Architecture in Texas

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>