Texas architecture of the twentieth century encompasses a wide
range of building styles, from an internationally inspired
modernism to the Spanish Colonial Revival that recalls Texas'
earliest European heritage. This book is the first comprehensive
survey of Texas architecture of the first half of the twentieth
century.
More than just a catalog of buildings and styles, the book is a
social history of Texas architecture. Jay C. Henry discusses and
illustrates buildings from around the state, drawing a majority of
his examples from the ten to twelve largest cities and from the
work of major architects and firms, including C. H. Page and
Brother, Trost and Trost, Lang and Witchell, Sanguinet and Staats,
Atlee B. and Robert M. Ayres, David Williams, and O'Neil Ford. The
majority of buildings he considers are public ones, but a separate
chapter traces the evolution of private housing from late-Victorian
styles through the regional and international modernism of the
1930s. Nearly 400 black-and-white photographs complement the
text.
Written to be accessible to general readers interested in
architecture, as well as to architectural professionals, this work
shows how Texas both participated in and differed from prevailing
American architectural traditions.
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