Texas Architect
Texas Architect, September/October 2008
“Seton Medical Center”
Project: Seton Medical Center Expansion
Texas Architect, January/February 1999
“A Greater Whole”
Written by Larry Speck
Some of the most powerful and convincing environments we have produced in the United States over the last two centuries have been college and university campuses. Both in terms of architecture and urban design, the halls of academe and the lush grounds that surround them often are oases in the desert of commercial [...]
Texas Architect, January/February 1987
“Texas Architecture: The State of the Art”
Written by Larry Speck
In 1941, the Architectural League of New York published Forty Under Forty, a monograph that identified little-known young architects from around the country considered “rising stars” by the League. Although some 70 percent of those on the list were from New York (no one ever said the League was impartial), architects from 11 states were [...]
Texas Architect, July/August 1985
“The Inventive ’50s: Ford Had a Better Idea”
Written by Larry Speck
Ideas reach an awkward adolescence, a point at which they are too young to be judged lasting truths but no longer have the freshness of youth. Familiarity breeds contempt, and with the hoopla surrounding any new development in our media age, we seem to get bored with ideas just about the time they are maturing [...]
Texas Architect, July/August 1984
“Home Homage”
Written by Larry Speck
Hats off to anyone who is ambitious enough to attempt a series of exhibitions, a symposium and a publication on the neglected topic of American domestic vernacular architecture. There is, perhaps, no environmental expression so telling of our society, so indicative of our values, our way of life and our aspirations as is the American [...]
Texas Architect, November/December 1983
“Impressions”
Written by Larry Speck
Twenty places that have left their mark on the history of Texas architecture.