, causing a meta Av ion Village was dedicated Aug. 15 (two morphosis in the ori entation and perception of and-a-half months behind schedule. in spite of the indjvidual unit plans. What was once the u,e well-publicized competjtion) and residents rear entrance of each is now the front: people began moving in two weeks later. In the mean enter through the kitchen or dining room of the time. a second housing project. similar to Avion narrow and congested cul-de-sacs. The former Texas Architect May J1111e 1988 2H , ,,,, ,mJ.t a rt•sidential nil-de-.mc /mm the cemral f/Pl'll <1rea Tl,e flat-roofed /,,m,es pn•se11t a strik1111/ imal/e cl'e11 today. 1r 1111 m oms of the houses now likewise look 111111111 the "back yard.'" defined by 1he chain 11111.. knee 1ha1 Neutra so despised. Neutra I 111L-d alloge1her 10 amicipa1e 1he degree 10 ,, Im h the automobile would become the domi- 111111 planning factor and cu ltural icon in post \\ ar \ merica. As a result. his planning prin- l lph:, have been turned inside out. \II the dwellings at Avion Village still exist, 11hhuugh they have been modes1ly added omo h, ,~ and 1here. Doors and windows have been 1 placed and the exteriors have been reclad in 1l11111inum siding and false shutters. These 11 111J1fica1ions have been applied uniformly, 111 untaining some semblance of continuity from 1h • original design. The open space is s1ill in lH<'t although the original pedestrian paths are punc. Recreational equipment has succumbed 111 age and maintenance problems. Despite these changes. Avion Village has Avion Village. There are other enduring values ABOVE: As de.ti1111ed i11 /9.//, the cul-de-sat· strt•ets rnmwc·ted to the lured well for a project originally planned for a involved: values of community, bolstered by rear emries of all the one-.vrnry dwt'll planning and an architectural cohesiveness sel 111 year lifespan. IL is now operated by a mu- ing 1111its. Today. respmuling /() the 111 .11 ownership corporation, which purchased dom seen elsewhere. that remain as valid today demand;r ofautomobile 11sc, the rear 111 • proj ect from the federal government in as they were in 194 1. has become the frn111. Tlw lwme,r /al' I 1>48 (for 80 percent of its original value). To- ing .mmh f/1'/t. i11 the photo abol'e) have kept the solar-co11tml tll'l'r· 11.,y. 16 chaner members of 1he corpora1ion still Willis Wimers. a frequent contributor to Texas hanl/S- The original fe11estrat1011. con Architect, is 011 associate wirlt F&S Partners, 11 ,c in 1heir original homes and there is always sisring of co111i1111011s hori;ontal win ,1 ,~uiting lis1 for those wishing to move in. The Inc .. Dallas. d()ws. has hten replat·l'd hy smallu l 11c1 that the homes are economical is only one p1111ched ope11iflJ!S and false sl111rrers i:i,.planation for the undiminished appeal of The sidinl/ is also nt'w. l r1,1s Ardwec1 May J1111e /9HH 29 HOUSING FOR THE OTHER HOUSTON By Joel Warren Bam t1 Phmngraphy hy Paul Hester rick houses in Broadmoor are sinking. John Doody. an architectural graduate of the It beg.in in the 1920s-the precise University of Houston. now employed by a B dates are hard to pin down- when Lhe group called Houston Neighborhood Housing Houston Ship Channel was dredged to remove Services. has worked on many houses in accumulated silt, and 10n after ton of the result Broadmoor. ln each he found that the builders ing spoil was used 10 fill in low spots around used no brick ti es. so the brick veneer has none Houston. of the expected connections to frame or slab. One area that was raised with Ship Channel Subsidence and shifting soils are a fact of life spoil. called Broadmoor by its developers. lay in Houston, but the silt underneath Broadmoor east of downiown and jui.1 north of what would has one of the lowest bearing capacities any later ~ come the Gulf Freeway. A neighborhood where. Doody has found that the houses not wus laid out and scorns of house~ were built. only have "nonnal" slab problems: in addition. Tlw Ju1111r <1} Bmt1t/111 ()or r,•.1itl,•111 These were one-story wood-frame structures on their unsupported brick veneer is drooping and Will/e Flores ,s he111x rc•m11·11tl'd 11•11/, pier-and-beam foundations. muny clad in yel crncking. pulling out the windows and doors ,1.uisu1111 r fm111 J/n111111 11 Nl'iJ1 hh11r and otherwise wreaking havoc. l11 wd /lous ,111-: S,•,-i·w,·s. Inc. low brick. HOUSltHi. 5lR .ES IH( 741-8472 ' NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS Texas Arclmeo May June /9, lO I ~II odd years. Broadmoor qualifies as one t 111111 11111 ·., older inner-city neighborhoods: II J ,1p11l,1111m. mostly working and lower- 111hlillc , I,,,. ,., racially mixed. These fac1ors- 111l1111ul w ith the fact that Houston has been , 1¥, '"l' to rhc nonh and wesr for the past 30 11 11ul 13roadmoor is on the wrong side of rll II Ir lltl .1dd up 10 declining propeny values 11 I 11 1 1hht1rhood decay. I I 11 11111 "leighborhood Housing Services. (IINIISI a four-year-old nonprofit organi- 1I 11 ¥t,1, ,er up to arrest that decay by 1111 1 11 11ng the commonplace enrropy that ,r ,~c'i mn..:r city neighborhoods and the I, 1111 111 s dcnving from Houston's peculiar I h 11 1I uml economic conditions. 1 Nl>\TE TO STABILIZE VALUES I INI IS 11,e., government and private funding I rnpurate donors range from Amoco Oil 11 I I he I lu u~ ton Clearing House Association, I 111k lnn,onium. 10 Tenneco, Inc .. and Wein- 111 ,1 Rl ally) to make low-cost loans. con- 1111 111111 hl!lp. and oth er services available 10 t 11lc-11t, 111 targeted neighborhoods. c 1111 mundate is tu stabilize real estate val- 11 ",;.1,, Deborah Randolph, HNHS director. \\,· try 10 give home owners what they 1111 hur hccause of our budgets. we can ·1 in I ,II 1110 many Jacuzzis." says Daniel Meeks. be an acti ve community group 1INI IS office manager. " Our chaner requires or neighborhood association we th.tr 111 hudget on any property be under could work with." •,.1100 We are preuy much in the basic-shel The presence of those neigh l!, h11 1nc!>S. We do a three-tier analysis of any borh ood groups. and Lhe level 11 •11ltL,1lmn. staning from code violations to in of cooperation be tween resi t 11111·111 c:ode violations, taking general im- dents that they represent ac pt m l men ts last. That doesn '1 leave a lot of op- count for the spinoff effects 111111 . hu1 we ge1 the most from every dollar." from 1-INHS activity: officials t 11n..:11Lly. HNHS works in Broadmoor and estimate that for every dollar t lr1 ,1tc:r OST. a mostly black neighborhood to spent on HNHS-sponsored im lh ,outh of Old Spani h Trail that. while it is provements. Broadmoor and 111 11 rc..,ting on silt. fea tures houses from the Greater OST residents have re I' Ill, and '50s built on slabs with insufficient sponded with $ 16 in improvemenLc; of their own. TOP. Before u11d uftcr plwwgraplu ,, mlnrcing steel. according to HNHS Rehabili While such results are encouraging. neighbor of a HNHS {Jrojet:t III the Greater 0Sf lleigJ,/mrhOOd Ure II.fl'{/ /11 pre,f t,1111111 Specialist John Doody. B y the beginning hood decline is still a strong threat to Broadmoor ('/l/a/1/)/1.f ro prospec1iv11 diems. 111 IIJH7. HNHS had painted 86 houses, made and Greater OST. and the problems in these M I loans to home owners. and made improve neighborhoods are mirrored by difficulties in CENTER: Daniel M 1•t•ks. Jal,11 tilt 111, on 5 1 single-family homes and 54 apart- other pans of Houston. and by extension. most Doody. 011d odmi11isrrarfre ossisra111 Cassa 11dra Judy C()mpurr 1101cs ar 111, 111 units (some nonh of downtown). In addi cities throughout Texas. the HNHS offices. to m IINHS has s1aned a home ownership pro '" un. in which the group buys and rehabilitates A THREATENED HOUSfNG STOCK BOTTOM: Removing a roof is part r.11h,1.1ndard housing, then sells it at cost. "Upper- and middle-income people are insu (,fa reno1·arion in Bmadmoor I he neighborhoods were chosen from a nar- lated from seeing conditions in low-income ar 11 m range. Says M eeks. ··we had 10 have a eas of Houston,'' says Jeffrey Baloutinc. Director " 'lutively low-income neighborhood but with of Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization for 1rlu11vely high owner-occupancy. The houses the group called Houston Committee for Private h111I to be such that they could be made sound Sector Initiatives. "We tend to think about the w11h m the maximum budget. And there had to housing crisis in terms of foreclosures. because / 1'111 i\rr/1iteft Mu,, 111111' J':Nt,'! 3 / LIVlNG SYSTEMS FOR TKIRD-WORLD PEOPLE n the spring of 1987. a design team at Texas Tech I University's College of Architecture examined options for hou.~i ng for the poor in third-world countries. I • I TI1c team was composed of Mi I••• chael Allen Burken. Daniel Barclay Echols. Kyle Wade Gid dens. Wade Herman Laing, Doug las Lewis Mo~. and Harold J.M. Panerson. It was d1rcc1cd by Pro fessor James E. White with Juan Francisco Hernandez-Ramos und Anuro Nunez Serrano and spon sored by a grant from the Texas Architectural Foundation and the Southern Baptist Convention. Sitt plan T l 111e team stancd w1lh the prem 11·~fl ··· 11 ise. derived from the writingi. of 1 •• 1 Christopher Alexander. that in the J• next 35 year., 1he world's popula tion will grow by 3.5 billion. and that most of 1ha.1growth will occur E/e,•ations in underdeveloped countries. where more than half the world's population already lives in sub standard housi ng. and where pov eny. lack of education. scarcity of building malerials. and polilical 1urrnoil make the fwure uncertain. The group analyzed previous government-subsidized solutions 10 the housing problem and com T pared them with shanty towns in third-world ci1ies. The lauer were almost invariably disease-ridden temporary shacks, but the former had problems as well: they were 1he result of a proces~ in which the occupan1s "have no control over the fundamen1al aspects of the place where they are going 10 live their lives." They concluded: "To Wall drtails Suno11C1I puspecm·I' ensure that past mistakes are not concret e repeated. the people mus1 be an in- roof vault 1egral pan of the design process.'' In case studies sci in the squa1- wire mash 1cr ;;cnlt:ments around Leon and burlap GllllJunto m Mexico, the team reinforcing designed nol only several build teal mi typ,.:s ba:1ed on affordable, ,1ppmpriu1c technology. but a ...Wl1.w.. . pmcC!-.~ by which the rcsidcn1s of each urea cuul 32 Texas Arl'i1i1e,·r May /11111! 198.'/ that is what has gotten all the publicity. Bue 1he closed apartment units around town; 175 more real crisis is in the living conditions in inner units were added in 1987. ln al I, some $9.8 mi[. city neighborhoods." lion was spent on the program, for an average fndeed, the wild market swings in Houston 's of $26,775 per household. Thal is far less than suburban housing market have drawn national it would have cost for new construction, and it anention. These areas surged in growth aroused far less local opposition. throughout the 1970s, only to begin almost a The city's Planning Department also operates decade of stark decline with the coming of the the "urban homesteading" program. which oil bust. Between 1985 and March 1988, ac deeds houses (bought on the foreclosure mar cording to Ralph Murdock of Foreclosure List ket) to families that occupy them and make ing Service in Houston, nearly 71 ,000 residen payments for five years. This program has, tial properties were foreclosed on in the Hous again, been a good deal for the city: as of Janu ton metropolitan area, many built speculatively ary 1988, 35 houses had been purchased and or abandoned by suburban home owners who occupied, at a cost of less than $20.000 each. moved to other cities in search of employment. City officials use these programs as incen Housing problems for low-income families. tives. reserving them for housing-project ten while attracting less attention, have continued ants who keep up their apartments and pay rent to mount al the same time. According to figures on time. f-'or tenants, the scattered-site and ur compiled by the United Way in Houston, there ban homesteading programs represent a chance were. as of the end of 1987, 2,484 households to leave the public-housing ghetto and move li ving in public housing units and an additional into the mainstream. 6,200 households in subsidized rental units. But these gains have been offset by greater This adds up to about 12,000 people li ving in losses in the older parts of Houston. Says Jef publicly assisted housing, according to Sylvia frey Baloutine of the Houston Commiuee on Brooks, a Houston United Way official. And Private Sector Initiatives (HCPSI), " It used to that doesn't count homeless people, who num be that inner-city neighborhoods. where the TOP: Ele1·ation sketch shows the ber some 35,000 in the Houston metropolitan working poor li ve, lost housing stock around complicated roojline of a house re area, according co Brooks. the edges, from commercial and industrial en habilitated by HNHS in the Broad Several government entities maintain hous croachment. Now instead of this k.ind of ero moor area. Removing the carport ing or housing-assistance programs. The federal sion, we are seeing houses lost within neighbor and realigning tire roof. BOTTOM, government supports city-admfoistered housing hoods. Particularly in the wards [the old, mostly made it possible ro 11se a truss sys rtm and hring in tht project 1111dtr programs, and funds housing through numerous black areas that ring downtown] there have b11dgtt whilt maintaining ties with other channels as well. For example, in 1986, been a lot of ftres and a lot of vandalism." tltt area's archirecrurol character. the latest year reported on, the United Way allo- Part of the problem in such areas, BaJoutine cated over $ 1.3 million in says, comes from their low owner-occupancy funds from the Federal Emer rates. Paradoxically. he says, while the suburbs gency Management Agency may have lots of vacancies, "in the inner city. for emergency she her in the everything that can be occupied is occupied, Houston area. Other govern even though it may be substandard ... But be ment entities also participate; cause of a number of factors, including absen Harris Coumy spent $900,000 tee ownershjp, the aging of the original popula in 1986, for example. tfon, and the fact that many properties have D Two experimental programs passed into the hands of heirs who rent them operated by the City of Hous out rather than occupy them, owner occupancy ton with federal funds have is extremely low. o,,,...,.~, by John Doody been notable successes. The "In the Third Ward, near the University of first is in "scattered sites" Houston and Texas Southern University, the housing, run by the City of owner-occupancy rate is about 20 percent,'' Ba Houston Housing Authority. loutine says. "In the Fourth Ward, west of Planners had hoped. as a way downtown, it's more like five percent. That's a of diminishing tbe stigma and serious problem when you're trying to build easing the overloaded social stability in the real estate market." services associated wi1h giant public-housing projects, to BUILDING A NETWORK build apartments in neighbor HCPSl is part of a national network of busi hoods around the city. Opposition in those nesses and individuals started by Houston busi neighborhoods blocked any action for years, nessman Robert Mosbacher, Jr., a former aide however. In 1986 the City purchased 191 fore- to Vice President George Bush and Republican Texas Architect May J1111e 1988 33 BELOW· Bmmlmrmr reside/II A11- senatoriaJ candidate. Tbc group focuses on four Umland says he is confident mat Habitat. by drell' Fronk ralks 10 )11/111 Doody areas: housing and neighborhood revitalization: relying on volunteer labor and donated materi tJ /u111t rh,: 1-/NHS pro>:rom. child care: employment training: and manage als (ns well as the sweat equity of the future ment assistance 10 local government. home owners. who must contribute as much a.<; CENTER· A lmrk /roust'. see11 from 8rmul1111111r Park. that was repaired HCPSI sponsors a home-repair program, in 500 hours of work per family) can build houses withou1 HNI-IS help: pmgr<1111 nffi which teams of volunteers from civic groups in Houston for $25.000. including land costs, t'la /.1 predict t·1111ti1111i11,: major bene and companies paint and repair l11e houses of 1ha1 would be worth about twice as much on the fits 1/1 1/w urea [mm .. spi111>/f' low-income (usually elderly) people. 'The open market. impml'emenrs. interest level in corporate Houston is phenome .. We sell the houses at cost and carry the nal; gelling volunteers together is the easy pan," mortgages, whi ch we charge no interest on says Baloutine. On two recent weekends. for that 's what makes it affordable," says Umland. example. 1,800 volunteers painted 73 houses in He estimates that 1he typical monthly payment neighborhoods around the city. on a 25-year Habitat mortgage would be$ I 05: Beyond these weekend activiti es. HCPSI is with taxes. insurance. and maintenance, hous not directl y involved in building or repairing ing would cost around $250 per month. By houses. Bui the group is nevertheless pivotal in comparison, most poverty-level families na such efforts cit ywide, locating groups that tionwide pay $280 or more in rent each mon1h. can identify and act on the needs of local com ··we can help people achieve home owner munities. providing management training for ship for less than they would normally be pay group officials, and helping them arrange fund ing in rent,"s he ays. ing from loc.tl and national sources with which Umland, a retired chemical engineer who to undertake housing projects. HCPSI has pro used to li ve in New Jersey. describes the selec vided important support 10 l louston Neighbor- ti on of clients as a kind of triage. "We look for hood Housing Services. for ex families with an income of$1 2.000 or below: ample. ln addition. over the we select them, first of all, on the basis of the last year, HCPSr has worked conditions they are living in, then on their wi ll wi th The Metropolitan Organi ingness to work and their ability 10 pay back the zation. an ecumenical church mortgage. People who have a decent roof over based group. which has pur their head have lower priority." chased properties for rehabili Houston architect David Red, a retired pro tation in the Third Ward. TI1e fessor of architecture at the University of Hous Metropolitan Organization ton. is Houston Habitat ·s architect. used 10 be a favorite rarget of .. What I want 10 do is make individual criticism. for its alleged revo houses 1ha1 don ·1 look like row houses:· Red lutionary views. from the says ...At the same time I want to apply some president of the Chamber of recent improvements in technology for low-in Commerce. The irony of the come housing." Red has designed houses using .. ., alliance of the church group panels of sandwiched plywood and insulating with HCPSJ may mark a new material as load-bearing wa lls. This type of consensus on housing issues. construction is unexceptional in the Northeast ern states. but it has taken months to get city of HABITAT FOR licials 10 approve it for building in Houston. HUMANITY Houston Habitat ·s first rwo projects arc un "Our purpose is 10 build de der way. By the end of the year. the group plans cent housing for people in to be building houses at the rate of one per need," says Carl Umland. month, increasing. over Lhe next live years, 10 President of Houston Habitat IO per monl11. "Thal 's ambitious. but in a city for Humanit y. the affiliate of this size. with over 3.000 churches. it 's not un the Georgia-based interna reasonable.'· Umland says. "Particularly when AIJOl 'E. 1\ fori• rlnsrtl lu111se i11 the tional organization. "We try to increase the stock you consider the need. " Grl'lllt'f' OST 11e1,:hborhood ll'OS p11r of housing for low-income people who are will The need for decent low-cost housing, de rl111M•1l 111,d ,,,/whilir111ed us pan of ing to help themselves. We do ii oa a no-profit. spite the endeavors of a number of groups. thr 1/NIIS /11111tl' -t1 11•11ers/rip no-interest basis." The group. a newcomer to overshadows the supply. and threatens 10 do so /llflJ/1'11111 Houston but a significant force elsewhere, relies even if Houston's economy rebounds. "Even if on contributions from churches, foundations. oil goes back 10 $30 per barret:· says Daniel companies and a surprising number of individu Meeks of HNHS ... there will be plent y of als. who also contribute ti me and labor in con squalor to go around." structi on and renovation projects. 14 Te.ros Arl'l,it,•rt May J1111r / 9HH AN AFFORDABLE, EFFICIENT HOUSE .. FOR CENTRAL TEXAS J. •• .. rchitect N. Thomas ~· Kosarek of Black A Atkinson Vemooy. ( Austin. designed this house as an essay in afforduble construction and low energy usage for the Central Texas climate. The two-bedroom. two-bath. 1wo-s1ory house mea.~ures ap proximately 1,700 square feet. It has a wood frJmc. wilh 1wo-foot by-six-foo1 wall framing panels and R-19 insulation. It features a wood-burning stove for the win ter months. while II system of ex haust and ceiling funs joins •... double-insulated windows in .. cooling during lhe other seasons. Passive solar features play an imponanr role. A greenhouse. ori- Fl1>1>r plu11 /!U.WC'lt'l 'UlitJII Sn,,,h e/erwum emed south and west. provides maximum heal gain in winter. A masonry floor in the greenhouse stores heat during the day and r.t dia1e1> ii into the living area at night. Minimal fenestration is used on lhe nonh and east fac;ades. while lhe south fac;ade is open for light and air, wi th a porch providing shade. A heat pump supplies supplemental heat ing and cooling. Kosarck es1ima1es lhat the house could be constructed for $70,000-less than $42 per square foot. --- Tt-.ras Arl'l1itt'1·1 May June /9XX 35 TWO STRATEGIES IN LIFE-CARE HOUSING By Joel Warre,, Barn(} he field of "lifecare" and-perhaps more imponant ho using-projec1s 1ha1 whcrc residences are tradi1ionally T provide a conlinuum of single-family houses. High-rise hous ing oplions for the elderly schemes are dic1a1cd by high land from secure but indepcndenl liv prices. bu1 can only work where ing in apar1ments or detached Lhc targcl popula1ion will accept houses 10 skilled-nursing facili residenlial lowers. ties-has proved to be a much more difficull development prob PLEASANT RILLS lem 1han wa!> predic1ed a decade ANO ROLLI NG MEADOWS ago. Projects have been buih and Good. l laus & Fuhon and Har successfull y leased . but many wood K. Srni1h und Panners. Inc .. more have been unsuccessful, be both of Dallru.. arc fim1s wi1h cause. developers and archi1ects slrong experience in the dc~ign of say. of the sub1leLies of 1he mar li fecare housing. Two projcc1s by ke1 . wi1h ils connections to insur Good. Haas & Fuhon in Texas ance reimbursemem policies and and Arkansa.c; illus1rate the de govemmem regulations. were not mand for cumpus configurations. understood. As panners Lawrence Good and In architectural terms. two con David Farrell wrote in a recen1 figurations are used: campus and issue of Retiremellt Housing Re high rise. Campus plans work port. an indus1ry newsll'uer, bcsl where land costs are low people in 1h1 s pan of the Sire plu11 of Pleasanr Hills reriremem .-omm1111iry, by Gnod. /Jaa.r & F11/tnn. Tlte actfriries building at Plrasa111 Iii/ls draws from /he first floor /'lw ,l11J1i11g wtr 11f Plt•11111111 llil/1 rrra/t'd 11mhlr111s /11 pede.r1ria11 (JIU/ ,•ehirnlm rraffit /"' (ilh< I w 11Ji1-r, h11111hm 11 ~/1111dd,•d t'lll'rg,,• ,n rhe co111111111110• spaces 1111,I nl(nu ,·rl tit, ,m /11/t'c'/1 111 11111\11111:r 1•/fw.1 oftlw s11rrmind111g ftmmed ltill.r. .16 Teras Ar('/titect May Jww !98<'-I R11/li11g Mt'udo..-.1 retirem,,111 r·,•111u , Wichita Foll.1. h1· Good. Htuis & F11/1011: the 11·e.u 1•/,,w11w11 of 1/11• acri,•it.1· ,·,•111t•r xhn..-s tltr us,· of rtm11g. ~implr 1111HW'S i11 hm·~ 11.1 a focal J>oi11t fnr 11.fllt' 11111111111imlt•pc111fr1111/11 rlling~ i11 ,1 pt1rk -likt' vetri11>: with w1111re11111r li1·i1111 11111/s ABO\'£ /11t eritlr, Rn/ling Mt'mft1 11'.1 Typical llflllf//111'11111lt1n at R11llt11>1 ac111·m· n:nr1•r: BELOW: .wre,.,s,·t1pe M,•adowJ Holl111t,1 !lfradnws . .vi tr p/o11 country ··want to keep thei r feet ex1ensively---clemen1s that poten two levels. bringing added energy on the f Tt'\OS Art'hitt'CI 1\flly J,me 1988 37 tral green space on axis wiLh the activity center. which stands be tween two apanment wings. USA A TOWERS Harwood K. Smith and Part ners. Inc .. Dallas, has employed another s11111egy in the design of USAA Towers in San Antoni o. This 725.000-squarc-foot project. which is cooperatively owned by residents. combines a 387-unit residential 1ower with a 187-bcd long-1erm nursing and rehabilita tion faci lit y and a 500-car garage. It works because the owners. re tired military personnel from around the country, are used to living in high ri se.~. The projecd1·s high ensity en hances social inlcraction in the common areas, which include a hotel-like formal lobby and re ception ,1rca. concierge and vale1 ~ervicc.-,. barber and bcau1y ~hops, dining room~ and delicatessen. u fitness center and pool pavilion, ac1ivi1y rooms. re1ail shops. and hobby workshops-all on the ground tloor. connected by a two s1ory '"pedcs1rian strcc1: · In addi tion. there is a penthouse club. designed for privme panics. wed ding receptions. and other events. The 23-siory cemral tower. se1 in 11 14-acre landscaped and fenced si1e. emphas izes an image ABOVE: USAA Tnwers, ,'i(Jn Amrmw. or security for residents that is re I., u high-riSt' rt'lire111,•11t r,•11tt'r de s 1~111:d hy flunmotl K. S1111th & Part- inforced by guards ru1d elec tronic 11t•r,1. Thr tftomit.v of thr prtJject in moni1oring. h presented the r·n!asc.( .,-rwwl 1111('rm·11011 mu/ the architects. however. with the u11st o{.H!l'llnt)'. t,111 it req11in•tl thr problem of bringing residen1i,1I 11rd1!tl'rt,\ II> ,,ay ~flt'l'IUI (l/lt'IIIU/11 U, scale 10 th e projec1 10 emphasize details anrl 1hr J11erurr hy of,rpO( e, rn 1he image of independence that A1•rp" rrsitJ1•11ti(J/ rrnle. residents want. The u-shaped plan of lhe lower break.s down ils oped by ARA Living Cemers. mass. as does 1hc use of a coppe r Hou.sion. The 49.000-square-fooi clad mansard roof und the way facility cost $2.5 million 10 build. that bulconies on each unit are According 10 Ronald Skuggs, Tl,,. ARA R,:tirem,•111 l'illag1• nl!ur linked venically. B01h inside and FA IA. 1hc Heanh.stone is 1he most l'lw1'111 r III S1111 City. Ari; TOP 0111- out . visual c ues thro ugh Lhe hier care-intensive pan or a contin 111.~ f11cl(ith•s: ABO\' E · 811/ltl111,: crte· archy of public and private space uum offered in Sun Ci1y. The rim with 111111w111r,· 11<>// 1·r111rsc•, allevime the feeling of isolation proJect's design breaks a typical l1- nursing sta1ion and a central ac- tl'/'111-rmr l(Jrt/iry HEARTHSTONE 1ivity area. Each unil is expressed OF SUN CITY architec1urally as a one-story resi HKS also emphasized images dence around II central courtyard. of domesticity and independence TI1e client rooms in each unit h11d in the Hearths1one ( 1986), a long- to be semi-priva1e to make them 1erm-care addi1ion 10 a retirement profitable. hu1 1he archi1ects complex in Sun City. Ariz .. devel- s1renglhened the sense or privacy 38 Te.ms Architect Mor J1111e 1988 ABO\ E. Tvp,ral fln'1r pla11 /nr USAA Tr,wrn. 8£1 OW· Ftrst f111or pla11 nnDU aaa ABOVE. Sirr p/1111 by placing the beds on opposite sides of each room and using cur tains as dividers. The project 1s a prototype that ARA Living Centers will adapt for other regions. -- Trwr J\rd111a1 Ma_1 J1111r 1988 39 SOU RCES: Millwork: Archi1emtrul Desk :u:cc~sorics: S111 /1!, M ef(JI Ar1.1. Rr1·1or111i1111. Im·. Structural 1111d omn Fabrics: Jack Lt•11 M Lurs1•11. Unilw mcnml steel: Crow11 Slet'I, Inc. \lael', Paynr 1e.r1ile.t. Bori.f Kroll. De Cnrp,:t S1ra//f111. Porccluin tile: .sign Te.,. Arl'hi1r.1. Be11 Ro.tr:. \Vard Sm•r11 Vinyl tJlc: Tark1•11. Ceramic 81•1111cll Bnl'ke/1 . lfr1hu1 l1•111her. 1il1:. Dul Tile PlaM 1c laminate: Ne- Paver.;: £11dimu Clay Pr111l11c1s Ct1. 1·u1111H. Murblc: lwlim, Rusu De· Stone: TnpJt, C S1mw Quarry. (/Ill'.'" Vinyl wnllcovcring: /J I·. (jmnlrit'I,. 'frl11m1111·l1 r1, IV11/fG,mlm1, Sa1111esq11r, ll'trllmafl!S f-ahnc I wallcovcru1g Dl't1J:11 Tr,. Pnint Dt' w,i•, n,•11/11111111 M,m,r. h1m11urc: No 1•1knf{, llll'(m)' ll11\1111•u Prmlm 1,1. lll'1h1•n. Bu•rll, /J1u111/r11d. l1111!lrcJtl l~ Te.,a,s Archi1ec1 May J1111e IWt,'t BANKING ON SUBTLETY IN THE HILL COUNTRY By Ray Dn11 Tille_r l'hmop,raphy Chm·~ Wil/wmr, WilliamslPta~ ne or the grca1c,1 con cerns in Boerne. J lull 0 country town or 6. 'i(XI. less than 20 mi le, nonhwc,1 ol San Antonio. i:.. the encmad11nent of the ht!! CII) . No doubt there wa, alunn in 11)84 when Boerne State Ban~. e\lahh,hed and built in 1900, became N13C Ban~ Boerne. a member of the San An tonio-based National Bancsha.re.~ ofTexai.. The new bank has responded well to II'> small-town customers. NBC Bani. Bn,m,r, sl,(lwn at 11111l11, uddJ rrsputf111/_1 to its small-town h(}mt' however. by clearing away a jum ble or addnions that had ob~curcd through nll three levels, echo the the Mone original, constructing in building method for comparable it:. place u sophisttcated. yet com commercial structures of the late fonable and easy financial hotel IROOs and curly 1900s. The mill on-thc-Cibilo. work of the column capitals typ1- Mannon Barclay Souter Fo~ter lic~ Lhe project\ understated de Hays. Sun Antonio. designed the tailing. "We tried 10 be subtle new bank. completed in 1986. ··10 with a number or clement:,."' harken back to the original." says MBSFlr, Roush :.ays. The bani.~ The presrn·ed Fabra Smnl:ehousr Alan Roush. project architect. His of Cibilo Creek were regraded to side of the building. marking in firm'~ design went up next 10 the enhance the view from the an unassuming manner the sec earlier focilitic.~ 10 alto" for unin lobby':, monumental staircase. ond "main" entrance. terrupted bunking operation. The bank's interior also opens NBC Bank Boerne is an ex The relatively large new bu ild up in office!> revealed by fu ll ample of an architecture that ing greets its customers with an height glass wall:., beginning with :.cems to nestle happily in 11s de exterior of pleasantly scaled com those of the bani.\ execuuves in cidedly anti-monumental hill ponent,. The~e pick up on the im a U-shapcd area JUSI off lhe entry count ry surrounding:,. " I th ink the agery of tum-of-the-century corridor. All offices and opera community has received it well,'' building, 111 the area. Standing. tions on the lir..t two noon. are '-UY~ Roush. And in a town not scam meUJI roof, ,lope down open 10 view. Rou,h say:,. Ten rccepuve to being absorbed by its gently 10 a t:arcfully modulated unt, h::l\c the third lloor and ui.e sprawling neighbor. that's no :.crie:. ol dormc,..,, "'h1ch vJry 111 the secondary entrance at the i.mall reward. number und ,1z.e on each eleva ~muh end of the hu ilding. r"' NBc Bc,111. Bt1ert11•1 /11hh1·, tion 10 match the level ol "puhlic Beyond simply rcforring to PROJECT: NBC 8011/.: Bnerne ABO\ 'F, 1hr arc h11rus usetl u 1111r ness" and to mar~ the entric,. The 13ocme\ paM. the project pre ARCHITECT: Man11n11 Barday r1m ru1111r of 1·11llln und r1•11ra111ed buff limestone veneer wa, quar ,crve, ,t reminder of the fir..1 Snmer Fosrer Hays (A . Tedfnrd tieru,/11111 11•11/1111 a RN1rrn11s 1p1111u/ ried only JO miles uwuy 111 Shter buildings on the site. In 1857, Ju Barclay. Jr., par111er-i11-clwrge ; 1·t1/11111I' 111 creatr u 1·1111,for111hlr dale. A deep-:..hadowed. two hu, Fabro opened a meat market Kurr Hunker. Alan Rm,sl,, project hanl.11111 utmosplwr,• The 1s11111t'tri< tiered porch on the main fo~ade on Mam Street, w11h a limestone designers. Alan Rmtsh. prOJt'CI h111ltl111J: frmort, OPPOSITE PAGE. presents an allemating vbual :..mokchousc in the back. The arc:hirecr: Bernice Boelrer, ime .,htil\'J thl' tlirutt'il prtll'i'lJiim /mm rhythm of oversized venical win busines:, w~ passed down over rwr desi811er) the IIIU/11 t'TIITOlll"C It) //,(' ltJ/,/1\ UJW dows and slender columns. the generations. until operations CLIENT: Narumal Bancshares nf nthl'r 1(111( I'S At /111, l'f lr/1 I.I '"" Fahra .\11111J:ehr111lc' art// plu:u. The concrete-filled steel col ceased in 1962. ln 1981. the Texas. Inc. umn!, are repeated inside in the i.mokehousc wa.s dedicated as a CONTRACTOR: Lyda. /11c. pivotal three- tory lobby. These h1stoncal tructure and now 1:, set CONSULTANT: IV. £. Simpson "laity" column:,, continuou:, off in it:. own plaza on the south Cn .. Inc. (srr11c111ral) fe1u, \rcltitt'£'1 Ma\ 1tme /9H8 ./ I BOOKS America's Architectural Rnnt:;: Ethnic /louses hy Mail: A Guide tn /-lousesfrnm Groups that Built America Sears. R()ehucJ. and Company Edited by Dell Upton. By K aLh«.!rinc Cole Stevenson and H. The Preservation Press. 1986 Ward Jandl The Preservation Press. 1986 Re,•iell'ed by Dal'id Woodcock he Preservation Pre~!.. the publica as does Lhe arn1y of information ,ources. Sears home are in rhe Nonheast and tion am1 of the National Trust for complete with addresses. Midwes1. which were served by more rail T Historic Preservation. has an ex America's Al'Cliite,·t11ral Roms is a lines. The shipping schedule sheet cel!ent. and well de-,erved. reputation as a work of considerable :.cholar..hip that w ill showed from what point each type of ma publicist for Amcnca ·s architectural heri appeal 10 the architccrural community terial wa.<, shipped and the approximate tage. T hese two volumes rcncct a deep and would muke a good tc.l\1 for social date of :,hipment. The construction man ening intereJ,t in the cultural history that studies cour-;cs from junior-high school ual (which could run 10 75 pages) in is reprel>ented in the built environment. onwards. In essence. that is its great con structed the owner to make a record of Dell Upton, editor of the Vemarnlar tribution. For knowledge of rooti. Is the each shipment. including the number Archiu•c111re Nt•wsle11er and a faculty foundation for understanding of and pride shown 0 11 th e seals of the railroad car member at UC Ber1-.eley. brings together in '>elf. What Alex I lalcy did for one cul door\. and an mvcntory of each piece as contributions from 24 authors (including rurul group. Dell Upron and hi, team it was unloaded. A typical Searl, hou:,e. Joe S. Graham. a Texas A&M fac ulty have done for a nation's built legacy. unassembled. could fiI into two box member and specialist in I l ispanic cars .... The first arrivals were building American material culture) 10 review the Two books from paper and nails. lumber and frames: the unique contributions of 22 of the US A's last arrivals. about a month later. were the eLhnic groups. including indigenous The Preservation Press millwork and laundry tubs. The number groups from the mainland and Ha\\aii. as combine scholarship with of pam. Iexcl uding) nails or ,;crews. av well as prerevol utionary and I 9Lh-century pleasant reading. eraged 30.000 in an average hom,e." immigrams. Scars houses rungl!d from Simplex Within each <,ection. the building tradi Sectional cottages (The Yellowstone: tions are described by photographs (many Katherine Cole Steven on and H. Ward Four rooms and one baLh. catalog 55C38: of th em historic). with noor plans and Jandl examine a much shoner :,pan. 1908 19 13 cost $465) 10 the 3,000 square-foot, elevations from the I listoric American 10 1940, bur the focus ht1s j ust as much to three-~ tory "Clyde" house. It boasted Buildings Survey. The text examines the do with cuhural history. and iti. rcvela- seven major roomi.. a bath. wrap-around history of the ethnic groups. their reasons 1ions arc perhaps more startling. Pub front porches, a comer balcony on the for seeking a home in America. and the li,;hed a.-; pun of rhc Sears. Roebuck cen- second lloor. an opening with columns 1raditiom, of com,truction that they 1cnnial celebrauon 111 1986. Hou~es hy between parlor and hall. sliding doors be brought with th em. To compress th is Moil is both an exhau-,1ive hisrory of Lhc tween dining and i.i 11 ing rooms. and open wealth of material into 150 pages de Modem Home:. Department of Sears. sLairs. Somewhere between 19 11 and manded strict editorial control. but Upton which sold :,ome 49.000 " Honor Bill" 19 18 " The Clyde" was bu ilt in both and hi!. colleagues have produced a read homes before the 1929 Mock-mar1-.et Rockwall and Terrell. at a coi.t of les!. able and valuable compendium that is to cra11 h, al, well as a tally of all the , 1yles than $2.920. 1-i anybody '>till at home? tally sa tisfying ai. an introduction. yet en and sizes that were avai lable. Stcven-;on and Jandl. both of the Na courages funher research. Ir is perhapl.> not :,urprh.ing that an or tional Purl.. Service. have done a fine job With ill> slim venical format. Aml'rica's gan11..mion that had helped define and of recording the phenomenon of the Sears Archit,•,·t11ral Roots is a companion 10 'iupply America's needs .tnd de:,,ire:, house and. while their tabulation of build Preservation Pres:, ·s 1983 cla.\sic Wltt11 rhrough it., catalogs would provide rhe ing featurei. may help identify a ··possible Srylt• I., It?. it. cl f the perfect traveling homes in which the other things <;o ld Sears" (There's one a bloc!,. from my companion for the archi1ec1ural detective: could be :,torcd. used. and displayed. house!). that i~ not its major auraction. As while not truly a pocketbook. it's never The scale of the open11ion. the com pure !>Cholarship ir is a treusurc. Read ii. thelc,, ca.,i ly ponable. The images are plexity of rraditionul cons1ruc1ion. and and no tnp through an old neighborhood powcrtul enough 10 act a:,, a visual dic 1hc range of :,tyles available produce will ever be the . ame again. tionury. 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A rchitect, was concerned lllOl'I! w ith form 1han function in hi!. dccon structivis1 design- an assemblugc uf ROOF WON'T skewed planes painted in day-glo colors t.hal included a bone perched on the roof ("the icon") and a rubber mouse <;11 , COMEBACK pended from u pole (''the doorbell"), Similarly, Mike Lance. of Lance. Larcallc & Bechtol, presented a sculpturn l kennel. TO HAUNT YOU. Raised on trusses. the doghouse featured a translucent-fabric parasol roof curving over a long. narrow structure of polished. brushed aluminum and brightly pain1cd -~ ~ .-~ - -. - ~ metal framework. . ----- With typical wry humor. Pat Chumncy. -~--- of Chumney and Associates, presenlcd his firm "s " Usonian Dogmalic." Resting on an eigh1-foot-square steel-tube grid with cypress-block infill was a shell-lik1.: doghom;e of corrugated metal. A tall. square automa1ic feeder marked 1hc cn- 1rance, sponing a satellite (read " dog") dish. " I wanted to include a mini-VCR 1hat would run dog food commercials. bu1 it was out of the budget," said Chumnc.:y. Unfortunately. if built, the house would be over the $ 1,000 budget allotted 10 each archi1ec1. so lbe plan will be revised. O1her designs belonged to 1he realm of faniasy. Chris Carson. of Ford. Powell & Carson. pauemed his design af1er a Far Eastern doghouse he glimpsed in a You can count on roofs made weather conditions. Fireproof sultan's palace. Entitled ''An American by Cal-Shake. We know you Cal-Shake ls Class "A" fi re Dog in Bali.'' tbe colorful. pagoda-like wanl to keep a projec1 from rated and hghtwe1ght, making house wa,; encircled w i1h a white picket coming back across your desk, ii ideal for your remodeling fence for an American touch. so we produce Cal-Shake to projecl. Cal-Shake is guaran In an iconograph ic vein, Richard meet your highest quallly teed to brighten your spirits. M ogas. of Mogas S1ubblefield, and John expectations. Kell. Jr.. of JonesK ell Architects. de Specify Cal-Shake on all ol Cal-Shake is made to with your proJects, and may you signed houses to look like dogs. " Every stand the most severe Texas forever rest 1n peace. doghouse should look like a dog so you can tell people you have one,'' said Kell. who used his bassei hound as a model. Of course. cynics question whether some of these designs can be built But even Kell agreed: " I have no idea how I ' m going 10 build it," he said, "but lhen. ~CAL-5HAKE(y I never do at lhe design phase.·• (214) 270-7763 - Blair Calvert Fit:simons (800) 826-0072 Blair Calvert Fit:simons is managing P 0 . Box 2048, liwindale, CA 91706 editor Texas Arl'lwerr May J 1111t /988 VISIT US AT THE RCA OF TEXAS SHOW IN CORPUS CHRISn, JUNE 8-11, BOOTH NO. 100. 53 Visitors l\'i/1 be sheltered hy n canflpy, LEFT. The use of /9th -crnwry imagery cnmplc111e111.f tlw Elissa. as shown 111 tlrt• model. ABOVE. north de· ,•a1in11, BELOW. 011d 11•es1 e/e,•atifl11. BOTTOM. I'\ I 'I{< IC ii< I -, -, NEW LIFE FOR DECA YfNG DOCKS which could provide an economic boost IN THE SHADOW OF THE STRAND to a working port whose future is bleak. II was Venturi and Rauch ·s I 975 Ac On the quay side of Galveston, where tion P/011 /or The Strand (see TA Jul/Aug tall ships once punctuated the sky like a noating forest. there is uilk about a new maritime museum. And Adams Architects Inc .. Houston, has designed the lirst step: Lhe Pier 2 1/Elissa Dock Development. Pier 2 1 is a new dock canopy for the re constructed I 91h-cen1ury vessel Elissa. NOW AVAILABLE! 1988 TSA HANDBOOK • The only roster of Texas Architecture firms • The only roster of members of the Texas Society of Architects--85% or the state's registered archi tects • Complete listings by city and region- contains the firm name, architect's name, mailing address and phone number Order your copy by sending a check for $45 to: Texas Society of Architects, 114 West Seventh, Suite 1400, Austin, Texas 7870 I. Or call 5 12/478-7386 for more information. Texas Ard1i1ec1 May J1111t /988 54 1986). an extensive revitalization plan. iii•tilClC • •Pl-ii- that inspired architects to work for a res Five student teams from the Univer May 19: The University of Texas at Ar toration through historical imagery in the sity of Texas at Austin were winners in lington's Construction Research Center now-popular strip. Now the Galveston The Doyle Wilson Company's competi will hold a seminar: "Preventing Residen Histori cal Foundation would like to ex tion for master plans of The Horizon. on tial Foundation Failures." 8 17 /273- 370 l. tend the same principles 10 crumbling Lake Tr'Jvis: Best of Show-Santiago docks and warehouses nearby. Abasolo. Debra Bailey. and Frank Le wis; May 21: The Rice Design Alliance will Adams Architects designed the new Honorable Mention- Rajesh GuJati. Tif present "Step Back in Time." a gala Vic dock canopy using timber and the same fany Pappas. and Curtis Miller; Souheir torian evening. celebrating the RDA's "knee-bracing" joinery construction used El Mabsout, Kevin Batc helor. and John 15th anniversary and honoring 0 . Jack in similar 191.h-century scrucrures . com Tyler; and Luis Garcia. Mauhew Cohen. Mitchell, outgoing Dean of the Rice Uni plementing the Elissa in scale and im and Christopher Bartz: Merit- Dean versit y School of Architecture. The RDA agery. The building. the architects say. Almy m, Rene Quinlan. and Paul Light. will also auction birthday toys designed ··will be a utilitarian shed" where a vari by architects and artistS. 7 13/524-6297. ety of acti vities can be held. The plans in The UT Austin School of Architec clude several gallery spaces. a 75-seat ture's Summer Academy is a two-week June 1S: Deadline to enter UMN's Inter theater. an observation deck. study program for high-school students at national Work Space Competition. De The challenge was to use history with the 11th grade level and beyond who are signers and students may submit originaJ out creating an insubstantial stage set.. interested in architecture. 5 12/471- 1922. work. Judges are Gae Aulenti. Laurinda architect Joseph Adams says: "There's a Spear. and Shiro Kuramata. 821 Sansome fi ne line between kitsch reconstruc- The Center for the Study of Ameri St.. San Francisco. Calif. 94111. tion ... and a real connection 10 the pasc.'' can Architecture at UT Austin offers The Pier 2 1 building will be complete Volume 4 of CENTER: A Journal for June 30: Deadline to enter Southern Liv in 12 to 14 months. pending the Histori Architecwre in America e ntitled "Build ing 's Southern Home Awards for residen cal Foundation's decision on the scope of ings and Reali ty: Architecture in the Age tiaJ des ign. Judges are architects Sinclair the working pon 's restoration as a whole. of Information." Edited by Michael Black. FALA, and Eli zabeth Plater Benedikt , it examines the impact of the Zyberk, and developer R. B. Fitch. Jr. - RDT " infonnation explosion.·• 5 12/471 - 1922. Write Box 523, Birmingham. Ala. 35201. •-· .. -·-- -- Oressco Porcelain Granite Tile e GREAT SOUTHERN SUPPLY CO. Houston Showroom 3637 West Alabama Dallas: 61 15 Denton Drive at Timmons Lane, Suite 490 Suite 105, Dallas. 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If only we could Meanwhile. the balance of and ii served its purpose. in that ii 1hat everyone. 10111e le monde, is drum up a charge of cupidity. Weld Coxe 's lec1ure wa$ abou1 made all of us s1op and 1hink miking about architects. ''There's whip up a demonstration, catch ··success Strategies for Design about who we arc and where we one in every airline magazine." ei1her pru,y in flaJ!r 58 Circle 58 on Reader lnqwry Card Tl!xas Archill'CI May June 1988 Pran is a com- gadgets. Our knowledge of construction pro PHAN ON cesses saves time and ultimately the owner's istenc~8;~!~;~ fh~~ money. We also have a vast knowledge of need to provide cli- available products and sophisticated tech 0Esl GN ents with the tech niques. In short, we know how to compliment nical knowledge of how to accomplish their function with form. 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