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Architectural drawings by Mark QW Dancin' in the Streets: Merriment A UNIQUE PUBUC OFFERING A. Hewitt and Peter D. H aid man and was the theme on the Strand in Galveston Christopher Genik were among those this summer, thanks to Old Galveston THE GALVESTON/HOUSTON REGION AS IT WAS IN auctioned at Max Protetch Gallery in New Square, a historic rehab project of York on 21 June to benefit Architects for Houston developer J.R. McConnell. •1836* Social Responsibility. Architects Every weekend evening The Texas Christopher Genik, Tim Cisneros, and Trumpets played their hearts out atop the An eight-year research and cartographic project combining 30 historical naviga- Michael McNamara exhibited works on sidewalk canopy of Old Galveston tional charts with information from over 560 primary and secondary sources into paper at Suzanne Street Gallery in April; Square, while in the blocked-off street a single replica document. It contains such authentic information as water depths architect Peter Merwin was included in below, there was hopping and bopping on and navigational hazards, geographical features, Indian tribes and settlements. a group exhibition that fol lowed in June. the recently uncovered brick paving. New Town real estate speculations, Anglo communities, original land grants The Contemporary Arts Museum will Onlookers watched from a bevy of Model and mini-histories of points of interest in present-day Harris, Chambers open an exhibition of the work of Los A roadsters, sounding approval on and Galveston counties. This beautiful, four-color chart is the first Angeles architect Frank O. Gehry on 21 still-functioning Klaxon horns. Honk if January 1987. you're having fun. authoritative digest of early area history ever published. 20"x30" on heavy paper Tube-shipped, ready tor framing. GW Pardon Our Bombs: The Parks Dallas architect Frank D. Welch ************************************ People are urging immediate public was short-listed (along with Barton Order Form protest of the U.S. Army's application to Phelps, James Wines. John L. Wong, and Please send me Replica Chans ar S11 25 per chart, including tax and shipping My check ha tease 2,500 acres west of State Highway Kevin Bone) in the first stage of an open $ is enclosed Please ship to: 6, along the north bank of Buffalo Bayou, competition for the redesign of Pershing NAME ADDRESS for an intensive military training area. Square in Los Angeles on 23 June. tlTY- . STATE_ .ZIP CODE. Planned for the site - which is owned by Christine Cincirpini and William Please mail tu: Kelvin Press. P.O. Bnx fifil(>. Houston. Texas 7726V66Ki. Please allow six to eight the U. S. Army Corps of Engi neers and i s Taylor's was one of five alternative wefks for shipping and handling. Thank you part of Barker Reservoir - are a gas schemes recognized by the jury and Peter chamber and proficiency training area, air J. Zweig received honorable mention for and rail loading practice areas for M60 his entry. Antonio de Souza Santos has tanks, land-mine warfare training areas, returned to Texas from Ottawa to practice and two company-size maneuver areas, architecture in Austin with Alan Y. according to Parks People president Taniguchi; Santos also will teach at The Vernon G. Henry. Harris County also University of Texas at Austin. Douglas MASONRY has applied to the corps to lease the site Milburn has been named editor of as an extension of existing county- Houston City Magazine: look for regular the most versatile operated parkland already in the reservoir. critical coverage of local art and Henry is asking that letters of protest be architecture. sent to the district engineer of the Corps building system there is of Engineers in Galveston, the assistant secretary of the army in Washington. and •jMJfi^fti Houston congressman Bill Archer.
W" Postmodernism littered the streets of Galveston on 17 May after hurricane- force winds blew Charles W. Moore's Mardi Gras arch to pieces. Aubry, H Masonry Institute of Texas Graves, Jahn, Pelli, Powell, and 5100 Wcsthnmcr Tigerman weathered the storm. -L*4.*«4.*********f*f**#'..;.v . Suite 200 Meanwhile, arch-patrons Cynthia and Houston Texas 77056 George Mitchell are reviewing 7I.1-V6K-6550 prospective recruits to design arches Site plan, 1986, Pershing Square competition for the 1987 Mardi Gras. entry. Frank Welch and Associates
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Rice Design Alliance The Rice Design Alliance also will The Rice Design Alliance will feature the present a talk by an internationally known Houston neighborhood of Braeswood on architect this fall, as well as a symposium CONTEMPORARY its annual fall architecture tour. This on the effects of the revised U. S. tax code planned neighborhood, lying just behind on the building, real estate, and historical the Shamrock Hotel, was developed in preservation industries. Dates, limes, LATIN AMERICAN 1928-1929 and is the site of some of the locations, and admission prices to be best-known examples of modern announced. For more information, residential architecture in Houston. It also telephone 713/524-6297. & CARIBBEAN ART contains a wealth of traditionally styled houses. The tour will be held on two Farish Gallery consecutive days. Preceeding it will be a From 19 October to 30 November. "The gala preview party. Dates, times, and Architect and the British Country House, tickets prices to be announced. 1620-1920" will be exhibited. Containing
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RESTORE • Preliminary perspective studies for exteriors. 1909, Castle Drogo, Devon, Sir Edwin AMERICA Lutyens, architect ciean-america, inc. 90 architectural drawings by the masters Center for the Study of English architecture, selected by guest of American Architecture curator John Harris from the drawings The Center for the Study of American collection of the Royal Institute of British Architecture at The University of Texas TOTAL SERVICE Architects, the exhibition was organized at Austin will hold a two-day symposium, and iscirculated by the Octagon Museum, "Building and Reality: Architecture in the APPROACH American Institute of Architects Age of Information," organized by Foundation. Lecture and opening are Michael Benedikt, associate professor of scheduled for 19 October. Catalogue architecture and author of the forthcoming Planning & Problem Solving available. The Farish Gallery is located in book. For An Architecture of Reality. L.D. Jones & Associates Anderson Hall on the campus of Rice Participants include Bo Gehring, Peter CNG TOWER University. It is open from noon until 5 Eisenman, Horace Newcomb, Charles W. Pittsburgh. Pa. PM daily. For more information telephone Moore, William Mace, Karsten Harries, Kohn Petlcrscn Fox Actual Field Service Associates Facade Maintenance Company 713/527-4870. Coy Howard, and Michael Benedikt. Sessions will be at Jessen Auditorium on the university campus on 23 and 24 Preservation Products House Tour An architectural tour of six houses in the October, the registration fee is $20. iiij^Bni River Oaks and Memorial areas of For more information, telephone Weatherguard Preservation Houston will be held on 5, 6, and 7 512/471-1922. Products, Inc. December by the Houston Alumnae Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma. The "New Regionalism" issue of the Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the center'sjournal. Center, will be published Houston Child Guidance Center, the in November. Sheltering Arms, and The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research. On tour will be houses by John F. Staub and J.T. Rather, Jr., the office of Royal Barry RESTORE * AMERICA / Chan Amarica. Inc. Wills, and Hermon Lloyd. For more OKI Milcholldalo I Houatgo, TX 770!JZ (7iaiiu»-2ii» information telephone 713/961 -7351 after 1 November. !N"CNI» HEADQUARTERS Tampa, Florida Harry Wolf & Associates
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There's a thing that happens to cities and prosperous pastures, it's also seen a wave places caught in dire straights. After an of good-bye parties. I'm not alone in initial paralysis, a certain psychology observing that the momentum of this photo George O. locfcon, Jr. takes over. Bad times seem to make for partying, of rendezvous and backyard a "no tomorrow" mentality. Thus, barbecues, seems to have carried over into disease-ridden Europe had its medieval the lives of the survivors. There are just dance fever and the Paris commune its a lot of parties in Houston these days. And LINCOLN CENTRE JOIN orgies. London in the blitz was one big exhausting as all this activity has come to Minneapolis, Minn The Houston Center debauch. And now steamy, down-trodden be, it's clearly not reached any apogee or Kohn Pederscn Fox Houston is experiencing a plague of conclusion. According to the New York Associates for Photography parties. recipe, a final flowering requires certain ingredients - which we should perhaps I first witnessed this phenomenon ten consider. First, there's a need for a AND BENEFIT years ago in New York, at that time in spontaneous/live late-night type of TV the grips of a very serious crisis. It was show. Some kind of drive-in talk show an era of insolvency, depopulation, and co-hosted by the likes of Marvin Zindler The HCP is a non-profit membership ennui — the place seemed more than just and Lynn Wyalt might do the trick. organization that serves the community broke. Corporations like Union Carbide Spectacles are also very important. And as a resource for educational exchange were pulling up stakes while entire since Houston has been raised to through exhibitions publications, lec- international stature as a party town via tures, workshops, and fellowships boroughs (like the Bronx) were overrun by violent welfare-nurtured hordes. "Rendezvous Houston," more projects by BENEFITS Industry was clearing out as fast as it Jean-Michel Jarre would seem in order. Members may attend LECTURES and could: whole sections of the city became He's obviously the person to send the WORKSHOPS at a discount, participate artists' colonies overnight. But from the Shamrock out in real style, for instance: in members EXHIBITIONS, and will receive SPOT, the HCP quarterly journal. depths of depression, at a time when the laser lights, dynamite, and all. Ka-Boom. and the MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, which Mayor's office was contemplating the lists current exhibitions, competitions, abandonment of Brooklyn, New York The decline of Party New York has SUN BANK CENTER and photographic events. suddenly blossomed as a good lime. progressed almost imperceptibly, but as Orlando, Florida Everyone got into the party act. NBC put SPECIAL BENEFITS any candid native will attest, the Big Skidmore Owings & Merrill Certain membership categories receive "Saturday Night Live" on the air; newly Apple just isn't that much fun anymore. either a signed poster of a recent HCP opened Studio 54 became the No. I club Which is where we come in. Houston too exhibition; a signed, prize-winning color of the disco era; and somebody invented is beginning to have a pretty good time in print of lean-Michel larre's performance the "I V (i.e., forgive) New York" bad times. Eventually, tike New York, For Information concert. Rfndezwus Houston (above): or campaign. Defeat became unthinkable Contact your choice of one or two of four signed, we'll rise from our travail once again to limited edition photographs by well and the rest is history: The Big Apple become prosperous and a little dull. We'll known Houston photographers became party capital of the western world be terribly busy and important again, Cynthia Boughton and its gossip-based economy of brokers traffic will be awful, and time will be Marketing Representative Call or write the Center for more Informa- and financialists revived. short. Till then, though, attitudes being tion. VISA and MASTERCARD what they are, our mutual entertainment FMG Design, Inc. welcomed. 1617 Fannin Street Here in Houston, the spring of 1986 saw seems the order of the day. Till then, as Suite 2801 the crash of oil and, fittingly, the end of they say, "Party Houston!" 1441 West Alabama Houston, Texas 77002 Houston. Texas 77006 the Shamrock. As more and more unlucky (7131529-4755 Houstonians hit the road for more Cameron Armstrong 713.951.9113 6 Cite Fall 1986
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10m N#.gr,bo O v » r p * t i & f t r » S l r * M P m a c o u i t S-Tr**t TD P * i k m g ; Ptrft Diagram, 1986, Broadway Beautification Plan In November 1985, the City of Galveston Broadway Beautification Committee, palms on the north and south sides of the with the Broadway Beautification including citizens, business interests, and street, has been recommended. Special Broadway Committee commissioned a master plan city officials, was created and funding for pavers adjoining the north sidewalk have for Broadway, the grand boulevard that the planning effort was raised. been proposed so that a fourth traffic lane runs across Galveston Island from Seawall for peak use and evacuation might be Beautification Boulevard on the east connecting with The master plan was developed through a created. In addition, a sequence of 1-45 and the Galveston Causeway on the process involving committee monuments (building upon the precedent west. A team of consultants, headed by recommendations, public meetings, of the Texas Heroes Monument at 25th Plan the landscape and urban design firm of observation, and analysis. The historic Street) has been recommended for key Slaney Santana Group, with William E order of the street space provided the locations along the esplanade. Stern and Associates, architects. Traffic conceptual framework for the design Engineers Inc.,.traffic consultants, proposals, which define the sequence The plan recognizes that Broadway passes Babendurc Desi ;n Group, graphics along the boulevard: the gateway at the through a number of districts of differing consultants, and Marlene Lee Lighting Causeway, the approach along 1-45, the character, so the elements of continuity consultants, has recently completed the transition from suburban to urban between introduced along Broadway would be development of the conceptual master 61st and 59th, entry at 59th, procession balanced by improvements specifically plan phase of the study. along the Broadway "gallery" through the conceived for individual locations, such historic district to a 25th Street "arrival as "portals" to adjacent neighborhoods The Broadway beautification effort grew court," and finally the Seawall "terrace" and designation for individual historic out of a recognition in Galveston that an and vistas of the Gulf of Mexico. The key properties. overall vision for Broadway, the primary features of this vision will be realized in gateway to the city, was required. a series of specific steps, including zoning The team also will propose guidelines for Although concern about Broadway had controls with height and setback signs and informational graphics, and it is been raised in previous years, a number provisions, extensive landscape hoped that eventually the standard light of recent events (including incompatible improvements, control of curb cuts, and poles and fixtures can be replaced with construction adjacent to the East End revision of traffic operations (including some more in keeping with the original Historic District, a proposal for a ten-story provision for storm evacuation). From turn-of-the-century lighting along office building at the corner of Broadway 59th Street to Seawall Boulevard a major Broadway. and 25th Street, and the possibility that landscaping plan, reinforcing the existing some of the beautiful old trees on pattern of Washingtonia palms and live Jeffrey Karl Ochsner Broadway might be cut down) led to the oaks along the esplanade and adding a current citizen-initiated effort. The planting edge of Phoenix Dactilifera CRAUBART RUDY Rosenthal Baccarat Alessi CRAUBART RUDY Kosta Bo da Buccellatl Orrefors CRAUBART RUDY Royal Copenhagen Dorothy Hafner CRAUBART RUDY Fred Carpenter i: Chrlstofie Ceorg Jensen Oggetti in the business of managing risks. So when it comes to GRAUBART RUDY clothes, he believes in Fine China, Crystal and Flatware sure things from River Oaks Center • 1985 w. Grav • Houston, Texas 77019 • 5214397 Leslie & Co. Take this outfit, for instance. Not only will it never go out of style, but it makes selling L.D. 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Listing in the National * study or the Sabine neighborhood, a Register has not precipitated widespread m•** 39-block residential area immediately displacement of lower-income tenants for . west of downtown in what was once the more affluent redevelopment. I 1 city's Sixth Ward. Bounded by Memorial 11111 Drive, Houston Avenue, Washington The study proposes a strategy for u i l i l " ' " " , SSSffl M i l " " * Avenue, and Glenwood Cemetery, the preserving the district's historical integrity « • ::::!H p »»» Sabine neighborhood in 1977 became the without drastically altering its present • first district in Houston to be listed in the socio-economic status. Many of the National Register of Historic Places. The recommendations resulted from data Sixth Ward/Sabine Historic District accumulated in a land-use and housing Revitalization Study was prepared by survey and a survey of neighborhood Preservation Services with funding from residents. Recommendations to encourage the NationalTrust for Historic Preservation preservation address issues of housing and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston. improvement for current residents, A PLACE It contains 26 recommendations for including cooperative purchases, a conserving the district, which in 1980 had revolving fund program enabling renters OF DREAMS a population of nearly 2,000 residents to buy their houses, and the organization (predominantly low-income and of rehabilitation workshops. These are HOUSTON, Hispanic), most of whom rent, rather than combined with recommendations for own, their dwelling units. neighborhood action, and the shaping of AN AMERICAN CITY a consistent, sympathetic policy toward the district by the city government. The district contains 385 buildings, over Photographs by Geoff Winningham 300 of which are residential in use. These include what the report describes as the The Preservation Alliance's study also Text by Al Reinert largest concentration of late 19th-century advocates a series of steps that draw on buildings in Houston, most of them the collective energies of neighborhood Houston, 1986. A city both extravagantly one-story, wood-frame cottages. As in the residents, coordinating these with existing modern and homespun simple. In 165 color larger Freedman's Town Historic District programs, institutions, and city agencies. plates, photographer Geoff Winningham in Fourth Ward (which lies directly south The resulting approach might well serve probes the dreams and history that created of Sixth Ward), the Sabine neighborhood as a model for the conservation of other the city. Artful, upbeat, and luxurious, this is a suffers from the negligence of some established, lower-income, inner-city book for the ages. $39.95. Hardcover. absentee landlords and the effects of Houston neighborhoods. commercial encroachment, especially around its periphery. Unlike Fourth Ward, it has experienced some preservation and rehabilitation activity as well as attracting Rice University Press Available at bookstores. LONELY ARTS? Two single and unattached design firms seek like- I minded design professionals to share sumptuous studio space. Prefer those with a weakness for aesthetics and aspirations toward greatness. Amenities provided. Call Lonely Arts ol Houston. (713) 868-1676 Top: House at 1519 Lubbock Street and downtown skyline. Above: House on Decatur Street displaying gingerbread ornament