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Goodall Distributors Tyler Ashcrall & Sou t1 1orn Marble Toxn.,11 Archi1cc1; ,, publi:,l1t!.d .u·x 1imt., )'fatly hy ti,, 'rr w., S,,rin;~ !>/ A,·,·hiu,,·,:t, 1if}klnl nr CONTENTS - ,:m,J:111lfw ,if 1/u-r~xos Rt1:ion ofth r, Amui r,m 1,uli/1111! ofArcltil c•(,:l.,·( Dovfd Lom.:atlt'r, CAii, l::.u:rmfllt v,,·e Prtsident). Copyright /Y81i /,y r/.e r,xas Society ofArt·l1/1 ASSOCIATE l'UBLISHF.ll Charlts E. G11llt11it1 EDITOR Jr,,-/ Wan't'II /Jtm,n ASSOCIA1'll llPlTOII Hm, Utm TIii,,, f'IIU'l 11 A'I ION MANAGER Hh A;;,/, 11111,.A, Mt\ WINNERS OF THE TEXAS ARCHITECT GRAPHICS COMPETITION AllVHll'l1SINO REPRESENTATIVE ,.,.,, lt'rm11rr-Wf#.UI t 'rnn1111 nll l'LIIILl(.l\'I IONN s1inur rARY l\'t,,,h,, "' J ,,,,,,,,, EDITOR'S PAGE 7 'l'SA 1'11111.ICA'l'IONS COMMITl'EE: /lu"/1 t.'11nnl11Jfl,u,,,. Du.llas (cltui,·mtm}; Si,,: 8 Ami l 'tmlJrrt1111~1/1111Hlr, AJA. Sm, Auumio: NEWS ( ',ui~ l(,;Jmi•,•, AJA , At'fJusrrm; Oilhrn llujjrru,11, AIA, llnrw,m: Rr,lh•n S1rf11ba11wr. Officials in Houston and Dallas consider buildinR downtown /\l/\ , A11,1tlll, W/1/lt W/11/m, /\//\, 1}111/11,1; I.Im"' r,01,m-1,, ll1nutm,,· N,•swr lllfw1:01J , malls; A winner is chosen in Austin's Congress Avenue bridge All\ l)ul/t1li, C. Mtui Sci/,:y. AJA . Dalla.'f .' 1 lighting competition; Design-awards winners are named by the JttJ/1 fl)! r, /i,tu,·. A/A, Sm, Ammuo West Texas, Fort Worth , and Northeast Texas chapters. 8 ( 'ON'l'Rlllln'INO 1mn'ORS. Dm•lrl 111,11/r,,, {/\Iii, /)111/n, , Om•ld D/11011, Dalla.,; s,r,,f,fll Fot•. llt#IJ'/1111 ; l,1rr,v 'I'S/\ OFFICURS: Ray n . Dalley. f'J\J,\, 1'EXAS ARCHITECT GRAPHICS COMPETITION 20 lllm,,h)n, 1-'rt:,rldtmt: Jim Dhdu·. Amurillo. JJr,'iMrut·ElrN: ,/0111,•.r Pflugn. Atmi11, Vice Associate editor Ray Don Tilley describes the jury, the process, /'1rndr11f/ 11/11 Sm/rt,, f,',11,1 , l)alltJ,r, Vic< l'r-rvfdn11,• l .ttHll'·rt,/mlu II, Ho11sw11. Viet and the results of this first-time statewide comest. l1u ,,ltln11 ,· Rwmlr WtH>tt'Jt , Fort Wurth, Vic, ,.,,.,1,1,.,a,•Gro rw~ C/oMtt:r. Corpu.t Christr'. Stt ''t'lm''J',' ll. Dtm Emtr,wn, Austfo, Trr.,L,' THE CAPITOL COMPETITION AND rrs LEGACY 30 ur'tfr; l>rwul l,.1mcm ·tcr . CAE.Ausri,1, £xec11 , ,,,.,. Vfrr l'r,m,J,,111 The yuung architeclltral profession ofJOO years ago both needed ·r.~I\ 1101\llD OF DIRECTORS: Rick and despised the era's questionable arclzitectw·at competitionsfor 1V,•mhm (. "IJilt·nt Cltupll!t : Dmtald E. Dick• "':um, Awm·,llr, Clmpter: Ear/ Ne,fhi't,. t\u.,·tm public projects. Historian Marlene Elizabeth Heck shows how the ( '/11 11,trr .' ('Jwrlh' 8t11Tl,t, Brrno,'f C haplt:r: competition for design of the Texas Capitol, along with Elijah E. Ill// r IVllw,11 II, l'"fl"'-' Christi Chapt,r; NI, Jrm t1 fi. . M11rsa11 , Dalla, C)fll/J/M'; James Myers, its winner~ were central to architecture's dilemma. A 11'11/fi,rd, £1 Pa.ro CJ,apttr; /larvey Y,um~hlom/, Fort Wor1h CffllJllr.r; William IV, /lull, No11.Wm Chapr,r, R11do/pJ, V, OLD AND NEW IN SHREVEPORT 36 t imm'.', /JJWt!f RloGruudtr Vfll/ey C luJ/ltt:.r: J. Ml, lw,,Jl.,tmtlre ,t,,. /.J1hhrx:t Chaptu ,· Gernltl Gensler and Associates/Architects unifies a new rower and historic II 11,'1(: , Norll,ea:ll Te.xas Cl,opter; Camly tt l't trr.tm,. Smt Arrttmio Clm11tt'r,' S. Mur1,l1y banking hall for Commercial National Bank, Shreveport. l I .\Aw AIA1 ,11,1 1lu,•., t'om111 f'llll /l1'1 r A1u1II,• I 1itfr1 I IHI 1•l/11 lt1f 11/UIJ/fl/l Of ,.lllitl W Jlllll/rt1 11,,,, ON THE COVER: San Fer COMING UP: A portfolio of l ~//N ' INH/1,,/170 nando Cathedral, a color-pen new and n01eworthy Texas \f.-m/,r,. /Jtwm1sr 11,,h/ltm,wu cil sketch by Matthew K. Mor houses, and a special adver 1mli, f '{ ('trnrlmm,r, /ur ris(~/' Ford, Powell & Carson, tising section on kitchens and l .-,111 t\11J l1hn:1 ,,, ,-,,n,to~uc,I lty 11, ,, Aw·,,r Im·., San Antonio, a winner of baths. IHII, , uJ A,•,•M,~1·11,rol Ptril'uli1•ul,J tw11Jl11hlr 1/1(' TA Graphics Competition. Ill JIIIIJ,11 llhWt'ICS, 30 '/ 1•1,11 A1 1'/tl11•c1 March · April 1989 3 LETTERS . C\ THORO l TaoRoJ SYSTEM \______./4 CORRECTION: FRS Design Group, Inc .. EDITOR: [t is flatteri ng to have an image PRODUCTS of Fort Worth is architect of record for Lhc of one 's work featured on the cover of new Tarrant County Justice Center (see Texas Architect, [butl it is disappointing Texas Dealers "News," TA Jan/Feb '89). Williams+ Tan d1at the identity of those responsible is aka, as consul tant, was n:sponsit>lc for omitted. If a bui lding had been featured on Be.~I Sl!r vice Building :vtmeriab schematic design and design clcvc lopmenl. the cover, the architect and contractor P.O. Box 17'.179 Sun J\n101110. "Jcxns 7K117 T he project budgcl wns $33.5 mi llion, but would have been identified. .'\ 12/'.Wl-4101 actual bid price was $27 mi ll ion. Ulue l>ia mund Company Raymond Brochstein P.O. Box I 57R7 Brochsteins, Inc. Dallas. Tc)(t\S 75215 EDrTOR: /\n cxccllcnl cover shot in your Houston 2 14/42X· IJ 1 1 Novc111hur/ l)cccmber 1988 issue. The only Lynwood Huild ini: Malerials rcwci is 1h11t you didn' t credit the artist re EDITOR'S RESPONSE: For our Nove m 120 I \>,,"csc Elsnil:rc sponsibl~ for 1·he craftsmanship expressed Sun J\nmn,o. Tcxa., 7X201 ber/December 1988 cover, we chose an :1 11[7n9os2 in that photograph- Raymond Brochste in image from the design-award-winning of Brochsteins, Inc. interiors of the Enron Headquarters in Fca therlile Bu ild ing l' roducts Corp. l'.O. Box .155 1 11dmi1 I am a .li tt le biased, but I think Houston, designed by Gensler and Associ Al»knc. T~x .J., 7Y<,O.:I Brochsre ins wrote the book on q uality in ates/ Architects, LO show the care ful detail ij 15/6D--1201 woodwo rking. ing found th roughout the project. We re Ft•a1herlile lluildini: Products C orp. gret that we did not identify Brochsteins, 1~0 Box -125 Frank F. Douglas, FA/A Round Kock. To,rn, 7l!b6-1 Inc., as mi llwork contractors for the proj 512/2~.'\-:?57J DouglasHardingGroup ect, and thank the many persons who drew Houston the oversight to our attention. Fcu1hcrlltc llu ildlng l'niducls Corp. ~020,\,nrn I lu11s11111. lcx 11 s 7709~ / 11/11~/, [•·117 l·e:ilhcrlilc IJuilding Producls <.:orp. l',O Uox ')977 El 1'11,0. Texas 71>9\Jil Prescription for Tough Times: 'II 5/X59-'II 7 I Fe.11herlitc Buildin i,: Producls Corp. Liability Advice from a Specialist P.O. 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In Houston, in fact, a downtown retail Architect Al Cox, director of the Dallas and entenainmenl faci lity. very different Historic Preservation League, says that his from Rivercenter. is already in the works. -~ group (along wi th the city's Landmark The Albert Thomas Convention Center \ , Commission) favors a third proposal by ( 1967, by Caudill Rowle11 & Scou) was DAUp" COHVElt110N '1.--V FARMMS Prentiss/Copley for a $218-million. 1. 15- left without a use when the George R. CENT!ll ./\ AtAllK~ million-square-foot project on a site be Brown Convention Center was completed Proposals for malls 111 Dallas (loca1ia11 11wp. tween Main and Commerce sLreets. which at Lhe other end of downtown. City offi ABOVE) and l/01mo11 (1111'w from Jo11rs Pima. BE· would preserve several historic buildings cials requested proposals for redevelop LO\V) are i111e11ded u, S(J1Jrk tlt1tt1111<1w11 rthirtlt and "1he Main Street feeling .. and would ment (using private funds) of the three balance ac1iv11 y in the West End District. story, 300.000-square-foot structure, hop Pluns call for the city's hired economic ing to diversify downtown nightlife near consultants 10 recommend one of the three City Hall. From three developer/archicect proposals in February, as TA went to press. teams responding, officials chose a joint Other civic groups will also evaluate lhe venture of Houston-based Century Devel proposals on the strength of urban design opment and FLlmmaker George Lucas's and other qmLlities. Skywalker Development. The Jerde Part But the city already faces severe budget nership of Los Angeles, nationally known problems and may be unwilling to fund for Horton Plaza in San Diego and other any new obligution:.. In addition. there is retail centers, is architect. parking and 10 nearby structures by pedes also the pro~pcct 111111 Rosewood Proper The project, dubbed Luminaire Hous trian bridges. Retail pedestrian streets ties. owners of The Crcsccn1. may build a ton, is to be built wilhout direct city fund would cross at ground level. linking Jones regionul mull hctwcen downtown and the ing; the developers instead would be Plaza. Tranquility Park. and Sesqui centen Ouk l.uwn :ircu, using onl y private funds. awarded special tax abatements and a 30- nial Park nearby: the project also would The l111chp111 will be purtic:ipation by top year lease. It is conceived of as neither slope down to a "Bayou Port" and a chil nmulcr Nc1mnn-Mmcw,. now owned by mall nor theme park but as an .. urban en dren's museum beside Buffalo Bayou. Geui:rul C'111cnm Corp., which is said to be tertainment district." The current (and sure Spokesmen for the developers say contract consulcnn!? clm,ing its downtown Dallas to change) design calls for a "Lumisphere'' negotiations with the city have been under ,;1011;. ll Ncimnn\ goes with the Rosewood I 00 feet in diameter, iLs surface studded way since November and are expcctcd 10 Prupc,11 c, mull. ''lhat would probably kill with fiber optics, to anchor one end. Inside take several more weeks. Opening for the uny of the 01hcr proposals.'' says preserva- it would be an inrorrnation center on enter project is nevenheless expected in 1992. 11or1i'il C:ox. "TI1is is about a 101 more than tainment and events citywide. a "special ln Dallas things are both more complex jw,t what ,1ree1 a mall goes on. lf thfogs a11ractions theater," and a "Skywalker and less hopeful. City officiah. ure com,id to11t111uc the way they have been going. Lounge." The existing framework of the ering plans for a mixed-use retail und i:n everything wonh preserving will be gone convention center wou ld be opened to tertainment center submiued by three ti~ 1111d downtown Dallas could just tum into contain an array of theaters. restaurants, veloper teams. each for a different pun ol u clus<: 13 office park in a few years." and shops. as we ll as connected to the downtown and each wtth different rct1u1rc city's tunnel system and undergTound ments for city funding and parucipation. - Jot'/ Worrt•11 Barna 8 l'rrn.t Arr ht1l'l'I March Apnl /989 Austin towers" erected in Austin beginning in added lighting will endanger the colony of 'New' 1894 design to blt-,rten bridge 1894 (see "News: · TA May/Jun 1985). 750,000 Mexican free-tail bats that roosts Heimsath 's version will be mounted on a from spring to fall each year in the vertical f $2.'i O.UOO and 750.CX)0 h11tJ> do not pre pink-granite base, triangular in plan with a spaces between Lhe structure ·s road surface Ive111 it, u ligluint,t installation wi ll be carved, neon-backlit star on each face. and concrete arches. If these major ob uddcd to the Cnnt,trc~i. Avenue bridge in The ci1y·s Austin 150 Commission and stacles can be overcome, the current.Jy dark 1itrn.: for the l)cr. 27 celebration of theses Parks and Recreation Depanment will southern approach to the Capitol will re t1 11,n•11I L·1111111I ol Austin ·s founding. oversee the fund-raising effort for the proj ceive a fitting historically inspired high 1lw 11·11111 design was conceived by Aus- ect, budgeted al $250,000. Once funding is tech gateway of light. 1111 1trLhtl ccls Clovis Hcimsath Architects secured, the installation still faces scrutiny wHh Mnnin Kermacy w1d chosen Jan. 21 by bat conservators who fear that the - Ray Don Tilley I111111 24 entries in llll intenmtionaJ R,nd,r/n~• t,yPuutU~ht rn1111x·1i111111 Jt1dgcd hy n six-pcr- 1,1 111 1111 y ktl by Muya Lin. who 1h·-.il'IH'tl lhl' V,ctnum Memorial 111 W11, hi111,ttn11 . D.C. The project, 1111111n~l'd by Ben Heimsath. seeks tu Lmli.truct u 120-foot-tall light '''•l pl111 l111111 at each end of the httdiw. rclucute existing srreet- 11 11 l11 , . olld nuorescent and metal huliLh: lights to 1he bridge's sup- 11111 ,,. ,11 1d urohcs. and add liber- 1111111 l ,1hlcs he low handrails on l',1d1 ,idc or the roadway. The lighting platforms are 111 mlcll.!d after 3 1 150-foot-tall The HeimsarJ,JKermacy ligl11i11,:: design will read as a symmerrica/ "gateway" 011 approm·h. LEFT, 011d will ueau• a , 11 st 11 11 d wrn 11 ght-iron .. moon- se11s11al. rhythmir i111erplay with the warers afT0 11111 Lake when 1•iewedfrom the shnreli11e or a parallel brid11c. Dnllns Through a month of daily me,etiogs. polished-concrete floor. "Each space treats OMA'• new order ... and disorder architect and curators selected over 125 the works within it in an individual way," works for exhibit, representing three major says curator Graze. ·'[The spaces] try to ex tl w,11d t arrnhee Bames's stately Dal- postwar movements-Abstract Expres press some of the ideas inherent in the art." 111, Mul>cum of Art galleri es have been sionism, Minimalism, and Pop Art-and Cunningham's orthagonal and skewed ln 111 , lom11.:d by a controversial, sometimes works from other fields, including art of wall systems create subtle visual axes and l111t·ki ng. installation of the Mu processionals that focus on selected pieces. ,c 11111 's permanent contemporary The entry. for example, presents work by , 11llcc1ion, which resulted from a Rosenquist, Kline, and Flavin, each repre 11111111kahlc collaboration between senting a major movement and each dis 11,11111, ,11d1itcct Gary Cunning- played on a different wall system. The ef 1111111 111111th e museum's staff in the fect is exhilarating, and a bit disorienting. 1 om 1· 111 i11n, dcsi~n. and installa to anyone familiar with the original space. fhlll 111' 11tc :.how. Entitled "Now/ Graze says Cunningham was the ideal I In n/A1•ni 11 ." it opened to gener- architect for the installation because he 1lh , 11th111, 111stic critical reviews in brought no preconceptions to the task. The 111111 1111111111 v 11111 1 hns drawn large resuh is as demanding an exhibition as has 1 ,,m il . J111 11 11' 111 .,, ponion of its been mounted at 1he OMA in many years, 11111 111 1'1111 d .,1, mnnth run. and it establishes a strong precedent for fu "Nnw!Tlum!A,flai11'' prese/1/s cn111rmporary art witlt /11 a frome- ture installations. most significantly the in I hr I '1 ,000 ,1 111 111 l' 10<11 exhibit 11'/lrk tit/JI happily f1 <>11ts the ori11i11al i111e111 of 1/te 1101/ery. 111 l 11 11h•, llw 11111hlh• k w l gallery. volvement of architects in their design. 111,·v111111,ly h111m· 111 th l' early-American the 1980s, decorative arts, photography. 11111I i::11111pl'II II l'lllll'l lh111 Cunningham. and cernmics. Cunningham designed new - Willis Wimers w111 ldni• wit h cu11tl.'llll)t1111ry-ar1 curator flexible waJI systems of varying heights ,111· I,,,, 11, tum ·, March · April 1989 9 HHehadtodoit all over again, He'd still choose stone. here are some people who feel building with masonry is ancient ITT history. That today, lhere are just more practical materials to use. Well , 1ha1's their opinion. but we don't happen 10 agree. Because the same pmcti cul reasons people built with masonry agei, ngo. makes even more sense today. The fact is. for a long time now masonry has been recognized for its natural building qualities, its natural beauty, its natural in sulating properties, and its natural durability. That's why some of man's greatest con1ribu1i om, to the world hove been made with stone. There's even one ... I hat wasn·1 contributed by man. So you see masonry wus mndc for building. And toduy you'll li11d masonry has reacht!d even greater heights in dc!l i~n ncx,hllity and vcr.1ati li1y. Arh!r all. He ch~1!.c it 10 carry His mcs.,agc 1hen. why not choose it 10 convey yuur concept, today. nl find out ull the facts about crca11ng with masonry, call or wntc us. Circle 10 on Reader Inquiry card Masonry Institute of Texas H11lbou1y CenIer 5100 Weslholmor, Sulla 200 Houston, Toxas 77056 • (713) 968-6550 El Pnso scum of El Paso, says 1ha1 size and space; existing resLrooms and escalators MuMu m rolls out pl• for new home nexibility make Lhe Greyhound station ··a can handle crowds of patrons, and 1he wonderful building for the museum." If all building already meeL'i applicable codes. n u move Lhol mw,cum ofliciub say will Lhe capilal required for the total program is The architecture firm Carson Consull I cvontuully qu udniplc the museum's gal raised. Sipiora says. the new museum ants has been hired by trustees 10 assist in lt•1y :..pm:c , rhc hi Pa,o Museum of Art has building will expand from its current studying space allocation for the museum. purdmst•d thl' (lrcyhound bus terminal in &JS11llm, Plans call for the first -noor area downtow11 I I Paso and plans to occupy it (currentl y used for parking) to be 11, 1 .11 ly I 1191. With 1he new space. ofli - enclosed. and for new gallery 1 1111 hupc 10 hook the ·'blockbuster.. trav- space ro be added where buses 1 h11r cxh1b11 -. Ihut draw hordes nationwide now pull in. Otherwise, no major h111 th111 hnvc hyp11-.:..ed El Paso. changes to the facade are planned. D1.• -.lat11l•d hy Ci,11 land & Hilles architects The new space will not only n11tl l Ot11plch.:d HI 197 1. the Greyhound hold bigger tra veling shows. ac ~111111111 m·l'11p1 cs an important site between cording to Sipiora, but will allow 1ht lw,tor ll ' Sun Jacinto Plaza and Lhe El full display of the museum ·s per 111,11 ('Ivie Center (1972, designed by a manent holdings "that are now 1111111 Vl:11111rc ol Garland & Hilles and Car- languishing because we don ·1 11111, r1.1l·11hlc. OuSang and Rand). The M11se1m1 ofArr's 11ew home wdl be rhisformer b11s srotin11 have space 10 do anything but I hl' Mw,cum is currently headquanered show them piecemeal." 111 lhc W.W. Tumey Mansion (1906, by 70,000 square feet 10 some 125,000 square The budget for the project, including 11 11'1 & Tro:..1) which was expanded by feel of space. most or it easily combinable purchase of Lhe 1erminal building. is just < 1u1oll nnd l)ucuble (now Carroll Dusang for large exhibitions. Other buildings stud over $ 13 million. Work is expected to be ,11111 tfoud) in rhe 1970s. These quarters ied "would have required excessive cost gin in 1989. p1ovidc only 35,000 S(1uarc foci of space, for gutting and renovation." says Sipiora. with the lnrge"t single gallery comprising "Here it's a matter of reassigning space." -JWB 111,ly 5,000 -.qu11rc foet. The Greyhound building has many other I .c'1nurd Sipiora, director of Lhe An Mu- advantages: there is adequate restaurant NEWS. CONTINUED ON PACI'. /3 Cfrcte 11 on Reader Inquiry C8Id /1 1 1 A hit , , M11rt·h April 1989 II Wost Toxas Rhotenberry Wellen Leads Blennlal Chapter Design Aw•d• Program hotcnbcrry Wellen Arch11ccts t0ok R lm 1r ol wvcn awnrds in Lhe biennial Wt·-.1 ·1~·,11, C'ltnptcr/AfA Design Awards, hl'11I d1111111• I SA\ 49th Annual Meeting. 1th' \ I ltM11 chapter includes Midland, I tilt \'1,1 'iun Angelo. und Big Spring. I hL· w,nn,ng projects were given awards l 01 h;l'cllc11cc in Ocsign: B£•es/ey Swim- Wt /fen Residence, LEFT. and lakevitw Center, 111111i: /'w1/ ,111,J Cnh,mfl, Sun Angelo, by H. ABOVE. by Rlrollmberry Wellen: JR Ranch Head s, 1111111h Ail 1111 1.'i.: ti.., Sun Angelo: JR Ranch q11ar1trs, BELOW LEFT. by Jack E. Meek: and light Fi.x111rt, BELOW. by Lawrence l/oidre11 Co11110/ly I I, 111/,11111111•1 \, 01unu. by Jack E. Meek \1d1111 ll AIA. Sun Angelo; Hall Resi ,1, 11,, I igllt Fii:rure, Midland, by Law- 1\0111. 1,; I loldrcn Connoll y Architect, Mid h,111I ;111d Wl'll,m Residence. Midland. I ·111,•/)1•,111 .\tr,ti,111 Post Office, Midland, I ,1(,•wt•w ( l'lllcr, Odessa, and Rhotenben y lfr11,J,•11n·. Midland, all by Rhotenberry \V, lkn /\rch,tccts, Midland. 1111 111, were architects Max Levy of I 111 11 11, and Robert Allen or Longview, and 111111 1 llmd Bmnm: or San Antonio. /WI Let our advertisers know you're interested in their products. A Look for the reader inquiry cards V Inserted into each issue of Texas Architect. FIii one out, circle as many numbers as you like for products and services you'd like to know more about. A Drop the card in the mail and we'll send your requests W directly to the advertisers so they can respond promptly. Circle reader inquiry numbers for the information you need in your practice. 13 and well-detailed'" and praised Allen/ Buie library wins top award its relaLionship to the adjacent Municipal Building. hree large projects were named win An Award of Design Merit T ners in the Northeast Tcx ac; Chapter/ was given for two addi tional AJA's 1988 Design Awards. The Longview projects: Renovation of Gregg firm 111e Allen/Buie Partnershi p took Lhe County Airport Terminal, by highest honor given to the field of 15 en Malloy & Bresie of Longview. tries. an Award of Design Excellence for and the Tyler Junior College the Longview Public Library. The jury HeaJlh and Physical Education noted the $2.9-million. 35.000-square-foot Center, by Sinclair & Wright library's ''superior design. simple. clear, Architects of Tyler. 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Antonio won the 1,800-3,200-square foot-home category of the Southern o..-•l•r and Aaoclates/ Architects, Home Awards program sponsored by H1111 ..t on, recently received awards for SOuthem Uvlng. The home Is featured In ,.,_., t design In two competitions, one the magazine's February 1989 luue. ht It! by Interior Design magazine and one hy lntorlors magazlne and The Institute of The Schulte Ranch (see TA Nov/ Dec Uut lnoas Designers. 1988), by C.nnady, Jacbon a Ryan Architects, Inc., Houston, received a Cortan Aaoclates Architects, Dallas, Merit Award In the American Wood Coun I• worklne with American Airlines to Hellmuth, Obata a Kn• ntraum, Inc., of cil's 1988 Wood Desl&n Award Program. 11c11l,tn • new termlnal at Dallas/ Fort Dallas received a Merit Award for Devel Worth Intercontinental Airport. The opment In Context from the North Cen The First F.A. 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BEWW LEFT: and Vi/I(} A,:11irre, BELOW RIGHT. by Vestal·LofLis·Kalis1a/Architects, Tnc.; and Lake Trav is ISO Adminis1ra1ion Building. Lake Travis. by CRSS Inc.; Merit Awards: Kl abzuba Office Building. Fon Worth, by Kirk Voicb Gist lnc.; Southwest/West Regional Library. Fort I Worth, by CRSS Inc.: New Facility ror I • Royer and Schuns, Inc., For1 Worth. by Halbach, John & Dietz: and Denton County Courthouse Restornt ion. Denton. by Ward Bogard & Associates. Inc.: and Unbuilt Projects. Merit Awards: St. Jurors were Bill Booziotis, FAIA, and Citation Awards: Holy Cross Episcopal Vincent 's Episcopal Church and Day Gary Cunningham. both of Dallas. and Church, Burleson. by Arthur Weinman Ar· School. Bedford. by Jim Bransford , AJA; Val Glitsch of Houston. chitects: The Candyman Center. Santa Fe, and Villa Aguirre, Bahia, Ecuador. by Jack by Nelson Hodges. Architect: and North son and Ay res Archi1ects. Inc. - ROT Fort Worth Branch Bank Northeast, Fort Detail, Furniture, and Graphics. 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The pictures architects create are more than just artwork; they arc a means of communication, the only language ar chitects have that can adequately convey their ideas for any project. And, depending on the architect's approach, these pictures can speak with an eyebrow-raising shout or a subtle whisper. So il is with the winners of the Graphics Competition: from Randall Stout's many-voiced conversation among dimensions to Kimberly Kohlhaas's compellingly quiet monologue; from Matthew Morris's polysyllabic layers of meaning to Pete Ed Garrett's spare one-Liners. The pencil strokes, like words in a book, carry their own meanings and yet, stacked one on another many thousands of times over, describe something much greater. Graphics remind us that architects' most significant projects and their quickly discarded doodlings both begin when they, as artists, put penci I to paper. - Ray Don Tilley I , ii,, llllt'I'/ Mord, April /989 /9 WINNERS OF THE FIRST TA GRAPHICS COMPETITION By Ray D011 Tilley IKE THE MANY TSA D ESIGN AWARDS COMPETITIONS THAT PRECEDED IT, Lhe Texas Architect Graphics Competition has produced a collection of some of the L best work by the architects of Texas. As with the Design Awards, 100. some arguably fine work was discarded in the selection process. Therefore. especially in this new competition. it is imponant to consider how the jury went about its task. The jurors, Steve Oles of Newton, Mass., Kirby Lock ard. FAJA of Tucson, and Mikael Kaul of Gainesville, Steve 01.. Is principal architect of Interface Fla., agreed among Lhemselves 10 a few ground rules. They Architects In Newton, Mass., and has taught would try to name at least one winner in each category, yet at MIT, Yale, RISO, and Harvard. He Is a pro Lhey would not name a winner just for the sake of having lific perapectMst, with clients I. M. Pel, Cesar Pelll, Moshe Safdle, Cambridge Seven, and a winner. They would look for work that was "arresting" others. Currently, he Is President of the Ameri at severaJ distances, and lhey would endeavor 10 separate can Society of Architectural PerspectJvlsts. minimal work, which achieves "more" with "less," from minor work. in which " less'' is simply "less." After a fi ve-second-per-slide pass through the render- ings. working drawings, and sketches to get a feel for the range and quality of the submissions. the jury turned to the Kirby Lock.Md, FAIA, Is a practicing architect business- and publication-graphics entries mounted to and has taught design and graphics at the gether on one wall. Pondering Lhe boards and publications University of Arizona since 1960. His three individuall y and as groups of similar work, the jury moved books on drawing have been widely adopted by architecture and design schools. In addi casually but efficiently Lhrough discussions of basic quali tion, he has worked on urban-design Issues at ties such as baJance, scale, proportion, and contrast. as weU the city and county level In the Tucson area. as more intangible cr.iteria such as appropriateness, energy, style, and passion. Kaul and Lockard continually ap- proached and retreated from Lhe boards to examine reada bility at incremental distances. Oles stood across the room, raising opera glasses to his eyes occasionall y to accom Mikael Kaul teaches at the University of Flor plish Lhe same task. As each nonwinning entry was re ida. A Swedish native, he attended Cornell moved, the wall became progressively emptier. until onl y University as a Fulbright Scholar, earning his five boards, the winners in the two categories. remained. master's degree in 1982. From 1984 to 1988, he taught In Texas, first at UT Austin Sifting through the slide entries took on a different and later at Rice. He was project designer for rhythm. First, the "distracting" tirle slides (required by JonesKell Architects from 1986 to 1988. contesl mies) were pulled. leaving an unbroken series to cull. Each image, in effect, became an entry, and drawings entered as pans of a composi1i on stood on their own. The winners Lhat survived the three ro unds of paring sati sfied criteria developed informall y by the jurors as their whittling progressed. In articulating Lhese goals the jurors often fell into one-word rubrics, such as "passion," "intensity." and "depth.'' The qualities of a winner did not necessarily meet any check list of requirements; instead, a winner met the consensus of the jury. a consensus that may shift with the composition of future juries, transforming past nonwinners into winners. The following pages present the jury's 20 selections from a group of 90 entries. They exhibit undeniable skill and creativity, whether deftly sketched in a travel book or painstakingly rendered over many weeks. Let the jury's commems. and the works themselves. communicate the e lusive qualities that merited that peculiarly absolute accolade: winner. 20 Texas Arcl1itec1 March · April 1989 Concept and Imagination (Untltled) Randall Stout Houston Graphite, color pencils. pastels. and gouache on bristol board This imaginary project proposed the rehabilitation of abandoned rice sil os along Buffalo Bayou and additional adjacent buildings to accommodate a rutures-1rading market. This image shows a ceno taph to h alo Calvino (whose wri1- ings greatly influenced the design of the silo site), an adjacent project to be loca1cd in the bayou. Kaul: This has a charged quali1y. II exhibits wlent in the rcfl ec1ions, and says some1hing abou1 space. Lime, infinity. Oles: I like the tension between 1he second and third dimensions; 1hcrc are windows in the windows. It's almost vertiginous. following the pcrspcc1ive of the crane back. Arch.ltectural Delineation "Dallas Mall Project" Richard B. Ferrier UT Arlington Graphite, watercolor This rendering presents a proposed project by developers LPC/Cen tennial and architects Kohn Ped ersen Fox, New York, and HKS Inc .• Dallas. Kaul: It's beautifully detailed, and has the advantage of depicling quality work. Oles: The "Oat" or omnidirec tional light allows this to be a highly informative drawing. As a composition. the drawing would be much less persuasive without as much sky. Lockard: But there are two things that bother me, although it's a handsome drawing. One of the conventions we use is to make the building darker near the top to heighten the contrast between building and sky. He's not doing that. Also, I would have expected the reflection of one tower in the other. The positive side is that it has no tricked-up. juiced-up stuff; it's absolutely deadpan. ..~ Architectural Delineation This is an unbuiJt 5.600-square Architectural Delineation Trammell Crow Properties, Dal las, "Blake House" foot residence in Big Lake. La. "Dallas Architecture Exhibit" and the Dallas Museum of An. Wllllam T. Cannady, FAIA Lockard: The soul of the building Richard B. Ferrier Oles: It is a remarkably successful. Cannady, Jackson & Ryan, is in this imaginative section. The UT Arlington al though n awed, effort. Like a Architects, Houston best design drawing is not always Graphite, watercolor chromosome, it carries a lot of in Color pencil and ink. applied film the perspective or plan. This is a cover illustration for formation in a small space. 22 Texas Architect March· April 1989 .r. I' 02 O'. I ~ :::;- ·. t OS 07 00 Working Drawings ~, ,~ MStone Drawtnp" 4•• ~ Raphael Dueslnt Smith, Ekblad & Asaoclates, Inc. Dall.as Ink and pencil on vellum This sheet is from a set or 16 stone drawings for a residence under construction in Danas. Oles: This communicates anist to artist: it is not addressed to a con tractor. I love the implication that among the people in construction. there is someone who can catch the ball. I'm happy to see that this is apparently being revived. Kaul: This conveys information it's about depth, texture, not just coloring up a drawing. Lockard: We have to keep this ability alive. Wr1rk.lng Drawings San Antonio ton for developer George Mitchell. ,1ly Bulldlnt, Phase I" Photo-composite of pin-registered Kaul: This is dense. informative. , rcilyn Peterson, drawlnp pr~ ink-on.mylar drawings Lockard: Jt shows real skill in or •luced by Paul Krause and Frank This is from contract documents ganizing information. That infor Amaro for the exterior renovation of the mation, in unskilled hands. would I md. Powell & Carson, Inc. historic Sealy Building in Galves- have been illegible. /,, 11 \ 1d 1ittct Morclr · April /989 23 .. .'.. Conceptual Drawing Concept and Imagination "Aja• "Conceptual Desltn Boards" R. B. Ferrier Matthew K.. Morris UT Arlington Ford, Powell & Carson, Inc. Watercolor. graphite. color pencil, San Antonio plastics Color pencil on ink sketches Kaul: Awesome .. . does 1ha1 fit? These drawings for the Tripany Lockard: II reminds me of Die Initiative. which is being carried benkom, Wright's stained-glass out by the City, VlA Metropolitan patterns. Transit. and the Downtown Own Oles: That totally apt. lt'snot since ers Association, present a scheme Wright's work that I've felt such a for upgrading downtown San An rush. tonio streets. sidewalks, furniture. Kaul: I like the a.llusions 10 archi and lighting. tectuml convention. II has qualities Lockard: This is one of tJiose in of passion baked into it. teresting syntheses of infonna1ion. Oles: Somehow an architect had 10 TL tells how to make it. It has pos have done this. Not many people terlike qualities, but it includes would be this skilled, with the right time. which is unusual. predisposition. It ·s definitely sen Kaul: It works in several dimen sual, yet you think of sensual sions. which is what good graphics drawing as curvaceous and this has should do. 1 hardly a curve. Oles: It is a happy marriage of text and graphics, of left and right brain. 24 Tuas Ard1itec1 Mart h · April /989 Sketch Books Sketch Books "The Unes of Eternity" "San Ferna.ndo at Midsummer" Kimberly R. Kohlhaas Matthew K. Morris RTKL Auoclates Inc. San Antonio Dallas Color pencil on sketch paper Monotype of a photograph This sketch is from a series on the This image represents an intense missions o f San Antonio done in study of light. depicting a temple 1988. II presems an expressionistic in Sicily. executed during Kohl view of the form, color, and texture haas 's last semester at the Univer of simple buildings. Abstraction sity of Notre Dame. was used to study the building's Kaul: Sensual. clements and 10 express an e mo Lockard: It looks like the opening tional rea.ction Lo these buildings al scene from a Fellini movie. a specific time and place. Oles: The relationship o f surface Kllul: II reminds me of Mw1ch. of paper and three-dimensionality It's a developed technique that has beyond the paper is great. It creates both chann and intrigue. a terri fie thrust. Lockard: h is wonderful how shadows from the ca11ales show how I.he wall is formed. Kaul: Someone is really pushing himself and has to be rewarded. He's reaching within n.nd pulling tl1e good stuff out. Lockard: 1 like especially the stains on the wall Kaul: The overall composition is extremely charged , but its unstable aspect is retrieved by a central, stable composition. /11111 Architect Murch April 1989 25 Concept and Imagination Sketch Books " Thoughts on an Exhibition or "Landscape Sketch" Work by Robert Graham" R. B. Ferrier John Lemr UT Arlington Team Hou Architects wacercotor Houston Oles: l reach for my cont. Razor-point felt-lip pen on paper Kaul: II shows incredible skill. Kaul: II ·s an eeri e drawing of un The technique overall is just there. usual intensity. Lockard: I would like LO sec jus1 Oles: It 's an electric previsualiza how he did the fence. tion, as disturbing as ii may be Ihm may have been the object. IL ·s not of1en 1hu1 you ge1 Lhis certainty of inlention from someone other 1han the i.culp1or himself. Kaul: The beauty of the drawing i:. that it is exploratory; it taps into Concept and lmag/natlon the mlensity of the subconscious "Theatre" power in what's happening. I like Gordon GIimore the darkness. lhe intensity of the Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum pen stroke. Dallas Oles: I have a feeling it was a very Ink and color pencil evocative proccs:. 111111 led 10 this This drawing explores the interior drawing. design of a theater 1ha1 will be a Kuul: I 1ip rny hat 10 the dclin teaching environment as well as a cmor. performance area. Oles: You can feel lhe urgent in vcsligation. Lockard: h's greal because it's not self-conscious. 26 Texas Arc/mu, Morch · April 1989 ., ~ ,J .. ~ .. ,,,. ., ! .. . .. ~ ,Po- :I' . ,/1" 1/.t ' tJ I I , ~ ' " - • II 'I ~ ,. ' ' ..:, 111 . . ' ,11 I• • 11 .: Sketch Books "Rome Sketch Book 1.988~ Raphael Duesing Smith, Ekblad & Associates, Inc. Dallas Pencil This is from a sketch book Dues ing kepi when he traveled 10 Rome with the members of the firm. Kaul: This is by far the best of tJ1e quintessent ial travel sketches we've seen. h 's captivating. and uses the appropriate technique. 111ua ...... Oles: It does something no photo -·· · graph of the view could do. This person came away with a much belier memory and understanding of the scene. Concept and Imagination amount of time on airplanes. The or design development. IUntltled) travel time has been useful, quiet K aul: A charming cultural com Poto Ed Garrett design Lime since there are no ment. Morrls1'1'Archltects phones, peers, or c lients. The new Oles: This is practice in Lhe ·sos. llouston architectural tools have become Lockard: Now we·re finished • l'/1 tip pen on air-sickness bags the felt-tip pen. nip-down tray. and with napkin sketches; we have Dur Lo Lhe recent regional eco air-sickness bag. These sketches moved on to the next medium. m11111c downturn, this Texas archi have been the geneses of various h r 1 has spent a considerable projects now in schematic design lh ,11 Ardrilecf March · April 1989 27 ·---- Publication Graphics MNaw Raglonallsm" Lawrence W. Speck and Susan Hoover Center for the Study of Ameri- can Architecture, UT Austin Academic publication Center is Lhe annual publication of Lhe Center for the Study of Ameri can Architecture. di rected by Law rence Speck. It was printed by Waverly Press. Baltimore. Lockard: They inherit a lot of dis parate work and they do well 10 make it all work together. Oles: Yes. the tougher the tusk is. Lhe more credit that should be given for good work. Publication Graphics Kaul: All school~ need 10 slrive 10 Mfrank Walch & Associates, do ihis kind of work. Inc." Oles: This offers a standard. Herman Dyal Fuller Dyal & Stamper Austin Firm brochure This brochure presents highlights of Lhe firm ·s work over 29 years. Oles: If .. New Regionalism" is a symphony. this is a sonata. II does as much with black and white as others do with color: given that. the prize goes 10 the lower means. I have a lot of re.-.pect for establish ing a system and having ii carry vaned subjects. Kaul: This brochure is by far the most "worked.·· 28 Texas ArchiteCI Mllrch · April 1989 CCC CCC ------THE · SHOPS · AT I. OS 1: \ (' I ~ OS Business Graphics Business Graphics "Shops at Los Enclnos 'A'" "LA. lnvttatlon" Joseph J. Scalabrfn (prlnclpal-ln- Joseph J. Scalabrln (prlnclpal-ln- cha,Ce, graphics group) charge, graphics group) RTKL Associates Inc. RTKL Associates Inc. Dallas Dallas Conceptjtogo Office Business Graphics bol: Na) in propriernry engineering Oles: h communicates a high level "NaTec Identity System" technology (Tee) 10 reduce the of professionalism. h 's restrained Hal Kantner (director, graphic sulfur-oxide and nitrogen-oxide yet invemive, simple but reward design) emissions contributing 10 acid rain. ing up close. Clean is a tough word CRSS, Inc. TI1e logo mark mimics tainted and to use correctly. but in the best Houston untainted rain falling on a pro1ec- sense. it's clean. Image and identity system 1ive horizomal bar. Deep blue was This was developed for a new vcn- used as a semblance ror both clear 1urc in environmemal emissions skies and clean oceans. control. Their spcciric produc1 Kaul: It ·s solid. There is color. aTec would use sodium {chemical sym- balance. nnd a symbolic quality. t '" ,\rchi1ec1 Murel, A{Jril 1989 29 THE TEXAS CAPITOL COMPETITION AND ITS LEGACY By Marlene Elizaherh I-leek Statt Prt.ttricititm Board ate 19th-century competitions for public The Texas Capitol commissions provided a means of ma.k Competition and its L ing or enhancing an architecl's profes sional reputation. Richard Morris Hunt. Henry wi,iner exemplified Hobson Richardson. and the lirm of McKim, some of the prob Mead and White, were among lhe country's most lems plaguing the successful and influential competition entrants. Ironically, competitions were also a constant architectural prof es source of irritation for the youthful architectural sion a century ago. profession. As tbey struggled for professional rccognirion and respect in a country wilh a strong tradition or craft smen and builders, architects emphasized their superior training, business and engineering acumen. and advanced knowledge of sryles and standards or taste. The term:; and conditions or most competitions, however, repeatedly dem onstrated how undervalued and misunderstood the profession was in the late I 9th century. A study of controversial competitions, including the one for the Texas Capitol. which celebrated its centennial in 1988. illuminatt:s those issues that vexed designers a century ago and that continue to trouble the profession. They also re Elijah £. Myers. the orcl1iter1 wl,n veal bow architects mobilized in response to these grievances. designed tht' Tt'.WS Capitol. had a In September 1882. The American Architect 011d Building News reported the col srormy rcla11011ship wi1h oilier or· lapse or the Texas State Capitol. The journal ·s editors preceded their discussion of r hi1ec1s 1Jnd left 011 a111hiJ1tlf11t.f leguc-y. l11e failure of the building's masonry walls with a lengthy reproach and used the accounl as a forum to interject their real interest in the mailer. "The competition of designs for the Capitol of the Stare of Texas," they wrote. ·'which took place a year or two ago. seems to have had a sequel which, though disagreeable to those interested in the building. was perhaps not so rar from what might have been expected." Their indignation over tbe contest sti 11 Ii ngered more than a year after select ion of the winning design. Claiming they recalled ··tittle of the tem1s of the competi tion beyond the amusement which they excited among architects." the editors de cried the ··complete sets of working drawings, specifications and estimates'' chat were expected from entrants. who were 10 be rewarded the "lavish expense of twelve hundred dollars'' and the "proceeds of some ruture sales of public lands." which were then tied up in litigation and "likely to remain so for an indefinite period." They found it ·'marvellous lsicJ that even an apology for a design should have been received in response to such an invitation.'' much less the several entries they understood were received. Now. from the pages of the New Orleans Picayune. word had reached their Boston offices that a portion of the building had fallen. a consequence. the editors suggested. or hiring someone or questionable reputation. which obviously was lhc only type of architect who would have consented 10 such humiliating terms. A correction to the story nm in the following issue or American Architect after S. E. Loring of Detroit. a subscriber who seemed well acquainted with the project. notified the journal that it was the temporary capitol that had fallen. Loring blamed the contractor, who. he said, had disregarded the specifications of R. E. Ruffini. architect of the temporary structure. American Architect editors reported they were 30 Texas Archirect March · April 1989 11£.LO\V• 'f'/11s ori11l11uf rendering of tit,• rrw.1· Capitol.from £/ijalt Myer$'s ~dud to know thal tbe architec1 !of the pem1a- appeared regularly in the country's two most 11c.-m capitol I ... docs not deserve the aspersions innuemial archi1ectural journals, The American ,,hich were cenainly implied in our remarks on Arc:hirect and Building News and Inland Archi 1h1; -;ubjec1,·· and withdrew their cri ticism of the tect. published in Chicago. which covered archi projec1... as far as he is concerned." Loring's tecture in the Midwest and South. 1ddress and extensive knowledge of the Texas The profession's vexation with the contests projec1 suggest 1hat he was not an unbiased ob resulted from several unsatisfactory condit ions. ,crver. In fact. it is likely that he worked in the Competition terms were typically set by laymen, ntfice of architect Elijah E. Myers. victor of the including city councilmen. county commission ·ontroversial Texas Capitol competition, and he ers. and city engineers. who resisted the assis may have wriuen at Myers's behest. tance of architects in preparing building pro The episode underscored 1he exasperation of grams. As a resull, programmatic needs were professional architects with design competitions, vaguely stated and the expectations of competi which. in the great burst of civic building that tion organizers were unfairly high. Not only were '"curred in lace 19th-century America. furnished the competition terms poorl y conceived. but uppon unities for 1he mos1 important commis submissions were subject to review by the same ,10ns of the period. Discussion of the mauer ill-infonned commiuees. Proposals were judged. I w.t ArcMrel't March · April 1989 3/ lien McCree,FAIA, tionl assemblies. Plus. the building is de architects charged, by those least knowledgeable A who was named signed for a natural draft, with heat going of style, technology, and the cost of building, and to succeed Roy E. up the dome. lf there were to be a fire. that most swayed by the unlearned counsel of others Graham as Capitol would continue. and the dome would col or by those devious practitioners who preyed on Architect in 1988, hit lapse. In the basement we have the major the vanities and insecurities of building boards. the ground running. lire exit. with five unprotected cast-iron Indeed, there was little faith in the openness of In January he an columns. encircled by the building's food competitions. Because of the weU-documented nounced the arcl1i- McCret service. a potentiaJ hazard. The faci that a teer-engineer teams lire hasn't happened in 100 years is no waste, excesses. and polirical scandals of Gilded who will restore the Texas Capitol and the comfort to me as a professional who is Age architectural projects, most architects as historic General land Office building 011 rc:.ponsiblc for the building. sumed the awards for public buildings were de the Capitol grounds, and who will design cided long before the competitions were an and construct an underground expansion. Q. You have ll• ted other problems: new wlr• with offices and support spaces, north ()f Inc and plumbln&, better clrculatlon, etc. nounced, and this, in fact, was often the case. the Capitol (see TA "News.'" Jan/Feb But can't they be corrected one at a tJme? Competition officials usually concluded tbeir 1989). McCree's plan has the bocking of notices 10 architects with the important dis Gov. Bill Clements. Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, Approaching the Cupitol 's problems piece claimer that "the Board reserves the right 10 re and House Speaker Gib Lewis, but meal would be tremendously wasteful. ln ject any nnd nll plnns." and they rarely returned McCree is working to ensure legislative slalling a sprinkler system for fire safety. funding by citing the IO I -year-old Capi for example. would require tearing out. submitted materials. In those contests that ended tol's ,111mero11s safety and maimenance then restoring. plaster walls. ff we did !hat. with the decline of all designs, building boards problems. TA editor Joel Barno imer then came back and did the same thing for often contracted secretly with the lowest bidder, viewed McCree in his offiG·e as the 1989 lhe wiring, and then again for the plumb who pirated elements from many of the entries legislari,,e session got under way. ing, it would be a lot of money wasted. for his final design. Q. Why focus on llr.urety luu~sn·t Q. can't the Cepltol be restored without The architectural press reserved its harshest the Capitol balcally sound? the addition that I• being undertaken? criticism for the financial terms of competitions. In remm for complete sets of plans and eleva Tha1's one of lhe misundersUllldings lhat Not if it is going to remain a working seat tions. plus specifications and estimates, the wi n have severely impacted funding for lhe of government throughout the process. as ning entrant typically was offered only a meager building. II ha.,; been well maintained, but my charge requires. Currently. 560 people the public doesn't see the real fabric of the work in the Capitol basement. which used award; second- and third-place entries usually re building-the drains, the wiring, the terri to have a rotunda and 20-foot-wide cor.ri ceived nothing. Citing one such (unidentified) fic energy-inefficiency, the roof leaks, the dors; it has been chopped up and the ceil competition in Texas. American AJ"chitect editors fire hazards. They don't see the back of ings lowered 10 six feet. ejght inches. So chided its organizers, observing that they found fices-only the public areas, which have many pipes and wires have been added lhat not changed much since the 1930s. it is a serious addition to the strucrural "something strange. or even amusing. in the idea loading of the floor above. We've had to of inviting architects 10 undertake two or three Q. There are fire hazards In the Capitol? shore it up with timbers just to make it months hard labor for a very slight chance of through the session, and we're having it being rewarded with a sum equal to less than a People think that a stone, metal, and con analyzed by engineers. On lhe upper floors fifteenth part of what any respectable member of crete building is fireproof, but a heavy mezzanine offices have been added. We the profession would earn by the same outlay of timber frame building would probably have 10 give lhese people a place to work. give people a longer time to escape in case New construction would house all the time and trouble in legitimate business." of a fire. What we have is a bujlding with pumps and transformers, the food service, The press often printed competition notices wrought-iron trusses free-spanning both the loading dock, and other things, that that evinced anempts to abuse professional serv houses [of lhe LegislatureJ and constitut now take up so much of the building. The ices. submitted by victims of the process. In ing the framework of the dome. Because addition has other benefits: covered, secure January 1880. to cite the first of several examples of simple structural metallurgy, wluch access to the Capitol and other bwldings. shows that in a fire these trusses would needed parking, much-improved handi with pan icular relevance to Elijah Myers, the lose all their strength and collapse, the capped access, and much beuer computer county commissioners of Arrapahoe County, least-stringent modem code would have communications. It will also allow us 10 Colo .• distributed an announcement of the com those encased in 2- or 3-hour [lire-pro tec- get significant energy savings. ---• petition for the county courthouse. Entrants were to supply floor plans, geometrical drawings of 32 Texa.r Architcl't March · April /989 111 facades. and a per "A commercial ma,i unethjcaJ. Journal edj1ors urged I I1, i; view. in addition to a would laugh such architects not to acquiesce to the ,I 1 ,l ied h11 ildi ng description unreasonable expectations of 11111 " 111m1tcs. No mention of an offe r to scorn," building boards, and repeatedly I ~11, made, but they ap- architects said of decried the probable low moral 1 11d I the protective clause of one competition. condition and lack of technical lh 11 11gh1 to reject any and all or aesthetic ski I ls of those prac 11111 mtl ,!..etches.'' Similarly, "Why should a pro- titioners willing to submit to 111 uh I RR2 American Arch i f essional man do such degrading conditions. They t , c•htors received word of a otherwise?" also addressed their comments 11111(1\,:lll 1on for an unnamed to the American public, whom 11111tl11111se in Texas. whose cost they considered woefully misin w 1 11111 to exceed $50,000. The notice requested formed about the profession. If the public could 11111raL1 drawings. specifications and detailed be shown that "in almost every case the plans so IIIIMtcs"r in eturn for a $ 100 premium to be selected have failed 10 meet the expectations of 1w mled in payment for the winning plan. And in their owners, often with disastrous results. and I HK 1hc Richmond, Va., city engineer. W. E. that such is the natural if not inevitable conse TOP ROW. FA CING PAGE AND I 11i-.huw, so lic ited designs for tbe new city hall. quence of this mode of procedure, .. journal edi T/-f/S PAGE: TJ11.- com er.Hum· uf 1he 1hl· program, a contributor to American Archi torials reasoned. citizens would demand reform Capitfll 111,c/ ntlwr 111•ri,xl ph111t1graph.f ", t reported, called for the design of a four-story, of the whole process. il/1mra1i1111 SIOJ:t'S i11 the Copitot s 19111, hnsemem. fireproof structure with four dif- In the spring of 1885. a month after Lhe r1J11str 1wIim1. ABOV£: Tlt e im11 s1rn,·111r,: of tht• C11pi1n/'s 1/0 1111•, 1, H'lll elevations. With plumbing, heating, and Richmond City Hall competition had been an 11•/,ic/1, ll'lt/!11 C-Olll(lft'll'd, ll'IIS II jOOI r It~ a tors included in the cost, city officials ex nounced, Americ:tm Architect editors attempted wllrr 1lta11 the U.S. Ca11iwl i11 I l 11.:d 10 pay $300.000 for its construction. In to raUy archi1ec1s across the country in an attempt WashillJ:IOII, n.c H tum for drawings, specifications. and eleva to find a "cure for the competition ev ii." They t11111,. the winning entry would be awarded $700. asked their readers not to participate in the con " 11h $300 going to the second-best design. When test under the terms established by the city of the Colorado Board of Capitol Managers issued Ri chmond. and proposed to organize a group of their notice to architects in 1885 of the competi IO well-known architects. or "champions of re t 111n for Colorado's new statehouse, architects form," to submit entries after negotiation of a I 1scnmann and Blunt of Cleveland sent word to new building program with city leaders. Every I lcnver that they found the notice a ••fine bit of architect in the country was pressed 10 support .um.: as well as slightly impertinent." and ad- the endeavor by contributing a dollar or two. with 1sed the Board that the "te rms offered are such the collected funds to be divided equally .among thUI 110 architect of standing and self-respect can the ten "champions'· not awarded a contest pre L mer the competition."The two architects noted mium. Revised competition terms, American that their "customary charge on a project of that An:hirect editors fel t, would assure a fai r and ,\.nlc wou Id be 2- I/2 % on the contract price, or honorable contest. and they encouraged al I inter 111 1hjs case, $25,000!" - not the $1,500 offered ested architects to enter. ,,,. competition prize. "A commercial man would Practitioners responded enthusiastically to the l,iugh such an offer to scorn,·· they concluded. experiment in reform, which had been named Why should a professional man do otherwise?" "On to Richmond.'' Of course. tJ1e entire en n,e professional press and other architectural deavor rested on convincing Cutshaw. the Rich ,1,okesmen railed against both competiti on or- mond city engineer, to change the 1em1s of 1he 1 ,mizers and those architects who participated competition. They petitioned Cutshaw 10 extend 11111.ler the usual advertised terms, calling them the deadline; to form a jury of three archi1ec1S I nu~ Arc/1i1ecI Morch· Apr/11989 JJ Murlc-tJt £ . Htd. Murl,nt E. /ft-t'A.. who would select the winning ~ entries; to guarantee that all awards were to be made "ab solutely and without reserva tion"; to agree to return all de signs, except the winning en tries, immediately following the j ury decision: and to stipu late that al I designs were to be rendered in ink and submitted under pseu donyms. The most contro Elijah Myers, Jor all ties in the Midwest. He settled versial, and first in Springfield, lll., where most impor his architectural for almost a decade he con tant. revision reputation, appears ducted a lucrative practice. de was to be to have possessed signing courthouses and other made to the every characteristic institutional structures. By the fee. In place early I 870s he had opened an of the $700 that enraged his f el office in Detroit and was over fi r st-pri ze low practitioners. seeing the construction of his award. the first important commission, the successful Michigan State Capitol. Myers Elijah Myers won the co111petitio11/or architect was to be paid a regular commission; subsequently won the competitions for the Texas the Richmond Co11111y Courthouse in the two previously announced priz.es would now and Colorado capitols, and it is primarily on the Richmond. Va., ABOVE. by rebuffing the "d1u111piofls" fielded by The be awarded to the second- and third-place wi n basis of these three buildings that his architec American Archi1ec1 and Building ning designs. tural reputation was made. News. ABOVE RJG/rT: The Arrapa American Architect editors felt they could Myers appears to have possessed every char hoe County Courthouse. Denl'er, present a strong case. Not only would Richmond acteri stic that so anwgonized the profession. He Colt! .. designed by Myers and com officials be assured of a higher quality of designs, curried political favor, thrived on patronage, pleted in 1881. stirred ulnwst CIS mud, 1·011tmversy. but they would have more entries from which to probably underbid and undercut his competitors, select than they would have received under the and, at least for much of his career, eschewed faulty ori ginal terms. Less than a month after the membership in the counlry's two professional plan was proposed, however, journal editors an associations. the American Jnstitute of Archjtects nounced that their "siege of Richmond must be or their Midwestern counterpan. the Western raised.'' as Cutshaw had refused all attempts to Association of Architects. It is difficult to iden renegotiate. Debate over the issue conti nued tify a project with which Myers was involved without a suitable plan to counter it. that was not riddled with cost overruns and accu With the champions of the profession re sations of malfeasance. He was engaged con buffed, the winner of the Richmond City Hall stantly in disputes with clients, and was repeat competition was Elijah E. Myers of Detroit, who, edly released from contracts after lengthy and intriguingly, also won those for the Texas Capi biuer battles with building commissions. tol, lhe Arrapahoe County, Colo .. Courthouse, Perhaps Myers's greatest challenge. the Texas and the Colorado State Capitol. While he does Capiml competition would prove no less contro not enjoy the celebrity of his peers, Myers is ac versial than other late- I 9th-century contests for knowledged as among tbe most talented and suc important public works. While the official notice cessful of Gilded Age designers. and is known to architects was not publicized until late I 880. primarily for his public works. word passed around Austin that at least two local Myers's biography remains sketchy and im architects already had their pla.ns prepared by precise, in large measure because he was so fond July 1879. As earl y as September 1879, Myers of altering or misrepresenting the essential facts was among those in correspondence with Oran of both his private and professional li fe. He Roberts. Governor of Texas. Hearing that the claimed to have trained in the Philadelphia office State of Texas had passed a law authorizing of the noted architect and pattern-book author, construction of a new capitol, Myers proffered Samuel Sloan. Jt can be said with greater cer his services to design it or any other proposed tainty that, when the Philadelphia economy and public building, and enclosed plans and photo building trades declined in the early 1860s, graphs of the Michigan Capitol and the Asylum Myers moved on to more promising opportuni- for the Insane at Pontiac to illustrate his profes- 34 Texas Archltecr March· April 1989 11 11 1111 111 ll'IIIN. The Austin Daily Statesman I11 11th d 11 lt•Hcr from someone identified only as 1, 111 ,11 thc most famous architects in the United ,1 111 .. who protested, "J have not been able to 111111 uul .,nylhing in regard to the construction of )t•III "ilHtc Capitol. .. . lfl can get the needful in lt,1 11111111111 I wi ll prepare plans; but .I greatly fear 1h ,1 111 In,,,. as elsewhere in such cases, the 1 "'I ,. 1111111 lo have a fair competition is a delu- 1, 11 1111 1 " Nnare. The architect and contractors A Tl'.(OS 11 1h,·11th staked out and the conupt are always 1-iew of the Capital from the early 1900s. 1111 lllllfll:lC lll." \\ h~·n 1hc competition was finally made pub regulate proressional practice in Texas to the It 111 l.11c 1880. its tenns were roundly criticized. edi tors or American Architect. Stewart, a member 1111 k ~.,s Capitol Board offered a premium of of the TSAA since 1888, reported that the bill I lll(l (American Architect mistakenly quoted had been introduced to the Legislature and fa tl ti 1- 1.200 fi gure) in return for elevations, plans, vorably received. but never called for a vote. ,11111 , pcci fications for a building they estimated (State legislation recognizing architecture as a t 111 1d cost $ 1.5 million. Entrants were given two profession did not pass, in fact, until 1937 .) 111111111" to prepare and notified that no second- or With the fonna1ion of schools of architecture 1h11d place prizes would be awarded. that provided technical training and important '\11cmpting to defuse the brewing controversy, academic credentials, the growth of state organi lilt Capitol Board directed that all designs be zations that policed the activities of their mem ~11111111 11ed anonymously, displayed the I J entries bers. and the legislation of licensing require 1111 public appraisal in the old Capitol and called ments, the profession was successful in imple 111 lamed New York architect Napoleon Le Brun menting some much-needed reforms at the tum In ,cll!Ct the winning submission. Ironically. Le of the 20th century. But the profession still B, 1111 was paid aJmost twice the amount awarded grapples with issues that have changed little in 111 1hc winning designer. the century since designers like Myers under Debate did not end with the selection of mined the profession's earliest attempts to estab Mycrs·s design. Unhappy with Le Brun's deci lish independence and legitimacy. Myers left a ~11111 and with the manner in which the competi- legacy of controversy that overshadows his fine 11011 had been held, a few local practitioners architectural achievements. The debate contin , omplained in the local press; one. John Andre ues, and skepticism abounds as much as ever \\ ,trtha. threatened to sue Myers for what was about the fairness of competitions; some still say ,ccn as his dishonorable politicking for the job. open calls merely provide valuable information <' hn racteri.stica!Jy, Myers was soon embroiled in and designs for sponsors, at little or no cost. disputes with the Capitol Board, and before the Architects observe the success of the legal and bui lding was completed, he was fired. He did, medical professions in regulating their services however, continue to use the handsome rendering and ponder the efficacy of adopting similar 11 1 the Capitol's south elevation as his letterhead. strategies for the design field. While the future is The loss of such an important project and the unpredictable, it must be noted that doctors and lingering suspicions and displeasure with the lawyers control their domains through a strict way the competition was conducted served as a and vigilant web of academic credentials, power ~atal yst to mobilize Texas architects. Organiza ful lobbies, and licensing requirements designed tion of the Texas State Association of Architects to exclude all others from their professional turfs t reorganized in 1939 as the Texas Society of -an array of powers at present denied, at least in Architects) in January 1886 was one response to part, to the architectural profession. As long as 1hcir collective rage; John Andrewarlha and architects mus1 share 1he responsibili ty of shap James Wahrenberger. also unsuccessful Capitol ing the environment with developers. contrac ~ompetition entrants. were among those elected tors, and bankers, the contrnversy over the value 1n the first executive committee. Included in its of architect urn.I services wi II continue. 11rganizational objectives. the TSAA's charter '>lated the group would be unified in its efforts to ··correct unprofessional prdctices"; talk of profes Marlene Elizabeth I-Jeck is an Assistant Professor ,;1onal conduct and ethical practice filled their ofAr chitecture at Texas A&M University and a curly meetings. In May 1889, George W. Stewart partner in Hardy- Heck· Moore, a preservation of DaUas submitted the text of a bill designed to consulting firm in Austin. I t"XOS Arc·hitt·ct March · April 1989 35 GENSLER HOUSTON'S COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK IN SHREVEPORT By Joel Warren Bama New photography by Chas M cGroch C<1urtr,y Cr,mrrJf'fT'WI Nu11UN1I Hank he Commercial National U rz ifying a barzking Bank of Shreveport, UL, T expanded in the I 980s. hall by McKim, Banking operations had outgrown Mead and White 1he original 16-srory McKim, Mead and White tower built in with an airy '80s 1930; they spilled into part of a tower next door new 24-srory tower, designed by HKS Inc. of Dallas and completed in 1987. PROJECT: Cnm11umwl Na1itmal Bank officers hi red lhe Houston Bank. Shrevepo11. la. office or Gensler and Associates/ INTER IOR ARCHITECT: Ge11• Archi1ec1s 10 redo the old banking slu and A.1·.wdacrsfArrhict!ct.,, hall (also originally designed by Hmm" n (De.vig11 temn: Bill /..fr· McKim, Mead and White) and it1NSW11. Clyde Jacksrm. Bud u,. unify its exuberant art deco inter 1her. l111do 'frodwe/1, Jeffrq ior wi1h the spare lale-modem luh) airiness of 1he adjoining new CLIENT: Commercial Narional tower's tall atrium/plll7.a space. Bank. Shreveport, la. Gensler decided early in the CONTRACTOR: F/or.rheim Co.. planning process 10 maintain the Shreveport bank 's presence in the existing CONSULTANTS: HKS Inc. (de banking hall instead of moving it sign of new building, struc into 1he new plaza/atrium. New tural): Wilhite Electric Co., 1ellcr lines and check- writing Bossier City. La. (electrical): stands were created 10 anchor the Southern Acoustics. Inc., Shre space, replacing lhe old teller vcpon (acoustical): Berg Me booths between the existing green chanical. Inc.. Shreveport marble-clad columns. New wall (plumbing/llVAC): W.T. Row fini.shes and draperies were added. land Co. (painting) the stone noon; were carpeted. and the ceiling details, particularly at SOURCES: 1he column capiials. were cleaned Marble and gr.ini1e installation: Verde up and simplified. The historic ls.rflri. 8&8 C111 Srane. Shre1•e1><11·1 murals by anist Buck Wynn Carpel: Hoka11.vm1 Rugs and Car{lel.1 (which the bank had planned 10 (i·,~rmm de.rig11 hy Gensler) discard) were restored. hung at a Period lighting l'l!StOmllon: Ca/111 lower level for bener visibility. and £/enrical Co.. Shrel't!flOrt relit, making them visible to pedes Pt1in1 : De,•oe Pa1111s trian and traffic circulation outside Fabric Pune!ls (behind teller line): the building as well as 10 custom "Pe111ago11, " hy Arr Cm11 Fuhrics. McKi 111 , M ead and Whit,· desix11cd ers inside. The bank's proud his /111'. hot/, the (lriginul /6·story I11wer and tory in Slirevepon has been pre Drapery: "WtJo/ Still,.. hy Art:hi1e;. its /1(111ki11g hall. TOP.for Ihe /111ildi11g. served and made a pan of its ex lntt'mat(onal wmpletetl "' /930. ABOVE: a """' thru-story t11riw11 li11J.s tht· ohJ panded and updated operations. Wood: Arclti1rc111ral \Voodll'ork l1ank111,: hall wit/, 11,e circ11/u1io11 Carp., l·fo11s1011 /1i11di11g new <111(/ ,>Id fl/Jrts of I1, e Chairs: Bemhurdt romplt•x. LEFr; Plan .rlww.r ,•levawrs Desks: 8t'11edmi and wa/J.wai•s ll'here teller wmdoll's tml'I! lim!tl the east ll'a/1 v/ ,1,., flld ba11k111x hall. 36 Tt'WJ Ardii11•1·1 Marl'h Arm! / 989 BOOKS Islamic Archirecwre S/((:cessfttl Resraura/11 Design by John D. Hoag by Regina S. Baraban. Joseph F. Durocher Elecla/Rizzoli. 1987 Yan Nostrand Reinhold, 1988 204 pgs .. 350 illus. $37.95 clothbound $22.50 paper Reviewed by Gerald Moorhead Sultan Hassan Mosque. Cairo Reviewed hy Dierdre Vil•ian or well over a thousand ye~rs (one references to paradise, are the source for or everyone who has dreamed of is so tempted lo say a thousand and several court ya rd-based typologies. The opening (or designing) a restaurant, F one). the architecture of Islam has mosque and madrasa (Islamic school) may F Successful Resra11ra11r Design wi ll maintained a tradition of style in fonn and enclose a garden which is divided into four be infonnative reading. It provides a look ornament in areas as different as Spain. secti ons by water courses representing Llle at the process of creating a restaurant in North Africa, Egypt. Turkey. Persia. and river:, of paradise. Mesopotamian glazed imernc1i ve seeps and decisions-with no India. Although the spread of Islam in Lh e tile work was revived in 12th-century Per magical design at the end-giving a realis centuries following the death of th~ sia untl quickly spread throughout the Is tic antidote to the title's implicit promise. prophet Muhammad in 632 was not an lamic world. First comes a rather dry overview of organized process. architectural ideas per The well-printed black-and-white pho- market detenninalion, customer psychol meated 1he entire empire from its vari ous 1ogrnphs arc usually adjacent 10 IJ1e perti ogy, and design regions. By IJ1e 13th century. a .. classic .. nent 1ext. The many plan drawings are the guidelines for style had matured in which a large body or real highlight of 1hc book, re nec1ing the both the front and shared motifs responded with local vari subtle mutationi. of the bui lding typologies back of the house. ations in chese far-nung landi.. (mosque. school. palace. tomb) from re The di scussion This volume by Jslamic-art authority gion to region. Although the dynasti c pro comparing desti John Hoag is a part of the large History of gressions are importanl for an w1der nution dri11king World Architecture series fonnerl y pub standing of Llle context of patronage in a with destination lished by Abrams, revised and reissued in society where essentially only the ruler, dining introduces paperback by Electa/Rizzoli. The dis nush wi1h wealili from a recent conquest, a crucial concept. cussion is chronological within each cul could found a mosque, school, hospital, For experi - tural/political sphere. The sources and evo hospice. or palace, the tex1 is overwhelmed enced restaura lution or building typologies and stylistic with Arabic names that many Western teurs. architects. detai ls are divided into ''Fonna1ive" and readers could find hard co assimilate. A designers. nnd kitchen consultants. the ''Classic" periods for each domain, and Llle glossary of architectural tenns is included, "Mini" and "Maxi" case studies provide a interchange of ideas is framed by Llle wars. but no pronunciation gazeueer. The most worLllwhile overview of Llle marketing migrations, and relationships of the ruling glaring fault is the absence of any maps. A and-design process. complece with bud dynasties. The pervasiveness of architec few structures discussed are not illustraced, gets. personalities, and frank discussions tu ral motifs is amazing, considering the but the madrasa and tomb of Sultan Hasan of successful ideas and mistakes. Res bitter rivalry amongst Llle sects of Islam in Cairo. ·'che most remarkable monument taurants from coast 10 coast arc explored stil l festering today. of all Egyplian Islamic archi tecture:· is from conception 10 opening, with funher Hoag ·s premise ii. that Islamic architec shown only in an aerial photo of the city. data on later profitability. ture embodies "the survival of antique Beyond Lllese omissions. however. Islamic While photographs are necessary to il architectural principles in a far more Archireclllre is a comprehensive survey of lustrnte the concepts considered, much of fundamental way Ulan survived in Llle manageable lengLll that gives a balanced Llle black-and-white photography here is West." Ex isting traditions of fonns. mate understanding of Lhe sources and develop distracting rather 1han helpful. The color rials, and techniques in conquered lands ment of a remarkable architecture that has photography insert of restaurant interiors were assimilated by early Muslim builders. endured beyond a thousand and one years and details works better. The Friday mosque, for example. is a large into mylh and romance. Llle heritage of a In the concluding chapter. food-service rectangular enclosure with a nat-roofed culture again moving 10 center stage. trends in the ·6os. '70s. and ·sos are re hypostyle hall along one side. Used for lated to the marketing and design of restau secular as we ll as religious functions. its Co111rib111i11g ediror Gerald Moorhead is rants and bars. The authors suggest that ~rly typolog-ical development was directl y an architect practicing in Ho11srn11. TSA restaurants of the 1990s wi ll be more di influenced by the Greek. agora. Roman member Dierdre Vi1,ian is the president of verse Ulan ever; that 's great news for con palaces and gan.lens. wiili their mylhical \livian/Nichols Associares, Dallas. sumers and designers. J8 Tl·.ms J\rd1itl'l'I Murch April / 9,IJ9 Symphony m• cemnnCS···• There's a symphonic elegance flowing from many ceramic tile surfaces. Something like a visual symphony by Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. And like a cL'lSsical symphony, that beauty is forever. With tile's myriad of colors, shapes and textures, you can compose a masterpiece in allegro, andante, fortissimo! 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BtL-;ccJ on latest polymer chemistry, new "no- fault" Polyhlend is ava ilable in a :,;peccrum of 47 color:,;. For more informarion and colo r cards, contact your Custom discribu tor or call us today. CUSTOM BUILDING PRODUCTS 6511 !>Al:rl.AKE ,Wl~NUE. I.SELL. CA 90.:llll ( l 13 l 'iK2 Olm, 1-13 IOtJT II ST.. GKAND PKA I RI F.. TX ..,5050 I 11 t l (Ml 69% .H.!'i SWE1£'1""~\J'EI< INDl 1:-'rlUAI. Ill.., I.ITI I IA '-l'H 1NC<; , GA .,rn1,;- Circle 47 on Reader lnqutry Card NATURALLY IT'S . .. Harwood Taylor, FAIA, 1927-1988 he co founder of three of the state's T most prominen1 architec1ure finns, Harwood Taylor, FAIA, died Dec. 22. Taylor graduated from the Universi1y of Texas in 1951 and four years later co founded Neuhaus+ Taylor in Houston with J. VicLOr Neuhaus 111. In 1972. he co founded Div~rsified Desiga Disciplines (incorporated in 1975 as 3D/lntemational). fonned from Neuhaus+ Taylor and two engineering firms. In 1978, Taylor lefl 30/1 and worked with Golemon & Rolfe, H111wo11d Tuy/or, FA/A, of IJ011.rro11 11·as a l'oflm11der of Nr11/t(111.v + 1'1)1/11r. 3 DI l1111•r,w1w,111/, and Taylor/ /..Jmdy I/KS. HotWfJII. He dll!tl Dec. 22 at tilt' U/W tJ/61. ··.. . Houston, as designer on several projects. He joined Victor Lundy in 1980 to form Taylor/Lundy HKS. the Hous ton ann of Harwood K. Srnilh & Partners, Inc., Dal Versa-Lok'" provides all las. Taylor left that firm in 1985 to work the necessary high demands individually and as a design consultanl. of structural performance, rn 1966, a1 age 39. Taylor became the economlcal/y and conveniently. youngest Fellow of the AJA. He was re • Natural Rock Finish sponsible for the design of notable com • No Foundation Required mercial and institutional projects in more • No Mortar Used than 20 U.S. cities and 1hc Middle East, • Interlocking Modular Units including the Houston ISO Administration • Durable, Attractive & Economical Building and 2001 Bryan Street in Dallas. • Easy and Quick to Install Houston architectural historian S1ephen • Automatically Steps Back & Fox says some of Taylor's most lasting de • Forms Correct Slope sign contributions may have come early in • For Both Commercial & his career whe n he designed seve ral • Residential Applications Miesiao-inspired residences in Houston. • Curved, Straight, Stepped & He originated a new building type used • 90° Degree Installations widely in Houston and elsewhere inro 1he For more lnfonnat,on, write or phone. 1970s. This one-story office building ele 01ll1a/Fort Worth TXI, P.O. Box 400, vated on stills, wi1h parking below, first Arilngton, TX 76010 appeared in the mid- l 950s as an apanmem Dallas Phone: 214-638·8933 Melro: 214·263-4181 building, designed with Burdelle Kceland. Corpus Christi TlCI, P.O Box 9154 A scholarship fund has been started in Corpus Christi. TX 78408 Taylor's name at the College of Architec Prone: 512·289-1791 ture. University of Houston. He is survived by his wife. Kiko. and 1hree daughters. Masonry Products Division - ROT For a Great Wall When You're Up Against It TX880801A 48 C,rc/e 48 on Reader Inquiry Card f l'.WJ Ard/1/t:CI Marr:lt · April / 989 Galveston Donald Springer. Morris'tt'Architects prin Gardens' second piece now In place cipal-in-charge. The center was designed around a "pet-facili tated therapy program'' ith the completion of the Anin1aJ intended primarily for disabled persons W Contact Facility in November 1988, Morris'tt'Archi1ec1s and The Moody Foun dation closed 1he second phase of lhc eight-phase, 20-year deve lopmen1 of Moody Gardens. This $ 120-million 1rans he edi1ors of DOMAIN, 1.hc life fom1ation of Galveston marshland, begun T style magazine of TEXAS in 1984 according 10 a master plan by Brit MONTHLY, invice archi1ects, anists, ish architect and landscape architect Sir decorators, and craftsmen 10submi1 Geoffrey Jell icoe (see TA Jul/A ug 1987). examples ofth ei r besc crca1ions 10 1hc first annual Domain Design Awards working with SLA Studio Land, lnc. (1hen Compclition . Winners and their en Smith. Locke. Asakura. Inc.) of Houston. tries will be featured in DOMAIN'S will create a self-sus1aining 142-acre com Tlw Animal Ccmtact Farility's modest Sfale and July/ August 1989 issue. s1mplr marrrwls, ABOVE, are co111ple111t•111ed ll\' plex comprising bo1anical gardens and fa 111piory 1111tl wmcr fea111re.r (axm,ametric. BELOW) cilities for research. rehabilitati ve physical THE DES IGN CATEGORIES 1herapy. and entenainme nL. ACCESSORIES From clocks and frames to table The Animal Contact Facility, renamed ware and andirons "Seaside Safari" in a contest among local FURNITURE school children. encloses 6,000 square feet Functional or decorative, indoor of space adjacent 10 Hope Arena. a 30.000- or outdoor square-fooi equestrian center for re habili LIGHT IN G Fbnures, indoor or outdoor tative lherapy lhat was completed in 1985 TEXT ILES as phase one of the Gardens. The animal Fabrics and floor and wall contact center is the first of its kind, !>UY!) coverings R OO M S ,\ CQllllt'('/1\'1! Residential spaces, from back spi11r scrvrJ as a porches to baths lO basements da111111 for the ct'n· 1,:r'.r tJC'tfriry THE RULES rooms a11d sup· 1. Entry fee: S25, payable to A port .rparts. DoMAIN 2. Applicants must reside t1e11111etrirnlly ah in Texas. The contest is open to stu· srracred Sl'rpcn- dents and professionals. 3 . Entries 1i11r 11•a1rr /t'lltttre submi11 ed for consideration must be u•as rt'tai11t•d. ul- in Texas and must have been de 1/11m.11lt /WO Slrttl' signed or produced wid11n 1he las1 /llres fnr ajish three yea.rs. Commissioned pieces ltnb,wt ll'l'rl' re and prototypes are permissible. mm·r,I /mm rite 4 . EnirieS must not have been pub final des1g 11 (t·o111- lished in another magazine or news flllre {)Ian, LEFT. paper, with tJ1 e exception of trade with tJ.f{//lf)lllt'tric, publications. 5 , Send a set of35mm ABOVE). slides (duplicates onl y, no originals), with your name clearl y marked on each slide, to Domain Design Awards, P.O. Box 1569, Austin, TX 78767-1569. Include your address, • Conceptual estimates day and evening phone numbers, and a statement t11at specifics the Construction • Deta il estimates catcgory/cau:guric:. you arc entering • Change order evaluation and any information that explains • Disbursement supervision your submission. 6 . Deadline for Cost submissions is March 27, 1989, and • Insurable va lues all entries become the propeny of • Investment tax credit DOMAIN. Slides cannot be re turned. Winners will be contaCll.-d by Management Co. • Project inspection May 26, 1989. CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL ESTIMATORS SPECIALISTS IN GOVERNMENT & INSTITUTIONAL PROJECTS DOMAIN 2413 NORTH MAIN FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76106 (817) 625-4271 THC L lfE'STVLI: MA 0A11Nt o, 'T E )(A!I NOHTHLY fr,tll.l An hire, 1 Marr lt April 1989 Ctrcle 38 on Reader Inquiry Card Circle 49 on Reader lnqutry Card 49 who have lost motor control. mo:,tl y due to a koi pond and redefined the fun ctions of head injuries. Contact with unimab such al> other :. paces. A serpentine water feature. miniature horses. llamas. goats. rabbits. however. wru, retained. cockatoos, and iguanas, accurdfog to the Although phuse two of the Garden has MILLER Foundati on, helps greatly in this type of just been completed. Springer says a de BLUEPRINT COMPANY NORTH physical rehabilitation. Programs are also sign for a 37.000-square-foot conference 10713 METRIC BLVD available for elderl y persons and school center to be added 10 I-lope Arena was Austin, Texas 1512) 837-8888 tour groups. approved in late November. wi th construc The one-story center's disparate func tion scheduled to begin in Jul y. In addition ~ ti ons are organized along a centra l circ ula to the conference center. plans for the $52- ti on spine. Attached to either side of the million phase three include the Tropical spine are spaces for registration. audio Biome. a one-acre. seven- 10 nine-story visual presentations. outdoor contact areas, conservatory to exhibit tropical rai n for animal stalls. a veterinary medicine room. ests; a 400-seat 3D-lmax Theater. the fi rst and a veterinary surgery area. Straightfor in 1he U.S.; the Plant Science Center, ward building treatment is complemented which will house botanical and horcicul by integrated landscaping designed by tur..il teaching and research facilities: the SLA. which also provided landscape archi Visilor Center, including a ticket office, tecture for earlier work at the Gardens. visitor ori entation theater. shops. and of ~ Topiary animal references. including an fices: and the Epicurean Gardens and Gar MILLER elephant-shaped, vine-covered portal. al den Restaurnnt. Phase three b. scheduled 10 BLUEPRINT CO . DOWNTOWN lude to the center's purpose. Dispersed as open in spring 1993 and is expected 10 501 WEST 6TH ST. a secondary pleasure throughou1 these ex establi5h the Gardens as a major year Austin, Texas (512) 478-8793 terior space~ is an impressive collec ti on of round t0uris1 anraction. Sir Geoffrey Jelli geode:- amm,scd by the Foundation. coe 's sublime Histori c Gardens or Man One pavilion and its connecti ve :,truc will occupy the following phase. . .. TO SERVE BETTER THE ture were left out of the l"i nal ue.-,ign. -;ay: AUSTIN PROFESSIONAL! Springcr. when the Foundation elimina ted - /WT Houston was as illumina1ing as the images )}hown. AUTOCAD - REL 10 FOR THE PC Harbour opens RDA Fireside Chats The interiors are serene. wi th careful de AlJTOCAD FOR lliE MACINTOSH II AUTOCAD AEC ARCHITECTURAL tailing, pragmatic but lucid plans. and aus AUTOCAD AEC MECHANICAL n the fi rs t of the Ri ce Design Alliance's tere, elegant finishes. An aura of corporate ALJTOSHADE/AUTOFLIX 1989 Fireside Chats. Antony Harbour, stature pervade!., even though style varies ALJTOSKETCH I director of the 90-person Hous with each project. Harbour ex. CADVANCE 3.0 ton office of Gensler and Asso plai ned that the firm defers to VERSACAD DESIGN 5.4 ciates/Ar chitects. descri bed the the image and aesthetic prefer VERSACAD/MACI NTOSH EDITION VERSACAD ARCHITECT birth of the fmn in the 1960s, encei. of cl ie n11o. when a band of young architects Harbour l>Ui d aes tJ1etic 11ex i CALCOMP DIGITIZERS & PLOTTERS HEWLETT-PACKARD PLOTTERS formed. ready 10 capitalize on bility and a business-like ap CAD PERIPHERALS the corporate-interiors market. proach fostered the Houston of The firm 's rounders, while fi ce ·s growth since it was confident of their architectural formed in 1972. Fre4ue111 refer abilities. lacked business educa- J\1111111y llarhn11r rals and steady out-of-state Lion, Harbour said. so they hi red work minimize di rect market a management expert. who taught Lhem ing. Gensler and Associates presents a MONTHLY NEWSLETTERS that catering to the client and generating track record impressive even 10 1hose out USER'S GROUP MEETINGS PC-CAD BULLETIN BOARD profits were as important a.s good architec side the corpomte realm. TOTAL CAD TUTORS / TRAINING ture. The founders set formidable growth Other Fireside Chats. presented as TA PHONE SUPPORT projections: establishing six offices nation we nt 10 press. featured Ray B. Bailey. 4 YEARS IN HOUSTON wide and serving Fortune 500 clients. FAIA. of Ray Bailey Architect<;, Inc., and OVER 650 CAD INSTALLATIONS Today, Gensler is the leading national inte Robert Griffin of Robert Griffin, Archi tect. LARGE DEMONSTRATION AREA rior-architecture firm in volume of work TOTAL CAD SYSTEMS, INC. ($75 million billed in 1988) and enjoy!> a - Philip Arcidi 5322 WEST BELLFORT. SUITT 2 16 strong reputation. HOUSTON. TEXAS 77035 ln reviewing Gensler Houston·s proj Philip Arcidi is the former editor of Crit. 713-721 -2233 (CADD) ects. Harbuur·s all-business perspecti ve the A/AS national ma,:a:ine. Circle 8 on Reader Inquiry Card 50 Te.ws J\re'/1ilt!t'I Mari·lt /\pril IIJ<'ilJ SCIIOOLS UT Austin-Architecture students Susan Weilbacher of New Orleans. Beth Oooliule of Houston, and Andy Roth of Austin joined Austin architect Michael Dean Em- IMPROVE YOUR 0 11 and other volunteers in November 10 create Austin's second Habitat for Human CASH FLOW it y house. The students gained hand~-on WITHOUT REALLY TRYING While dividends can't be guaranteed, the TSA Group Workers' Compensation Plan has declared annual t111sri11 1-fa//iwt fur l/111111111111· 1•0/11111urs (/-r): S11st111 IV1!illmt•t·lt1•1: Betit /J1111/i11/e, Andy Roth. all(/ dividends averaging 31.5% for M,chacl /)1•a11 Eflimt the past five years. Because building experience. working 10 improve the rates and benefits for the house 10 match Elliott· design. A woman and her six children began living in this type of coverage are the house Dec. 11 . generally set by law, this Houston- The second annual Wendy 31.5% return represents a Haskell Meyer Student Design Competi pure insurance tion for Houston-area interior-design and $ architecture students was sponsored by savings for most The Decorati ve Center of Houston and Houston Metmpoliw11 magai-ine and held firms who Dec. 14. The winners were Wendy Guid would not roz of the Uni veri. ity of Hou~ton. first place for Best l111erior Design for Retire ment Apartment Living: and Elizabeth A. Wright of UH and Brad Purser of lloustun Community College. first and second place, respectively, for Best Interior De sign for Retirement Apanment Living with Expansion and Renovation. The comest was underwritten by Tarrytowne Memorial Residential Relirement Community, which provided the design criteria. Texas A&M- Thc College of Archilecture and Environmental Design will hold Ca reer Horizons VII, a one-week summer program June 4- 10 for college-bound high school juniors and senior.- interested in architecture, art, community planning. landscape architectun:. or building con structi on. A $375 fee covers room and board on campus. all program expenses, field trips, and mosl supplies. Write 10 the college: ColJege Station , TX 77843-3 137. or call 409/845- J285. Tt!.111.1 Arr:/11/ect Marr/, · Aprif 1989 Circle 51 on Reader Inquiry Card 5 1 PRODL 'CTS AND LITER:\TL 11U: Unbuilt San Antonio. An exhibilion at the Artemide. Inc. now College or Fine Arts and Humanities. UT distributes VeArt San Amonio, Mar. 6-28. Call 512/69 1-4299. lighting products, which feature hand Station to Station: Mass Transit and Urban blown Venetian Form. A lecture series Mar. 22 and 29 and glass. One example Apr. 5 and 12 at The Museum of Fine Arts, is the Dede table Houston, sponsored by the Rice Design lamp, designed by Alliance, to explore the community-devel Enzo Berti from opment implications of the city's reline blown white and ment of its regional transit plan. Call 7 13/ aquamarine opaline 524-6297 for reservations. glass and gray lac Tyvek Houscwrap from Ou Pont has been quered metal. Vlsuallzatlon by Design. The Rowlett tested to provide a three- to eight-fold im Circle 23 0 11 the rl'adtr inquiry card. Lecture Series, Mar. 23, at Texas A&M provement over competing air- and water University. chaired by Dean Michael Mar barrier products. The result is greaier en Bruce Hardwood Floors announces Ster tin McCanhy and Professor Emeritus The ergy savings along with greater ultraviolet ling Strip. a solid-oak, square-edge. prefin odore S. Maffitt FA IA. with Benjamin E. resistance. Stud marks every eight inches ished strip nooring system that ensures Brewer. FAIA, of Houston. Sco11 SLrasser allow quick. proper installation. low cost and a -;mooth finish. of Dallas, and Thomas Linehan and Roger Circle 19 on the reader inquiry card. Circlt 24 011 tl1r rta,ltr i11q11iry card. Ulrich of College Station. Call 409/845-785 I. Haworlh ·s new CE on CE. A lecture by architect and art CatalystTM Task ist Craig Ellwood of Manhauan Beach. Stool was designed Calif., at UT Austin 's Jessen Auditorium. by Wa tlcn Snod Apr. 17 at 4:30 p.m. Call 512/4 71- 1922. grass und features n un ique knee-til t/ Constancy and Change In Architecture. A cantlc mechanism symposiwn (see "Events." TA fan/Feb ror a linnly upright 1989) at Texa-; A& M University, Apr. I 3- Loctite Luminescent Systems, Inc., has chair that is still 14. Call 409/845-3942. answered the need for low-level exi t-path easy to recline. The lighting with Lifeline. an electrolumines seat height adjusts Historical Preservation In Review: HABS cent ligh1ing system that provided o continu quickly from 23 to Drawings from the Texas Historical Com ous strip of light just above floor level. 31 inches. mission. An exhibit at UT Austin 's refur Circle 20 on tht rtadtr inquiry card. Circle 25 011 tht rMder i11q11iry card. bished Goldsmith Hall from Mar. 27 to Apr. 28. Call 5 12/47 1- 1922. Optix blinds from Nanik. dubbed .. sun IBM 's new IBM CJ\D is a low-cost. full glasses for windows." block all of the sun ·s function 2.5-dimcnsaonal CAD sys1em. Bellaire Home Tour. The Friends of Bel ultrnviolet rays. yet allow filtered light in. with six da1a-exchunge formats. allowing laire Parks· seventh annual tour of contem The blinds arc available in eight colon,. exchange wi th most CA D programs. porary and historic homes. Apr. 1-2. Circle 21 011 tht reader inquiry, card. Cirrf11 26 n11 the reader i11q11iry card. Competitions. National Peace Garden. A The Soft Bowtie design competilion for a major monumen upholstered stuck t.al site. Registrati on closes May 26. Write chair by Forty Fort to P.O. Box 27558, Washington. D.C. Furniture Works 20038-7558. Proud Hands. A juri ed ex features a split back position in Austin for architectural an by coupled with sculp Texans. Entry deadline is May I. Call 5 12/ tured foam on a 478-7742. Domain Design Awards. Do steel rod frame for main's first design competition. Submis unusual user com sion deadline is Mar. 27. See page 49 or fort. A varie1y of call 512/476-7085. PC GlassBlock Archi The money- and space--;aving Mult islack fabrics and vinyls tectural Design Awards. A contest for modular water-chiller system comprises up und over 200 frame professionals and students. Entry deadlinl! LO 12 individual chiller modules. colors are available. is Apr. 28. Call 800/992-5679. Circle 22 on the reader i11q11iry card. Circlt 27 0 11 lht retultr i11quiry card. 52 71•.rm Ard111c,·1 Muf'l'h Apr,/ l9H9 New Books and Guides American Hospital Association books- helpful guides for planning and des i&111i ng Architectural Graphic Standards, Stude11t health-care facilities. with topics such as Edition- an abridged version of Ramsey/ budgeting procedures. signs and graphics, Sleeper's classk reference work. published and "design that cares"; published by by John Wiley & Sons. Inc., and priced at American Hospira! Publishing. Inc. only $49.95. Circle JO on /h t r11adtr inquiry card. Circf11 28 on lht rtadtr i11quiry card. 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Tr 111:u\n //iten M11rr-l1 ,\p,i/ 19119 53 MUSINGS By Ray Don Tilley fler featuring tongue-in cheek residential projects A for birds and dogs in re cent issues. TA now focuses on u more serious. i r st ill lighthearted. attempt 10 create a machine for work ing and li ving that embodies a ~cnsc of place. A place. that i1-. for the South Texas chicken. The PouJtrenon sils in the shade of a grove of hackbcrry trees at Diane Hastings·i, rural home out side Boerne, ju1,1 northwest of San Antonio. I-l astings. principal of 1hc /11,111irt'd //.1 Gruk 111ul Jllpam·,tt trmpll'.~. the Po11/trt•11011. LEFT. isfwwtimwl, with lay Boerne architecture lirm Hastings "'11 boxl's. Ml/)DLf. IJlld LOWER H/Glff. placw/ 111 /am· f'llh111111s lll t•at·h mml'r. Kry 10 De.~ign Oflice. developed a design plan. UPPER RIGHT. (II e111ra11re. (21 /11yh1,: lmu,1. (JI mos1,1, (./1/i!eder, (5) dta11 ,mt ba~ed on her experience maintain ing chicken coops. II is utterly functional: the concrete lloor can (for extra egg-production hours) porates imagery and a forma l plan Proving 1h111 farmyard design he hosed off quid.ly. laying boxes and a pendant feeder. and composition that Hasting~ at need not be chicken-hearted fo lly, arc bui lt into hollow columns clad This workplace i1, also secure: tribute!, 10 the in nucncc of Louis Diane Hastings's " temple Lo in corrugated metal. am! ~emicir it~ ,kin of welded wire mesh keeps Kuhn. 11 s impli ed load-bearing Athena Gallina" gives her clients culur rungs of conduit provide out vanmnts at night. nuicd column~ taper 10 delicate something more than just a clean. ample roosting space. Also in l)cspite its dcvo11 on 10 Iun ction. pipes 1hm suppon II hipped roof well-lighted place to lay one's egg. cluded arc a central light and timer though. the Poultrcnon also incor- finished in cornigatcd mctul. r--I -- 1 -----[-EXHIBITION OF I I l l I RCHITECTURE FOR - r------....J I I l - ]HEALTH I l I l I l I I GEORGE R. BROWN _ LI ______JI CONVENTION I CENTER I 1 I I : I _ L ______! Houston I I June 4-6, 1989 Display your latest health care facility designs in the 60th Anniversary Texas Hospital Association Convention. Be a part of the Exhibition of Architecture for Health. a cooperative project of the Texas Hospital Association and the Texas Society of Architects. Call Gerry Starnes at 512/465-1000, or write P.O. Box 15587, Austin, Texas 78761, for prospectus and exhibit information. fr.1w Ar1·h11,•,·1 Mt1rcl1 · April l9H9 Corporate Office 790 nm~ ',I 11011 IUII 111,n N Pmll Onk Rd , Suile 130 Dallas: The Towers at Williams Square Now lin11111h1I I lluu ,IPII IX7 /065 5212 N. 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