
In this issue: Raising the Roof in Texas New House at Home Texas Glass and Crossbeams Death of a House Bill 3 Viewpoints on Housing Architect Plus regular columns. See contents. NUMBER 4 VOL. 25 JULY/AUG 1975 Contents Editorial . 3 Offidal Publication of An urgent (and patriotic) appeal for The Texas Society of Architects diversity in American housing. TSA i, the official organization of lhc Texas Region of Raising the Roof in Texas . 7 the Amencan Institute of Architects. How do you build high-density housing that people can relate to? A young architect Des Taylor ..............•..•..... Editor-in-Olief suggests incorporating the critical features of Larry Paul Fuller .....•........... Managing Editor Ray Reece ...................... Associate Editor the single-family dwelling. John Lash .............•..... Advertising Director A New House at Home. .. ..... 12 James D Pfluger. AIA ......... Editorial Consuhant Constructing Happy Answers . .. 14 Editorial Policy Commlllee An arclutt•ct dt>SiRnS his own homey castle J,m Mc)er, C'ha,~an Bobb, Fritt 011 ,um art g11/11•ry llu/Jalo llavou in Murv,n ll11l.ind fad.. M,tchcll llomt1111. Ja, l <'rn>unll I knry <>ncl!a G lass and Crossbeams ......... 16 Pc'-~ l>rrnn,rn J1111 l'lluicr Death ofa House BIii ............ 18 t ""' 1,, h11ri, " J>Ul>h,hcJ "' tunes )earl) hy the I e.,a, Lt·R1.1/mor.1 and urchitt"Ct.\ nmc/uct w1 So,:,cl) nl Arshllcxh, HOO l'e<r> Bn>oh Bu,IJ,ng. 121 autopsy on H.B. 432-tht' latest attempt at Ea\l Klh Street, Austin. Te,a, 78701 Sub,cripuon pncc" a meaningful architects registration law for SS .00 per year for addre,,c, wnhrn the con1inental Unued Staie,. cxccpung Huwn11 and Ala,ka. Texas- with a nod toward 1977. Ednonal contnbuuon,. corrc,pondcnce. and advcni~ing 3 Viewpoints on Housing ........ 23 matenal ,nvucd by 1he cduor. U~ually. no payment will be A trio ofprofessionals in three different made for an1cle,. Pubh,her give;, perrm»1on for reproduc­ uon of all or pan of ednorial material herein. and request, fields give their views on finance, pubhcatmn cred11 be g,ven Tews Arc-hi1e~,. and the author neighborhood preservation, ego-support, of matenal "'hen 1nd1ca1ed Publication, which normally etc. in housing. p•y for cdu<>rial ma1cr1al are n,4uc,tcd to give considern­ ""° to 1hc au1hnr nf rcpn>tluced b1hnc fea1urc material. Endangered Species ... .. 27 App.:aran,c, nf name, and picture, of product> and ;,er­ Struggle underway for a "cattle-baron" 'lcc, m e11hcrcJ11or1al or ad,en1>ing doe, not con>titutc an museum in Ft. Worth Turnaround in the enJor-cmcnl ol ,amc h) cnher 1hc Te~a, Society of heart ofH arris County. Mansion on wheels -\r.h11c<1, nr lhc Amcm:an ln,utute of Architecis. in Austin. 1975 TSA Officfr. In the News . .. .. ... 30 Da"J llr.1dcn , I \IA , Dalla, . Pre,ident lhc,1<1,,rc M.111111 , Jr , Palc,t,nc . Pre>1dcnt-Elcct Letters ...... ................. 36 knt>cn \\ Ch,1111hcr, , fnn Worth Vice-President 11,,n) Cinlcmnn , I AIA , lfou,ton . V1ce-Pre\ldcn1 l. ,rn llnhl,111\ , s.,n Antnn1tl , , .. Vice-Pre,idcnt Jnhn (,,.·er, Cnll<f•' Statum .•..•. .. Secretary l. m) llnlwn,. 11,g Spnng ••... Trca,urer 111111 Jlullo,l , I ,\IA. tfum,h,n AIA Rcg,onul Director 1111-..11,I II.Ill, I ,\I\, AU'\llfl AIA Regional Director lkn HrnH·r. llow.. 1011 fmmedrnte Pa\! President J>c, l.1)1"' · Au,1,n E~ccut,vc Director l97~ IS.\ llourd of l>irector. J,111"- I 1111c Abilene Chapter \\ 1ll1.1111 J \1,111111 Au>tin Chapter k1, h.ml \; r.~1111.111 , I AIA Bra,os Chapter On the cover Austin photographer \\1111.un II ll11ll.111J Curpu, Chmu Chapter Rick Patrick snaps the Walter Tips J.,d. ( r.1\oltolt . Dalla, Chapter House rolling across the Congress \\1lh.1111 ll101pc, Jr . El Pu\O Chapter Avenue Bridge, at 3 A.M. June 1, enroute I , ,. kn, 11.,hnlchl Fon Worth Chapter ,\1,111 l.1111gud11 , I AIA Hou,tnn Chapter to its new site in South Austin. (See story <•l"lll· lluh.ut Lo"'er R,o Grunde on page 29). Valley Chapter Uoh ( "')Clh." Lubbock Chapter C1\"tJf~1.· kuJ.:1.·f'\ Nonheu,1 Tcxa, Chapter San Anmnio Chapter 11,11 "·""'" \11lt1111 Hell . Southeu,1 Te~a, Chapter J k,I\ l),,n,cl Te,a, Punhundlc Chap1cr Jnhn l>uJlc) . Wuco Chapter K,·n fnlhn West Texa, Chup1er J.,mc, kuclcr Wichita Fall, Chapter 2 Texas Architect Housing for the People We are approaching the Bicentennial of the United States. A careful examination of our achievements will indicate that while we have achieved many successes, we still have a lot of unfinished business. I would categorize our unfinished work as the Unfinished Revolution. The major item of this Revolution is housing. We have not yet learned how to live together. The home in which people live and recreate and procreate is the new symbol of interoppression. Our poor housing policies have resulted in our cities being like a white donut with an inner core of white, black, red and brown jelly. The housing problem is at the root of the conflict in Boston. You cannot secure an integrated public school system from a segregated housing neighborhood. Busing is therefore merely a symptom of segregated housing. The famous Rodriguez case of San Antonio is also a consequence of our housing policies. Poor neighborhoods pay three times as much taxes without producing the minimum level of funding needed for their schools. After three years of admonition by Justice Powel I in the Rodriguez case, the State Legislature has done nothing to come to grips with the housing problems of the state. The Texas Housing Finance Agency and the Neighborhood Preservation Loan Fund Bills have died in the Legislature. Our housing problems are the direct result of the way we think. We have come to believe that real estate values depend upon homogeneous neighborhoods. Consequently, we put all of the expensive houses in one subdivision and the poor in another subd iv is ion and create traffic problems for the poor to travel to the suburbs to work and have the rich travel to the city to manage their businesses. It 1s clear especially to ecologists that homogeneous systems d 1c. The cemetery is homogeneous. The ghetto is homogeneous. Suburbia is homogeneous. They are all dying. The opposite of homogeneity is diversity. This concept of diversity is the essence of the American revolution. It is the concept that wi 11 determine whether we finish the revolution we began. Diversity is pluralism. It is different people of different races and economic levels working together as Americans. The essence of America is a sense of national unity with maximum diversity for the individual. Diversity is the uniqueness of America. We have achieved this in open accommodations, football and other sports and in varying degrees in public service. The issue, then, is whether we will change our land use policies and build decent housing so that the American neighborhood will be as diverse as its people. The issue for the Bicentennial is whether we can make the houses of the people and the Houses of God reflect the vitality that comes from diversity. Reynell M. Parkins UT/ Austin School of Architecture July/August 1975 3 I PPG Solarcoorreflective glass. Its looks don't reRect its price. Compared to tinted glass. glass. So your air condrt1oning 1 Profcssiooal Office Bu1ld,ng. Panama City. Flonda Solarcool reflectrve glass can add system rs more economical. Architect James Graham Chapman as lrttle as 10% to the cost of the In cold climates rt can save on Contractor Jean Mordcllet total wall system. your heating costs. too. Because 2 Roanoke Off,ce Bu,ld,ng. Phoenix. 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