In this issue: San Antonio at Heart, P. 13 San Antonio Faces and Places, P. 23 Mission Salvation, Once and for All , P. 34 TSA Awards, 1978, P. 41 Architect See full contents, P. 5 NO. 6 VOL. 28 NOV. / DEC. 1978
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Contents About this Issue ...... 9 TexoJ A rchitect is the omcial publication or The Tcxu Society of Architects. TSA is I.he omcial or Editorial . 11 ganization of the Texas Region of the American In stitute or Architects. San Antonio at Heart . 13 Des T aylor Editor-in-Chief An inside look at one of America's Larry Paul FuUcr Managing Editor Michael McCullar Associate Editor most unique cities-co-authored by John Lash Advertising Director San Antonio architect Boone Powell Kay Payne Circulation Manager and planner/ educator Catherine Powell Hyder Joseph Brown, AIA Editorial Consultant
- tracing the cultural con/luence of Edltorlal Polley Committee its past, feeling the pulse of its present Mori Levy, Chairman Jack E. Meck and touching upon a Iuture dear to Jack Craycrort Jack Mitchell every Texas heart. Craig Kennedy Jim Foster Peck Drennan Larry Good San Antonio Faces and Places ... 23 Bromon Dorsey Bob Royall Ben Canizaro A photographic portfolio of San Antonio people, places and events, reflecting the Texas Architect is published six times yearly by the Texas Society of Architects, 2121 Au\tin National human and arclriteclllral texture of a Bank Tower, Conaress at Sixth, Austin, Texas 78701. city that has style. Telephone: 512/478-7386. Subscription price is $8.00 per year for addresses within the continental United Mission Salvation, Once States cxceptins Hawaii and Alaska. and for All ...... 34 Editorial contributions, corrcspnndcnce, and adver A report on a proposed national tising material invilcd by the editor. Usually, no pay historical park designed to link San ment will be made for articles. Publisher aivcs per Antonio's four revered and venerable mission for reproduction of all or part of editorial material herein Ir publication credit Is aivcn Texas Spanish missions (minus the Alamo) in Archllut and the author when indicated. Publications a contiguous river park corridor on the which normally pay for articles arc requested to city's southside. Problems, hopes and give consideration 10 the author of reproduced byline an historical perspective. feature material. Appearances of names and pictures of products TSA Awards, 1978 ...... 41 and services in either editorial or advertising docs An introduction to tire winning and not constitute an endorsement of same by either the Texas Society of Architects or the American Institute honored people and projects in TSA's of Architects. Nor docs editorial comment necessarily 1978 citizens award program and design reflect an official opinion of either oraanizalion.
award and Flower's award competitions, TSA Officers all to be cited during TSA's 39th annual PrC'lton M. Bolton, I AIA, llou\l0n President meeting in San Antonio. Georae Lov,ng. FAIA, Abilene Prc\idcnt-F.lcct Wilham H. llolland, TSA Design Awards, 1977 . 52 Corpus Chri\tl Vice-President A pictorial wrap-up of tire remaining John Only Greer, College Station Vi ce- Prc,ldent winners in last year's TSA design Boone Powell, San Antonio Vice-President awards competition. James II. Meyer, Richardson Secretary Bob Messersmith, Lubbock Treasurer Hal Box, FAIA, Austin AIA Regional Director San Antonio Chapter Design Jay W. Barnes, FAIA, Awards ...... 58 Austin AJA Regional Director Five winning projects in tire 1978 TSA Charles Stahl. Aushn lmmcd,alc Pa,1 President San Antonio chapter design award Des Taylor, Austin Executive Director competition. TSA Board of Directors James Wheeler Abilene Chaplcr Projects in Progress . 62 Chuck Croft Austin Chapter Duane Cote Brazos Chapter On the Cover: A TSA Town Meetings .67 Donald Greene Corpus Christi Chapter cutaway from a pen Jamc1 A. Cluus Dallao1 Chapter and-ink drawing of In the News .71 W. E. Kuykendall El Paso Chapter Robert LcMond San Antonio's famed Fort Worth Chapter Letters .92 Kenneth Bentsen, FAIA . Houston Chapter River Walk by fifth Dan Oaden Lower Rio Grande year architecture Valley Chapter student David Har Coming Up: The January/ February Tom Mills Lubbock Chapter rison of The Uni 1979 issue of Texas Architect will John Moore Northeast Texas Chapter James Dockery San Antonio Chapter versity of Texas at A ustin. feature a lead article by noted archi D. Rex Goode Southeast Texas Chapter tectural photographer and architect Jim Oochc Texas Panhandle Chapter Richard Payne of Houston, exploring John Dudley Waco Chapter the reasons, complexities, techniques and Kenneth Fields West Texas Chapter J . G. Dixon, Jr. Wichila Falls Chapter rewards of taking beautiful pictures Susan Dieterich Association of of beautiful buildings. Student Chapters/ AIA
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Officially, though not labeled as such, this is our annual convention issue. ll makes its debut on-site at the Texas Society of Architects' 39th Annual Meeting in San Antonio November 1-3, and introduces the convention theme- TEXAS: THE QUALITY LI FE. It summarizes the awards TSA will bestow upon various citizens, organi7ations and professionals. And it even comes packaged as a neat tic-in with this year's convention graphics. Tn reality, however, this is an issue devoted to a city, a tribute- if you will to San Antonio. Partly, this tack derives from San Antonio's happenstance status as this year's TSA convention city. Partly, it is an affirmation that looking at in dividual buildings out of context is of minimal value, that architecture, to be fully understood, must be recogni,ed as the fabric of cities. And in part, it is because the fabric of San Antonio is so rich. In fact, it is so rich that much verbiage about the city is nearly unpalatable; writers almost invariably find it difficult to resist being effusive-gushy about San Antonio's charms. And indeed, with its heroic, blood-stained history; its friendly, meandering River Walk; and its unique architectural legacy, the city is undeniably seductive, if not a bit overwhelming. Wandering through its crooked streets, so humanly ad hoc, feeling the indomitable presence of the past, and bask ing in the easy mix of cultures, one can only remark, "Now this place is for real .... or is it?" Our approach to San Antonio in this issue is through the eyes of two of its resi dents, husband-and-wife co-authors Boone Powell, an architect, and Catherine Powell, a planner and university teacher. Their SA essay, "San Antonio at Heart," is a soulful but balanced treatment of one of their favorite subjects. We also sec the city through the eyes of the camera, wielded by several serious photographers, in "San Antonio Portrait." And reaching back to the city's ecclesiastical roots, Michael McC'ullar reports on the status of those ancient and venerable landmarks, the five Spanish missions. Herc, then, is San Antonio. San Antonio and nowhere else. - LPF
November/December 1978 9
Quality is the Theme In this year's first issue of Texas Architect, President Preston Bolton, FAIA, proposed "The Quality Life" as the theme for all activities of TSA in 1978. Four chapters--San Antonio, Waco, Austin and Houston-have addressed the theme through various adaptations of the concept of Town Meetings. With strong sup port from the TSA staff, these chapters organized and sponsored their public semi nars. These forums have helped to establish, at the grass roots level, better lines of communication between the public and Texas architects. The chapters noted have heard how citizens in their areas perceive the many facets of "a quality life." As we approach our 1978 annual meeting, several other TSA chapters are making finaJ preparations for similar town meetings to be conducted before the end of the year.
From the start, it has seemed appropriate, from my position as chairman of the 1978 Annual Meeting, that we focus strongly on Texas: The Quality Life during our convention. It is especially fitting that San Antonio, every Texan's first or second home, is the location for such a discussion of "Quality."
In addition to being the highlight of the year's program of TSA activity, Texas: The Quality Life reminds us of our true purpose and highest worth as architects. In a decade of aesthetic neglect, mediocrity. heavy pressures, and questionable goals, our role as architects must clearly demonstrate that "the quality life" can exist only in a quality setting.
There really is no place like San Antonio. It is most appropriate that our meet ing is being held in the city where "the quality life" has a special meaning. T ad mittedly have a love affair with this charming old city and can talk for hours on its challenges and virtues: its wonderful and friendly people derived from a rich ad mixture of cultures, its acute sense of history and heritage, its unique Pasco del Rio, its five ancient missions, its Market Square, its undeveloped resources, and its complex intra-urban problems. However, it is sufficient for my purpose here mere ly to state that in its true essence, "the quality life" found in San Antonio is based on a high level of authenticity and a lack of presumptuousness which pervades the entire city and defines its character. The result is a level of quality which is readily identifiable and which justifies the claim: "Nowhere Else But San Antonio."
I conclude with the hope that our efforts in 1978 will serve as a salute to QUALITY: a quality convention in the quality city of the quality state to con template Texas: The Quality Life.
Bill Parrish General Chairman 39th Annual Meeting
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s San Antonio truly unique? Or is it Just backwards? a triple-purpose city: ecclesiastical m1ss1on , military pre I H Houston is a small Los Angeles, and Dallas a small sidia and civil pueblo. (Only the pueblo \\as laid out with New York, is San Antonio just a large Cotulla? its accompanying plaza specified by the Law of the Indic~. There is historical evidence to support the skeptical Facing that plaza today arc the Bexar County Courthouse view. h was 1877 before the railroad came to San Antonio, and San Fernando Cathedral. Two other irnporlanl plazas the last large city in the country to "\\clcome the Iron were incorporated in the dc\'eloping city: Plaza de Armas Horse." And even then San Antoninns saw its greatest value connected with the presidia, where City Hall stands today, as bringing cold beer from St. Louis. Olmsted noted in his and the pla1.a in front of the Alamo.) diary published in 1857 that S.!n Antonio citizens resisted The Spanish were not particularly skillful colonizers and "the spirit of Manifest Destiny'' and had none of the there were never enough Indians to populate a city. And "boosterism" which characterized "upstart cities elsewhere so, after the War of 1812, Americanized Europeans, largely on the frontier." In earlier decades, fads and fashions in from the South, began to push across the Mississippi into architectural style lagged 20 )Cars behind eastern cities. Texas, even though the Spanish in Mexico were suspicious And today, current haute couture is rarely seen and ap of strangers and reluctant to open the region. Moses Austin parently little missed. became the first officially approved colonist. Soon after his The growth of the city itself has occurred in spurts, and death, his son Stephen F. arrived in Galveston Bay with almost alwa)s by fortuitous circumstance. The choice of the first group of colonists in 1822. location, in 1718, was brilliant, just where a city should be: Throughout the turbulent years of the struggle for inde on an abundant spring-fed stream \\ith a gentle slope to the pendence from an increasingly militaristic and authoritarian I.ind in\'iting irrigation. It was at the down-dip edge of the "republic," during the decade awaiting statehood, and Balcones Escarpment, with its back to the wall, so to speak, through the national War Against Mexico, settlers hungry Mexico's farthest north readily defensible location. Al for land pushed into east and central Texas. The famines though originally a mission only. San Antonio soon became and religious confrontations in Europe in the mid-19th By Boone and Catherine Pozvell
November/December 1978 13 Miu/or, C:011updo11 Chuuh, WI/Its Cull Wlr,tns century sent many bands of colonizing farmers into the o. from the beginning, San Antonio has been a cosnw region: Alsatians to Castro\'illc, Polish and British to S politan city. It is a place of convergence-of cultures, Boerne, Germans to f'rcdcricksburg am) New Braunfels, nationalities, races, religions. Fillingly, the state's exhibition Czechs to St. Hedwig. The gulf ports received the colonists at HemisFair 1968 was the permanent Institute of Texan and sent them north through Sun Antonio, which became Cultures, where the early contributions to 'l'exas of some the commercial center of a large area-a role strengthened 26 cultures arc documentc 14 Texas Architect ily, the small Irish ''flats," the more elaborate latc-19th Some residents, however, did appreciate the particular century homes of the successful German mill owners along qualities of the city. Everett supplies the following remark King William Street. No one cultural posture dominated all ably insightful passage from the journal of James Pearson others for any length of time. If the traditional Mexican life Newcomb in the last decade of the 19th Century. style was gradually pushed toward the western part of the When our city becomes a competitor with other cities in the city, it was not obliterated. With the exception of the curi struggle for modern improvements, we shall find that the new ous reworking of Milam Park, the recently redeveloped towns where the paint smells fresh-where the buildings Market Square area has retained some of the flavor of the Mack up into stories-where the uniformity of h11saness archi tecture marks with its monotonous commonplace the so west side and is one of the busiest areas in downtown San called genuine business city, San Antonio may have a hard Antonio. time keeping in the race. Hut with S<)mc of our old-time Content to let the various life-styles coexist. and not par charming customs still preserved, some uf our old buildings ticularly interested in encouraging rapid growth. neither did ,till :.landing, some of our old narrow, crooked streets still early-day San Antonio citizens feel particularly threatened left, we might still he. with our mcomparahlc climate, the Mecca of the traveler. Restore the chili stands and save the when some of the finest and most interesting landmarks new market house. I .ct us hang on to some scmhlancc of the were demolished to make room for something "new." Don old days. Evcrcll documents the city's seeming indifference to the T he Alamo was finally preserved and restored, primarily A la mo in 1840 ( just 4 years after the heroic battle) with .I. due to action by two women -Adina de Zavala and Cla city council minutes from April 2 reflecting an agreement ra Driscoll-who ended up fighting each other for several to sell Rev. Valdez "whatever !stones from the Alamo! he years, but who still deserve the credit for recognizing its may need at four rt•a/.\' per earl load." There was apparent importance. The list of landmarks lost, including the Vcrc ly lillle thought given to preservation of the Alamo until a mcndi Palace and the Yance House, is all too long and newspaper article in 1877 suggested that the responsibility painful. But the founding of the San Antonio Conservation for preventing "absolute decay" belonged to the state. Also Society in 1924, led by Emily Edwards, saved the San An documented is the removal by tourists of pieces of carved tonio River from being paved over as a service drive and stone from Mission San Jose in 1897. marks the beginning of an increasingly strong movement to retain as much of the city's historic charm and natural beauty as possible. The King William area was the first in the state to become an historic district under a local zoning ordinance, and today there arc six other such districts in the city. November/December 1978 15 Norton/Polk/Marltb llou•r on Klnr William, Su,•r Conrod Ro,a/11 Still, of course, there arc occasional painful losses. TI1e land bordering the San Antonio River. She was a lady who demolition in 1969 of the Alfred Giles-designed Archbish inexplicably saved every single item that found its way to op's residence on Dwyer Street to make way for a parking "Willow Way," but her clarity of values enlightened all who lot, and the sec-saw fortunes of the Dullnig Building across knew her. She created a Harvest Festival-insisting on from Joskc's arc examples. Also, the intensity of the fight authenticity-,, hich eventually became the ever-popular to save the Schultze Store and other old buildings in Ucmis Night In Old San Antonio. And she initiated the long. hard Fair Plaza was in the Alamo tradition. But people now struggle to restore Mission San Jose to a place of cultural arc more willing to consider the uniqueness of history and prominence, a struggle taken up with Ethel Wilson Harris, tradition as guidelines for future growth and development who moved into the crumbling rooms at the mission to than they \\ere IO )Cars ago, when almost every act of oversee the beginnings of restoration, to cstriblish a crafts preservation was largely a personal battle requiring ob,•ious studio. and eventually to bring secular drama and music to economic justification as a benefit to tourism for public the Mission grounds. acceptance. And indeed. the fact that there were many an Antonio's acceptance of progress at its own pace, personal battles is in itself a facet of San Antonio's unique S the local stimulus of a ,aricty of cultures, the city's iso ness. Somehow all those early decades of quiet acceptance lated position on the edge of the frontier-all had some in of the ,·arious life-styles had enhanced their value in the fluence on the dc,clopmcnt of its architecture and architects. minds of many individuals-the greater proportion of the Although there arc older sections of the city which clearly combatants being \\Omen who would rather fight than were built in identifiable styles -with the boisteruus influ switch. ences of the Victorian cm predominating-the city as a Epitomi;,fog this spirit was the genteely indomitable whole is remarkably free from the excesses of fadism. Most Eli1.abcth Orynski Graham, a lady of Polish descent. the of the work was and is done by architects of the region. mother of Wanda Ford, who li,cd in a house she built near Some of them were distinguished: Francois (~irnud, Alfred San Jose Mission in a quite unfashionable part of town on Giles, James Reiley Gordon, John Fries. Albert Beckmann, Atlee 13. Ayres, contractor J. II. Kampmann. Even those trained clse\\hcrc (England and Germany} \\ho were fa miliar with stylistic influences seemed to temper thei r de signs to something less didactic and perhaps more suitable. Or, perhaps, their clients simply were not demanding "the latest thing." 16 Texas Architect llra,t o/ thr Rl,rr Walk IJadd lla,r/son Some clients did feel compelled, of course, to seek "out ,l fter the crash of I 929, the continuity of growth in San siders" for major design commissions. Kenneth Franzheim's ft Antonio, as elsewhere, was interrupted unlil after World National Bank of Commerce Building, the first major down War JI; but the city profiled in a mo:.t extraordinary way town building after World War JI , is remarkable for having from several W.P.A. and N. Y.A. projects initialed by the failed 10 incorporate its Ri\er Walk frontage in the site incomparable former ~fo)or Maury .\1awrick: the rc<.:on design, an oddity topped only by El Tropicano Hotel's struclion of La Villi la ( O'Neil Ford) and the con:;truction of creating several hundred feet of fake river in its partially the River Walk (architect Robert llugman and engineer open ground floor paralleling the river itself. Two recent Edwin P. Arneson>, portions of the Zoo in Brackenridge "imported'' bank buildings arc the new Frost Bank Build Park, and Alamo Stadium (Phelps, Dewees & Simmons). ing by William Pereira, and the San Antonio Bank and These projects introduced a new concern and their solu Trust on Travis Park by Edward Durell Stone. Fortunately tions a new idiom: local, natural materials used unobtru for San Antonio, these bank:. arc not typical of design by sively lo create a sense of harmony with the landscape either Pereira or Stone. the beginnings of an architectural regionalism in Sun An Many of the major public landmarks were locally de tonio, in a style so simple its artfulness has sometimes been signed: Bexar County Courthouse (Gordon, 1892); Munici overlooked, but so appropriate it has been imitated ever pal Auditorium (Ayres & Ayres, 1926); Smith-Young since. Tower (Ayres & Ayres. 1928); and Post Office and Fed Shortly after World War II , a fortunate circumstance ernl Building (Cameron, 1937) to name only a few. Over occurred which we believe is responsible for the early intro all-unlike Dallas. Fort Worth, or Houston-San Antonio duction nnd acceptance of modern design in San Antonio. has shown little interest in hiring famous outside architects A significant number of the city's most influential citizens simply to secure a reputation for the city. sat on the boards of two key developing institutions, Trinity University and Southwest Research Institute (SWRI). both of which were building new complexes. Tom Slick, a young and dynamic millionaire who sat on hoth hoards, had, in fact, founded SWRI and encouraged the use of a new process of construction at both institutions. This new tech nique was lift-slab construction, developed at SWRI with Slick's help. Its economy, compared with the expense of November/December 1978 17 r..,.. Mc:Vay Art ln.stillllt', H11dson l.ud,nt 111 an imitative colonial style, made it the choice for Trinity city's water; and the substantial political role now played on its magnificent site overlooking the city. Inexperience by organized citizens' groups. The most powerful group is with designing for this type of structure led to the engage COPS (Communities Organized for Public Service), which ment of William Wurster, then Dean at M.I.T., as design has succeeded in deflecting large capital sums into im consultant. Wurster suggested adding O'Neil Ford to the provements for existing Mexican-American neighborhoods design team. and the resulting campus unfolding over the which they argue have been consistently overlooked. They years from the offices of Ford and of Bartlett Cocke has set have used the Saul Alinsky technique of confrontation poli a superb design standard. This acceptance of contemporary tics. holding elected representatives directly accountable to design by the boards of both these institutions marked a constituents. In addition to achieving many of their own departure that was not to occur on similar boards around goals, they have opened up the processes of local govern the state for another IO or 15 years. ment to groups and interests ignored for many years. n the San Antonio of today, civic leaders arc exploring The Aquifer Protection Association (APA) was formed I avenues for increased economic activity and develop in 1975, the same year as COPS, by members of other ment. The City Council is about to receive ( and, we hope, groups who were particularly concerned about water. Using accept) its first long-range comprehensive plan. Major issues its own techniques, such as a referendum to unzone a shop still arc unsettled, particularly the question of where major ping center on the recharge zone, the APA has succeeded growth should occur, other than downtown. Two new fac in raising the issues of growth management and water qual tors have been introduced in recent years: concern that ity to the level of public debate. There arc also many active run-off from urban development over the recharge zone of neighborhood groups in all parts of the city which arc con the Edwards Aquifer might contribute to pollution of the cerned with maintaining viability in existing neighborhoods. All of these activities have introduced lo civic debate a concern for historic, human and environmental values. Still. much needs to be done. Paramount among items on the agenda is a reaffirmation of the river and tributary streams as the living structural clement of San Antonio. This concept was put forth in an excellent study prepared for the San Antonio Development Agency in the l 960s, 18 Texas Architect ru! nWu<1 I but the organizational structure needed to implement its - Boone and Catherin<' recommendations has been weak and intermittent in effec J•owell lii•e and work tive11ess. in San Antonio, whc•re ome developments along the river have been sensitive to Boone i.v a principal S the concept. ·1 he restoration or the old Ursuline Acade in the• architectural my as the Southwest Craft Center has given San Antonio the firm of Ford, />owe/I la rge..,t center of this type in Texas. Inclusion of architec -··- -"'~ & Carson and Cather- tural craft... has been particularly welcome there. A condo ine• is a planner and an a.ni.l'tant professor of urhcm sttulie.v minium complex across the river from the Ursuline, now at Trinity Unfrer.\if.\•. She• tc•ac/11'.\' gracluatc• courses in urhan under construction, will enhance the residential mix. And 1>lanning, rc•warc/1, land use and transportation ancl engages the ne,,1 Lo Vaca Gathering Company headquarters up in co11.\11l1ing av time pl'l'mits, Boone, t•clucatNI as both a11 stream should also benefit the ri\'er corridor. architect and planm•,-. also 1111r.wc.\· ,m actil•e intt're.\f in Still further upstream, the adaptivc rcusc of the Old I.one historical 1uesnration ancl th<' history of 'fe:ws architec- Star Brewery by the Witte Museum will be a significant ture. addition. And still in the planning stage is a proposal to link Alamo Plaza with the Rivcr WalJ..: ,irea, a projcct of NOTF.: We• grau·fully m·J..,wwledgt' the 11w• of work from great importance if the success of the Ri\'er Walk develop the Spring '78 third-year drawing cla.u· of Sinclair Hlack at ment is to be extended in the do\\-ntown area. th<' UT-A mtin School of A rchitect11n• as 11/ustrations for San Antonio may ne\'er ha\'e a Galleria or a One Main thi.v mticl<'. Rendaed from photograph.\·, thl' drawings tm• Place In its own time, and in its own way. it will merely the u•.rnlt of om• ,•x,·rci.ve in the• cour.\·c• which was i11wnded enhance its uniqueness. For bn't San Antonio the spiritual to help .1t1ulents c/el'l'iop drawing teclmiqtll'. home or all Texans-the mirror of our past, the genesis of our cultures, the crucible of our values'! Its direct influence may wax and wane through the years, but its image an November/December 1978 19 Traditional elegance in modern, easy-care finishes ... 1/2" Herringbone by Sykes P",h,1hh tlw ,m,!'>I H'r !'>,1t1ll• ,111t 1q1w ,1p1x.',\l't111n· ISi\ k· )0 ~ l l>,\l qlll'I p,lltl'I I\ l'\l'I', I ll'l 111\glx.ll\l' '-)111\ll,th f1111sll 111 I rghl \l\t1qm• or Sykes looring h\ '-)\ l C11cl I I on Re d , /nqu 1y C8rd Neogard's Elastomeric Waterproofing hasbreomea Standard in the Industry. 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Carcia. 24 Texas Architect Alamo Plat.a, by Judy Ba11kltead. Broc:ke11rid,:e porJ.. sc:ene, by Judy Bankltead. Friend/\- Spot lc:e lfoufe, by Richard Tic:lric:/1. November/December 1978 25 Park Motel 011 Broadway, by Judy Bankhead. St. Mary's Street Bridge, by Judy Bankhead. l.a Coma Ice House, by Richard Tichich. Pusa Street Bridge, by Judy Bankhead. Texas Architect ----~"=;,J~,~=!"'"-- ______._ ..... --- Fiesta Parade, by Judy Bankhead. Crafts at HemisFair, by Judy Bankhead. Grayson Street Bridge, by Roy Coons. November/ December 1978 27 I House in Lo.f Angeles HeiRhts, by Melissa Herod. llemisFair Plaza and Tower of the Americas, by Pam Meadows. Buildi111: at W. Ru.ue/1 and Frederick.fbur,:: Rt/., by Jane Norton. UTSA, by Rick Gardner. ArchitectI: Ford, Powell & Carson and /Jarriett Cocke & A .fmdates. 28 Texas Architect H ouse in Dig11owi1y Par/.., by Judy Coons. Umdmarl.. Buildi11!f, by Pam Meado..-s. November/December 1978 29 Century Center, by Larry Pearfstone. Architects: Neuhaus + Taylor (now JD/lflfernationa/), Houston. For 111r of their pho1ograp/1s In this portfolio, wr thank 1hr Jollo,.·lnr: Jud,· Bankhrad, Artist In Rrfldrncr in Pho101raphJ· al Hra/,-.t,f11rphy Lrarn in11 Cmtu m San Antonio; p/10101raph,- s111drnts o/ Jim Nrt<·brrr,· at UTSA-RoJ• Coons, David M. Garcia. t.frllssa Huod, Janr Norton, Rkhard Tichlc-h and KathJ· Vorgas; UT-Austin photoirophJ• J111tl,,,t Pant Mrado,.•s San Antonio photo1raphrr Lorri Prorbtonr; and Austin arcl,1/rct Sine/air Bl,u:k. Boy at Friendly Spot Ice House, by Richard Ticltich. 30 Texas Architect St. Joseph's Church, by Larry Pearls/one . ...... Bracke11ritl~e Park, by Judy Bankhead. 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See our display Call 1-800-231-8050 of Super-C's (toll free outside Texas). in Booth #79 In Texas call 1-713-225-1441 . Circle 15 on Reader /nqu,ry Card THE MISSIONS OF SAN ANTONIO Salvation, Once and for All By Michael McCullar Long seen as symbols of the wild fell. towers and walls crumbled and at San Antonio, owner of the mission build American West. the Texas cowboy, least one-the Mission San Antonio de ings. (The Alamo, San Antonio's first Longhorn and tools and techniques of Vallero. or "Alamo"-<:aught the bloody mission, already a thriving downtown the ranching trade do not owe their brunt of the Texas War for Indepen tourist atlraction, is owned by the State origins to wild-West Americans. The dence in 1836. Only in this century of Texas. preserved and protected by the Spanish gave cattle ranching to Texas more specifically in the last 40 years or Daughters of the Republic of Texas and and America. it should be remembered. so-has concerted effort been made lo is not part of the missions park pro long before 1 exas and America officially authentically restore and seriously protect posal.) came to be. And these Spaniard<; weren't the aging mission buildings. And the The proposed plan. chosen from five rough-riding va4ueros either, but gentle most recent move, to establish a Nation included in a 197 5 National Park Service ,ouh, Franc1..can friars, who introduced al Missions Historical Par!..., in the lcg1s feasibility study, calls for the four mis the aboriginal inhabi1an1s of early Teja, la1ivc hopper since the late '60:., met sions lying alternately on different sides al once 10 God. Baroque architecture last-minute approval in 1he closing ses of the river to be linked to the river park and the idea of lending cattle from sion of the 95th Congress in mid-October corridor by landscaped paths. The horseback in the early 18th-century as part of a National Parks and Recrea National Park Service either will buy Spanish ml\\lons of San Antonio de tion Acl, allotting $10.5 million for im the missions or strike a binding agree radua. plementing 1he mi..sion park plan. ment with the Archdiocese for their reriodic attempt\ over the la,t 150 The federal funds will go toward preservation and interpretation. Since all years to reuse or restore San Antonio's linking four of the missions--Conccp four missions arc still active parishes, five mission complexes-<:la,sic rem cion, San Jose, San Juan and Espada- provision will be made for them to nants of Spain's I 8th-century colonial in a linear park corridor along a seven continue to be. Scenic casements and buf inctm,ion, inlo the new world and col mile stretch of the San Antonio River fer zones will be acquired along the lectively the birthplace of the American on the soulh side of the city, a National river to protect the missions from future ranching indu-,try-have heen piecemeal Park Service Plan endorsed by the City, suburban and commercial sprawl and to at be,1. Falling into decline in the early the County, the San Antonio River Au return the area to at least a semblance of 1800<, after 1he1r Indian population, thority, the Conservation Society, the its historically rural atmosphere. dwindled, the mi\\ion, lay .1bandoned or County Historical Commission and, most In addition to the missions, the Es ml\lrcatcd for} car,. Roof, and domes importantly. the Catholic Archdiocese of pada Acequia system-the original irri- 34 Photo ,,,. Pam !,fradows Texas Arch itect Photo h>' Pam !ofrado,.·s FACING PAGE: "Rosa's Window" 011 the so111h wall of rhe baprisrry ar San Jo.w:. LEFT: Twin rowers and ca11i11e reer/1 serrario11.1· along rhe rop of the church walls at Mission Co11cepcio11. BE LOW: Window detail and interior. gation system for the farmlands of Mis Management and Budget that the Mis the Archdiocese, who have enjoyed a sion Espada, including the only sions National Park could violate the wide foundation of individual and insti- still-functional Spanish aquaduct in the separation of church and state principle 1L1tional support over the years, from United States-will be included in the was convincingly put to rest by pro Lady Bird Johnson to, more recently, park, along with historically significant ponents of the project, who cited ac; a the Army Corps of Engineers. agricultural land in the southern part of precedent Boston's old North Church, One of the individual prime movers of the missions area. No small concern, which is operated and maintained the mission park plan, typifying the zeal however. is the possible economic and through cooperative agreement between of a host of others, has been San Antonio social impact of such land acquisition. the Church and federal government. broadcaster and funeral home director \lthough the national park will be a They also pointed out that a mutually Henry Guerra, who has chaired the boon to the city's already thriving tour beneficial "treaty" ha1, existed at Mission Chamber of Commerce's Mission Road ist industry, and most of the land lo be San Jose since the 1940s between the Task Force Committee since the early included is already public, some of the Church, which maintains ownership of '50s. He is a staunch supporter of mis land is owned and farmed by dcsccndents the church building, and the County, the sion preservation, a passionate restora of E.,pada M1,;,;1on Indians and settlers City, the State and the federal govern tionist who would rather see nothing done who have strong tics to that historic ment m the operation of the mission a,; a to the missions than something done ground and who arc every bit as "his state park, National Historic Landmarl. wrong or sloppily. A native San Anton torically significant," as even some park and Site and active parish. ian, he was baptized in the centuries-old proponents point out, as the cherished The successful move to designate baptismal font in San Fernando Cathe missions arc. the missions area as a national historical dral. He marched in counties~ Christ-thc Aside from some opposition from resi parl. marks the culmination of a long and King processions along the old Mission dents of the Mbsion Road area, serious ardent campaign to finally insure their Road as a boy and did his share of pool objections to the proposal have been protection and to authorize and fund shooting and beer-drinking as a teenager few. Toward a more equitable land their continuous upkeep and restoration. in the ruins of Espada Mission's outer ucquisition policy, the plan afford, area Prime movers of the effort, since the wall, when the old sandstone bulwark inhabitants life-time residency and a national park idea was first proposed in was less the worse for wear and tempo voice in future land-use decisions. And a the early '50,, have been the Conserva rarily housed a pool hall during the '30s. ,hort-lived concern of the Office of tion Society, Chamber of Commerce and "The main reason behind this whole November/December 1978 35 Photo bi• Pam /.fr11dows f ACING PAGL: Ali11io11 ch11rcl, wit/, \lone h1111rr~11·1 lit San J11ll11. RIGII I : Rt'11<>r1•d town and domi• at \'an low. BL LOW. San A 111011io mi.I 1io11 c/e1•0/<'<' lfr111y G11errt1. national park plan." he ,.,y,. "" the dc Guerra ,ay,. ,cldom have re,1oration he a leal..mg water pipe underground. But ,irc ol a numhcr of people lil..c me who and pre,crvation effort, on all four of a careful cxc.1vat1on revealed no pipes or 1hinl.. there ,hould he., procc" hy which the mi\\ion, hcen adequately coordinal water in the vic1n1ty. ·1he curn:111 guess: the Jlll\\1on, can he carefully ,1ud1cd. e 36 Texas Architect Photo b)' Pam J\ltodows niqucs of mission restoration have been the axle on his car taking a group of lcngcs involved in creating a national based on the latest Douglas Fairbanl...s visiting bishops on a tour of the mis park wilh historical ambience where movie." sions. the old Mission Road has been monumenl'I of the past intermingle with The problems of land acquisition, improved and signs strategically placed. monuments of lhe present. 'That's the painstaking research and restoration and And under the national Open Spaces Act Mission Drive-In Theater," Guerra says, deterioration caused by 20th-century air of the '60s, much of the land along the pointing toward two drive-in movie do indeed pose rigorous challenges to river has been donated by private own screens competing successfully with San mission preservationists. But the chal ers and made into public parks. with Jose's mottled-grey Moorish tower and lenges of the tasl. arc far more appealing picnic tables and hike-and-bike trails. dome looming out of a distant treeline. to most than the idea of letting the Arch ··1t·s more than just an historic proj "We're 1rying to get the slate to buy it," diocese and the mis,ions fend for thcm ect." Guerra says. "There arc other he says, which would certainly mal...e the ,elvcs. 1 he national parl... plan gained benefits. We sold the whole idea to the mission view from that particular van I.age widespread ,upport, Guerra say<;. as .1 city in the first place as a linear park for point more vintage. Whal they're trying compromise at long last adopted because the south side. Much of the land ha, al 10 form, in effect, is a well-funded, or it will involve maximum participation ready been developed as public recrea ganized and scenically landscaped dc by the National Park Service and the tional space. There's a first-class, 18-holc fenc;e perime1er around 1hc city's mission lca,t amount of private property. will municipal golf course. It's all proven to treasures, theoretically, in the long run. pave the way for substantial federal he very popular. You need people. And for the benefit of all-parishioners, pres funding for mission preservation and will all we need is a small area around each crvationisls, resident'!, businesses and f urther enhance the city's sou1hs1de en mi"'ion to tic it together and make it all 1ourists. Although none of lhe missions vironment. a relatively low-income area compatible." ever succumbed to attacks by hostile In that has been a zoning hodge-podge for Even wilh all i1, !.upporl and momen- dians. lhc general concern has been that year, and a target area for federal and 1um, 1he national parl... plan ,till will face the threats of time, urban growth and city funding since the river was paved a few ob,taclcs during 1mplcmen1a1ion. chronic.illy insufficient funds may some mto a flood channel in the "JOs (denud For one, the lingering problem of scenic day make marauding Apaches ~ccm like ing its bankc; of I 00-year-old pecan trees puri1y, all too clear near San Jo,c. "Queen the least of their historic woes. in the process.) Since the early ''iO,. when of the Missions." It\ what Guerra calls the archbishop got lost and almost broke the ··Big Problem," indicating the chal- November/December 1978 37 Photo by Pam f.frado,. s San Antonio Missions: An Historical Perspective The historical significance of San An tonio's old Spanish missions is not to be denied. Introducing a curious mixture of artistic, agricultural. religious and mar tial concepts to the natives of New Spain's northernmost colonies in the earl} 18th century, the missions repre sented a combination of motives on the part of the Catholic Church and the Spanish Empire. Strategically. the} were a means of establishing and holding a line of outposts across the northern ter ritories at a time when the French were staking out Louisiana and threatening to encroach upon Spain's new world do minion. They were also designed to Christianize. civilize and educate the nomadic Coahuiltecan Indians, the pre dominate tribe of the area, and to train them ultimately to defend the missions against hostile Indians and. if necessary, the French. Along with learning how to grow com. tan leather, tend cattle, fear God and speak Spanish. the Indians be came proficient at firing muskets and swivel guns from the comer bastions of the compounds. mainly at Comanches and Apaches who frequently raided the rich and bountiful missions to steal missions of San Antonio exhibited a rich northernmost on Mission Road and the horse:.. among other things. artistic sophistication. Delicately carved moltt structurally pristine, to Mission San Typically. a mission consisted of a Baroque facades and Moorish towers Francisco de la Espada, the southern four- or five-acre compound surrounded and domes reflected the imported old most, where an original, intact comer by a stone or adobe wall which housed world craftsmanship of expert sculptors bastion still commands the fertile bottom quarters for the Indians. In addition to and artisans. And to appeal to the lands from the southeast corner of the the mission church. the complex usually Indian's penchant for color, the mission mission wall, just as it has done for more included a granary, workhouses, a mill exteriors were painted in geometric red than 200 years. and cemetery. Beyond the walls was and blue quatrafoil patterns, a far cry mission farm- and ranchland and its from today's popular conception of old Mission Nuestra Senora de la acequia. or irrigation system. Out there missions as having always been a dull, Purisima the Indians raised crops and livestock. earthy grey. (During the 1920s and '30s, Concepcion de Acuna fashioning all sorts of regional tools of San Antonio artist Ernst Schuchard Legend has it that Mexican General the trade. including broad squares of studied the visible trace:. of the mission Santa Anna was somewhat surprised that rawhide to wrap around their legs as frescoes and created a series of paintings Travis, Bowie and Crockett chose to de they worked cattle from horseback in depicting their originally colorful ex fend the Alamo instead of Mission Con thickets of cactus. mesquite and white teriors. He duplicated the pattern cepcion, with its massive walls and for thorn bush. Eventually those leather on a portion of the church wall at Mis bidding, fortress-like design. Proof of pants came to be commonly known as sion San Jose which is still there to give the mission's durability is the fact that it "chaps." visitor:. a refreshing idea of what the is the oldest unrestored church stmcture A somewhat incongmous feature of missions originally looked like.) in the United States. these missions-on-the-range was their Following is a brief profile on each Originally founded in 1716 in East classic architectural style. Much closer to of San Antonio's park-plan missions, Texas, the mission eventually was moved New Spain's cultural heart than the mis from Mission "'luestra Senora de la (due to trouble with the Indians and sions of "'lew Mexico or California, the Purisima Concepcion de Acuna, the French) to San Antonio, where its cor- 38 Texas Architect FACING PAGE: Origi11a/ facade a11d reconstructed stone structure at Mission Espada. BELOW: San A111011io artist Ernst Sc/111chard's conceptio11 of original color pattern 011 c/rurc/r exteriors, recreated 011 a portion of the tower wall at San Jose. Mission San Juan de Capistrano Another of the missions originally established in East Texas, San Juan was moved to San Antonio and dedicated in 1731. Mission activity lasted until about J 824 but was never vibrant, nor the mis sion very economically successful. The mission chapel, the most promi nent restored building on the site, is of rubble construction with stucco-covered walls, with stone buttresses on the east and west walls. The church features a two-tiered belfry with three bells, one on the top level and two on the bottom. Visible portions of foundations and walls on the cast side of the compound tell of unsuccessful efforts to build a larger church in the 1760s and 1770s. Following secularization in 1824, the building was neglected. In 1890 the roof collapsed, and reconstruction did not begin until 1907. Rededicated in 1909, the church, like the other three missions, is an active parish. Mission San Francisco de la Espada Mission Espada is yet another trans nerstone was laid m 173 I. The stone attention and support. eventually becom planted East Texas mission, reportedly structure. with dome and twin towers, ing the largest. most ornately designed the oldest of all missions in Texas, origi was completed in 1754. The church and prosperous of the missions in the nally founded as Mission San Francisco faces due west and is built in the form area. de los Tcjas in 1690 in what is now of a cross. with altars in the north and The mission church. completed in northeastern Houston County. The San ,outh transepts and in the sanctuary on 1781. features an intricately carved lime Antonio mission wac; dedicated on its the cast end. Its name reflects a contro stone facade and the famous "Rma's present site, on the west bank of the San versial religious question of the day Window" on the south wall of the bap Antonio River. in 1731. the Doctrine of the Immaculate Concep tistry. Over the years the structure'!> The mission's first structures in San tion of the Virgin ...Acuna" 1s derived original dome and tower fell hut were Antonio were only temporary. Not until from the name of the Viceroy of Mexico rebuilt by the WPA in the '30s when the the early I 740s were permanent stone at the time of the mission's founding. entire m1,sion complex wa, restored. buildings conc;tructcd. By 1745, the Es In 1794 Concepcion was secularil'Cd fhroughout most of the 18th century. pada complex had a two-story friary, and its land distributed among some 15 Mission San Jose flourished. with about stone church, granary, irrigation system remaining Indian families. It was aban 1.200 acres under irrigation and herds of and acquaduct across Piedra Creek. still doned in 1819 and not used again for up to 4,000 Longhorn<, during its best functional and now a National Historic religious purposes until 1861. It was years. Landmarl... A surrounding stone parapet rededicated a Catholic church in 1887. During the 1760s, the mission Indians, included corner bastions for defense, one who had learned their lessons well, were of which is still standing unrestored. Mission San Josey given charge of the mission ranch lands. The mission buildings deteriorated San Miguel de Aguayo San Jose wa, partially ,ccularizcd in after secularization in 1824. By 1858, As the only one of the five missions in 1794. with the miS\ion church continu only the church facade and rear walls \an Antonio sponsored by the Francis ing to function as such until 1824, when remained standing. Restoration and re can College of Zacatccas. the Mission the Mexican government ordered it pair of the complex has been underway. San Jose received the college\ con,tant abandoned. off and on, since the late 1800s. November/December 1978 39 Architectural Clay Tile Structural Stoneware makes the most unique line of architectural fired clay tile and pavers made 1n the U.S. for walls and floors, patios and pools, malls, pedestrian walks and light vehicular areas. In Texas, Stoneware products are represented in the following cities by: Associated Tile Sales 9203 Broadway, San Antonio 78217 call Kent BrookS, 826-5761 FRENCH-bROWN 6852 T"Mnh1lls Ave. Dallas 75231 call Steve Brown, 361-9430 Great Southern Supply Co. 3637 W Alabarm at T11rm:>ns Lane Suite 490. -Houston 77021 call Howard Dudding, 626-9172 Plo,1s0 vIsIt us In Booth 10 & 11 at tho TSA Annual Mce11ng In ~" structural stoneware incorporated,minerva, ohio 446~, C, 16 011 R du lt1<1w1y C 1d AWARDS '78 Honor Awards, Design Awards, Flowers Awards Concern for the quality of life-beyond a year-long TSA theme-is inherent in the everyday thoughts and activities of architects as shapers of the built environ ment. And in Texas, where that environment is relatively young and dynamic, an awareness of the quality life as an achievable goal is growing in the pubJic as well as the professional consciousness. To recognize and gauge that developing concern, and to reaffirm its own professional goals and commitments, the Texas Society of Architects seeks to recognize civic and professional efforts which dem onstrate a genuine and sensitive concern for environmental quality as its own re ward. So it is that, during its annual meeting each year, TSA presents Honorary Membership to individuals, and Citations of Honor to individuals and organiza tions, in recognition of significant contributions to the quality of life in Texas. The John G. Flowers Memorial Awards Program, intended to stimulate excel lence in architectural reporting and criticism, also culminates during the annual meeting, as does TSA's design awards program, intended not only to recognize architects for outstanding design achievement but clients for making it possible. On the following pages are brief introductions to this year's honorees: nine in dividual and institutional recipients of TSA Honor Awards for civic achievement, selected by committee from chapter nominations across the state; three winners of the 1978 John G. Flowers Memorial Award, for journalistic excellence in various media; and the l O winning projects in the 1978 design awards competition. Texas Architect commends the honorees fo r their exemplary accomplishments, which will be more formally cited during presentations at the annual meeting awards luncheon in San Antonio November 3. November/December 1978 41 Honor Awards Nina Cullinan Houston Honorary Membership There was no art museum in the state of Texas in 1909 when Joseph S. Cul linan acquired a triangle of land ad jacent to Herman Park in Houston for the Art League of Houston to use as a site for a new art museum. opened in 1924 and now called the Museum of Fine Arts. In the years since, of course. Nina Cullinan Dr. Philip Hoffman every major city in the state has come to boast of at least one major art museum and man). Houston for one. have man aged to lay claim to two. A good deal of the credit for Houston's fortunate wealth of fine and contemporary art-and fine and contemporary architecture to shelter and di,;play it-remain'> in the Cullinan family. After Joseph Cullinan's death in 1939. the standard of patron and sup porter of the arts in Hou<;ton passed to his daughter. Nina. who over the years has played an invaluable leading role in ... the growth and development of Hous Houston Home & Garden Houston Urban Bunch in action. ton's Museum of Fine Arts and Con temporary Arts Museum. Keenly interested in a wide range of community activities. from the Houston Symphony to mental health units of the Texas Medical Center. Nina Cullinan has devoted perhaps the greatest interest and support to the visual arts-including architecture. In the early '50s. recogni1- ing the need to expand the Museum of Fine Arts on the original site her father acquired for the Art League of Houston some 30 years before. Nina Cullinan commissioned the renowned internation Robert Hugman on the River Walk. Dr. Rupert Richardro11 al architect Mies Van der Rohe to design the new additions and in 1958 dedicated the new Cullinan Wing to her parents. Recognizing the need for the estab lishment of a museum for the con temporary as well as fine historical arts in Houston, Miss Cullinan was one of the early organizers and leaders of Hous ton's Contemporary Arts Association. formed shortly after World War II to bring to Houston exhibitions demon strating the trends then developing in the major art centers of the world. City seal. San Antonio. Frances Swrgis Curtis Hunt Valuing the pioneers of the day as well as those of the past, Nina Cullinan has also promoted the acceptance of the best contemporary architectural design in Houston. 42 Texas Architect Dr. Philip G. Hoffman Houston Home & Garden Houston Urban Bunch Houston Citation of Honor Houston Citation of Honor Since the first issue rolled off the Citation of Honor In 1961, the first ye:1r for Dr. Philip presses in October 1974, the monthly The Houston Urban Bunch (II UB) Hoffman a, president, the University maga£ine lloioro11 llome & G"rdt'11, was organi,cd by TSA's Houston chap of Homton had a total enrollment of publi,hcd by Bayland Publi,hing, Inc., ter in 1970 as a private, tax-exempt, 12,000 students on one campus and a of I louston. has devoted a substantial non-profit "community design center," budget of lillle more than $7 million. It amount of space and editorial atlcntion one of numerous volunteer groups of was also a relatively obscure private to llou,1on\ architecture not only resi architects. planners, engineers, graphics school, looking ahe,1d to a 11me when dential design and landscaping, as its designers. craftsmen and students private schoob all over the country name would ,uggesl, but other topics of formed nationwide in the late '60i. and would face dwindling enrollments and vital and current concern to architects early '70s to provide professional design funds. and homeowners alike, such as solar en services to people and neighborhoods Seventeen years later, the university's ergy. city life. pre,ervation and adaptive normally unable to afford such services. profile, size ,ind sl:llurc have changed reuse and neighborhood revi1ali1ation. Largely a response to the gauntlet of drama11cally. foday, a tour of the 1 hrough photo e\\ays. feature articles "social responsibility" thrown before the Houston central campus, one of four :ind almost monthly interviews with A I A und other professional organi,a state-supported Univer'lity of Houston I louston architects, the maga1ine en tions by the activist movements of the campuses statewide, reveals a thriving courages its readership (expanding late '60s, the community design center academic and built environment, w11h a monthly) to he concerned with quality concept in many cities across the coun budget of $56 million and a system-wide design both residential and commer try over the years has gone the way of enrollment of 40,000, rcflcc1111g the C.\. cial. inside and out. Each month at least the smouldering draft card. Not so in traordinary growth .ind ma1ur11y of the one I louston home is featured in some 1l ouston, where for the past eight years university under the leadcr,hip of Dr. detail with credit prominently given its the Houston Urban Bunch has played Hoffman. During hi'> tenure, over $200 architects. Regular articles advise readers an integral role in coordinating what it million has been spent on campus facili- how best 10 decorate their homes; other likes to call a '"city gardening" effort: as 11c, development. By selecting highly Mories arc educational: describing classic I fouston grows by leaps and bounds, qualified design professionals for the chair designs. for example, (and where II UB has continuously focused attention rapid and ongoing building program, to find them); still others keep readers on the "overlooked" people of the inner Dr. Hoffman ha'> encouraged and pro up to date on new products, from the city who may not be profiling all that moted qu.1lity architecture, while :11 the latest bathroom fixtures and ceramic much from the city's new economic ,ame 11mc protecting the campu, through tiles to greenhouses and skylights. Other bounty. "A plant blooms best," IIUB ,incl adherence to environmental stan regular topics include energy-saving, re volunteers like 10 say, '"when its roots dard, and rccogn11ion of the importance modeling, home improvement, decorat arc given equal allention even though of natural clements in an area of in ing and current books. one's hands arc apt to get dirty." crea,111g urbanization. Grass, trees, llomro11 llome & Gard1'11 has nd II UB projects have ranged from site shrubs and flowers enhance every ap drc.,scd current architectural concerns planning and housing renovation to vest proach 10 the university; new building'> not only hy reporting and photographing pocket parks and comprehensive plans on campus reflect freedom of design 1l ouMon projects but also by co-spon for rehabilitating entire neighborhoods. while retaining a sense of unity with soring (in conjunction with TSA's llous- Total value of 113 HUB projects under older structures and a consideration for 1on chapter) the annual I louston Home taken between 1973 and 1977, including the development of the tot,11 campus Design Awards. the annual Environ donated labor, materials and professional environment. The cstabll\hmcnl of the mental Improvement Competition (along time, is estimated to have been more Un1ver<,ity of Houston Clear Lake cum with the TSA How,ton chapter and the than $500,000. pu, in 1971 exemplified the same em Houston Municipal Art Commi'>sion), II UB's longevity is due in part to pha<,1s on blending architecture with the the annual Tour of I lomcs and the its organi,ation. A board of directors repre environment. Showcase Home (presented by the Hous sents both the participating design and r he result of all this a11en1ion to qual ton Urban Bunch, another of this year's building professions and the people of ity m the development of the University Citation of Honor recipients, and the the city for whom the services arc in of Houston's natural and built environ Interior Architecture Committee of the tended. And a full- and part-time staff ment under the aegis of Dr. Hoffman Homton TSA chapter). h,l'> resulted in a lively, stimulating, coordinates the effort, consisting of an commun11y-onented 111s11tution, upon executive di rector, project coordinator, which, as Dr. Hoffman says, "we arc 1,ccrctary, draftsmen and V ISTA volun building the future." teers. HU B's long-lasting success, of course, is due in even greater measure to the dedication of its members and the ap preciation and cooperation of the public it serves. November/December 1978 43 Robert H. H. Hugman Dr. Rupert N. Richardson The City of San Antonio San Antonio Abilene Citation of Honor Citation of Honor Citation of Honor The site of this year's TSA annual As a possible solution to the periodic One of the most active state historical meeting and hence the focus of this threat of flooding, the City of San An agencies in the country, the Texas State special convention issue, the City of San tonio proposed in the 1920s the straight Historical Commission has its origins in Antonio is recognized as a Texas city ening of the San Antonio River between the grassroots historical marker pro with a special quality in its life, a unique Olmos Basin and Gunther Mills and the gram, begun in the late ·sos to solicit urban ambience of colorful faces, places building of a channel cut-off from Com citizen input in finding, marking and and sounds that tracks well with TSA's merce Street to Villita Street. But to preserving buildings of historical and year-long theme TEXAS: THE QUAL many San Antonio citizens, the remedy architectural significance statewide. One ITY LIFE. But San Antonio is worthy was almost worse than the ailment. Ob of the prime movers of that successful of recognition in more ways than one. jections to removing the meandering grass-roots effort was Dr. Rupert N. Exemplifying the quality life in Texas, kinks in the river arose among those who Richardson, historian and President the city reminds us that it takes work, feared the project would desecrate one of Emeritus of Hardin-Simmons University dedication-and action-to create and the river's most picturesque parts, 1-.nown in Abilene, who as chairman of the preserve such quality of life, and few as the Big Bend. nascent Texas State Historical Survey cities in the country have done more to The effort to do both-lessen the Committee in the early '60s travelled that end than San Antonio. threat of flooding and preserve the throughout the state encouraging local Continually rallying its resources to beauty of the river- was ultimately survey committees, dedicating historical protect the cultural, historical and archi realized. of course, with the develop markers and otherwise getting the pro tectural heritage that make San Antonio ment of San Antonio's famed Paseo dcl gram successfully off the ground. Public life so unique, the city has been a leader Rio, or River Walk, thanks in large response was overwhelming. Today, ap on the national as well as state level in measure to the vision and planning ex proximately 2,000 structures in Texas historic zoning, preservation and urban pertise of young San Antonio architect carry the Recorded Texas Historic Land revitalization. San Antonio was one of Robert H. H. Hugman. Envisioning a mark designation (the familiar medallion three cities, for example, along with stretch of river lined with sidewalk cafes, with interpretive plate), providing not New Orleans and Boston, to join with mariachi bands and shops selling Mexi only some degree of protection for the New York City in the successful land can food and crafts, with Gondoliers structures but, due to a state constitu mark lawsuit to save New York City's poling their boats through floating tional amendment adopted in November 65-year-old Grand Central Station. De patches of colorful lilies, Hugman de 1977, also making the properties eligible claring New York's landmark designa vised a plan that would beautify the for ad valorem tax relief. tion statute constitutional, the U.S. Su flood channel, enhance the Big Bend Or. Richardson served almost 13 years preme Court in June upheld a city's section of the river and bring merchants as a member and two years as chairman right to designate and protect specific to the riverside. He presented his "river of the survey committee, which was re historical landmarks for the benefit of street" proposal to local businessmen designated the Texas Historical Com the public, a victory for historic preser and city officials. The idea was wcll mission in 1973. Many effective preser vationists nationwide. reccived-with one nagging reservation: vation policies adopted during his tenure San Antonio's local efforts have been the project would undoubtedly cost too still exist. Once, while reflecting on no less effective. Among its major poli much. But the oncoming Depression, those years of helping preserve Texas' cies officially adopted to protect the ironically, gave Hugman and his sup heritage during an address to the T exas city's heritage and style: establishment porters the means to get the ambitious State Historical Association, Dr. Rich of the first historic zoning ordinance in plan underway. With the Depression ardson cited the historical marker pro the state and formal recognition of the came the Works Progress Administration gram as " History for the People," a pro King William area as the state's first (WPA) with its battalions of unemployed gram which gives travellers reason to historic district; purchase and restoration craftsmen and laborers. By the late pause in their journies throughout the of La Villita as the first restored village in I 930s, with Hugman as project archi state, "history written so that he who the state; establishment of a revolving tect, work had begun on the San An runs may read." fund for property owners to convert tonio River Beautification Project, all abandoned downtown structures into but completed by 1942 (in September of residential apartments; and establish this year, installation of five bronze bells ment of an historic preservation fund in the restored Arneson River Theater from the city's hotel-motel tax to be used in honor of Hugman marked the com to restore city-owned historic properties. pletion of Hugman's original River Walk scheme). Now El Pasco D el Rio is one of the major tourist attractions in the state, one of the finest urban amenities in the country and, according to one Austin architect, "one of the most vital urban spaces in the world." 44 Texas Architect Frances Sturgis Curtis R. Hunt, Jr. Waco San Antonio Citation of Honor Special Award Last summer the City of Waco won His father was a stonemason, his the Governor's Community Achievement father's father was a stonemason and Award for the second time in the last his son is a stonemason. A nd at 62, liv three years ( competing against all Texas ing proof that stonemasonry-one of cities 60,000 or more in population). No the oldest crafts going-is nowhere close ~mall part of that honor was recognition to being a dying art, Curtis R. H unt is a of Waco·s successful community-wide master mason, with a special bent for effort to raise funds for the Indian historic stonework which has kept him in Springs Park, a S500,000 beautification frequent contact with restoration archi and recreation project now underway tects who find old-style masonry prob along the Brazos River in downtown lems beyond their grasp. Waco. And no small part of that success Proof also that old-fashioned crafts ful fund-raising campaign was Frances manship is alive and well-at least in his Sturgis, co-chairman of the Lake Brazos hands-H unt has been actively involved Project-of which the park project is a in many of the more notable restoration major focus-and mover and shaker an projects in San Antonio, including: pres countless Waco community improve ervation of the historic Ursuline Acade ment projects over the years, a self m}'; Wulff House restoration, King Wil assumed role which has lead to at least liam District; San Fernando Cathedral; one Waco Trib1111e-llerald editorial Steves Carriage House; the Yates House; "warning" Waco citizens: "If you see and the San Jose Mission. Mrs. Carroll (Frances) Sturgis coming His work on the San Jose Mission toward you with a determined gleam in goes back a few years. As a young ap her eye. be prepared to go to work. prentice stonemason in the I 930s, H unt Smile and say, 'Yes, ma'am.'" worked on the original restoration of The Indian Springs Park project, in the mission as part of the Depression fact, may have died a quiet and forgot spawned Works Progress Administration ten death if it hadn·t been for Mr<,. Stur (WPA). He worked only for two days, !:!"' rejuvination effort\. T he park origi he confesses. but the brief introduction nally wa, conceived ,h a Bicentennial to restoration rock-work did help gen proJect and wa, considered a major part erate a life-long interest in making de of the development of the Lake BraLO, caying \lone buildings look both vital area and the revitaliLation of downtown and vintage. Waco. But lack of fund, in 1976 delayed II \ not easy. to say the least. Today's the project\ begannmg and threatened approach to masonry construction- to d1mini,h the project\ momentum in a veneer of brick or ,tone on an ex1,tmg dcfinately. Enter Frances Sturgis, who in tar-papered wall is a far cry from the ,hort order generated the support and techniques of the German ma,ons of the rounded up the fund'> nece,.,ary to get 1800'> or the Indian masons of the 1700., the project underway. which charactcri,e many of the old Indian Spring, Park isn't the first building'> in San Antonio re\tored today. commun11y improvement project owing And studying and applying tho,e ancient much of it, ,ucces, to I-ranee, Sturgi,. In techniques is a lot more gratifying, says 1975. becau,e of a similar effort on her Hunt. even though it t.ike\ more time. p.1rt as Chairm,111 of the Beautify Waco Jhc trick. he ,ay-,, i-, not to make it look Comm11tee. a major beautification proj ··too perfect." lie quotes a San Antonio ect wac; achieved along Lake Bra,o,. architect famou-, ror ,evcral San An I hi, al<,o mvolved an ambitiou, commu tonio re,toration project\, among other nity-wide fundrai,mg effort ,md aho thing,. "Like O'Neil Ford ,ays. 'just 1c,uhed 111 a Governor\ Community throw it in there, it'll look a lot more Achievement Award for Waco. natural.'·· November /December 1978 45 Design Awards Three "H" Sen•ice.r Center Stephen Pyle Residence Waller Creek lmprol'ement.r Adapti,•e Reuse of Victorian Warehouse Cameron Iron Works Early Texav Farmhoure 46 Texas Architect Texas Architecture: 1978 Ten Projects Cited Ten projects by ten Texas firms emerged as coequal win11ers i11 tl,is year's TSA design awards competition. Out of I 42 entries, the jury selected the projects listed below ar those most desen·ing of recog11itio11 as good design so/utio11s. Jurors were: Antoine Predock. Albuquer que; Gene Summers. FA/A, Newport Beach; and Robert Venturi, Philadelphia. See 1979 issuer of Texas Architect for further co1•erage of these win11ing designs, pictured clockwise from top left: Waller Creek Improvements, Phase 11, for UT-Austin, by John Robinson & Dr. Pepper Addition Associates, Austin. Three " H" Services Center, Houston, for Bordersville Neighborhood Council, by John Zemanek, Houston. Stephen Pyle Residence, Austin, by Sinclair Black, Austin. Addition to Dr. Pepper Company Headquarters Building, Dallas, Environ mental Space Design, Inc., Dallas. Country House, Marble Falls. for Dr. & Mrs. R. W. Baird, by Larry O'Neill & Andrew Perez Architects, San Antonio. Katy Railroad Building, Dallas, for MKT Railroad Company, by Thomas E. WooJward & Associates, Inc., Dallas. Student Activities Center, for Univer sity of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, Cali fornia, by Caudill Rowlett Scoll, Hous ton, and Albert A. Hoover & Associates, Palo Alto, California. Early Texas Farmhouse, by Burson Hendricks & Walls, Dallas. Adaptive Reuse of Victorian Ware house, 213-215 Tremont Street, Galves ton, for Daniel K. Thorne, by T aft Archi tects, Houston. Cameron Iron Works World Head quarters Building, Houston, by J D/ International, Houston. Katy Railroad Building November/December 1978 47 Flowers Awards Three Win in article, in both explicit content and im Media Awards Competition plicit messages." Patsy Swank, a producer for KERA A Houston newspaper writer, a Dallas TV in Dallas, won in the television cate freelance magazine writer and a Dallas gory for a segment of her weekly half television producer/ anchorwoman are hour program, "Swank in the Aris," winners in the eighth annual Flowers which consisted of her interview with Memorial Awards program for excel architect Philip Johnson when he was in lence in architectural reporting and criti Dallas to receive the AJA Gold Medal cism. last May. The interview illuminates both The award-for professionals in Texas Johnson's personal philosophy of archi newspaper, magazine, television and ra tecture and his opinions regarding direc dio-was established in J968 following tions within the profession. Radio/tele the death of former TSA Executive Di vision category judge Robert E. Davis, rector John G. Flowers. It consists of a Chairman of the Department of Radio certificate and $500 for the winner in Television-Film at UT-Austin, said the each of the four categories. No radio interview was skillfully executed and Mimi Crossley award will be presented this year, how best satisfied the award criteria encour ever, in compliance with the radio/tele aging "serious and competent architec vision judge's recommendation. tural criticism as a means of intensifying Mimi Crossley, art writer for the public demand for a better built environ Houston Post, placed first in the news ment." paper category for a collection of arti cles, including reportage and criticism, illustrating Post architectural coverage during the past year. Print media judge John Morris Dixon, editor of Progressive Architecture, commented about the en try, "In these articles, architecture is presented to the public without apologies. They are given prominent positions, with large illustrations of strong visual impact (and well chosen for newspaper repro duction), a rare practice among news papers covering architecture. There is no Jane Sumner attempt to slip architectural coverage in by slanting articles primarily toward the interests of investors, say, or homemak ers. . .. They represent sound judge ment on architectural questions, in terms a large part of the public should be able to appreciate." The winning magazine entry was "The Park that Peter Built," an account of the development of Thanks-Giving Square in Dallas, written by Jane Sumner as a freelancer for D Magazine in the No vember, 1977 issue. Terming the article an unusually successful combination of investigative report and architectural criticism, Dixon said it is "a gripping chronicle of interaction between various individuals and forces in shaping a spe Pntn• Swank cial public environment, apparently ac complished through some skillfull news gathering strategics. Yet attention is not allowed to wander too far from the actual architectural product of this in triguing process ... The writing style is polished, the illustrations and graphics exceptionally effective in supporting the 48 Texas Architect ave gas by using gas. It's a fact. You save gas by using gas. And the reason is simple. Gas equipment and appliances use gas directly. Electricity, on the other hand, must be produced by some other form of energy. In Texas, that other energy form is usually natural gas. And a lot of the gas energy is lost in the process of conversion. 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San A11tomo 52 Texas Architect Los Patios Additions The owner of Los Patios. a landscap ing and gardening center on Salado Creek in northeast San Antonio. wanted to expand the facilit> to accommodate the increasing demand for lease space in the complex and to add a fevv e:-.tra touches. such as a restaurant and tea room. To avoid the image of a conventional commercial shopping center. architect\ of the original Los Patios building. Frank Welch Associates of Midland. designed the ne\\ addition to emerge as .1 subtle ..discovered world" from its heavily-wooded site. With the program calling for one ne\v building (as opposed to several smaller ones) and for every tree on the site to remain !>landing. a rambling ··organic" building !>hape evolved. \\ ith each new clement c:-.tcnd ing from the last in whatever direction "a, treeless. To provide continuity from old to new. load-bearing mm,onr) walls with , ucco and standing-seam metal !>hed. abled and hipped roof, were used on the new addition. as they were on the original. with the high pitch of the roofs allowing for menanines and clerestor} lighting in the shopping spaces. Windows repeat the 8-foot-by 8-foot-modules c,tablished with the firM building. a mix ture of simple rectangles and barrel v.iults. The materials and vaulted shapes ,1 c a regional tribute. architects say. • ith some inspiration drawn from 0 Neil Ford's Arts Building at the Uni crsuy of Dallas. The Gazebo restaurant and tea room i~ L-shapcd, surrounded b} a wood-deck patio and a patio wall of recycled. dry srncked stone (masonry without mortar) Y.hich the client obtained from an old building razed in downtown San Antonio. November/December 1978 53 I - --~ 54 Texas Architect Award of Merit Texas Architecture 1977 Republic Motor Bank In 1972. the Republic National Bank cash-carrying ,y,tcm to allow all of the of Dalla,. the largc,t hank in I cxas, teller, to be inside the main building, began looking for a new site for a motor providing ma,imum security. h;mk facility. one which would allow rhc building itself i, an all-concrete cu,tomers to drive in ,tn<.l out quick I}. \lructurc made of large precast pieces to conveniently an<.l with a minimum of rrovidc a hold sc.,lc in relation to the tall tnff1c congc,t1on. A, with many drive-in downto,, n buildings and the nearby frec h, nk,. Republic's e,1,ting drive-JO facil ,va}. A 50-fooHall prccast tower serves it, located in the ha,emcnt of the main '" a counterbalance to the lower canopy hank <.lowntown wa, ill-,uitcd and ~lieu buildings and c,tahli,hc-, an ca,ily recog for drive-JO ,en 1cc at peak hanl,.ing ni,cd ,ymhol for the facility. I he canti hour\. levered main canopy provides a continu U,ing detaile<.l traffic ,wdie,. arch1- ou, view down the line of cu,tomer can, tC\.h of the Dalla, firm Omniplan Archi at the teller ,talion,. while allowing for tect, worked with the hank in selecting four ,oltd ,upport wall, to provide a • ,1 ,ite adiacent to the ,oon-to-he-huih ,en,e of encl Novem ber/December 1978 55 Midland National Bank Tower In the dry, hot climate of West Texas, com,idcrations of the sun in the design of a building arc paramount. With that ever-present sun in mind. architects of the Houston firm S.I. Morris Associates designed the 14-story, 23,000-square foot Midland National Bank Tower to consume 30 percent less energy than the typical high-rise office building. I h1, wa!> achieved mainly by facing all gla'>!> surfaces of the burldmg north and south. thus avoiding the intense solar loads of an cast-west orientation, and by providing faceted window-wall projec tions on all north-south exposures so 1hat interior spaces cnjo} natural light ing wi1hout the discomfort and heat of direct sunlight. Orientation also wa, an important concern in taking maximum advantage of the two-block downtown '>ite. Archi tect'> de,1gned the building to be situated diagonally in one corner of the site and 10 front directly on a plaza which sep arates II from two main downtown ,treets. A parking deck immediately ad jacent to the rear of the building pro vide, space for 380 automobiles and al,o incorporates a 12-lane. drive-in bank. Yet another de,ign con,;ideration was interior ,pace flexibility. With main 56 Texas Architect PhoM"' RuhmJPmlft' Award of Merit Texas Architecture 1977 h.mk facili11c, located in an area or fir,t floor u,e free ,rnnding gl:1s, pa r1 i- 60.000 ,q11arc feet on 1hc ground flolll' 1ion,, with commercial loan office<, on of 1hc lower. 1he remain mg ,pace wa, the third level u\mg solid partition, he dc"1,mated a, commercial lca,c ,pace tween officer, and tinted glo,s from ,ind for future h.mk e,pan,ion. November /December 1978 57 San Antonio Chapter DESIGN AWARDS TSA's San Antonio chapter, which will celebrate its 25th birthday November I in conjunction with this year's TSA annual meeting, held its own annual design awards presenta tion September 21 at the Southwest Craft Center Chapel on the grounds of San Antonio's old Ursuline Academy, attended by more than I 00 local architects and spouses. Five winning project were cited in this year's program, chosen from a total of 26 entries submitted by San Antonio firms. Winning projects (pictured clockwise from immediate right) were. Way residence, Gruene. Owner: Dr. David Way. Architect: Joe Stubblefield. Adaptive reu,c or existing school building, now a community re,;ource center for the Mexican-American Unity Council, San Antonio. O\\,ner: Mexican-American Unity Council Archi tects: Larry O''le1II & Andrew Perez. Holland Hall Lower School, Tul a, Okla. Owner: Holland Hall School. Architects ford. Powell & Car on, in association with Barnard & Starr, Tul<,a, Renovation of Our l.ady or Refuge Church, Refugio. Owner: Our Lady of Refuge Church. Architects: Kinni~n & A,;~oci ate\. Ranch hou,e. Muldoon. Owner: Mr. and Mr'i. Don R. Mul lins. Architcch: Larry O'Neill & Andrew Perez Jurors for the I 978 San Antonio competition were Key Kolb of Omniplan Architects. Dalla,; William Cannady or Rice Univer,ity in Hou\ton; and Arthur Cotton Moore of Arthur Cotton Moore/ Associates. Wa,hington, D.C. Way reJidence, Gruene. Rand, ho11re. 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The building program includes ap proximately 250.000 gross square feet of new con~truction and the remodeling of 14.000 square feet of existing bank space. New facilities include public banking space. a luncheon club, ancillary parking areas and rental office space. The new office tower is designed to be an integral part of the new banking facilities. forming a counterpoint with the existing structure. T o provide opti mum rental space. architects designed the tower with eight corners per floor. Floor, of ,cveral ,i,es were created by varying the heights of the three inter locking tower clements. which rise to 13. 16 and 20 stories. As a result. floors range from 4,410 square feet to 12.260 gross square feet to accommodate a va riety of tenant requirements. The Clegg/Austin Collection. Clegg/Austin makes the furniture and Sample Library Procurement and designs of Knoll, Herman Miller. Expediting, Rece1v1ng . Warehousing, Lehigh-Leopold. Steelcase. Probber. 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The exterior of the complex will be tree-bark colored Corporate Headquarters community in the piney woods north of precast concrete spandrels and tinted re Planned for the Woodlands Hom,ton. flecting glass, colors and materials chosen The 350.000-square-foot complex will for their compatibility with the sur ConMruction will begin soon on a new be located on a 12-acre site near the rounding landscape. rorporatc headquarters building for the northwest intersection of Interstate 45 Construction of two units is scheduled Mitchell Energy and Development Cor and Woodlands Parl,.way, the main thor to begin late in 1978 and to be ready for poration, designed by the Houston firm oughfare into the new community. and occupancy in mid-1980. Construction of S.J. Morris Associates to serve as a sym will overlook a 24-acre lal,.c to be built the third building is slated to begin sev holic gateway to the Woodlands. a rapid parallel to and about 200 feet from the eral months later and completed in 1981 ly gro\\ ing commercial and residential freeway. Architects designed the building or '82. November /December 1978 C11ctu 23 on Re 1de1 /11q1111y C,ud 63 Dallas Recreation Center Planned for Handicapped To broaden rccrcaltonal opportunitie~ for it~ mentally and phr,ically handi capped citi,cn,. the Caty of Dalla, com mi\\ioned the Dalla, firm Thomp,on/ Parkey A 'i'iOCiate~. Inc., to design a rec reation center which would be exclusive !) 1.1ilored to u~cr need, and abilitie~ not ordinaril) a\\ociated with a program for active play. To determine currently fa vo11.:d program \tandard-, for wch a fa. c1lity an Dalla,. to be one of only a hand ful in the country, architect\ ,urveyed more than 60 ,en ice agenc1e, and spe cial interc,1 group, for the handicapped. A, a rc,ult of cxtcn,1vc research. ma Jt)r program clements of the $2.5 million Dalla, Recreation Center for the lland1- capped. ,chedulcd for groundbreaking in Bachman I akc Park. i, intended to pro Courtyard, arc controlled by a con April 1979 and completion in April vu..lc .in eaS1ly accessible and understand tinuou-. low brick wall, which at times 1980. evolved 11110 five independent "ac- able pl.in for 11, handicapped users. And mlcr,ect, the south end of the building 11\ II)' clmters" Admini,tration. A, by separating the act1v11y clw,ters along and is projected to fascia height to form ,cmbl~ Dramatic,. Multi-Purpose Art\, a grcenhome-gallcry "main street," '>ym a solar ,creen. This wall also serves as a Adapted Physical I ducation and Adapt holiting the huildang\ .,cce,,ihiltty, archi remnant ol' masonry 1m1sscs at each end ed Aquatic,. A ,imple linear orran11a te..:t, hope to create caS1ly supervised of the building. providing continuity t1011 ol the 42.000-,quare-l'oot bualdmg. ,paces .,nd allm.., views to the nearby across the four activity clusters on the on a linear. ,..,ooded. 8.5-acrc sale in lake from every space in the building. lake ,idc of the structure. terr rare beauty. a rarer eco1#1on,.1J. z Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is usually subjective. Rarely universal. But economy is another thing It is difficult to be subjective about economy in the z face of facts that prove ,t. Even after hearing charge and countercharge concerning overall costs of various flooring materials. Consider terrazzo vs. carpet. A recent 0 study showed clearly that the total annual cost of nylon carpet is at least twice that of terrazzo- 126% higher, to be exact. Considering cost of material based on average life, maintenance labor, capital equipment and supplies, the total annual flooring cost per 1,000 square feet for nylon carpet came to $541 .81 . For terrazzo only $245.45. Economy that's beautifully rare in these times. We'll be happy to send you details of the study, and the results. Write 8outfl,~t 'letfazzo c/1iiociatio11,, 111,c. P O Bo >< 45707. Exct111nqe P,Hk Sllll!On 0.ill 1s Tex<1~ /5245 (21 4) 368-2952 Circle 24 on Roadm lnqwry C111ci 64 Texas Architect The Attractive Alternative Alenco Replacement Window Systems If your assignment is the restoration, renovation, or Alenco windows arc equally adaptable to wood, ma modernization of an older building, AJenco aluminum sonry, or steel construction. 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Box 3309 1 Bryan, Texas 77801 I City·------1 IState ______Zip------1 713/822-0121 ITelephone ______, L------~ Clfcle 25 on Reader lnqulfy Card Pella Designer Doors combine the For more deta led nlormat on send lor your lree copy ol our lu I color cata og Pella look of richly paneled walls with the on Pc a Wood Fold ng Doois See u,- n Sweel s Gt'lera Buald,ng Fa e ca Sweets BUYLINE nurT'ber or look ,n the Yellow Pages un Orcle 26 on Reader lnqu ry Card TSA Town Meetings Cabot's ''Weathering'' for Sale ... Panelists (L-R): Robinron, Wt'lch, Goodman, Miller, Hines, Harman MeeJ..er and Lindrn_r Houston Meeting KPRC-TV new, director, acknowledged that "the he'.lrl of Houston i, alive" but Explores Quality Growth lamented that "Nobody lives downtown More than ,oo 1.1111en-.. bu'1ne,,men, in Homton. That i, the main thing nrchitcch and ci\ic official<, gathered at we arc lacking in our inner city-resi the Hyau Regcnc} Hou,ton Hotel Sep dential building, really clo,e in." tember :?9 for .. ,n Search of Quality Kc}n0le speaker Louie Welch, former Growth," a conference organized by Hou,ton mayor. labeled the downtown 1 St\\ Hou,ton chapter a, the fourth area '" the bu,ine,,. government and cul To bring out the (following SJn Antonio, Waco and All\· tural center which i, "vital lo the vitality Im l in 1 S.\ \ year-long ,cries of " fown of the city" He called for support of the best in wood. Meeting," on TEXAS THE QUAl.ITY recent!> ,1pprovcd Mu,, Tran,it Authori These new stains enhance I U E. ty ( MTA) and it, plan, to create quality the beauty of the wood Under~cretary of Commerce Dr. Sid mobility downtown and throughout the grain, produce rich, hvely ney Harman was luncheon spcJt..cr for city a, being imporlilnl to the future well colors in a variegated ef the conference, co-,pon,ored with the being of Hou,ton fect, depending on the Hou,ton chapter br the C 11y of Hou,ton, -\I \ F,ccutive Vice-President David porosity of the wood and the Chamber of Commerce and Harris 0 Meeker, FAIA, pre,ented slides of the exposure. Cabot's County Commi-.,ioner, Court. Harman, exemplary urban de,1gn accomplishments Transparent Stains are addrc,,ing the quality of working life, m ,uch cities a, San Franci,co, Atlanta, trouble-free, never crack, said po,ilive nuitude, among employees C mcinnati, M inneapoli-, and Portland as peel or blister, assure of government agencies and private a contrast to the "visual pollution" he excellent results on all firm, can ,ignif1cantly improve the quali cited as one of Houston\ major prob types of exterior wood. t)' of life in America. A primary force in lems. Ideal for shingles, siding, \\ Ork humanization program,, Harman Ray Miller moderated a panel di,cus clapboards, paneling . auJ employer confidence m employees, s1on including Robinson, Lindsay, Welch, the eeking and u1ihzat1on of employee and Meeker, as well a<; developer Gerald suggestions, and sensitive design and lay Hine, and MTA interim executive di out of buildings and work stations con rector Barry Goodman. The panel fielded tribute to employee,· self-worth and es que,tion<; from the audience. teem. Opening the conference wa,; Chairman Dallas Conference Kenneth Bent,en, FAIA, who introduced Featuring Vincent Ponte Hou~ton City Councilman Judson Robm on, ,pc,1king in place of Mayor Jim Mc- Al presst1me, TSA's Dallas chapter is Conn who wa, called away to a White completing plans for its 'Town Meet Hou,e conference Robinson cited "the ing," a luncheon addres<; by international- role played by private enterpri,e in plan 1> known phmner Vincent Ponte entitled, ning urban design, coupled with the free "Dalla, Downtown Vio;ions of the fu dom (from city interference) to imple ture," to be held at the Sheraton-Dallas ment that design" as being central lo Hotel October 24 Ponte, who has done Hou~ton's economic vitality ,omc of h1, mo,t renowned work m Dal Harm County Judge Jon Lindsay las, is to make a ~hde presentation on Cabot's Stains of Houston called utlcntion to a "near-crisi'\'' situa what the city has accomplished since the P 0 . Box 27164 tion involving lack of parldands and open introduction nearly ten years ago of the 2520 Drexel Drive spaces. He ,aid county government is Ponte-Travel"\ Master Plan, as well as his Houston, Texac; 77027 nddri:,,ing the problem by acquiring Vl\1on of what the future could hold for 713/622-7042 "othi:rwi,e u-;eless" lands in nood-prone Dall,1,;. The se~s1on i., being co-sponsored il rea~ for u,;e as parks. by the Dallas Central Business District Conference moderator Ray Miller, Assoc1at1on. C,rcJo 27 on R dCJ lnQu ry Caret November/ December 1978 67 Marlbrough & Lord Associates Representing Nemschoff L & B Products, Restonic Bedding, PT & C, Ceramic Design, Elevations Design, and Precision 214/748-3051 Lt) Glenn Hennings & Associates 0 Atlier International, LTD. Bob Gray, Inc. Furniture, Lighting, Art & Accessories Representing major lines of contract and 214/653-1161 institutional furniture 214/747-6361 .. m! ·,:,= O Endecor Novikoff, Inc. .. 0 :O Contract and Institutional Furnishings Seating, Desks. Conference Tables ;: Q) -..;:=:::=_, 214/748-0394 Wed. thru Fn.; Les Stratton, Showroom -C: Manager '0 C 214/748-1976 " Ernest Low & Associates Loyd Brotherton & Associates Contract Furniture. Lighting & Accessories 214/742-3654 co,- co a.. • ts::, '0 ..0 CL ~ Bill Chattaway Associates ~ Turn-Key Contract Furnishers 2 14/651-0845 For further information on any of the showrooms listed in the ad, please circle the reader inquiry number. If you would like information from a specific showroom. please indicate so on the reader inquiry card. Whats ~er than insulation, cheaper than oil and saves fuel? In today's energy crunch, outdated by almost 50 percent. A savings made single-pane windows may be the biggest practical, in part, by the insulating pain of all. quality of wood used in every frame Andersen~ windows can help ease and sash. that pain. That's because Andersen insulates This unique combination of energy where heat loss might otherwise be efficient features results in a low the greatest-in the window area itself. average infiltration rate of .25 cu/ft/min The windows' snug-fitting design and a .52 U-value. Both help save on is built two times more weathertight heating and air conditioning costs. Lhan industry air-infiltration standards So specify as much insulation as require. The better to keep out drafts, y~u need, but insist on quality Andersen and keep in comfort. wmdows, too. See Sweet's file 8.lG/ An And compared to old-fashioned, or ask us to show you the many ways to single-pane glass, Andersen's use of insulate with a view. double-pane insulating glass can reduce heat loss conducted through the glass TI1e beautiful vvay to save fuel All~pe!8~!1Wi~d9~~ns r~ 21 Davidson Sash & Door Co. Lone Star Wholesale, Inc. Dea Window & Door Co. PO Box 1904 Building Materials 2212 Clovis Rd. Austin. 78767 PO Box 29335 Lubbock. 79413 (512) 444-6701 Dallas. 75229 (806) 763-7078 (214) 247-6161 or (1-800) 492-9337 C,r re .!9 on Re 1dor lnqwry C,ud Success Story? You Bet! TSA Group Insurance Plan The TSA Group In surance Plan, ad We also offer lo the professional a ministered by Pred S. James Co., of complete package of insurance and Texas, has grown since its inception financial planning services in in 1961 now to include coverage of cluding: over l ,000 members of TSA and Professional Liability their employee,; and over 650 de Pension and Profit Sharing Plans pendents. Quick, reliable claim ser 1.R.A.'s vice and a group pl,in tailored to meet the needs of Te'\as architectur Long-Term Disability Insurance High-Limit Accident Insurance al firms, their employees and de Estate Planning pendents arc the reasons for this success. fhe fSA Group Plan in cludes: Group Life Insurance Comprehensive Major Medical Disability Income Protection So take advantage of TS/\',; pur cha-,ing power, liberal underwriting and excellent service by contacting Fred S. James Co. of Texas 3100 Timmons Lane, Bill Bray, Manager of Employee Suite 150 Benefits, Fred S. James Co., of Houston, Texas 77027 Texas. 713/871-0660 C11cle 30 on Reader tnqu,ry Card In the News Exam Preparation use of wood in design and modern con Seminars Scheduled struction for its Chandler's Landing Yacht Club in Rockwall. An engraved The TSA office has learned of the plaque was presented to firm representa foll owing preparation seminars for this tives October 20 during an awards year's professional registration examina luncheon at Sam Houston State Univer tion, scheduled for December 11-12 in sity in Huntsville. Austin : The yacht club, on the eastern shore • Houston, 7-10 p.m., October 25, of Lake Ray Hubbard near Dall as, is the lwsaki design. November I, 15 and 21. Place: Rice Uni focal point and activities center for the versiry Phys ics Building. #210. Registra 350-acre Chandler's Landing residential Japanese Architects rion Fee: $5. Contact Ruth Fuller, TSA community. The building offers pano Come to Houston Houston chapter, 3 121 Buffalo Speed ramic views of the lake, the 500-slip way, # 404, Houston 77098. Telephone: Five Japanese architects whose works (713) 629-0191. exemplify the post-war wave of bold, • Texas A&M University, College Sta monumental architecture in Japan ri on, November 17-18. Place: College of known as "Metabolism" and "Post Architecture and Environmental Design. Mctabolism," began a lecture tour of Registration Fee: $25. Contact Gordon the United States in late September, with Echols, Department of Architecture, llouston one of IO cities on the circuit. Texas A&M University. College Station Beginning September 8 and continuing 77843. Telephone : (713) 845- 1221. c,1ch Thursday through October 26, (This seminar is limited to 70 persons.) ,irchitects Takefumi Aida. Hiroshi Hara, tliromi Fujuii, Minoru Takeyama and ,\rata Jzosaki each gave public lectures Dallas Firm Chandler's Landing Y acht Club. ,ind slide presentations at the University Receives Forestry of Houston, demonstrating the significant Association Award marina, swimming pool terrace and ten aspects of the new wave of architecture nis courts. Roof overhangs, timber trel 111 Japan. The Dallas firm Selzer Associates has li ses and awnings shade glass from the r he tour was accompanied by original received the Texas Forestry Associa sun and a stair. required by building drawings and photographs of the works tion's 1978 design award for outstanding codes as a deck exit, extends upward to of the five speakers, as well as the works of fellow Japanese architects Tadao Ando, Toyoo Ito. Monta Mozuna, Osamu lshiyama and Atelier Zo. The lecture tour is part of a national nrchitecture exchange program of the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, with funding from UNLIMITED WOOD CREATIONS the National Endowment for the A rts, o/ old-fo,o/uon,ed excelte-,1-a' / the John D. Rockefeller III Fund, the Japan/ U.S. Friendship Commission and the Japan Foundation. The Houston • cus to m designed Furniture portion of the tour was sponsored by the (reside ntial & commercial) University of Houston's College of Ar • Architectural Woodwork chitecture. • Sculpture & intricate Carvings Arter the Houston lecture, the criss • carved Doors & Wood Panels cross-country lecture tour, beginning • Refinishing & Uphols tering September 25 in San Francisco,continued on to Miami (Sept. 29-Oct. 27) : Wash ington. D.C. (Oct. 4-Nov. I); New York (Oct. 5-Nov. I 2); Chicago (Oct. 9-Nov. CRAFTSMEN hl Minneapolis (Oct. 11-Nov. 8); Salt I .ike City (Oct. 13-Nov. IO); and Seattle WHO CAREi !Oct. 16-Nov. 13). Persons interested in learning more nhout the Japanese tour, or other sched uled lecture tours, may contact Silvia Kolbowski at the Institute of Architec lure and Urban Studies, 8 W. 40th St., New York, N.Y. 10018. Telephone: (212) 398-9474. November /December 1978 Circle 31 on Reader lnqu,ry Card 71 5013 Kelley Street Houston, Texas 77026 713/635-2387 C,rc/e 32 on Reader lnqu ry Card CERAMIC serve as an observation tower_ The most visually prominent materials arc the heavy timber structural frame. DESIGN re-sawn pine siding. wood shingle roof ing. timber decking and railings and can vas awnings. All exposed wood is stained and signal flag banners and awnings pro vide accents of color. The club also received a Merit Award m 1977 from TSA's Dallas chapter. Historic Preservation Seminar Scheduled "The Bottom Linc-Reuse," an his toric preservation seminar sponsored by the San Antonio Conservation Society, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fri day. December 8. at the Market Square Cultural Center in San Antonio. Focusing on building rehabilitation for reuse. the seminar will cover such topics as feasible new uses for older buildings, available private and public funds for rehabilitation. ramifications of the 1976 Tax Act and taking advantage of other Now - Architectural tax benefits in packaging real estate Stone - Cantero hand projects. 342 W. SUNSET IAN ANTONIO carved from Mexico. Visit TEXAS 78209 512/824•5572 Speakers will include architect and our display at the T.S.A. in C,rcle en Rr r r~q, 11y C, d planner Herbert McLaughlin, San Fran cisco; Don Wright, president of Lake San Antonio, Booth #26. • wood Bank and Trust in Dallas; Nellie During your visit to San Stendig Longsworth. president of Preservation Action in Washington, D.C.; and San Antonio we invite you to B&B America Antonio attorney Stanley Blend. our two acre foci lity Carnegie Fabrics Registration i~ $15 per person ($8 for featuring Cantero and Mueller students) and includes lunch. Checks, the largest exhibition of which will confirm reservation, should Risom be made payable to the San Antonio decorative ti le Tuohy Conservation Society, 107 King William and unique Claud Bunyard St., San Antonio 78204. Deadline is materials. December 4. ~ Egan Visual • Guidelines Now Available ~~ ....~:· new Constrnction Administration Guide 'K""-~-'~,,, Cantero Furnishings for Interior architects lines, compiled by TSA 's J 976 and 1977 ,,' bochure Committees on Construction Administra , , is available; Call us toll free from anywhere in Texas tion and Management, is now available at no cost from TSA offices in Austin. ,, Send S2.00 to: , Materials Marketing 1-800-492-9553 The 26-pagc document is essentially a ( check-list of considerations for each step Corporation of the construction administration pro I 123 West Rhapsody cess. from "opening" to "middle game" : San Antonio, Texas 78216 Sam Schenck on through "end game." Covering such P O Box 5485 I Nome Richardson, TX 75080 topics as issuance of plans and specs, I (214) 386-4691 bidding. permit application, testing, field I Address and office work and final project re view, among others, the guidelines arc : City supplemented by corresponding com I State ____ Zip ments from general contractors across the state. C ,, if Re 1, ' n,1, 'Y II j L------J I n C C11clo JS on Ra,uJer lm11111y Cmd November/December 1978 73 News of Schools Texas Tech-Associate dean Law rence W. Garvin, head of the Division of Architecture at Texas Tech Univer sity's College of Engineering, has been selected as one of four American aca demic experts to evaluate curriculum development at King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia. Lawrence Gan•in C,,c/e 36 on Reader tnqu,ry Card Garvin will visit the university's Riyadh campus October 20-November 5 on a trip sponsored by the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Joint Commission on Economic Devel Tables opment. He will be accompanied by Dr. Sofa James Bond Hensen. professor of vet erinary medicine at Washington State University; Or. Anthony F. Vuturo, as ~ociate dean of medicine at the Univer sity of Ari,ona; and Dr. Gerald M. Burke. associale academic vice president at New Mexico State University. r he group has been selected from member-universities of the Consortium for International Development (CID). Texa~ Tech, through its International Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Land S111dies, is a member of C ID. Garvin will evaluate the present slatus In chrome of the King Faisal University curriculum or brass and make recommendations for future made to planning in the division of architecture. UT-Arling1on- The American lnsti your specifications lllle of Planners (AIP) has awarded offi cial recognition to the city and regional planning program at the University of rexas at Arlington's School of Architec environment ltd. ture and Environmental Design. 5701 fkhmond Ave (Just off Chimney Rock) Housron. Texas· 784-1500 The recognition. similar to accredita tion awarded in other fields of study, wa, presented to the UT-Arlington pro gram two years after the School of Ar- C,rcie 37 on Reader tnq,my C.11d 74 Texas Architect chitecture introduced city and regional planning as a graduate track- and un usually short period of time for a pro gram to receive recognition after imple mentation. The UT-Arlington program is one of three city and regional plan ning programs in the state. Graduates from the UT-Arlington pro gram receive a master of city and re gional planning degree. Texas A&M- The Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University 1s now seeking a nationally prominent architect-educator to replace professor David G. Woodcock as Head of the de partment. Woodcock resigned. effective January I, 1979. to return to full-time teaching. Candidates should meet the following qualifications: • Possess appropriate academic cre dentials. • Possess the NCARB '" Blue Cover" Certificate. • Have received national recognition in some aspect of architectural practice (design, programming, systems, interior space, etc.). • Demonstrate aptitudes for teaching • C,rc/e 38 on Reader lnqu,ry Card November/December 1978 75 and academic administration. -- • Be commitled to helping students develop their individual talents as cre ative and capable architects. • Be commitled to developing a de partment of architecture of national rank. • Be committed to continued devel opment of departmental teaching, re search and continuing education pro grams. Salary and academic rank will be com mensurate with the candidate's qualifica tions. The effective date of appointment "Addeo 76" Formica Clad Cabinets should not be earlier than January I, * Stock modular Line - In Five Woodgralna. 1979. nor later than September I, 1979. * Cuatom manufactured - Interested persons may contact James Realdentlal & Commercial , H. Marsh, Ill, Chairman of the Archi tecture Search Committee, Office of the Dean, College of Architecture and En vironmental Design. T exas A&M Uni versity. College Station 77843. MILLWORK & DISTRIBUTING CO. Area 915-533-6873 Educational Toy Design Set 3100 Durazno • El Paso, Texas Competition Educational toys will be the subject of the 1979 Arango International Design Competition, sponsored by Arango, Inc., C,rcJe 40 on Reader tnqu,ry Card of M iami. Fla.• in cooperation with the r------, ENGINEERS ARCHITECTS ARTISTS SUPPL.IES RE PRO•DUCTION SP£CIALISTS Remarkable resources. We Cover It All. Commercial and residential vinyls, suedes, wood veneers, corks, handprints. grasscloths, linens, wools, and other fabrics, leathers, MILLER chrome, brass and copper laminates, flexible mirror tiles, carpets for the wall, BLUE PRINT CO. custom wall coverings, and much more. !501 WEST SIXTH ST Wallpapers, Inc. of Houston, 6110 Richmond, Houston, Texas 77057 AUSTIN TEXAS 78787 PHONE !512 / 478, 8793 Houston (713) 781·5510 Dallas (214) 739-3949 ~------JMAIL A DO BO• 208!5 C,rc/e 4 1 on Reader lnqwry Cmd C1rcte 48 on Reader Inquiry Card 76 Texas Architect University of Miami's Lowe Art Mu ~C'um. A cash prize of $1,000 will be award l'd to winning entries based on the fol lowing criteria: educational value, use of form and color, ease and cost of produc t ,on. durability, delight and originality. \II designs must meet internationally ac l cpted criteria for product safety. I .ntries, together with completed ap phcation form and $IO registration fee, 11111\t be received by January I 0. I 979. Winners will be announced at a recep t ron and exhibition March 7 at the Lowe Art Museum. Interested persons may obtain applica- 1111n forms and more information about the contest by contacting Brian A. Dur ~11m. Project Director. Arango Design < nmpetition. Lowe Art Museum. Uni vcr\lty of Miami, 1301 Miller Drive, < oral Gables, Fla., 33146. Realistic Drawing Topic of New Book I he first printing of Arclriteclllre Per- 1prcllve Shadows Re/lectiom, by Texas A&M University professor of architec C11cte 42 on Reader tnqu1ty C.1td lure Dik Vrooman. FAIA, is now off the prc,,es. available for students of archi- 1ecture. design and illustration. or any one who wants to learn techniques of tl r,1wrng shadows. reflections and their llHllbinations in various perspectives. fhe 151 -page. spiral-bound book in l lmle, 86 drawing ,tudies and 20 exer l l~e, for student, and covers such topics ,s three-point perspective. odd-angular ,,ml curvilinear forms. shadows, pool and nurror reflections, scale figures and trees 111d the curvilinear aspect of ,traight-line 1•cr ,pective. < opies (at $10 each. plus 50 cents tax lnr r exas residents) may be ordered from l'ehhle-Path Publishers. P.O. Box 1328. < ollege Station 77840. Industry News I he F. H. Maloney Company in Computer Support Equipment llt11h ton, a wrndow gasket manufaclllrer, • Manufacturers, sales and service of raised access panel flooring under the trade name h,1 recently introduced a cold wealher ''Besco''. 11,1\ket made from a new neoprene formu • Factory representatives for Pomona Air packaged environmental modules. Services include sales and installation. l.11111, that wrll retarn rh flex1b1li1y up to •.Representing Walter Kidde in the sale and installation of Halon 1301 fire detection live 1,mc, longer than conventional gas- and suppression systems. 1 l'ls ,rnd al temperatures as low as zero • Dealers of Schlage Electronlca door access control systems. ii nrees Fahrenheit, according to the Computer Environments, Inc. 0111pany. The new gasket is available rn ~0 J, 1428 Slocum, Dallas, (214) 744-5533 h 11h tongue and groove and H-section Unico's prize rug. this year's TSA annual meeting in San Antonio. The rug was designed by noted designer Paul V'Soske, who also will exhibit in Unico's booth al the conven tion's product exhibition a custom wall piece designed to reflect his personal in terpretation of Texas. Kentucky Wood Floors, of Louisville, has introduced a new product brochure including photographs of available floor Foshlonoble Flexible. Bunker Hill (at top) Is o handsome contract patterns, ordering information, and in Pork Square by ColorY)()de'" Is o d1sl1ncllve co,pet ol wooly Berber acrylic textured with i.tallation and maintenance accessories. geometnc carpet to encnch the room at the a muted underlying design. C()()(d1notes The brochure may be ordered from Ken top. A Zefron Acry1Ic ,n ruggedly natural with Pork Square and other Berbers. tucky Wood Floors' Texas distributors: B81ber tones Because cA our 1nnovohve Rockledge hos o worm. wool-like Zefton dimensional design concept. 11 con mix nylon lustre plus o cabled texture and soft Du Bose Architectural Floors, San An and match with other Beroer textures fa o heather glow fa o rich. dromot1c look High tonio; Gilson Floor Covering, Houston; coad1noted cola scheme fa o complete performance ol Rockledge makes 11 per ft()()( a building. fect cholce fa contract market. and French Brown Distributors in Dal las. Mold ovan, Ltd., of Houston, which recently joined marketing and produc tion capabilities with Artistic Tiles Man "" ' I ~IV • W!olo ;poortNOy • 20' Houslon 77<:PP, 713/Qo5.Q()2Q ufacturer of Sassuolo, Italy, to distribute 389 W()fld rOdo Ccn! Do 75'107 21A I 6SHXXJ8 78 Orel, .14 on RcDtlcr l11q1111y C,1rd Texas Architect Commission and ultimately approved by Other El Paso architects on the new the City Council. 15-member Landmark Commission are Commission member and El Paso ar David Hilles, Bart Fischer and Pete chitect Jose Melendez says that although Herrera. attempts by the El Paso Historical So ciety over the years to protect the city's Port Lavaca Man notable architectural heritage have been admirable, preservation efforts needed Wins Lady Bird Award some kind of city authority to really be Olen Tschatschula, state highway de effective. " In the past," Melendez says, partment maintenance construction su "about the only thing the historical so pervisor in Calhoun county, received a ciety could do was put up a plaque at plaque and personal check for $1,000 the site of building that had already been from Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson as winner razed, saying, in effect, 'There was a of the annual Lady Bird Johnson Award nice building here once.' " for highway beautification during cere- Moldovan tile. Roach: Paints for the et new glazed quarry tile, will be intro ducing a new material for high-traffic nnd high-stress floors during the product exhibit at TSA's annual meeting in San Professional Antonio. The new ceramic stoneware , ,,.. ,I' tile available in six colors and five sizes, ~ '~I ' 1 made of china and pla~tic clays, fired ~ .. ·-·· 10 1,250 degrees Centigrade. The tile is ,. I :r. 1 .. d ,igncd for areas where the floors are . - I ' ' subject to continuous wear, either by I s1·vere mechanical stress or chemical at- ·~., 1ack. Moldovan, Ltd., 2814 Virginia, 1louston 77098. Telephone: (713) 526- 9732. El Paso Creates First Landmark Commission A latent municipal concern for his toric preservation in El Paso was stirred 11110 action in June when the City Coun cil hurridly passed an ordinance creating the city's first Historic Landmark Com nussion, largely in response to public outcry over plans 10 demolish a 70- ) e.ir-old downtown building designed by noted early-20th-century El Paso archi tect Henry Trost. fhe emergency vote did not, as it turned out, prevent the planned demoli uon of the Trost-designed Brazos Apart ment building, which got underway to So when you specify paints, specify Roach. Paints for the make room for a downtown savings and Professional. And don't forget the special Architect's Hot Line. loan before the ordinance went into ef Just Phone (toll-free) 800- 492-6766. (cn But it will serve to regulate demoli- 11on of downtown buildings in the future. Included in the city action was designa llon of some 750 El Paso structures, mainly in the downtown area, as being of potential historical or architectural M nificance, requiring that plans to de- 111 hsh or substantially alter any of the Phone (214) 748-9421 , 1306 River Street SINCE 1934 huildings be reviewed by the Landmark DALLAS. TEXAS 75202 C1tcte 45 on Reader lnqu1ty Card November/ December 1978 79 monies October 12 in Stonewall. best job of highway beautification during A second place award of $500 went the year. to James A. (Buddy) Morgan of Goldthwaite. Present at the awards ceremony, in News of Firms cluding TSA president Preston Bolton, Haywood Jordon McCowan, Inc., San FAIA, and executive director Des Tay Antonio and Houston, has announced lor, was U.S. Secretary of the Interior the addition of architect Fred Alexander Cecil Andrus, who applauded the efforts to the firm to handle work in the Dallas/ of the highway department employees Fort Worth area on the Lincoln High for "working with Mother Nature and School and the Student Union Building not against her." for the University of Texas at Dallas. Mrs. Johnson established the award in Peter Corbin Parciany, Architect, has 1970 to recognize the highway depart announced the relocation of offices and (L-R): Johnson, Tschatsc/111/a, Bolton ment workers who have performed the staff to 6363 Richmond, Suite 207, Houston 77057. Telephone: (713) 784- 0994. Jason Frye and Associates, Houston, has announced the addition of architect and engineer Nathaniel Firestone to its staff. Raymond H. Conley has joined the don't draw Houston fi rm Calhoun, Tungate, Jack son & DiU as a senior project architect. Blake & Associates, Austin, has an nounced the relocation of its offices to 419½ East Sixth St., Austin 7870 I. the same line twice j Telephone: (5 12) 477-4435. Kenneth M. Nuhn has joined the Houston firm Golemon and Rolfe as a GET THE POINT? ~ partner and director of Medical Facili • ties Marketing. Nuhn will be headquar Join the PR!2Av·s team tered in Austin at 2302 Rundell Place, Austin 78704. Telephone: (512) 443- PJ:01 Pin Rf"&latf'r•d ~rrl•1• provtd~III. ,..vto& h drahtng ti• 5436. and chf'CltinJ:, tt... T••• Drahtns uttlhSna thr advant•&•• o( • prt'che ptn•Nr rt&ht-ru Ion or pr•-puncht-d draft tna rt 1• vi 11 Total Design Four, Corpus Christi, f'nhence your Archittttural and !natnf't"r1ng dr...,tnga. has announced the employment of H. • Weldon Bender as senior architect to CAl,..l. your local lldl"'•Y'• lf.PltOf•••fonal Cot • assist in lhe direction of the firm's design fulJ dcaoaattat ton of the- r.-pro-draft Ing U•chnlqU<"a av•llabl• for all Q( your Contract Oocu•nu. \At division. the FU!J!_Dhdplfntr: PRO/lldgw•.1'• co91pl•c.• your • Architect M. T. Crump has announced producLton t.e••! the opening of the office of MT Crump Architects and Planning Consultants at 31 OI Richmond, Suite 206, Houston 77098. Telephone: (713) 524-7356. The San Francisco-based firm Gensler and Associates has announced the ap pointments of five architects and interior designers as senior associates and asso ciates in the firm's Houston office. New senior associates arc Michael Farley and Clyde Jackson; new associates: Richard Maxwell, Wayne Trull and David Wyckoff. Kent R. Keirsey and James A. Wof ford have announced their partnership in the firm Keirsey/Wofford Architects, 5555 North Mesa, El Paso 79912. Tele phone: (9 15) 581-6426. TEXAS REPROFESSIONALS Benny L. Canizaro and Michael W. RIDGWAY'S, INC. ~711 HILLCROFT P.O BOX 36150 HOUSTON, TEXAS 77036 (713)782·8580 Holeman have announced their partner !>hip in the firm Canizaro/ Holeman Ar chitects, with offices at 2121 South C,tc/1 -IG OIi Rt .ic/1 t lt1!Jl/lty 0111/ 80 Texas Architect l amar, Suite 206, Austin 78704. Tele search, explained that the NSL has a ment of Energy) to include passive sys phone: (512) 443-3325. major responsibility in the development tems in their research, development and Douglas H artman and James E. Cran and validation of passive energy pro demonstration programs in solar energy." dell, Jr., have been named associates in grams under study across the country by With funds from the Department of the Dallas firm Hatfield-Halcomb, Inc. the Energy Research and Development Energy and from the university, NSL Joseph Raso, Jr., & Associates, Archi Administration. plans to provide a computer program tects, Waco, has announced the reloca "As of March 1978, ninety-eight docu which can simulate the performance of tion of its offices to the Woods Office mented passive buildings were in oper passive energy system mechanisms for Park, 4525 Lake Shore Drive, Waco ation in th~ United States," said Arumi anyone to use in designing buildings. T he 767 JO. Telephone: (817) 772-5525. Noe. "On the average they outperform master program, Dynamic Energy Re Koetter Tharp Cowell & BartJett, active solar systems and appear to be sponse of Buildings (DEROB), is being Houston, has announced the addition of more cost-effective. Preliminary findings designed to compute performance of Wa1hon Wong to its staff as production of this kind persuaded officials of the passive energy mechanisms in relation to leader, Betty Olson as project leader and Energy Research and Development Ad the specific climatological data of a re Norman Kenney as project manager. ministration (now part of the Depart- gion. (Basic heating mechanisms in exist- Paul Kinnison, Jr., Architect, San An tonio, has announced a change in the firm's name and address to Kinnison & A-.sociates, Architects, 342 W. Woodlawn Ave., Suite 200, San Antonio 78212. I dcphone: (512) 732-2248. Granite. Artist Donating Painting Beautiful for For Exhibit Hall Prize heavy traffic areas. San Antonio artist M ildred Cocke, wife of San Antonio architect Bartlett Cocke, FAIA, has donated a contempo rury oil painting for a prize drawing dur inp the TSA annual meeting November I J in San A ntonio. The untitled abstract painting is one of many works of art produced by the noted San Antonio painter, many of which have been displayed in major exhi hit1on~ across the state and have found their way into numerous private, museum .md university collections. Mrs. Cocke is the recipient of, among other honors, the American Institute of Architects' Citation of Merit, the San An tomo Art League's Artist of the Year ,\ward and the San Antonio Artists Top Award and Best of Show. Archllecta: Lawrence Halprin & Auocletea Archllecl: Joe Karr & Auoclalea, Chicago, IL UT-Austin Developing Passive Energy Systems Computer Program Buildings with design and construc- 11on details which create thermal com SECTION SECTION lort with little or no auxiliary heating, ~ooling or ventilating equipment, may Cold Spring granite is a natural for landscape applications. Its warm colors Ix: de:.igncd in the future wi rh the help and natural textures blend beautifully with the environment. And at the same of a computer program from The Uni time, granite provides the designer with the flexibility he needs to create areas va,ity of 1 exas. of unusual and lasting beauty. Called "pas:.ive" energy i.y,teml,. these At Cold Spring we now have a wide variety of Module Pavers and Durax Blocks available. For more informa lc.1tures arc being analyzed by the Nu tion, plus a packet of full color literature illustrating our merical Simulation Laboratory (NSL) at products in use, call toll free 800-328-7038. In Minne lJ I Austin's School of Architecture. sota, call (612) 685-3621. Or write to the address below. In a <,tory in the late:,! issue of UT ~ I >i1c-overy magazine, Dr. Francisco Cold Spring Granite Company, oap1 P 202 South 3rd Avenue, Cold Spring, MN 58320 1\rum1-Noe, the school's director of re- C11ch'1 •11 011 Re 11/pr ln<1w1y C,11<1 November/December 1978 81 POSITION OPEN ing passive buildings consist of three TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY. College of Architecture and Environmental Design. elements: a solar gain opening, usually a an afiirmative. equal opportunity employer requests applications for the large south-facing glass, to bring in heat: a position of Head. Department of Architecture. The Department offers the two storage device, usually in the form of year Master of Architecture and the Doctor of Environmental Design in Archi massive walls or floors to absorb heat to tecture Degree programs. Approximately 100 students are currently en rolled. Enrollment of the five departments in the college numbers 1.700. keep the building from overheating and Applicants should possess the Master of Architecture Degree. the NCARB to make heat available into the night and certificate and recognition through architectural practice. Academic experi on cloudy days; and a heat distribution ence ts a consideration. though not a requirement. The position will be system which relies on temperature to filled between January I. 1979-September I. 1979. and it carries the rank of achieve air motion, or convection loops.) professor and provides a salary commensurate with qualifications. Inqui " When these programs have been vali ries and applications with vita should be addressed to: Search Committee, dated more completely under different College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Texca A&M University, climatological characteristics and for College Station, Texas 77843. different st ructures, Arumi-Noc said, then we will be able to u e them con fidently to evaluate new design concepts that are both responsive to climate and to human comfort." Suppliers to Furnish Exhibit Hall Spaces Four furniture suppliers will be fur nishing exhibit hall booth, activity and lounge areas for the upcoming TSA an nual meeting in the Henry 8. Gonzale, Convention Center in San Antomo. Litton Office Produces (Perry Shipler, San Antonio branch manager) will be ,;upplying S1eelcase and Krueger seating for hospitah1y and activity areas; J G Furniture (Gary Longbotham, Houston di\lrict manager) will be providing seat ing for an activity cenler; Interface Floor ing Systems of Carpets Internacional (Gerald Vogue, 1erri1orial manager in Houston) will be furni,hing carpet tiles for the h0'>p1tal11y areas and 1he TSA booth; and Newman Office Products ( Buhl T. Newman, pre,1den1) will be supplying a We,tinghou,e ASD open office sy,1em and seating for the TSA boolh. Construction Cost Trends ( //w /ollowi11,: rl'port 011 ntrrt•11I Ternf c-cmur11c 11011 nono111iu wn.r mb111it1ed by William R. Orr, Pl. CCL, pn•sitlt•nr, Cost Sl'fte111v 1~11,:i111•ers, l11r., r()rt Worth.) C'onstruc11on cow, in Texas arc prob ably a, ,table as in any part of the Uni1ed Scales :it present. There has been one rogue item, however, lhat ha, plagued the nation for the I.1st three months the shorlagc of cement, which i, al,o .,ffccting our local economy. The trend has alway, been for cost to escalate rapidly in the fin,t half of each year and begin to , tabilize during the la,t 1wo quar1cr,. Pre,ently. labor i, more predictable th:in material since some 82 Texas Architect materials are becoming short on the A market. Part of this is due to overseas New shipment and part to intracontinental Concept transportation. In Wall Art There was a national trend, beginning Conlempo,ory Woll Art with on 1n - f1nite 1mog,not1on. Pure Fontosy Yel. ,,pproximatcly three months ago, of in fontosy with functoon1 Lost,ng. woshoble. flation in construction cost which is not fire retardant and - best of oll - economical. c ,calation but merely an indication of a Mode of fluid vinyl material. Each hand mode rephco ,s designed by artist Eugenio. with on ong loaded market. Some of this is beginning lnohly oil its own See this pure 1mog1not1on on Woll 10 appear in Texas currently, but much Art by Eugenio 1n Spoce 91. 1n Son Antonio. November 1-3. bs than that being experienced in the The Barnet Company I Box 1127 / M,nerol Well$ 76067 / (817) 325-3351 northern and eastern states. The two charts below provide some indication of recent construction cost fluctuation in Texas. C,rcle 50 on Reader lnq(J,ry Card CONSTRUCTION COST ESCALATION BY MAJOR TRADES-AUSTIN METRO AREA % Increase Trade & Task 4th Qtr. '75- Uescription 3rd Qtr. '78 1 General Conditions: Fences ... 45.8 2 SiCework: Asphalt Pavln& . 16.7 Copane manufactures 3 Concrete: Patch Concrete . 25.9 4 Masonry: Face Brick Wall 35.2 5 Metals: Fabricated Structural Shapes . 22.5 6 Carpentry: 2x4 Random Length Lumber 38.6 insulating glass 7 Moisture Protection: Built-up Roof w/Gravel 27.3 8 Doors & Windows: Exterior Solid-Core Door .. 33.8 for any 9 F,n,shes: Gypsum Lath 60.6 10 Specialties: Towel Bar 25.9 11 Equipment: Fume Hood 37.7 12 Furnishings: Carpet 66.2 Texas size project 13 Special Construction: Complete Swimming Pool 43.9 14 Conveying Systems: Freight Elevator 33.3 15 Mechanical: Waste Ora In & Vent Line 15.9 16 Electrical: Trolley-Duct •2.0 17 Pipe Fitter: 6· Cast Iron Pope 20.5 18 Heavy Construction: Tractor Crawler, Bulldozer . 10.1 19 Sheet Metal: 12·x8• Registers 21.3 Utilizing the same trade and task de- 1,criptions as above, the chart below com p.ires percentage of difference in con ~lruction cost between 1hat of the Austin ,irca as base ( I 00% ) and the metro areas of Dallas, El Paso, Houston and San Antonio. CONSTRUCTION COST COMPARISONS BETWEEN AUSTIN (100%) ANO OTHER MAJOR TEXAS METRO AREAS, SEPTEMBER '78 Cities: Trade Dal. E.P. Hou. S.A. 1 105.2 100.8 110.1 99.1 2 102.1 94.6 111.7 103.1 3 107.2 78.2 115.8 99.1 4 100.7 93.2 112.5 101.5 5 99.4 92.0 103.3 94.8 6 100.9 94.0 114.8 91.1 7 112.7 98.8 124.4 99.7 Whether it's a small remodeling j ob or 8 101.1 100.2 112.2 95.5 a majo r construction project, we can 9 101.0 85.1 118.2 90.8 provide you with the professio nal service 10 99.9 89.1 106.0 94.5 II 108.7 91.6 109.5 95.8 and high quality you should expect 12 105.5 97.9 104.3 101.3 and demand. Please contac t Charles Rod rick for any 13 95.7 78. 1 100.2 93.1 infonna tion you may require. 14 99.5 92.6 105.5 93.8 1!> 99.2 91.4 105.8 103.3 lU 107.1 96.6 108.6 100.7 COPANE GLASS INDUSTRIES 17 98.8 88.2 107.8 104.5 1800 W. 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