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Texas Rangers Notes from the Architectural Underground

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ISBN-10: 026203218X

ISBN-13: 9780262032186

Edition: 1995

Authors: Alexander Caragonne, Charles W. Moore

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Introduction by Charles W. Moore Between 1951 and 1957, a group of young men came to teach at the University of Texas School of Architecture in Austin. These "Texas Rangers," as they later came to be called - Bernhard Hoesli, Colin Rowe, John Hejduk, Robert Slutzky, Lee Hodgden, John Shaw, and Werner Seligmann, among others - created an unprecedented teaching program that challenged the important pedagogies of the time, and that contained in large part the origins and explanations for a postmodern revolution in architecture. Ten years in the making, Alexander Caragonne's lively, fully illustrated story documents one of the most significant chapter in the history of postwar American…    
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Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/19/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 462
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.498
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
Prologue
The Narrative
Dramatis Personae: The First Texas School, 1954-1956
The Background
The Scene: The Worst of Times, the Best of Times
The Plot: The Memorandum of March 13, 1954
The Script: A New Curriculum
Act I: The Plot Unfolds
Dramatis Personae: The Second Texas School, 1957-1958
Act II and the Final Curtain
Diaspora: The Myth Is Born
The Genesis
Bernhard Hoesli and the Process of Design
The First Experimental Year, 1953-1954
Colin Rowe's Background
The Pre-Texas Essays: The Foundation
The Texas Essays: The Superstructure
Rowe's Approach
Gardens of Faith, Thickets of Doubt
The Program, 1954-1956
"Something of Significance Might Be Constructed"
Architectural Space and the "Transparency" Articles
Arc. 401, Freehand Drawing: The New Course in Vision
The Color Course
The Reintegration of Basic Design
The Nine-Square Grid Exercise
Hoesli and Hejduk: The Junior-Year Studio
Rowe: The Junior-Year Studio
The Lockhart Article: Precedence, Preservation, and Context
The Program, 1956-1958
The Architectural Idea
The Jury System: "They Weren't Sweet Reviews"
The "Analysis" Problem
Arc. 510: The Sophomore Design Studio, 1955-1957
The Evolution of the Presentation Standard
The Basic Design Course and the "New Vision": Remnants of a Teaching Program
The "New Vision"
Worlds of "If": A Speculative Assessment of the Texas School
The Aftermath
The Lines of Transmission
Cornell
The Cooper Union
Bernhard Hoesli at the ETH
Other Venues
Afterword
Appendixes
Bibliography
Sources and Credits
Index