Collection of Houston Mod Publications
You are bidding on a collection of four (4) publications on modernism in Houston, Texas generous donated by our colleagues at Houston Mod.
“After Alden: Mid-Century Architecture in Brazosport, Texas”
By Marty Merritt
AFTER ALDEN tells the architectural story of the Freeport and Lake Jackson area in the years after celebrated architect Alden B. Dow’s pioneering wartime projects. Focusing on the 1950s and 1960s, it identifies every major architect who did significant work in the region and highlights several remarkable owner-designed houses. The book features new images by architectural photographer Benjamin Hill.
”Constructing Houston’s Future: The Architecture of Arthur Evan Jones and Lloyd Morgan Jones”
By Ben Koush
Lloyd Morgan Jones, one of Houston’s premier modern architectural practices, designed over 2,000 projects from the time it began in 1947 until the remaining partners ceased operations in 1994. The firm worked at all scales, from houses to skyscrapers. Characterized by quiet restraint rather than exuberant formal explorations, the work of Lloyd Morgan Jones is distinguished by its precision in execution. Their buildings are hard-edged and spare; detailing, while extremely precise, is minimal and discreet.
Fifty of Lloyd Morgan Jones’s most significant projects are featured. These include the Rice Stadium (1949); the Straus House (1951), Houston’s grandest Contemporary house; Melrose Building (1952), Houston’s first modern high-rise office building; The American General Building (1965), the award-winning initial building for Gus Wortham’s American General office center on Allen Parkway; The Astrodome (1965), America’s first covered stadium; the masterplan and the buildings in Greenway Plaza (1969-1982); Four Allen Center (1984), infamous as the “Enron Building;” and the Galvestonian (1983), the most distinguished modern condominium high rise in Galveston.
"Hugo V. Neuhaus, Jr. Residential Architecture 1948 – 1966”
In 1971 Hugo Neuhaus’ work was described by his colleagues, Howard Barnstone and Anderson Todd as “immaculate, precise, beautifully spacious and consistent from the beginning until now.” His houses, many of which were inspired by the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, demonstrated his ability to create and exhilarating sense of spatial richness using a non-demonstrative architectural vocabulary.
About the Contributors:
Don Emmite is a designer, longtime collector, archivist, and researcher of twentieth century modern decorative arts and industrial design. In 2006 he organized the exhibition “Designing Domesticity: Industrial Design for Modern Living, 1930 – 1960” at the University of Houston, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture.
Stephen Fox is a fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas.
Ben Koush is a graduate of Columbia University and Rice University. He is a co-founder of Houston Mod and writes about architecture for many publications such as Architects’ Newspaper, Cite magazine and Texas Architect.
Gwendolyn Wright is an award-winning architectural historian, author, and co-host of the PBS television series History Detectives. She is a professor of architecture at Columbia University, also holding appointments in both its departments of history and art history. Besides “History Detectives”, Dr. Wright’s specialties are US architectural history and urban history from after the Civil War to the present. She also writes about the exchange across national boundaries of architectural styles, influences, and techniques, particularly examining the colonial and neo-colonial attributes of both modernism and historic preservation.
“Booming Houston and the Modern House: Residential Architecture of Neuhaus & Taylor, 1955-1960”
By Ben Koush
A documentation of Houston architect Harwood Taylor’s early and prolific practice featuring an interpretive essay analyzing the design of the houses in their historical and cultural context. It includes new and historic photographs, along with never before published architectural drawings.
Taylor’s career phase captured in the catalog is a culmination of his designs for a series of Miesian inspired suburban courtyard houses and apartments built between 1955 and 1960 that were widely published in the local and national press.
Harwood Taylor (1927-1989) explored cutting-edge modern design from the late 1940s through the 1960s in Houston, Texas. He was a member of an informal local Miesian school of design inspired by Philip Johnson’s house for Dominique and John de Menil of 1951. Taylor stood out in this group because of the ease with which he mixed the most avant-garde architectural design with the exigencies of everyday life of Houston’s middle class and elite.
This catalog was published to coincide with an architectural exhibition held at the AIA Houston, Architecture Center Houston in August 2006.
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Company Name : Houston Mod
Name : David Lidsky
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