The Architecture and Design Review of Houston

A Publication of the Rice Design Alliance Winter 1985-1986 $3.00

Theories, Ideas, and Schools

The Arts in Houston • Houses Between Allegory and the Novel Houston at the Venice Biennale • Allen's Landing: Proposed Monuments

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• 2 Cite Winter 1985-1986 InCite The Pel I a difference... /^ie k 3 Citelines m Z-d-*-^1 10 The Arts in Houston: Ideas and It's more than a fine line. Schools I III 12 Erasing Invisibility: The History Villi/ and Theory Program at the Windows Doors University of Houston 13 Houston at the Venice Biennale 17 Houses Between Allegory and the Novel Cover: "Cloth on Concrete: The 21 Myth-en-Scene: Proposals for the Awning Underpass at Calhoun and 1-45" Monumentation of Allen's Landing {Drawing by Wolde-Ghiorghis Ayete); 24 Citesurvey: Innova model of Hurricane House, Peter D. 26 Ci teat ions Waldman, architect, and Christoph ?r 29 HindCite Genik (Photo by Paul Hester) 30 UnCitely Standard Sliding Glass Door Casement Editorial Committee Standard Elizabeth S. Glassman Andrew John Rudnick ~ZA 8'Sliding Glass Door Mark A. Hewitt Richard Knight John Stainback Chairman Phillip l.npj re- William F. Stern Traditional Contemporary W.James Murdaugh Drexel Turner Double-Hung Do bi .Hung U e Raymond D. Brochstein Jan O'Brien Bruce C. Webb Stephen Fox Jeffrey Karl Ochsner Gordon Wittenberg

The opinions expressed in Cits do not i angle necessarily represent the views of the Guest Editor: Bruce C. Webb Board of Directors of the Rice Design Managing Editor: Linda Leigh Sylvan Alliance. Contemporary French Graphic Designer: Alisa Bales Sliding Glass Door Publisher: Lynette M. Gannon Cite welcomes unsolicited manuscripts. Trapezoid Circlehead Director of Advertising: Kathryn Easterly Authors take full responsibility for secur- ing required consents and releases and for • the authenticity of their articles. All Skylights Clad Panel manuscripts will be considered by the Edi-

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Notes on Contributors

V. Nia Dorian-Bechnel is assistant Jeffrey Kari Ochsner is a Houston professor of architecture at the College of architect and lecturer in architecture at Architecture, University of Houston. Rice University. He is the author of H. H. Richardson: Complete Architectural W&«J%Culp It Stephen Fox is a Fellow of the Anchorage Works. SWymmm rut Foundation of Texas. Malcolm Quamrill is professor of John Heile is assistant professor of architectural history, theory, and design at architecture at Rice University, where he Texas A & M University. His latest book teaches computer graphics • computer- on Finnish architect Reima Pietila was aided design. recently published. Property Lincoln Hold, Mark Hewitt, former assistant professor Paul Schieffer practices architecture in Management Post Oak of architecture at the School of Dallas where he also teaches at El Centra Systemi^Inc. Architecture at Rice University, is College. assistant professor of architecture and preservation at Columbia University. William Taylor is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Houston. John Kaliski, former assistant professor He is currently on leave and is visiting of architecture at the University of professor at Harvard University. Houston College of Architecture, now works for the Los Angeles office of Drexel Turner is assistant to the dean of WE HAVE A FEW COMPANIES Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. the School of Architecture at Rice University. Ben Nicholson is assistant professor of UNDER OUR GREEN THUMB. architecture at the University of Houston Bruce C. Webb is associate professor of where he teaches history, theory, and architecture and director of Graduate During our thirty years in business, interior plantscaping and exterior design in the College of Architecture. Studies in the University of Houston's The Spencer (Company's client list landscape management to seasonal Gjllege of Architecture. has {^Town impressively. Specializing rotation of blooming plants for Laura Nicholson, a graduate of in selling, leasing, and caring for linlli indoors and outdoors. Contact Cranbrook Academy, is a tapestry artist. Peter Wood is associate dean of the plants to enhance the The Spencer Company College of Architecture, University of corporate environment »'. so you too can be Jan O'Brien is a Houston architect and an Houston. The Spe ncer Company* under the care of our associate in the firm of William F. Stern services extend from COMPANY green thumb. & Associates. Corporate Horticu Itural Specialists P.O. Box 1611.1, Houston, Texas 77222. Telephone 713-691-3991.