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En terprises, ltd. • Boston MA/Leonard B. Hecker & Associates • Dallas TX/Kisabeth • Houston TX/Kisabeth • Seattle WA/G lacier Fabric Corp. Carl Kisabeth Co., Inc. 5320 Glenview Onve Fort Worth Texas 76117 (817) 281-7560 Metro 498-5876 Orel.., w -· R wUCr In( y Contents In the News 13 Texas A rchilect is published by the Texas Society o f Architects, Des Taylor, Executive Vice-Presi- dent. About this Issue 25 Larry Paul Fuller Editor Michael McCullar Associate Editor Craftsmanship John Lash . Associate Publisher 26 Sandy Otey Circulation Manager Michael Benedikt, an assistant professor of 1-lyder Joseph Brown, AJA Editorial Consultant architecture at UT-Austin, offers a definition of "craft.una11ship," an explanation of its Contributing Editors significance for both producer and beholder, David Braden, FAIA; James Coote; Clovis lleim sath, FAIA; Peter Papadcmetriou, AIA; David and, implicitly, a challenge for architects to Woodcock desig11 for it. Publications Committee Alan Sumner (chairman), David Browning, Jack Fancy th e Ornament 38 Craycraft, Dennis Felix, Eugene George, Larry Buie Harwood, an associate professor of Good, Craig Kennedy, Dave Mayfield, Mervin interior design in the Department of Home Moore, Jack Tisdale, Barry Weiner Eco110111ics at UT-Austin, examines a sur Texas Architect is published six times yearly by prising wealth of "people's art," Victorian the Texas Society of Architects, the official orga nization of the Texas Region of the American In and vernacular decorative painting, applied stitute of Architects. Address: 212 1 A ustin National to Texas interiors in the late 19th and early Bank Tower, Congress at Sixth, Austin , Texas 20th cen111ries. 1no1. Telephone: 512/478-7386. Subscription pri ce is $8 per year for TSA members and $ 10 for non members per year for addresses within the con Architecture for Health 48 tinental United States excepting Hawaii and Alaska. Editor Larry Paul Fuller draws 011 overview Texas ArchitPct is available on microfihn and microfiche from Micropublishers. International, 58 of current trends i11 health care design from Old South Country Road, South Haven, New York presentations made at a recent Houston 117 19. seminar 011 health facilities spo11sored by Controlled circulation postage paid al Austin, the Texas Society of Architects and the Texas 78701. Texas Hospital Association. Copyright 1980 by the Texas Society of Architects. Reproduction of all or part of editorial material herein without written permissio n is strictly pro The John Sealy Hospital 52 hibited. Editorial cootributions, correspondence and advertising material is invited by the editor. Larry Wygant, associate director for history Appearances of names and pictures of products of medicine and archives at the Moody and services in either editorial or advertising does Medical Library i11 Galveston, discusses the not constilllte an endorsement of same by either the Texas Society of A rchitects or the American 1•ario11s influences 011 Nicholas Clayton's de Institute of A rchitects. Nor does editorial com sign of the original John Sealy Hospital in ment necessarily reflect an official opinio n o f Gafreston. Allusions to miasma, contagion ei ther organization. and Flore11ce Nightingale. BPA membership appli ed for May 1979. ISSN: 0040-4179. Texas Tomorrow 60 TSA Officers Concluding our series of excerpts from the Boone Powell, FAIA, San Antonio Presicknt six essays which sen·ed as the bases for dis Lee Roy J-Ja hnfcld, Fort Worth President-Elect cussio11 during TSA's Lakeway Goals Co11- Jerry Clement, Dall as Vice-President Johnny Collen. Corpus Christi V ice-P resident fere 11ce in March: "Growth, Resources, E11- Jim Oochc, Amarillo V ice-President 1•iro11111e11t," hy Catherine H. Powefl, an Paul Kinnison, Jr. San Antonio Vice-President assistant professor in the Department of rr.ink Welch, FAIA, Midland Vice-Pre~ident Urban Studies at Trinity University in San Morton L. Levy, Jr., Houston Secretary Nancy R. McAdams, Austin . Treasurer Antonio; and "Architectural Education in Des Taylor, Austin Executive Vice-President the 1980s," by James Pratt, FA/A, a prin cipal in the Dallas architectural firm Pratt TSA Board of Directors M. R. Newberry Abilene C hapter Box Henderson & Partners. Darrell Fkmi ng . .. Amarillo C hapter Chuck Croft Austin Chapter Craftsmanship: a Cold Can of Coors 83 Duane Cote Brazos C hapter On the Cover: Detail i·iew of main gallery Donalt! Greene Corpus Chris ti Chapter Contributing Editor OG1·id Braden, FA /A, Jim C lutts Dallas Chapter le1·el upon e11tering the Kimbell Art Mu Dallas, expounds 011 a somewhat refreshing W. E. Kuykendall E l Paso Chapter seum in Fort Worth, designed by Louis idea of craftsmanship, wit/, a sobering Robert LcMond Fort Worth C hapter Kahn. Photography by Phillip Poole, Phillip A. William Moclrall Houston Chapter thought or two 0 11 its potential for wider Poole Associates, Fort Worth. Calvin Walker Lower R io Grande Valley Chapter application. Tom Mills Lubbock Chapter Carroll Sinclair Northeast Tcx,is Chapter John Willia ms San Antonio Chapter Letters 87 Milton Bell Southeast Texas Chapter David Carnahan Waco C hapter Coming Up: T he November/ December Ernest W . Babb, Jr. West Texas C hapter J. G. Dixon, J r. 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