Author: Gordon Echols
Publisher: TCU Press
ISBN: 0875652239
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Gordon Echols traces the development of various styles form the most rudimentary and little-known rural dwellings to the sophisticated Greek Revival governor's mansion in Austin and the Victorian buildings that were made possible by new wealth earned in trading cotton, cattle and petroleum.
Early Texas Architecture
Author: Gordon Echols
Publisher: TCU Press
ISBN: 0875652239
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Gordon Echols traces the development of various styles form the most rudimentary and little-known rural dwellings to the sophisticated Greek Revival governor's mansion in Austin and the Victorian buildings that were made possible by new wealth earned in trading cotton, cattle and petroleum.
Publisher: TCU Press
ISBN: 0875652239
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Gordon Echols traces the development of various styles form the most rudimentary and little-known rural dwellings to the sophisticated Greek Revival governor's mansion in Austin and the Victorian buildings that were made possible by new wealth earned in trading cotton, cattle and petroleum.
Geometry in Architecture
Author: Clovis Heimsath
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292731455
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
"Geometry in Architecture, a revised edition of Pioneer Texas Buildings, juxtaposes the historic structures with works by twenty contemporary architects who are inspired by the pioneer tradition to show how seamlessly the basic geometries translate from one era to another. As in the earlier book, sketches and brief commentary by Clovis Heimsath explain how squares, triangles, and circles take shape in the cylindrical forms that comprise houses and other buildings. Then black and white photographs, the heart of the book, illustrate these geometric forms in historic and modern buildings."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292731455
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
"Geometry in Architecture, a revised edition of Pioneer Texas Buildings, juxtaposes the historic structures with works by twenty contemporary architects who are inspired by the pioneer tradition to show how seamlessly the basic geometries translate from one era to another. As in the earlier book, sketches and brief commentary by Clovis Heimsath explain how squares, triangles, and circles take shape in the cylindrical forms that comprise houses and other buildings. Then black and white photographs, the heart of the book, illustrate these geometric forms in historic and modern buildings."--BOOK JACKET.
Geometry in Architecture
Author: Clovis Heimsath
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788827
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Pioneer Texas Buildings opened people's eyes when it was first published in 1968. At a time when "progress" meant tearing down the weathered houses, barns, churches, and stores built by the original settlers of Central Texas, this book taught people to see the beauty, simplicity, and order expressed in the unadorned geometric forms of early Texas buildings. It inspired the preservation and restoration of many of the remaining pioneer buildings, as well as the design of modern buildings that employ the same simple geometries. This revised edition of Pioneer Texas Buildings juxtaposes the historic structures with works by twenty contemporary architects who are inspired by the pioneer tradition to show how seamlessly the basic geometries translate from one era to another. As in the first edition, sketches and brief commentary by Clovis Heimsath explain how squares, triangles, and circles take shape in the cubic, triangular, and cylindrical forms that comprise houses and other buildings. Then black-and-white photographs, the heart of the book, illustrate these geometric forms in historic and modern buildings. The book also includes two essays in which Heimsath discusses the factors that led him and his wife Maryann to document early Texas buildings and the results in historic preservation and timeless architectural designs that have followed from their efforts.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788827
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Pioneer Texas Buildings opened people's eyes when it was first published in 1968. At a time when "progress" meant tearing down the weathered houses, barns, churches, and stores built by the original settlers of Central Texas, this book taught people to see the beauty, simplicity, and order expressed in the unadorned geometric forms of early Texas buildings. It inspired the preservation and restoration of many of the remaining pioneer buildings, as well as the design of modern buildings that employ the same simple geometries. This revised edition of Pioneer Texas Buildings juxtaposes the historic structures with works by twenty contemporary architects who are inspired by the pioneer tradition to show how seamlessly the basic geometries translate from one era to another. As in the first edition, sketches and brief commentary by Clovis Heimsath explain how squares, triangles, and circles take shape in the cubic, triangular, and cylindrical forms that comprise houses and other buildings. Then black-and-white photographs, the heart of the book, illustrate these geometric forms in historic and modern buildings. The book also includes two essays in which Heimsath discusses the factors that led him and his wife Maryann to document early Texas buildings and the results in historic preservation and timeless architectural designs that have followed from their efforts.
A group of themes on the architecture and culture of early Texas
Author:
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Texas Log Buildings
Author: Terry G. Jordan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788444
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log buildings among several different Texas cultural groups and traces their construction techniques from their European and eastern American origins.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788444
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log buildings among several different Texas cultural groups and traces their construction techniques from their European and eastern American origins.
Texas Homes of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Drury Blakeley Alexander
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Texas Architectural Survey--Sponsored By the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and the School of Architecture, the University of Texas.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Texas Architectural Survey--Sponsored By the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and the School of Architecture, the University of Texas.
Architecture That Speaks
Author: Nancy T. McCoy
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623495539
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
When the A&M College of Texas opened its doors in 1876, its early buildings followed a Victorian architectural style. Classical architecture came to the campus with the Academic Building, after the 1912 fire that destroyed Old Main. Subsequent buildings generally followed this neoclassical path, but the growth of the campus in the Depression era saw the addition of an extraordinary group of buildings, sited in accordance with a master plan developed by college architect F. E. Giesecke and designed by S. C. P. Vosper, each of whom also held faculty positions in the first architecture program at a state college in Texas. The buildings designed by Vosper are arguably the finest buildings on the campus, uniquely expressive of the agricultural and mechanical origins of the university; they delight the senses with color, sculpture, and wit. Nancy T. McCoy and David G. Woodcock, distinguished preservation architects and scholars, review the history of Texas A&M campus architecture and provide in-depth coverage of Vosper and his legacy. Illustrated by the sumptuous photography of Carolyn Brown, Architecture That Speaks concludes with observations on recent approaches toward the reuse and rehabilitation of campus heritage architecture and a view to the future, as plans evolve for further development of the campus that maintains a respect for both strategic vision and historical heritage.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623495539
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
When the A&M College of Texas opened its doors in 1876, its early buildings followed a Victorian architectural style. Classical architecture came to the campus with the Academic Building, after the 1912 fire that destroyed Old Main. Subsequent buildings generally followed this neoclassical path, but the growth of the campus in the Depression era saw the addition of an extraordinary group of buildings, sited in accordance with a master plan developed by college architect F. E. Giesecke and designed by S. C. P. Vosper, each of whom also held faculty positions in the first architecture program at a state college in Texas. The buildings designed by Vosper are arguably the finest buildings on the campus, uniquely expressive of the agricultural and mechanical origins of the university; they delight the senses with color, sculpture, and wit. Nancy T. McCoy and David G. Woodcock, distinguished preservation architects and scholars, review the history of Texas A&M campus architecture and provide in-depth coverage of Vosper and his legacy. Illustrated by the sumptuous photography of Carolyn Brown, Architecture That Speaks concludes with observations on recent approaches toward the reuse and rehabilitation of campus heritage architecture and a view to the future, as plans evolve for further development of the campus that maintains a respect for both strategic vision and historical heritage.
Pioneer Texas Buildings
Author: Clovis Heimsath
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Early Texas Homes
Author: Dorothy Bracken
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Austin, Texas
Author: Roxanne Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The creation of Austin, Texas, a yearning for style. Austin in the early 1800 to 1971. Some buildings and homes are still standing, but others destroyed for progress.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The creation of Austin, Texas, a yearning for style. Austin in the early 1800 to 1971. Some buildings and homes are still standing, but others destroyed for progress.