O'Neil Ford on architecture / edited by Kathryn E. O'Rourke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, O'Neil, 1905-1982, author.

Contributor:

O'Rourke, Kathryn E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ford, O'Neil, 1905-1982--Philosophy.

Ford, O'Neil.

Ford, O'Neil,-1905-1982-Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction The Language of O'Neil Ford

PART I The Making of a Modern Architect

1927 Architecture of Early Texas PART 1

1927 Architecture of Early Texas PART 2

1928 Architecture of Early Texas 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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-1861-5

1-4773-1860-7

OCLC:

1286806699