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Author Bradley, Barrie Scardino

Title Making Houston Modern The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (401 p.)
Series Roger Fullington series in architecture
Roger Fullington series in architecture.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Foreword. Call me Howard, Please! | Carlos Jiménez -- Preface -- Introducction. Why Howard Barnstone Why? | Stephen Fox and Michelangelo Sabatino -- I. Howard Barnstone's Architecture -- Chapter 1. Barnstone's Practice | Stephen Fox -- Chapter 2. Translating Mies: Barnstone and Houston Modernism | Michelangelo Sabatino -- Chapter 3. To be Modern in Texas: Lone Star Avvant-Garde | Kathryn E. Holliday -- II. Howard Barnstone's Clients -- Chapter 4. A Constructive Connection: Barnstone and the Menils | Barrie Scardino Bradley
Chapter 5. An Architectural Family Portrait | Robert Barnstone and Deborah Ascher Barnstone -- Chapter 6. Barnstone's Jewish Houston | Joshua J. Furman -- III. Howard Barnstone's Life -- Chapter 7. A Short Biography | Barrie Scardino Bradley and Stephen Fox -- Chapter 8. Barnstone and the University of Houston | Bruce C. Webb -- Chapter 9. The Worst Thing that Can Happen: Gertrude and Howard | Olive Hershey -- Conclusion. Magical Modernism | Barrie Scardino Bradley, Stephen Fox, and Michelangelo Sabatino -- Afterword. Looking Toward the Future | Theodore H. M. Prudon -- Appendices
1. Interview with Eugene Aubry -- 2. Interview with Anne Schlumberger Brown -- 3. Architectural Awards -- Catalogue Raisonné -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Image Credits -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Barnstone, Howard -- Catalogs
SUBJECT Barnstone, Howard fast
Subject Architects -- United States -- Biography
Modern movement (Architecture)
ARCHITECTURE / General
Architects
Intellectual life
Modern movement (Architecture)
SUBJECT Houston (Tex.) -- Intellectual life
Subject Texas -- Houston
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Catalogs
Form Electronic book
Author Fox, Stephen
Sabatino, Michelangelo
ISBN 9781477329979
1477329978