University of Texas at Austin, Main Building in Austin, Texas by architect Paul Cret

University of Texas at Austin, Main Building

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University of Texas at Austin, Gearing Hall in Austin, Texas by architects Herbert M Greene, Paul Cret

University of Texas at Austin, Gearing Hall

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University of Texas at Austin, South Mall in Austin, Texas by architect Paul Cret

University of Texas at Austin, South Mall

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Campus Architecture and Planning at The University of Texas

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THE CASS GILBERT ERA : 1910-1922 Cass Gilbert imagined a campus for UT that was grand and monumental. Even before actually receiving the commission, he produced ketches of a campus with powerful scale and clarity. His buildings conspired together to frame dominant vistas and define malls, courts, and plazas, creating memorable exterior spaces. In these images, the rural-feeling green lawns were…

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The Heroic Decades

Writing

From 1910 to 1942 the University of Texas at Austin built an extraordinary ensemble of buildings which demonstrated palpably to its public the ambitions of an emerging institution. In a relatively short period of time, the image of the University was transformed from a sleepy, small-town college housed in a hodgepodge of mismatched buildings into a powerful, sophisticated institution whose campus…

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Fair Park

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As time approached for Texas to celebrate the centennial of its independence, several cities vied for the honor of hosting a world's fair to commemorate the event. Although San Antonio, Austin, and Houston all offered greater historical claim to the occasion, Dallas offered more money and was designated the home of the Centennial Exposition a scant two years prior to the proposed opening date of…

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