In this issue: El Paso Portrait Texas Downtown Spruce-Up Discovering Henry Trost Shangri-la on the Border Architect Practice Across the River NO. 5 VOL. 27 SEPT. / OCT. 1977 Contents Editorial ...... 3 Tuas Archlttct Is the official pubhcauon of TM Teus Society of Architects. TSA Is the off1c1al Of El Paso Portrait . .. 7 pniutlon of the Tcxu Rca,on of the American I• El Paso. A look into tire City of the stituce of Archalects. 0a Taylor Editor-in OW Sun-its myt/rs, problems, present, Larry Paul Fuller Mana11111 f.dllOf past and future, and its style, arc/ri Ste,cn Mc8rcar1y Auodale f.dllOf ttcturally and otherwise. John Lash AdvenJslna DutCtcM Hyder Joseph Brown, AIA Editorial Con111lt8111 Downtown Spruce-Up 15 Editorial l"ollcy Committee In £1 Paso there is a plan afoot to re- Mori Levy, Chairman Jack E. Mttk 1 italiu downtown t/rroug/r pedestrian im Jack Craycrofl Jack M11ctwll pro1·emerrts: beautified walkways and Noel Dolce Jim Foster "paure·• arear, giant muralr and land Peck Drennan Tom Harro,cr scapin,:r. A plan to make downtown more Ttxas Arch/tut ii publl'1lcd 11x umcs yearly by lhe walkable. Texas Soc1c1y of Archatc.:11. 2121 Au,un Na11onal Danie Tower, Conar- at Sixth, Au1tln, Ten, 7'701 Discovering Henry Trost . 19 Telephone 512 1471-7316 Sul>Knp!lon pncc ,, $6 00 T/ris prolific early 20th Century architect pu year ro, addr=a w11h1n the conuncncal United -little known outside El Pa.r<>-left Scates uccpuna Hawaii and Aluka. be/rind a body of work tlrat warrants Ed11orial concribulion,. correspondence. and ad•cr f rm/rer study and recognition. bsln1 malcnal in•ilcd by the cdalor. Usually, no pay mcnt will be made for articles. Publithcr li•n ~I Shangri-la on the Border . . . . 25 mauion for reprod~tlon of all or pall of cdnorlal Tire campus of UT-El Paso maintains a material huctn if publication credu Is a;vcn T ,.., Arch/tut and the auchor when andicatcd. Publlud consistent architectural style t/rat is which normally pay for articles arc requested llt per/raps w11que to America-Bhutanese. live consideration 10 lhe author of reproduced t,yll.. modeled after tire arcl,itecture of a fcalure material. Himalayan mountain kingdom. Appearances of namN and pictures of pr,>dllfll and scrvlca In cacher editorial or ad•er1111n1 .._ Practice Across the River ... 30 not consu1u1c an endonemcnt of Hme by either 1111 Two young architects from Juarez (one Tuas Society of Architects or the American ln,tlt• of whom works for an El Paso firm) of Architects. Nor does cdatorlal comment nccn,a,.., rcnect an official Ol)anlon of either or1an11at1ot1 compare arcl,itecture on opposite sides
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2 Texas Architect Convention Focus: Energy Focus 77 Energy. Texas Society of Architects 38th Annual Meeting, El Paso Civic Center, October 19-21, 1977.
Well, it's almost that time of year again, time for the architects of our sprawling state (and driving out to El Paso you get an idea of how big Texas really is) to leave the drawing boards for three days of El Paso style conventioneering.
There will be plenty of the fun that everyone always expects from conventions-the let-your-hair-down good times, the mixing and mingling, the lighthearted conviviality-all in the context of professional camaraderie. It will be a time for catching up, for renewing old acquaintances and for making new ones. And it will be a time for that informal, yet invaluable, interchange among colleagues which is one of the primary benefits of membership in any professional organization.
Also this year there will be the annual product exhibition. in which some seventy or so manufacturers are represented. affording architects an opportunity to keep up with rapid change and progress within the construction and furnishings industries. It will be something of a marketplace of ideas. where suppliers and specifiers intennix for their mutual benefit.
And again. as in times past. the architects will explore a general convention theme of interest to the profession. This year's emphasis -our focus-is on the subject of energy. Yes, energy-even though we arc bombarded with the word every day- because problems and available solutions as they pertain to architecture are still hazy. And we need to bring them into focus.
Consider that. despite all the hubbub about energy conservation, we as a nation continue to consume more energy than ever before. Since a full 30 percent of our energy consumption is due to buildings, the significance of our role as architects is obvious. Yet the profession has been slow to push for dramatic change and reliable new technology in the energy field. So it is that this year's annual meeting will be a time of assessment and evaluation. a time for nuts-and-bolts ~essions on solar applications and energy conservation methods. And what better place to dwell on the subject of energy than El Paso, City of the Sun. where day after day after day we are bathed in that shimmering vitality that beckons to serve our needs?
Don Henry 1977 TSA Convention Chairman Foster, Henry, Henry and Thorpe, Inc. El Paso
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September/October 1977 7 Detail from Cortez Hotel.
trekked across mountain trails Santa Fe's, for example, with Downtown banks have big businessmen take clients to to spread the "Good News." its narrow, crooked streets and flashing signs. There arc "putt Juarez for lunch. Workday And Conquistadores passed adobe walls to the property putt" golf courses and "go mornings the international through in search of gold and line. "When you get McDon kart" tracks and drive-in ~ridges are jammed with silver and fountains of youth. ald's here," says David Hilles, theaters-everything one can Juarez residents coming over But what kind of a city has "it looks like McDonald's in find in Houston or L.A. or the border to jobs or to look sprung from these roots? To Houston." Louisville. for jobs; on weekends the gain some understanding of Acre upon acre of tract sub ut then, how many places bridges arc packed with Amer El Paso's problems and devel divisions have blossomed like B have a river on the edge icans who want to shop the opment, both architecturally desert cactus on the arid of town with Mexico on the tawdry J uarez markets or take and in the social fabric which fringes of town. Shopping cen other side? El Paso can't help in a floor show or a dog race makes its architecture possible, ters, apartment complexes being just a I ittle different. with dinner. For, as Charles we talked to El Paso architects ( ersatz Spanish Colonial, er "It's the one place where the DeVillier will tell you, El Pa,;o Charles DeVillier and David satz English Tudor, etc., occu United States and Mexico and Juarez arc just one big Hilles, of the firm of Garland pancy rate: 97%), high-rise really confront each other," urban center, home for a mil and Hilles, and architect Louis hotels and motels, fast food Hilles says. On downtown ion people. Daeuble. joints and chain restaurants streets (where Mexican citizens Juarez has mushroomed here is no denying that stand like mirages on naked shop El Pa~o dep,1rtment even faster than El Paso: a T El Paso is looking more sandy hills through which stores) one hears the Spanish quarter of a century ago there and more like any other Amer streets have only recently been language as often as one hears were maybe 50,000 people ican city. It lost its chance long cut. A pair of eight-lane free Engli~h. Friends visit friends living there. Now there arc ago, Louis Daeuble points out, ways barrel through town. acro<;s the border. El Paso officially nearly 600,000, and to establish a genuinely charac who knows how many un teristic architectural style, like counted thousands piled into the shanty-houses which line the hills on the edge of town?
8 Texas Architect Slow day in e{ mercado.
Juarez is a magnet for people ployers are all to glad to hire mothers are taking care of the ards, but practically a windfall from all over northern Mex them and they are willing to well-to-do ladies' children as by theirs. ico, and the country's fourth work for a fraction of the sal maids in their homes. It is ituated on a crossroads of largest city. A lot of Mexicans ary Americans would demand. prestigious to keep a Mexican S the continent, El Paso are drawn to Juarez by what " In residential construction maid in El Paso, and quite traditionally has been a kind they see as an opportunity to work," Daeuble says, "guys cheap: the usual wages are of jumping off spot for people work in the United States, or scrape up whatever labor they about $20 per week. heading on to other places, new at an American manufacturing can find-and a lot of it is "The influx to the border dreams; this was true for the plant on their side of the from Juarez." from the interior of Mexico Spanish, for prospectors with border, for much higher wages nd then there is the matter keeps all the wage scales low," dollar signs in their eyes in the than they would make in the A of Mexican maids, about says Daeuble, "and we don't California gold rush of 1849. interior. which El Pasoans often joke. have the income we should And it has been true for mili Juarez has a major eco The Immigration and Naturali have.... We need to tary residents of Ft. Bliss and nomic influence on El Paso, zation Service estimates there strengthen our economic base; for vacationers motoring Win says DeVillier. "The labor are approximately 12,000 and we have strengthened it a nebagos through town along market is what attracted such illegal maids in El Paso; other lot through twin-plant develop the interstates. El Paso is a industries as the clothing in sources place the figure as high ments, in which large manu city of new faces. What has dustry; it hinged around the as 50,000. The old story facturers have maybe an happened down through the flow of people from Mexico." around town, says DeVillier, is assembly plant on this side but years is that a lot of these The presence of able-bodied that well-to-do ladies from the actually fabricate the parts people liked, say, the weather Mexican workers (who cross country club doing volunteer over in Juarez." In these set the bridges with shopping work in day care centers take ups, the average wage on the passes or down river a bit by care of Mexican kids whose Mexican side, including fringe simply walking across) has benefits, is about $1 per hour tended to depress the wage -extremely low by our stand- scale, as many American em-
September I October 1977 9 Civic Center Theater, an El Paso landmark.
Making pottery for market.
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or the natives or the idea of from the time of the Conquis World War If were small, two ays Hilles, "is not just the use being tucked away in their own tadores. Franchise fried and three-bedroom structures of nattve materials-adobe, the little corner of the world; they chicken and tortillas made by in the Height,; area of town old adobe is a fragile material. stayed on. (For instance, old women in the streets. along the slopes of the moun It's more a form, a search for approximately 54,000 ex-Ft. ut back to the matter of tain which jut into the city a form that not only fits this Bli~s servicemen and families B architectural style: if hm1ts; building materials were geography but the 20th Cen are here to stay after leaving there I an indigenous El Paso taken right off the slopes. And tury problems that are tearing the military.) style, one that ets 1t off from, "the sites themselves make for us up just like everybody else. "It's appealing lo a lot of say, Atlanta, or any other a different kind of architec With the freeways, the chains people lo face an environment place, it 1s the use of thick ture," Hilles says. "Architec coming through from Houston that' very different," ays walls closed to the sun and ture is different from what you and California, going in two Hilles, who him elf came to made of masonry, i.e. adobe, find in East Texas in that we directions right through us, it's El Paso from Oklahoma 20 a mixture of sod and straw start with a rock lot and we've a battle to create a form that years ago. "That's what brings baked in the sun; river-bed got to bring in water and land is ... distinctive-and this is a lot of people here." Taking boulders or rock quarried out scaping ... whereas East true in any city." to the El Paso streets, one is of the Franklin Mountains; Texas starts with trees." aeuble points to such beset with contrasts: gaunt and concrete or brick from Other structures, too, reflect D structures as the Civic old Mexican faces and sun regional resource . This 1s a a certain tenuous Southwestern Center, the Sun Bowl and the burned tourists in ban-Ion heritage owing to the climate, desert motif, which, say the airport terminal as contempo shirts. High-rt e office park the materials at hand, and the architects, is difficult to define. rary buildings which have and earthen mt ions dating innuence of various elllcrs Architecture in El Pa o today, evolved from the environment who have tramped through and culture of the region. The the region. "We try to use Civic Center, says Daeuble, is material reflective of the "done in a stucco, is deep re place where we live," DeV1llier vealed, very definitely with says. Rock houses built after the Mexican-Southwestern in fluence." The airport building
10 Texas Architect American Smelting and Refining Co. rears smokestacks skyward.
Sun Bowl filled to capacity with 35,000 spectators.
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" has evolved through several ings in the city, which Hilles of the Hispanic new world. menl in the whole wild-and stages of trying to make it sees as a turning away from With the Spanish and the wooly West. Famous outlaws Spanish; I don't say it's Span contemporary trends toward Indians living in the region like John Wesley Hardin set ish influence but it's open in a "native forms of closed walls came the adobe, stucco, tile up shop there. But the town very gracious manner and is and patios and little spots of roofs, patios and gardens was finally on the map and quite unique." The Sun Bowl water." DeVillier worries which are prevalent through gunmen were eventually eradi stadium, on the campus of the about the " bastardization" of out Latin-American architec cated through self-annihilation University of Texas al El Paso, the Spanish heritage which he ture. Hence the beautiful and a succession of tough was built by excavating then claims has exerted mostly a missions still standing today. minded sheriffs, but not until pouring concrete directly into "pseudo influence" on El Paso ater, with the gold rush well into the 20th Century.) a hollow created in the moun design, producing such things L that brought the stage With the settlers came build tains. And one of Daeuble's as mission tile roofs on strip coach to town and the arrival ing materials aod ideas from own designs, "La Villita," (see developments which are just a of the railroad in 1881, Anglo "the East," meaning in this TA, May/June 1973) pre "faint reflection of architec German se11lers pushed instance, St. Louis and Kansas serves-in a shopping village tural style." through on their way to Cali City. "Particularly," says reminiscent of turn-of-the istorically, El Paso and fornia. Many of these folks Daeuble, "was this true of century El Paso-a kind of H its buildings have been wearied of the journey and brick." For many years El definitive El Paso style with its influenced by several cultures, dropped anchor in El Paso. Paso received continuous ship brick walls and pavement, Daeuble says. There were the (In the days after the coming ments of brick for its building low-slung Mexican brick en Spanish colonists who arrived of the railroad, El Paso had a needs until eventually brick trance arch and interior plaza. in the Pass in the 1500s, using reputation as the wildest settle- plants were constructed in the Yet, the toehold El Paso has the valley as a way station be city-providing El Paso the on a regional style is precari tween Mexico City and Santa nickname "brick city." ous. High-rises, for instance, Fe, the provincial headquarters look pretty much like high rises anywhere-though there are virtually no all-glass build-
September/October 1977 11 Mesa Avenue, /912, and Trost's Roberts-Banner Bldg., right.
Downtown from the freeway.
uring those early decades early hotels, skyscrapers, and of the very fine work going siderations deriving from El D of the 20th Century-El schools were designed by on in Mexico City. "The Paso's runaway growth. Its Paso's "formative years," says Trost; the entire downtown architectural profession and population has tripled since Daeuble-the biggest individ district of El Paso is his leg construction industry in l 950, when it stood at ual influence upon El Paso's acy. Mexico City has progressed 130,485. Recent estimates architectural scene was Henry Another source of influence tremendously," Daeuble says, place El Paso fourth among Trost, who had worked in is El Paso's proximity to New "and I've got the feeling that Texas cities in numbers of Louis Sullivan's office with Mexico and Arizona and we in El Paso have become people, lo and behold edging Frank Lloyd Wright before Mexico across the border. influenced in recent years out Fort Worth, which has coming out West in 1904. Says Hilles: "We share their by the work of these Mexican occupied the slot si nce horse Trost, who also designed culture along this river." "We architects." "Modernized and buggy days. El Paso is, in buildings in Tucson, Phoenix, arc perhaps more influenced mission influence," Dacublc fact, the largest city on the Albuquerque, Austin and on by New Mexico and Arizona calls it. entire 1,600 mile stretch of the Texas Gulf Coast, designed than Texas," says Dacublc, ith so many forces at U.S.-Mexico border and the most of the major buildings in ''although we do get a lot W work, it is a continuous biggest point of passage into El Paso in a period between from Dallas. We arc fairly battle, Hilles says, to develop a and out of Mexico--tens of 1904 and his death in 1933. close to Dallas by plane, and unique or significant archi millions walk or drive across Trost was influenced by both El Pac;o goes to Dallas for tectural style. But perhaps the three international the classical style popular in decorator and interiors shows." even more important arc the bridges yearly. his day and Sullivan's use of And lately, Dacublc believes, everyday urban design con- El Paso is crisscrossed by ornamentation. Most of the El Paso has been influenced. a network of transcontinental in a subtle manner. by the and international railroads, contemporary architecture of highways and pipelines bear Juarez, derived from some ing gas and oil from the Permian Basin to be refined near El Paso. The Phelps Dodge plant on the eastern outskirts is reputedly the
12 Texas Architect View of downtown at twilight. ,
Baseball in a bone-dry Rio Grande.
largest copper refinery in the people will call El Paso home city is hemmed in by a moun here is always a hint of world El Paso is the cattle -a growth rate of 60% . tain and a river and a military T Fiesta in the high, thin market for West Texas, New A II of a sudden, says base so that it is forced to air so delicious to breathe, Mexico and Mexico. It is a .l1 DcVillier, El Paso is grow in scattered strips. something in the atmosphere leading ciry in apparel manu "suffering from the same prob But the architects with a special aura as colorful as facturing, housing 60 plants lems as other cities, trying to whom we talked arc optimistic; the gaudy trinkets lining the employing more than 15,000 deal with transportation, public they see a bright future ahead thoroughfares of Juarez people-one million square housing, a declining city core for the City of the Sun. "The which makes people linger in feel of new facilities having -problems typical of any problems arc being attended El Paso. El Paso del Norte, been constructed by El Paso city." "Everything is a battle to," OeVillicr says. One ex Pass of the North. Walking apparel manufacturers in the of growth," Hilles says. ample of affirmative action is the streets, gazing up at the past decade. Manufacturing "It's making your school the El Corredor Project, a bald, undulating mountains employment has risen from systems work (they've been plan to revitalize downtown looming over the city like sin 6,200 in 194 7 to 30,000 in growing like crazy for 20 by making it more "walkable." ister beasts, one recalls the 1977; 4 75 manufacturing years); the colleges, the health And other needs-housing, primitive past, the El Paso plants are based in the services, transportation." transportation. parks- are past of myth and legend, of El Paso-J uarez metropolitan There arc the barrios of South being addressed by an active rinky-tink music and despera district. Ft. Bliss military El Paso, jammed in near the city planning department; El dos, of Indians and Spanish personnel and military con river, overcrowded and riddled Paso is learning to cope with padres. It is all part of a lega struction projects pour huge with poverty and disease. The pains of growth. Yet all the cy for today, in a place where sums yearly into the city's while it retains its own special two nations, two peoples, face economy. And it doesn't look ambience, born of the sun, each other across a shallow like the growth rate is slowing and the desert, and Mexico. river, striving for an answer down: it is projected that by to tomorrow. And left to the year 2,000, over 600,000 their own devices, they will probably find it.
September/ October 1977 13 1 Lumbar support 2 Special small-of• 3 Contoured dual 4 Solt. waterfall 5. Tapered armrests absorbs the upper the-back support, density loam seat front Ehmnates cushion IOl'earm No oody s weight helps assures comfort in a d,stnbutes oody pressure beneath elbow-to-armrest ma nta,n correct variety ol seating we,ght, relieves pres· thighs Perrnts free contact No ulnar spinal curvature P()SltlOOS sure on Sitting bones blood circulat10n. nerve Irntation
C,rcle 4 on Reader lnqv,ry Card El Corredor II Downtown Spruce-Up
Downtown El Paso is everybody's revenue for improvement programs, as ment, landscaping, street furniture, urban neighborhood. Unlike many urban well as the many individual elements walls, street murals, international signage settings, whose vitality bas been com comprising a city's character, ambience and downtown lighting. The intersection pletely sapped by competition from the and appeal. Many of the recommenda and sidewalks improvement phase con suburbs, El Paso still has a strong daily tions and observations contained in the sists of completely removing the existing flow of commilled downtown patrons report demand long-term attention and paving, curbs, gutters and sidewalks along tourists, Mexican nationals on shopping planning, but at least one major program the retail corridor and redesigning new or work trips, and employees who work -"El Corredor Il"-is currently under sidewalks, crosswalks and "pause" areas in the still-vital office, government and way as a direct result of the study. near the intersections. New curb profiles retail cores. Downtown activity has "El Corredor II" is an extension and have been designed to allow free move slumped only minimally. But a recent amplification of the city's original El ment throughout the project area for the study commissioned by the city warns Corredor program, which consisted of handicapped. Landscaped pause areas that action must be taken now to avoid a pedestrian improvements along San are now being provided at each inter much faster rate of decline. Francisco and Mills Avenues linking the section. Most of the sidewalks are being The report-a joint venture of Staten/ Civic Center with the ever-popular San resurfaced with buff-colored concrete Pierce, Lacy Inc. of El Paso and The Jacinto Plaza, a block of green space in accented with brick pavers or quarry tile Crane Design Group of Houston-warns downtown El Paso. The new program, for permanence, color (reflective of the that, with the current condition of rela another joint venture of Staten and desert region) and texture. All pedestrian tive good heaJth, " ... it will be easy for Crane, is being fully funded by a grant crosswalks are being enlarged in width the business community and the city to from the Economic Development Ad for greater capacity and reduced in continue with business as usual. How ministration's Public Works Program. length by 35%. These measures will ever, we expect changes over the next The $2.475.000 project involves an reduce pedestrian crossing time, allowing I 0-15 years to be much more dramatic 18-block area of downtown. them to clear the intersections more than in the last decade." The report goes Behind the concept for "El Corredor quickly, while concurrently speeding up on to recommend an "agenda for action" II" is the realization that an improved movement of automobile traffic. No which will help preserve downtown El pedestrian environment is a prerequisite changes have been made in the width or Paso as the prosperous "hub of a most to other major efforts in downtown number of automobile lanes, and parking important international city." revitalization. Street improvement pro is being reduced only slightly. Also, Addressed in the consultants' recom vides a framework in which broader pedestrian-auto conflicts are being sub mendations is the complex intermingling public and private programs may work. stantially minimized. of forces and conditions which influence It provides linkages among key functional The design team has recommended the a city's well-being. These include such areas, channeling pedestrian traffic so as preparation of a long-overdue detailed considerations as the existence of an to reinforce existing street level uses and traffic plan for downtown that will con organized constituency to exert a sus provide opportunities for new ones. And sider coordination with the long-range tained influence in behalf of the down street improvements make for an imme transit plan, adjustments to the one-way town area; the coordination and quality diate and dramatic visual impact which street system, street realignments, guide of transportation; the dynamics of down both symbolizes and encourages vitality. lines for on-street and off-street parking town business-including functional and "El Corredor TT" includes programs and special regulations for downtown geographical "linkages" and sources of for intersection and sidewalks improve- (such as ordinances prohibiting parking
September/October 1977 15 2 HOUR PARKING
in alley to permit ma:-.imum use by service vehicles, curb cut proh1b111on,;, taggered work programs for major em ployer, and limited service and delivery hour.,.) 1 and,capmg for "El Corredor ll" wall introduce trees, shrubs and flower to add ,hade and color and improve air quality. concept of the "message tree" once found Flowering plants wall be placed in in Pioneer Plaza. planter:. throughout the proJect area, New, prcca,t lOncrctc telephone k10,k, with new plantings several times a year. arc dc~igncd to provide convenient, yet During ea'>ons when flowering plants unohtru\lvc ltlCation'> for pay telephone,. arc not feasible, evergreen shrubs will Ma1lht):>.cs, repainted a bright hluc, will provide a pleasant relief from the con aho he integrated into the '>treet furni crete and asphalt environment. ture. { O'>t aluminum "four ,cason'>" Over 1,000 items of street furniture C h1huahua bcnche,. rephc.,., of tho,e will also be provided downtown. Prccast found m San Jacinto Pl.ua, wall he placed concrete posts, about 18" in diameter in the rc'>t area-, in add1t1on to lhc poMs and 24" high, will define pedestrian and planter,, which can double a'> ,eat pause areas and ward off wayward auto ing. mobiles. Several sizes of precast concrete Downtown hu'> ,helter,. being pro planters-of buff-colored exposed aggre vided under an urban mas, lran\lt granl, gate with a bright blue band-will will he coordinated with the other \trcet accommodate plant materials and enclose furniture in area, where tran'>it ,top, are pedestrian spaces. Precast concrete trash planned r he<,e ,helter'>, con.,tructcd of receptacles will match the planters and prcc.l'>t concrete, can be relocated a, bu, replace the ugly metal containers (with route, arc changed or when a downtown out-of-date advertising) now being used. transit terminal is conslrucled. Information kiosks or "slabs" wall pro Con'>lruction i'> pro.:cedmg in pha,cs vide space for po,ting tourist and hopper beginning at the C1v1c Center and ex information, special events posters and lending Ea,1ward over a period of 18-24 other data, returning to downtown the mon1h,. ·1 he work I being carefully sc-
16 Texas Architect ------quenced 10 provide a minimum of dis turbance to downtown. The l.,rhan Walls portion of "El Cor redor I,.. c.:ons1,t'> of decorating buildings with giant painted mural<. of abstract or Southwe,tern scenes. The first wall to receive a mural will he the East wall of the Popular Dry Goods building on San .\ntonio Avenue near Stanton Street. This mural (see prototype on cover of th1'> 1sstel will he a Southwe tern sun- ,et ,cene mea,uring approximate!> 120' wide and 50' high. In add11ton. street murals -30' square- will be placed in the center of important intersections throughout the project area Utthzing a new Downtown Action Logo consisting of earth tone, accented with desert hues. the ,trcet murals w 111 provide focal points for pedestrian activity throughout the retail corridor. And 1f e,pcctattons hold true. the ac1iv1t> in downtown El Pa~o will be greater more vibrant than it's e\'er been before.
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C11c/e 5 on- R di.Jut lnqwy Cetd Discovering Henry Trost One must probe only ever so slightly into the history of El Paso before confronting the life and work of Henry Charles Trost, archi tect. His practice from 1904 until his death in 1933 has established Trost as something of a legend in El Paso. But, little known elsewhere, he deserves wider recognition, for, at his best, he produced archi tecture that transcends the bounds of local significance. Trost was born in Toledo, Ohio, in March of 1860, the son of German immigrants. He was graduated from an art school at age 17 and spent three years as a draftsman for Toledo architects. From that time until his move to El Paso in 1904, Trost practiced in several locations, but details of his life are rather sketchy. Trost is known to have practiced in Colorado-Pueblo and Colorado Springs-and in Tucson, where he was located immediately prior to his move to El Paso. He worked for a while in Kansas, con tributing to the design of the Senate Chamber of the State Capitol. And he is also identified with designs for the World's Industrial and Cotton Exposition in New Orleans in 1884. One intriguing account puts Trost in Galveston in 1883 and 1884, where he is said to have worked with Nicholas J. Clayton, although no obvious Clayton influence is to be found in his buildings. Tradition also has it that Trost, sometime during his Chicago years from about 1886 to 1897, worked in the firm of Adler and Sullivan with Frank Lloyd Wright. Whether or not Trost actually worked with Sullivan and Wright, he demonstrated in his career a thorough awareness and appreciation of their work. In contrast, however, Trost was a self-effacing man; very little was published about him during his lifetime, and he did not feel compelled to leave us with written words on architecture. What he did leave was an admirable collection of buildings which reflects his restless indepen dence and artistic inventiveness. The following El Paso photographs reveal a portion of that legacy.
Source: Lloyd C. Englebrecht, "Henry Trost: The Pro,rieSchool in the Somh west, "The Prairie School Review, Volume VI, Number 4, Fourth Quarter, 1969. Photo from El Paso P11bllc l lhrary
September/ October 1977 19 • YMCA Building, Oregon and Missouri Streets, shown shortly after completion in 1907, now demolished. Lively handling of windows, mullions and spandrels. Grouping ofconcentric arches at entrance recalls Sullivan.
Anson Mills Building, Mills Street across from San Jacinto Plaza, shown near completion about 19/ /. One of Trost's most important buildings, and locauon of his own firm, Trost and Trost. The prac tice was a partnership with his brother Gustauvus, a construction supervisor; nephew George, who kept the books; and, later, another brother, Adolphus, a stmctural engineer.
20 Texas Architect Roberts-Banner Building, Mesa and Mills Streets, completed about 1908, shown here about 191 I. Constructed of reinforced concrete. Comprises jive stories and two wmgs separated by a U-shaped light well.
Rendering of the original El Paso County Courthouse, now pan of City-County Building, Kansas and San Antonio Streets. Designed in 1915 to resemble the "new courthouse" in Dallas.
September/ October 1977 21 Henry C. Trost House, West Yandell and Hawthorne Streets, constructed ,n /908, pictured here as seen today. Perhaps Trost's most remarkable b111ldinR, a true example of Prame School desiin and reminiscent of Jt nght 's Dana House m Sprmefield, lllmo,s.
Henry C. Trost House, west side view.
22 Texas Architect Photo from Otis A . Aultman Coll«11on, El Poso Pub/,c Library
• W.W. Turney residence, Montana Street, shown shortly after completion in /906. Illustra tive of Trost's willingness to vary his style, it is an imposing classic structure with Corin thian columns and pilasters.
Turney residence with alterations and additions forming the El Paso Museum of Art (a Douglas Grey House today, designed about project by the firm known at the time as Carroll & Daeub/e & Associates). 1910. Sullivanesque ornamentation.
Lawton House, on North Mesa Street, as seen today.
A.B. Poe House, on North Mesa A venue, designed in /914, shown today as part of the El Paso Guidance Center. One of two Prairie School houses designed by Trost in El Paso in addition to his own. It stands next to the Adolph Swartz House, designed by Trost in a classical idiom. September/October 1977 23 "Well, there goes the old neighborhood:' That's the attitude most people have rodents live in, and with an insulation about concrete block houses. But things R-factor of more than 20. The wall is are changing. The house pictured above is sealed. There is no significant air or water built of concrete block-but you can't vapor infiltration or sound transmission. tell. It was built at much less cost per To sum it up: a house that costs less to square foot of wall than a typical brick and build, will cost less to maintain, is more frame wall, but it looks like an expensive weathertight, is more energy efficient, stucco building. and qualifies for minimum insurance The construction method is called "sur premiums. face bonding." Blocks are stacked - This house was built by Woodstock without mortar - and SURE WALL ,r; Sur Construction Co. in Longview, Texas. The face Bonding Cement is troweled on both 1744 square foot speculative residence sides. That's all. The wall is built and features a concrete tile roof as well as finished. Both sides. concrete block walls. It's too early for To further enhance the system, definitive results yet, but indications are RAPCO-FOAM, a urea-formaldehyde in that utility bills for this residence will run sulation, is foamed into the block cavities. about 40-50% less than similar size homes Then you have an exterior wall that won't in the same area. bum, won't rot, that is 200% stronger Well, the old neighborhood may go, but than an ordinary block wall (typical resi we think it will go concrete masonry. dential construction meets hurricane zone For more information, write, or call us building codes), that termites won't eat or Toll Free at (800) 292-5426.
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September/ October 1977 25 RIGHT: Djeri Gompa, aboi·e Thimbu, Bh111an. Photo sent at instruction of H er Majesty Queen Asl,i Kesang Wangc/111k. BELOW: Detail from Old Kelly Hall. It was not until many years af/er con struction that a Bhutanese expert pointed out that, in Bhutan, sue/, decorative bands denote monasteries.
overhanging hip roof and dusty brown ings and their relationship, if any, to stucco finish. Main, together with the Bhutanese ones. other original buildings and those that In a charming letter. Queen Ashi followed through the 1920-60 era, man Kesang wrote: "It is thrilling and deeply aged to retain many of the key charac mO\ mg 10 see a great new University teristics of "Bhutanese"--departures hu1lt in a faraway America inspired by from the concept becoming more notice Bhutanese architecture. The buildings in able toward the end of the I 960s. your photographs are most similar to our Ten years ago. the writer of this Bhutanese d::.011.r:s and have the same article decided to undertake a study of shaped roof, and strong. simple lines. I the architecture of the U.T. El Paso 1hink your new Univcr<;ity buildings are campus with the particular goal of de beautiful. combining modern design ,o termining from e,perts-including Bhu harmoniou~ly with ancient Bhulanese tanese ones-Just how authentic the Uni architecture. I "ish our new buildings in ,er:.ity\ derivation of " Bhutan~e.. style Bhutan could be 'iO finely built!'. wa, and b. The timing was excellent Mr. roJd wrote. "Actually I ha.. e since a new Library was under construc known of your fine Un,,er,it} for some tion on campus which was the source of rime. and thi'\ last year forwarded a great contro._e...,y for its obvious depar new!,paper article concerning its archi ture from the Bhutanese motif and for te.:turc to H" \faJesty. the King of what some campus critics claimed was Bhutan. Your ..,,yle of architecture is pure its ··unrelieved ugliness." Bh11tanc,c-l 1bc1an ... the d::.on!(s or A ,ampling of huildmg photographs fortre,;,-mona,tcric., of Bhutan arc almost wa, ,cot 10 Her Majesty Queen Ashi identical 10 your buildings:· Ke,ang Wangchuk of Bhutan and to two \nd Mr. Doig rc,pondcd that after men who had wriucn c,clu,ivcly about <,ccmg the photograph<; of U.T. Cl Pa,;o Bhutan in the National Geographic Bert building,. ··1 thought them 10 be new K. Todd of l 1gonicr. Pa .. and Desmond con,truclion in Thimbu. the capital of Doig of Calculla. India. \ccompanying Bhutan. where a modern city is being the photo, was a teller a,J..ing for their hu1lt. lmmedia1ely indicative of Bhuta imprc,sion-. on the U.T. El Paso build- nese. or Tibetan architecture. ,1rc the
ABOl'C: 1:11.-.:inl"<'rim: Snl'm·c· Complex '" /Oil/I I ,·111:11(' hc·ti,·n I/ Cittrt1111tl & Hi/11•1 mul Cmm/1, /)a,·ublc•. D11.Sam: & Rant/J r.-c11//1 Bl1111t111t·w uyh- 1hro11i:h co111c·111porary linttr. RIGHI. Vfrw from f ro11t .\t<'P'i of Ce11tc•1miul \l11~t·11m to ward mo1111rai11 hackdrop. Urn-:J,/1t1pt·d sc11lpt11re.f rii:/11 and left au pa11emed after Bhutanese prayer wheels.
26 Texas Architect LEFT: Aerial l'eiw of rhe rnmpus. BELOW: Liberal Arts building. rejkcting Blmumt'se style through sloping colu11111.1 (designed by Jessen & h•ssen. Austin). BELOW LEFT: Ta!..htsang Gompa. "Tiger'l Ne1t Mona~ tery," near 8/111ta11. heavy sloping walls, the severe windows. standing, it remains perhaps the least the ornamental band at top window Bhutanese of all campus structures. lcvcl. and the projecting caves.... When I was told that they were American The interest of the University's stu campus buildings, I was genuinely dents and alumni, and El Pasoans in amueu." general, on the matter of U.T. El Paso's The unique architectural style of the architecture proves one point: T here is una\er'>ity has become over the years a great pride taken 111 the beauty of the topu.: of sometimes heated uebate. campus. (U.T. El Paso is regarded by Stullcnl\ and alumni and older faculty many as having the most esthetically memher'> of the Univen,ity take pride in beautiful campus in Texas and among the fact that U.T. El Paso has what one the most beautiful in the country.) T he expert called "one of the few living beauty of it is a combination of the architectural trauitions among U.S. uni mountam backdrop, the crisp blue skies, ver'>II} campuses.'' Departure:. from the the landscapmg and protection of pock trauillon invariably generate sarcastic ets of grass. trees, flowers and desert ellitonab in the '>tuuent pre'>s and ill flora of all variety. (F auna too: the d1,guised di,gw,t ebewhere. campus is the home of roadrunners, When the campus Library addition squirrel,, desert lizards anti birds, partly wa, under construction in the spring of because the ecological syc;tems of the I %8. letters to the El Paso I imes from arroyos which traverse the campus have outraged ci111ens complained the build been protected.) Finally. there is the ing wa,n't ··conforming" to the accepted matter of the architectural style of the trad11ions of the Bhutanese st} le of campus huildings-Bhut:1nese. unique the campu,. The University'c; student perhaps in the Western hemisphere. newspaper. The Pro.fpector. editoriali1ed certainly unique on an American uni heavily against the uesign. Similar crit vef\ity campus. and a perfect blend with icism \\ as leveled against the Fine Arts the surroundings. Center. a ma,,ive, S7.8 million multi At U. r. El Paso. building buildings level comple, which opened in 1974. un-Bhutancse is not only comidercd Any other architectural merit, notwith- uni radi11onal, hut uncalled-for.
Dale L. Walker if director of the Of fice of News & In formation at the Vnivenity of Tern.f at El Paso and main tain f a co11ti1111in1t A:.dlii. intereft in the archi- tecture of the ram pm. H e has authored 1e1•era/ articler 011 the mbject.
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~quitectura e11 Juarez: Practice ~cross tile River
By Lorenzo H. Aguilar M. and Juan Manuel Sanchez Romo
Tl,ere is a world of dif/erence be In colon1al days an architect JO tween practicing arc/1irec111re in £/ Paso, ··El PaM> del Norte" was, in the ttue Texas, and in practicing across rl,e sense of the term, a ma!>ter builder. He river in Juarez. Afexico. Ask Lore111.0 Wa!> de:.1gner, contractor and craftsman, Aguilar. 011 arclrirecr wir/r r/re £/ Paso all JO one. He hammered nails and firm of Fours. Langford, Gomez & ~awed wood and laid doors m place. Afoore, Inc., born, reared and still Take, as an example, the conl>tructron lil'ing in Juarez b111 w/ro did graduate of the Mission of Our Lady of Guada work arr/re Unfrer.rity of New Mexico lupe, built in the early 1600s, when C/rapel i111erior. and wl,o /ras practiced on bor!, sider of the Rio Grande flowed swift and deep.
I t/re border. Or ask /ris friend. Juan The archrtect wanted the little church Afanuel Sanc/rez Romo. 011 arc/ritect to be beautiful, wanted to capture the ' w!,o afro grew up in Juarez. a11ended essence of a garden on the ceiling...... ~ ····~- ... the Unfrer.rity of Guadalajara, and now He thought of how the Virgin would ir Preside111. Asociacion de lngcnieros hl..e a flower garden to gaze at up y Arqurtcctos of Juarez. Romo is also above. So he had tree trunks floated a profenor at t/re Universidad Autonoma by river from the north, and hauled by de Ciudad Juarez and maintaim a pri- land across the scorching desert. The 1·ate practice. At,?uilar and Romo are logs were paJOstal..mgly cut into pieces 1:ood friends w/ro work. fort/re most the same size and texture: the builder part. on opposite sides of tire Rio then lovingly carved the patterns of Grande. In this piece. t/rey speak of lines and flowers that now adorn the arc/ritectr and architecture from two ce1lmg of the mission. dif/erent culturer. Many year. have come and gone since then, and the little mission in Juarez is still beautiful, s1ill reflects the love, the care, the handiwork of the person who designed and built it. But the scene has changed since the time
30 Texas Architect LEFT: Interior of tl,e more contemporary Seminary C!,apel. BELOW: Banco Serfin, 011 tl,e1 A •e11ue of the Americas, designed by Romo and Juan Ubaldo Benavente.
il stood alone alop lhe hill. Today, a permit the architect to double as apart. While the American has al crowded, fast-paced cily bustles around contractor. T he architccl uses contract his disposal a myriad of products from 1ls weathered facade. Adjacent streel\ documents merely as a reference to anywhere 111 the country, or around are crammed with shops and offices. himself as builder. As both designer the world, plw, the latest in machinery Bus fumes spoil the air. People hurry and contractor, he guarantees his own and com1ruc11on lcchniques-thc by on their way to work. Life is very work. He is a l11tle like a movie director Mexican (due parlly to cosl limitalions different. Architecture has changed too. shooting a script he is licensed lo and partly to cullural preferences) is Today, three centuries later, the change at will. In the United States, of restricted 10 such soil-tlcrivativc local Juarez architect still maintains the role course, construction plans and speci malcrials a1; stone, concrete, clay tile, of master builder. bul in a different fications 11111st be followed mcticulou,ly brick, adobe, stucco and plaster. form. He is master builder in the sense from start to finish. Whereas, in a typical American project, that he is both the coordinator and A major problem for the Mexican gypsum board is applied to 2" x 4" wood designer of a project. who relates on architect in a provincial city such us members, in Mexico, pla,1cr is applietl to a person-to-person basis with the con Juarez is that- the way the ,yMcm massive brick walls. And while lhe Amer ,1ruc1ion workers. The architect work, in Mexico today- major projects ican depends on fine tools, sophislicalcd communicates verbally what needs to requiring complete document\, such a, machinery antl advanced construclion be done, -.ometimcs taking a hand at government contracts, arc .tlmost lcchniques, the Mexic;m musl rely on demonstrating various techniques, but invariably awarded lo firms in the the ,kills of intlividual craftsmen. leaving the actual labor to others. interior. Thus the provincial architect Still, despite the deep-rooted tliffcr In Mexico, con,truction details (wch fimh the scope of hi,; practice reduced cnccs found in compnring times and a, quality of workman,hip and mn to private residences. small offices. cultures, the practice of architcclure terial\) arc rarely specified in a drawn/ religious building,; and general work is more than methods and techniques. wrillen document. Contract document<;, 1h.11 is locally finnnccd. It is the gov It is a result. And our understanding of in the complete, American ,cmc of ernment which imposes thi,; condition, ils basic principles i, changeless. the phrase. arc limited to rare project, and efforts arc continually made lo in which the architect is contracted curb this practice. lo perform only the de,ign portion of In construction matcrinls nnd tech the work. or in project, which due nique,. the Juarc1 architect nnd his lo their ,i1e and comple,ity will not American counterpart arc a long way
September I October 1977 31
Saudi Campus: Landmark for Learning
In 1964, 1hc Houston-based architec tural/ planning firm of Caudill Rowlett Scott was retained by the Saudi Arabian go,.crnment to analyze po~ible sites for the permanent location of its University of Petroleum and Minerals and to rec ommend the most suitable location. The next year. CRS began a master plan for long-range development of the campus. And by 1974, twelve buddings bad been comple1cd on a ,andy, windblown ridge near Dhahran: heavy shops, laboratory/ cla\sroom buildings, library and mosque. I he project requirements entailed pro vidmg a ph}sical campus to support the goal of educational excellence and creat ing a strong image which embodied the best of modern technology, all while in- 1.:orporating the clements of trad11iooal Saudi form. An initial siting concern was the wind, which b(o\.\.s constantly and fiercely, principally from the northwest, in this \CCllon of the Arabian dcserl. The ridge /'.1osq11e and minaret. of the plateau on \.\.hich the campus is situated serves as a natural buffer for the heart of the campus surrounding the mo,que. Buildings arc linked by pede:. tnan platforms which define a kind of concrete oasis atop the plateau and pro vide further shelter from the sand bearmg winds. Traditional Saudi motifs arc e'(pressed in ,.anous func11onal elements throughout the campus-the arch, the dome, narrow slit \.\. indows, overhangs to block the sun. In add1tton, all buildings are cast-in-place concrete \.\.ith sand-bla\tcd finishes expos ing Saudi Arabian aggregate, cement and sand. (This wa, the fir,t use of architec tural concrete in the Middle East.) A 155-ft. water tower at the top of the main entrance stai~ provides a symbolic · -- ,i,ual image for the university and is a ·---._, landmark for miles around, it is also a ·-.• ,.....,,-...c-- .. -- highly-, 1'1blc clock. A mosque, cooled on ··.. - three ,ides hy pools. beckon~ students to 34 Texas Architect Administration Building. Award of Merit Texas Architecture 1976
Note: This and the following two articles feature winning projects in "Texas Architecture 1976," the TSA statewide design co111petitio11, wl,ich yielded seve11 Awards of Ho11or a11d eight Merit Awards.
wor~hip at prayer-time!>. Tree!> and a lawn planted around the pooh ofTer a ,plash of green on an otherwi.,e bleached and barren landscape. for the sports-minded. there is an Olympic-<,i7e swimming pool. amphithe ater for judo instruction and other activi tic,, thirteen tennis courts. soccer field'>. a ba-,J...etball g>m and an outdoor track. Planned housing and academic facilities will give the universit} the capacity for the instruction and housing of 3,000 ,tudents. The ,tark. bare campus. with its ,harply angled and inter,ecting walls, it, geometrically preci,e arrangement of huilding,. it-, steep hank, of outdoor ..,,cps. fit, unobtrusively yet picturesquely into the rugged land,cape. the glaring ~un. the Saudi way of life.
Architect : Cmu/,I/ Rt111fr11 Snm. Ht111.11t111. Chur/1•.1 I Luu u11rt', DellKIi Prtm tpul Principal in charge: Joe 8 Tlwmm Project manager: Ct111md Neu/ Contractors: 11m1•1-J111tl11111111d TIii' C1111wltdu11·d C 0111ruuor1 Compt1111 S.A I
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The Episcopal Diocese of Texas ac quired over 700 acres of virginal cast rcxas forest to relocate and centralize CAMP ALLEN the activities of several older and inade quate camping areas. The program for this new site anticipates 400 people using the facilities al peak seasons. A primary influence on siting and de sign of the facilities was maintenance of the ecology, the natural balances and processes of this land, one of the few remaining wilderness areas in cast Texas. A maMer plan took into consideration soils, topography, hydrology, vegetation and wildlife. Building sites were chosen combining factors of vegetation density (natural clearings used where possible), soil conditions, topography and drainage (surface and subsurface). The campsites arc localed deep in the forc~t, accessible only by jeep trail. Left to rig/rt: Gerald Moor/read, project arc/ritect; Spencer Cabins arc raised above the ground to Panon.r, project manager; Charle.\· 1 apley, partner. disturb as little as possible the fragile soil on sloping sites. Space under the tree house-like cabins becomes a usable activ ity area. The assembly building at each camp contains bath, dining and covered activity areas. A raised floor framing sys tem on concrete piers was used to avoid grading and excessive clearing. Natural cedar siding and galvanized roofing will
36 Texas Architect Honor Award Texas Architecture 1976 Assembly Building. Assembly Building.
Housing, west view. softly weather the geometry into the forest. The conference center and housing buildings provide facilities for meetings, dining and sleeping for groups up to 200. Sited on a low ridge, the conference center affords dramatic views across the treetops to forested hills beyond. The major rooms are framed with great wood trusses, which. along witb the boldly patterned roof, evoke a barn-like image compatible with the rural setting. In fact, all the building forms used at Camp Allen identify strongly with rural Texas barns and sheds. This image tics these buildings to a tradition of construction respondent to regional climate and ma terials and that coexists in gentle har mony with the landscape.
Architects: Chor/es Tople_1· & Associates. Houston; Spencer Parsons. pro1ect manager; Gerold Moor head, project architect Structural Engineers: Kroh/ & Gadd\'. Houston Mechanical Engineers: Ralph Speich Associotes. Houston Civil Engineer: William ChoroJr.lis. Hous1011 Food Service: Mulhauser/McC/eory Associates, Hous1011 Contractors: Bradley/Raus, Hous,011 (cabi11s); Set11rJ Cons1ruc1io11. Bryan (assembly buildings). Brook Co11struc1iot1, Hous1011 (co11fere11ce cemu)
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In the intervening hall -a-century \Ince the public rcad111g roo1m. Above the for the reading chain,. All the mctul the I lnu,tnn Central Library wa, com three floor-. ol public area~ arc three bookshelving i, finbhed in white enamel. pleted in 1926, the city on the bayou floor, of clo,ed hook ,torage, the ad1111n I oungc ,eating i, leather covered in had hh1"omed into a metropoli,- and i,tra11ve office,. and the film library. natural hue,. Strong color is brought the library fa cility had become too ,mall, I he Loncmir,e level connect, the new into the ,pace, by the u,c of red carpel. tno burdened hy the demand, of an hulld111g to the exl\t111g huild111g (tech I he children\ area i, furni,hcd with cnurmou,ly incrc.l\ed population. ·1he 1111.:ally the new facility i, an annex) and mullicotored wire frame chairs and lfou,ton an:h11ecture firm of
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C,rc/e 11 on Reader lnqu,ry Card Projects in Progress measures include: orientation of build ings related to sun angles; window shad ing from recesses and fins; double glazing with tinted glass; insulated plenum space above the ceilings; and double wall sys tem of insulated concrete masonry units and battered-stucco exterior enclosing air spaces which double as pipe chases for fin/tube radiators, roof drains and do mestic water. The housing units consist of 42 two man cubicles, shower and toilet rooms, TV rooms, laundry, recreation and coun selling areas and offices. The Adminis tration Building houses food service and dining rooms, a commissary, indoor and ~....,...,___ "="'_ S:: outdoor visiting facilities, educational and religious areas, work and hobby rooms, ~ ~ ~ classrooms, a barber shop, infirmary and offices. The initial contract, let at $800,000, Construction Underway on stitute at La Tuna, designed by Fouts includes construction of one housing unit West Texas Correctional Facility Langford Gomez Moore, Inc., El Paso. and the administrative building with the The site is being developed to maintain exception of interior finishes, site work the arid sandy desert characteristics of and landscaping. It is scheduled for com Rising out of the desert sands in far the terrain, with green landscaping adja pletion in late fall of this year. Con West Texas are the administrative build cent to the buildings. The complex con struction will begin soon on a food service ings and first phase housing unit of a sists of a number of low-slung units building at the La Tuna main institution minimum custody camp facility for 250 spaced across the floor of a Franklin and later on a second residential unit at inmates of the Federal Correctional In- Mountains valley. Energy conservation the camp.
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September/ October 1977 43 El Paso Church To Have New Sanctuary The new sanctuary for Highland Pres byterian Church in El Paso, designed by the El Paso firm of Boyd and As sociates, Architects, will include admin istrative offices, library and book store, nursery, choir room, pastor's study, bride's room, restrooms, storage and seat ing for over 500 people. Contiguous to the church's existing facilities, the build ing will contain I 0,850 sq. ft. and will cost an estimated $350,000. ------A narrow site and the need for on-site - ...... __ _ ------parling dictated that the building be situated on an equilateral triangular grid spire, utilizes the prominent Dyer Street The existing building will be renovated tucked into the northernmost corner of location in such a way that the new to provide new facilities for the church's the property, with a drive-through in sanctuary complex will present a com ministry. front and parking to the side. The build manding visual symbol within the com Anticipated completion date is July, ing. with its graceful, contemporary munity. 1978. terr rare beauty. a rarer econoniy. z Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is usually subjective. Rarely universal. But economy is another thing. It is difficult to be subjective about economy in the z face of facts that prove it. Even after hearing charge and countercharge concerning overall costs of various 0 flooring materials. Consider terrazzo vs. carpet. A recent study showed clearly that the total annual cost of nylon carpet is at least twice that of terrazzo-126% higher, to be exact. Considering cost of material based on average life, maintenance labor, capital equipment and supplies, the total annual flooring cost per 1,000 square feet for nylon carpet came to $541 .81 . For terrazzo only $245.45. Economy that's beautifully rare in these times. We'll be happy to send you details of the study, and the results. Write:
P O Box 45707, Exchange Park S1a11on, Dallas Texas 75245 (21 4) 368-2952 44 Circle 13 on Reader /nqu,ry Card Texas Architect Architects to Open ergy conservation in mind (there is plenty floor walls shaded by a cantilever on the New Office of glass to catch the sun in wintertime second story for the view; the second but overhangs to block the rays in floor is glass from 30" up and is shaded summer}, the two-story, l 9,500 sq. ft. by a roof canopy overhang. Spandrel Slated to open October first, 414 Exec- structure blends with the existing archi panels in ceramic tile with full 4-6" balls 111ve Office Center Building will be head- tecture in the campus-like office park in will be installed in the second floor ceil 4uarters for the El Paso architectural/ which it is set, and is oriented so as to ing. Brick, canopies and columns are of engineering firm Foster, Henry, Henry, maximize the view (the :.ite is the highest materials which match the established ,ind Thorpe, and will provide lease space in the office complex}. pattern throughout the complex. Approxi for other companies. Designed with en- The architects specified full-glass first- mate cost of the project is $393,000. Sofa Tables r---- IN\.,,.~U/.JL~ ----,
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The Val Verde Campus of the cl Paso Community College 1s located on a slop ing 132-acre site near the population center of El Pa<,0 m the ,outheast quad rant of the city De,igned by the ri Paso firm of Garland and Hille~. the campu, -a clu,ter of buildings constructed around central courtyard<;. with covered tional program; the plan takes into ac tinuing education and developmental \\alk, in hct\\ecn- will <,ervc a mctro count such con,iderat,ons as site topog education programs as well. ptllitan region encompa-.,ing urban, ,ub raphy, ucce\s, parking (the students will I he complex of buildings will include urban and rural population. It i<; ac all be commuters), indoor-outdoor circu ,1 I .earning Resources Center with Student ce,,ible by free\\ay and ha<; fine vi,t.l\ lation and the optimum placement of Center .md District Admini,trat1on; a of the El Pa~ ,kylinc and <;urrounding buildings for view. A divcr!.ified educa g) mnaMum and central mechanical plant; mountain,. tional program consisting of lower-dt\ i and clas<;rooms for Humanities, M,1th/ Ma<;tcr-planned for 7.500 ,tudents. the l>ion tramfcr education paralleling the Science and Technology m,1ruct1on. fati project i-. ,chedulcd for four pha'>es of lower d1vi,ions of four-year college, and mated co,t for the 280,000 !.q. ft. facility con,truction that can he accompli<;'ied universities will be offered. There will i., $12,900.000. Anticipated completion \\ ith minimal di<;n1rtion of the educa- be technical/ occupational education, con- date ,., September, 1978.
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In the News Taylor Elected CACE Worth side of the D-FW Regional Air port), graduated summa cum laudc in Chairman 1977 with a BS in architecture from UT I SA Executive Director Des Taylor Arlmgton. He was a 1'.attonal Merit Scholar from 1973-1977. retained the v1 , elected chairman of the Council of Architectural Component Lxecut1ves July N r A academic ,cholarsh1p from 1973- 29 at a CACE convention in Wac;hington, 1977. and won a Rae Jacob, Memorial n C. He will a,;sume duties for a two Scholarship in 1976. BrO\\.nmg was ) ear term in December of thic; year. named m Who's Who, American Colleges raylor, currently a C ACE regional & Unfrerrities, and was a staff writer on director. will give coordination and di Paramt'lerr, the UT-Arlington achitcc tural student newspaper. He was valedic rection lo the affairs and concerns of torian of the Eule.,s Trinity High School graduating cl:m of 500 m 197 l .•rnd was cited in Who'r Who in American HiRh THERE OUGHT TO BE A Srhools, 1972-73. As regional director, Browning hopes "to promote regional interaction of stu SINGLE dents." "to serve as repre,;cntativc of student opinions and interests.'" and ·•10 SOURCE coordinate activitie, of the c;tudcnt chap ter" of AJA in the state of Tc,cas." He FOR WALLCOVERING views the purpo~ of the ASC as being NEEDS! "to achieve increased participation with the architectural professional organi1a tion~TSA and AJA-and to provide students with the opportunity to become aware of issues they will be facing in the architectural profession." Browning hope,; to pur,;uc a career oriented toward urban design problcm
Dallas Award Winners Winning projects m the 1977 f SA Dallas Chapter design awards program included a shopprng center, a yacht club, an auto bank, a Junior high school, a un1vers1ty center, a post ofCice and the Dallas-Fon Worth Regional Airport. Awards of Merit for design projects, hon orary memberships in the Dallas Chapter and citations of honor for s1gn1f1cant con tnbuuons to architecture m the state of Texas were presented June 14 at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Awards of Merit were presented to Burson, Hendnd.s & Walls for the Car rollton Park Mall Shopping Center, Car rollton; Ford, Powell & Carson and Duane Landry, Associated Architects for J. M. Haggar University Center, Univer- C11cle 19 on Reader lnqutry Card 50 Texas Architect "Weathering" Phoros b> Joh_n_S_and_e_l------~ For Sale ...
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Concrete Seminar 2520 Drexel Drive Republic Allio Bank A seminar on "Evaluation of Concrete P.O. Box 27164 in Service-How 10 Repair and Replace" will be presented September 28 and 29 Houston, Texas 77027 at Stouffer's Greenway Plaza Hotel in Houston, co-sponsored by the American Concrete Institute and the Houston Chap PHONE ter ACI for constructors, designers, sup pliers, inspectors and owners of concrete Jim Mulvey structures. The program will include in-depth dis 713/622-7042 Garland Post Office cussions of methods for repairing struc C,rcle 21 on Reader Inquiry Card tures with mortars, epoxies, overlays and
September I October 1977 51 fiber reinforced concrete. Tests and Secretaries Award Alamo City Conference criteria for e,aluatmg c~1s1tng Mructure-, and economic con<,1dcra11on<, of repair will be prc<,cntcd. Cau\Cs and effects of The Houston Architectural Secretaries San Antonio's Fourth Annual "Back structural deterioration and practtcal pro A,sociation (ASA) y,,on a national honor to the City" conference will unfold m cedures for avoiding failure:, will be in award at the AJA Convcntton m San the Alamo City October 28-30. I he con troduced. Diego in June for their continuing edu ference will deal with problems an res for additional information. write Sal cation development program, which y,,as toration and revitalization of inner city Contt, President, ACI Houston Chapter, the best "Contnbu11on to ASA" by an neighborhoods- whether they be historic Madeley engineer'>, 9821 Katy Frcey,ay, ASA chapter. Because of the program, distract'> or potential neighborhood con Suite 8, Hou,ton 77024, Telephone (713) Hou\lon ASA will serve as a ta<,k force servation d1'>trict'>. It will concern the 461 -4280; or contact the ACI Education to review all programs of th1'> type be md1v1dual hou~ owner as well .:1, neigh Department. 22400 W. Seven Mile Rd., fore they arc relea<,ed to other ASA borhood or cityY. 1de orgamzattons. Detroit, Mach. 48219 (313) 532-2600. chapter:. for their use. A ..amphng of sessions includes: "Or ganwng Neighborhoods," "Proper Plan ning for Renovation," 'Taxes," "Water front Districts," "New Construction in Old Districts," "Paint Techniques," and "Organ1za11onal Fund Raising," among Roach: Paints for the others. lo add1t1on, there will be toun, of San Antonio, dinners an private homes, a Professional special Mexican fiesta and an Early Bard reception at the Witte Museum. I ,.. ,., , ,(' The conference will be co-hosted by ' I the San Antonio Conservation Society \ ,. ·.·· ,. and numerous neighborhood organiza I %' , ., . -- . tions and public and private agencies. - .., . ,. ., ' ~ l"-, . The SI. Anthony hotel will serve as con ference headquarters. For additional information, contact: Conrad True, Admini~trativc Director. San Antonio Conservation Society, 107 K1nSt Wilham St., San Antonio. Tcxa\ 7R204 Telephone: (512) 224-6161.
Gershon Canaan Honored Dallas architect Gershon Canaan was honored recently by the mayor and city council of the city of Dallas on the occasion of his 15th anniver ary as hon orary consul of the Federal Republic of Germany at a reception m the "Cafe D'or" of the Sheraton-Dallas I lotel. After the receptton, Mayor Folsom of Dallac; presented Canaan with a "special recog nition" at city hall. Canaan WM also So when you specify paints, specify Roach. Paints for the honored by a special resolution of the Professional. And don't forget the special Architect's Hot Line. Texas Senate July 19 proclaiming him an Just Phone (toll-free) 800- 492-6766. "exceptional citizen" and "noted archi tect."
News of Firms Corpus Christi Planning/ Architecture/ Phone (2 14 ) 74 8-9 421 , 1306 River Street SINCE 193 l Consulting/ Development firm Total De DALLAS. TEXAS 7520 2 sign Four announces the appointment of C,rclo 22 on Reader Inquiry Cllrd 52 Texas Architect Homer C. Innis, P.E. and Robert R. David Burdick has been named a part Conolly as associate members. ner in The KJein Partnership, Inc., an When yourtravels bring architectural and planning consultant firm you to Dallas, enjoy a l he firm of David Morris Architect place that's strictly h~ relocated to 6750 West Loop South, in Houston. Burdick joined TKP in Su ate 8 IO, Houston/ Bellaire 7740 l. Tele September, 1975 and has been a project phone: (713) 661-2484. In the July/ manager specializing in health care facil UP August issue of TA, it was incorrectly ities. reported that Knight Osborne Associates The Austin firm of O'Connell, Probst had relocated to the above address; the & Zelsman, Architects and Engineers, has TOWN. latter firm's address remains 520 South changed its name to O'Connell, Probst, Come all the way Post Oak Road, Suite I 60, Houston Zelsman & Grobe to include the name downtown - to the 77056. Telephone: (7 I 3) 965-97 10. of partner William Grobe. really " uptown" Dallas R. Wayne Burford has announced the Hilton. We have over William F. Nelson, Beaumont, and J. formation of a new firm, Medical Plan 800 beautif u I rooms, Lynn Harden, Beaumont, have been ning Consultants, USA/ Health Facilities designed with your named principal partners in The White Planners and Hospital Consultants, at comfort in mind. Budd Van Ness Partnership, head 3333 Eastside Street, Suite 105, Houston Awaiting you on the quartered in Houston and Beaumont. 77098. Telephone: (713) 523-4715. The ground floor are a host Prior to their promotions, Nelson and firm will provide a complete range of of excellent places to I Jarden we re both associate partners in planning services to hospitals, doctor's wine and dine. the firm's Beaumont office. groups, architectural firms, developers Everything from the Corgan Associates, Inc., Architects and others involved in the health care light and lively und Engineers, Dallas, announces the field. Gatsby's Bicycle Bar to the deep plush of .1ppointment of Brent E. Byers and Bryce T he Partnership of Waller S. Poage \. Weigand as Associates of the firm. our Beef Barron Steak and Gary C. Beavers, and Associate House. We're in the Both have served as project architect for Arturo Hernandez, P.E., has announced major projects of the fi rm. heart of downtown, a change of name from Century Planners, just a block away from The Austin architectural/planning firm Inc., to Community Planners. The firm Neiman-Marcus and of Holt & Company has changed its firm has also relocated to I 020 Juarez, Laredo close to everything name to Holt & Fatter, Energy & En 78040. you come to Dal las to lironmental Architects following the as The firm of Edward Maurer Interna see and do. So, the sociation of architect Mervin E. Fatter, tional has relocated to 912 Loop 360 next time you think Jr, with Joseph J. Holt. South, P.O. Box 5880, Austin 78763. Dallas, think Dallas Telephone: (5 12) 327-4620. Hilton. We're Uptown! The firm bas also acquired the services of Austin architect Phil L. Scott, J r., Bill Cantrell Planners, Inc., has re Hilton who will be director of marketing and located to the old F.A.A. Control Tower Dalm 1914 Commerce planning. The offices of Holt & Fatter at the Lubbock Regional Airport. New Dal las 75201 arc located at 2525 Wallingwood, mailing address is Route 3, Box 52A, ~ubbock 79401. (214) 747-2011 #1201, Austin 78746. Telephone: (5 12) .127-0454. Lubbock architect Robert Messersmith Call Hilton Reservation has organized a new firm, Robert Mes Service for immediate 30 / lnternalional (30/ 1), a Houston sersmith & Associates, located at Suite reservations and based international project management/ 202, Page Bldg., 1503 Ave. J, Lubbock confirmed rates in ,trchitecture/ engineering fir m, announces 79401. Telephone: (806) 747-3897. Hilton hotels and inns. the following promotions: To Senior As sociate-Ahmad J. G haddar PE, Civil Dan Barnum has opened an office for rngineering; David A. Lehmann CPA, the practice of architecture at 5220 \ccounting; Louis G. Mitchell PE, Me Cedar, Bellaire 77053. Telephone: (7 I 3) 667-4692. i.:hanical Engineering; Gailand J. Smith CPA, Accounting; and Manuel Zepeda, Barry Moore, of Harvin Moore/Barry Architectural Production. To Associate: Moore, has formed a second partnership Richard A. Burke, Electrical Engineer with Philip Winslow, ASLA, of New ing; Newell N. Bustin, Construction Serv York City, for the practice of landscape ices; William C. Clifford, Electrical architecture. T he firm, Winslow/ Moore, Fngineering; Wesley K. Jones, Archi is located at 1700 Montrose Blvd., Hous tectural P roduction; Gary W. Murphy, ton 77006. Telephone: (7 13) 523-6616. Interior Architecture; T homas V. Russell, Ufer Nimmons Barbaria, Inc., has Architectural Production and Design; and changed its firm name to Planning De Michael P. Webster, G raphics. (Russell sign Research and has relocated to 3433 i~ located at the company's Austin office; West Alabama, Houston 77027. Tele 11ll others in Houston). phone: (713) 96 1-1661.
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C,rc/e 23 on Reader lnqu,ry Card Wild Basin Success Travis County will operate the park. writing his check he told me, 'This is for The Wild Basin Committee will continue that child's future.' It really touched It was countdown time for the Wild to raise auxiliary funds through such something in the hearts of Texans," ttasin Wilderness Fund (See TA, May/ events as a proposed yearly polo tourna Poage continued. " It showed that they June 1975, May/ June 1977). The last ment co-sponsored by the Austin Polo really do care about their land." seven days in June were "Christmas in Association. The Texas Highway Depart June" week, the last days for donations ment will construct a small picnic facility for a wilderness park west of Austin, and at the entrance to the park (there will be Industry News the spirit of Christmas prevailed. Thanks no picnic facilities inside) adjacent to lo the selfless dedication of many hun Loop 360. Urethane Industries, Inc., a Texas cor dreds of volunteers and a heartwarming The fund-raising experience has been a poration based in San Antonio, has pint of giving by the citizenry, the goal touching exhibition of caring, Poage said. merged with Societe Industriale de Stra of $175,000 was achieved the night of "One man came in with his three-year tifes, of Paris, France, to form Shelter June 30-just in time to apply for match old child under his arm, and as he was Insulation SyQems, Inc., to be known ing funds to save the lush wilderness from being developed. As a result, with matching funds from the U.S. Bureau of Outdoor Affairs and a couple of dona tions of land, a 300-acre swath of rugged hi I country terrain just outside the city limits of Austin will be maintained by Travis County as parkland, preserved from developers and homebuilders. After a two-and-half year struggle by con cerned Austin citizens, the park was a reality at last. The notion for a wilderness park out ~1de Austin materialized back in fall 1974 when "Now or Never," a group of West Austin environmentalists, decided it would lobby for the establishment of a n 1tional park on the property as a bi centennial project, said Janet Poage, co coordinator of the Wild Basin Commit tee After hitting roadblocks with the city council and county commissioners, the group took its campaign to the people, Poage said- voicing their cause when ever and wherever they could. Along the way they picked up a smaJI army of volunteers, and by the deadline over $179,000, in donations large and small, hid been raised. The application for funds should be approved by January 1978. (The county 1s currently purchasing 26 acres with matching funds for $80,228 approved in January 1977.) Then land can be pur chased and the park readied for public II ,C, Already a master plan study for design nnd maintenance is underway on a grant from the Texas Department of Commu nity Affairs, which will aJso provide c 1u1pment and materials for a proposed c wironmental education program and lour guide training. The masler plan ludy will include a natural area survey , nd will determine such things as where nature trails should be located (in some sections of the park the ecology is too fr lgile to support pedestrian traffic). C,rc/e 24 on Reader Inquiry Card September/October 1977 55 In the world of
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Deaths Richard C. Heartfleld, TSA Emeritus, Southeast Texas Chapter, died July 29 in Beaumont. A native of Elgin, near Austin, Heartficld was awarded a bache lor's degree in architecture from Texas A&M in 1923 and moved to Beaumont in 1927, where he co-founded the archi tectural firm Heartfield and Woodside, Theatre sound School communications AJ arm systems serving as partner until his retirement earlier this year. Heartficld founded and • • ••••••• • ••• served as first president of the TSA's -·············• • • • • • • • • • • • """"I •••••••••••• Beaumont Chapter. ..., ... • • • • • • • • • • • • Arne G. Engberg, TSA Emeritus, • • • • • • • • • • • • ...... • • • • • • • • • • • • Houston, died at his home in Albu ...... •••••••••••• querque, N.M., July 3. Engberg, noted • for his work in school design, was a partner in the Houston firm of White & Engberg, and later with the firm of IJ Engberg, Simmons, Cavitt, McKnight, Information retrieval Stadium sound Time & Signal systems Weymouth. He retired in 1974. For more information communicate with your local Dukane Distributor. He's listed In the Yellow Pages under "Inter Communications" c,rcle 25 on Reader lnqu,ry Card 56 Texas Architect TURN A SHOPPING MALL INTO A CATHEDRAL Moduspan spaoe-frame system lets your buildings soar al glass simple because the entire structure is made up of most as far as your imagination. Unistrut channels. Because Moduspan eliminates the need for welded steel And Moduspan components are available in both 4' and 5' trusses that restrict building design. systems and six durable colors. Instead Moduspan employs lightweight, standardized Moduspan. The space-frame system that can make some modules. A simple nut and bolt construction. And random of your wildest dreams oome true. supports and overhangs in two directions. For more information write your local Unistrut Service As a result, there's almost no limit to the variety of Center. modular configurations you can use on roofs, walls and specialty designs. But Moduspan isn't just beautiful. It's also practical. Moduspan virtually eliminates on-the-job delays caused by waiting for custom designed UNISTRUT GULF UNISTRUT TEXAS fabrications. 1212 Hahlo Street 3315 East Randol Moll Road It also makes the attachment of such auxil Hooston. Texas n020 Arington. Texas 78011 Phone (713) 675-3261 Phone (817) 261·3691 iary items as light fixtures, sprinklers and Wats; (800) 792·2214 The Mal at Cok.mbla. Maryland Owners The Roose Co • Columbia. Maryland Archllecrs Cope, Linder and Walmsley. Philadelphia. Pa General ContracrOl's The Whiling-Turner Conlradlng Co , Towson. Ban,more, Maryland
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