O'Neil Ford on Architecture
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-1638-2 (ISBN)
Acclaimed for his designs of the Trinity University campus, the Little Chapel in the Woods, the Texas Instruments Semiconductor Components Division Building, and numerous private houses, O’Neil Ford (1905–1982) was an important twentieth-century architect and a pioneer of modernism in Texas. Collaborating with artists, landscape architects, and engineers, Ford created diverse and enduringly rich works that embodied and informed international developments in modern architecture. His buildings, lectures, and teaching influenced a generation of Texas architects.
O’Neil Ford on Architecture brings together Ford’s major professional writings and speeches for the first time. Revealing the intellectual and theoretical underpinnings of his distinctive modernism, they illuminate his fascination with architectural history, his pioneering uses of new technologies and construction systems, his deep concerns for the landscape and environment, and his passionate commitments to education and civil rights. An interlocutor with titans of the twentieth century, including Louis Kahn and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ford understood architecture as inseparable from the social, political, and scientific developments of his day. An introductory essay by Kathryn E. O’Rourke provides a critical assessment of Ford’s essays and lectures and repositions him in the history of US architectural modernism. As some of his most important buildings turn sixty, O’Neil Ford on Architecture demonstrates that this Texas modernist deserves to be ranked among the leading midcentury American architects.
Kathryn O’Rourke is an associate professor of art history at Trinity University. She is the author of Modern Architecture in Mexico City: History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital.
Introduction: The Language of O’Neil Ford, by Kathryn E. O’Rourke
Part I. The Making of a Modern Architect
1927. Architecture of Early Texas (with David R. Williams), Part 1
1927. Architecture of Early Texas (with David R. Williams), Part 2
1928. Architecture of Early Texas (with David R. Williams), Part 3
1932. Organic Building
Part II. Growth and Synthesis
1940. Review of Williamsburg-Today and Yesterday
1951. O’Neil Ford Lectures on Slab Lifting
1953. Statement on Behalf of the San Antonio Conservation Society
1955. Imagineering
1959. History and Development of La Villita Assembly Hall
1960. Response to J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Institute of Architects Annual Convention
Part III. In and Against the World
1964. Texas Idyll
1964. The Condition of Architecture
1965. History and Development of the Spanish Missions in San Antonio
1966. Mr. O’Neil Ford’s Speech at the Sculpture and Environment Symposium
1967. The End of a Beginning
1968. Culture-Who Needs It?
1968. Physical Planning versus or for the Individual
Part IV. Looking Back, Looking Forward
1978. Foreword to Lynn Ford: Texas Architect and Craftsman
1981. Lessons in Looking
1981. Eulogy for Tom Stell
1982. Foreword to David R. Williams, Pioneer Architect
Acknowledgments
Image Credits
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.04.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 15 b&w photos, 5 b&w illus. |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 513 g |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Architektur |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-1638-8 / 1477316388 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-1638-2 / 9781477316382 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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