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Guest Editor William I . Stern

Managing T.ditor Barrie Scardino

i ilitui iai Committee ( hiiirni.in

Nonya Cirenader

Stephen Fox GabrieUa Gutierrei

Lynn Herbert ( i . Norman I loover

Karl Kilian Harry Moore

Ann Walton Sichcr William F. Stern

Drexel Turner Kives I'.ivlor

Brace C Webb Joe Douglas Webb

Assistant Editor Molly Kelly

Graphic Design Minor Design * iroup

Photography Paul I (eater

Advertising Lynn Kellv

Rite Design Affiance Hoard of Directors

President (iwendolyn H. Goffe

President-Heel Marilyn Archer

Vice President David H. Walkms

Treasurer Jury Alexander

Secretary Kathy Heard

Natalyc 1., Appcl Keiji Asakura

Jay Baker Thomas F. Bellows Minnette B. Boesel

lames D. Burnett Paul D. Chapman

Rudolph t olb] William Curtis,

Fares el Dahdah Charles W. Elder

1 estie Is. EUtins 1 dwin A. I ubanks

Hon, |essica Farrat Gerry Fehn

David T. George Alfred Glassell 111 Nonya Cretiadcr

Gabriella Gutierrez lennifer I larding

( i . Norman I loover Katherine S. 1 [owe

Carlos linn-iii/ <. athetine M. Johnson

Susan Booth Keeton William D. Kendall

I ars Lerup China-Fung Lin Kalael Longoria

Rick I owe Judy R. Pcsck

Charlotte A. Rothweil Jeffrey D. Ryan

Danny Marc Samuels l.ouis II. Skidmore, ]r.

w.lham I. Stern Phoebe Tudor Drexel Turner

James Vick Randall Walker Bruce C Webb

|ot Douglas Webb I any T. Whaley

I, Burke Windham 111

Executive Director Linda I . Sylvan

Program Administrator Amanda I yl/

Office Assistant M ii i Swill

Rice Design Alliance Corporate Members

A is: T Products ( o, Inc. Air t lanada Anchorage Foundation ot Texas S. L Anderson Company W. s. Bellows Construction Corporation Berger IronWorks, Inc. lirochstciiis Inc. Burns Del .me \ Met aiv. Inc. ccrd partners i lark Condon Associates Cokinos Bosien tfc Young t ompau Compurer Corporation Continental Airlines Inc. Corporate Express A. t ram Construction Company, Inc. Creative Flooring Resources CRX, Inc. I . Barry Davidson Architects AIA, Inc. de Meiiil family Dehuer + Company The Decorative (.'enter til' Houston The Carl is: Phyllis Detering Foundation Douglas/Gallagher Duke Energy Elegant Additions Mr. and Mrs. Tares I. Pares Fieri ( (instruction Fugro McClelland Gamma Construction Company Genslei Gilbane Building Company Alfred C. Glassell ID Goldman, Sachs ; \ t u. (•reenwood Kine, Properties 1 laynes \ \ haley Associates, Inc. HeUmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, Inc. I lines I louston Chapter • Associated General

Contractors ot America Houston Lighting & Power Co. Jackson and ( 'ompam |ackson #c Ryan Architects Kendall/I leaton Associates The Knoll Croup Lesley cv Associates. Inc. I ockwood, Anderson i<c Newn.im \ U I Associates, Inc. The Slarek Family of Companies Matrix/Structural l-'ngineers. Inc. Met toy Inc. McDtigald-Stccle landscape Architects Milam &: Co. Painting, Inc. Muier-Dederick Constructors Inc. Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc. Morganti Morris Architects, Int. Olticc Pavilion Pappas Restaurants, Inc. I he Powell Croup Richfield Investment Corporation Ridg way's Louisa Stude Sarofim St heIK k and Company Robert Shaw Manufacturing Co., Inc. William F. Stern & Associates, Architects I eUepsen (orporation ID/International rhe I oronta Dominion Bank Vanguard Environments, Inc. Wall Company Pruning \ \ atkins Carter I lamiltou Weingarten Realty Management Wells Design, Inc.' Mrs. Wesley West Willis, Brickcr is; Cannady, Architects Tom Wilson and Associates Architects Windham Builders Wvlie ik Associates, Inc.

N o t e s o n C o n t r i b u t o r s

Kevin Alter is an associate professor at the School of Architect tire. University of Texas, Austin.

Wi l l iam A. Cornfield is the Nazro Mullen Pro-fessor of Art and Art I listory .11 R K C University.

John C . Ferguson is a Ph. I ) , candidate in the Art History Department at the University of Delaware.

Stephen Fox is a fellow of the Anchorage Foundation ot U-x.is.

Laura Furman is a writer who teaches in the English Department at the University of Texas, Austin.

Vincent P. Hauser is a writer and architect in Austin.

l.ynn M . Herbert is associate curator at the Contemproary Arts Museum, Houston.

S. Reagan Mi l ler is principal of Reagan Mi l ler , Architect in Houston.

Wi l l iam F. Stern is principal of Wi l l iam F. Stern & Associates, Architects and adjunct associate professor at the ( ierald D, I lines College of Architecture, University of Houston,

Rives Taylor is the campus architect for the University of Texas i louston I lealth Science Center and a lecturer at the ( ierald 11. 1 lines College of Architecture, University ot I louston.

Drexel Turner is a city planner and assistant to the dean at the ( ierald D, 1 lines College of Architecture, University of I louston.

Hi ticc C. Webb is dean and professor of architecture at the ( ierald I ) . I lines t ollege of Architecture, University of Houston.

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A Publication ot the Rice Design Alliance

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Copyright:' • 1998 In the Rice Design Alliance, Reprodnctknt "i -ill <n p.in ~A editorial content with-out permission is -.nulls prohihileil. The opinions upiesiet] in f'iff,in mil necessarily represent the views ol the hoard <a directors oi the kiee Design Alliance. Publication ol tins asm ol (.'iir is supported in pan by gianti truni the Anchorage Foundation oJ Irsas. Bad ITie Texas(.iiminissiini Kir the Arts, the Nations! Endowment tor the Arc*, the Sm.ni Vaugbaa Foundation, sad the ( io oi Houston through the Cultural Arts Council.

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Letters/Calendar/RDA

Dominique de Mcnil William A. Cam field

The Post-War Years Remembered William F. Stem

Design, Industry, and Architecture: Houston at Mid-Century Vineenr P. Mauser

New Brutalism: The Houston Interpretation Stephen I ox

The School of Frank Lloyd Wright S. Reagan Miller

The Business Strip: Richmond Avenue in the 1960s Rives Taylor

Seeing Was Believing: Installations of Jcrmaync MacAgy and James Johnson Sweeney

Lynn M. Herhen

SOM in Houston Kevin Alter

Eichler Homes: Modern Dream House Laura lurman

Proler Chapel at Woodlawn Cemetery Bruce C. Webb

Luis Barragan Book reviews by John C. Ferguson

Aldo Rossi Drexel Turner

Cover: Pnwmown HOUMUN Inmcd hy I'.in. l\' .nui Pare V, 3614 and J600 Montrose, (enkins I tuff t>|iiTK S.1XC. architects. \l>u\ 196,?. Photo C rp97 Hester * U.inl.in.ir.