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CONTRIBUTORS Ben Koush works for DMJM Rottet and is a Susan Rogers is the director of the Community founding member of Houston Mod. Design Resource Center at the University of Abby Bussel, the former editor of Architecture, Houston's Gerald D. Hines College of is based in New York City. She served as curator Raphael Longoria is a professor at the Architecture, where she is also a visiting assis- of Powerhouse: New Housing New York, a recent University of Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College tant professor. exhibition at the AIA’s Center for Architecture. of Architecture and coeditor of The Green Braid: Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Michelangelo Sabatino is an assistant profes- Joel Warren Barna, a former editor of Texas Economy, and Equity. sor at the University of Houston’s Gerald D. Architect, helped found Cite. Several of his Hines College of Architecture. His articles pieces on the social geography of Houston’s Laura B. McGuire is a doctoral candidate in appear in journals such as Casabella, Harvard growth and neighborhoods are included in Cite’s architectural history and theory at the Design Magazine, Places, and JSAH. essay collection, Ephemeral City. University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in American modern architecture and design Bruce C. Webb teaches design and urban theory Eric Hester is a recent Rice University graduate before World War II. in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at in visual art who works as a photographer and the University of Houston. He is former dean of craftsman. darnart.com PH Design Shop is the graphic design and mar- the College and coeditor of four books on archi- keting communications studio behind Cite’s new tectural theory and criticism. 73Paul Hester first photographed the Houston look. It also operates a social division fronted by ILLUSTRATION: ARTHUR JONES Livestock Show and Rodeo Parade in 1968. a boutique stationery store..