Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast

Introduction. Architecture at the crossroads ; Texas building blocks ; Old world crosses new world ; Earliest European settlement ; Transplanted Renaissance ; Fateful bargains ; Jeffersonian democracy ; Early statehood ; Patrolling the frontier ; War and reconstruction ; State of mobility ; New publ...

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Weitere Verfasser: Moorhead, Gerald (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville [u.a.] Univ. of Virginia Press 2013
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Buildings of the United States
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction. Architecture at the crossroads ; Texas building blocks ; Old world crosses new world ; Earliest European settlement ; Transplanted Renaissance ; Fateful bargains ; Jeffersonian democracy ; Early statehood ; Patrolling the frontier ; War and reconstruction ; State of mobility ; New public buildings ; Cities beautiful, in Parts and wholes ; Modernist awakening ; Patriotic fervor ; Architecture of emergency ; The new deal in Texas ; The home front in World War II ; Housing crisis ; Cold war, cold buildings ; Breaking the ice ; Lost and found ; Millennial crossroads -- Central Texas. Austin ; Prairie view to San Felipe ; Bastrop to Taylor ; Navasota to Salado ; Waco to Tehuacana -- South central Texas. San Antonio ; Seguin to Floresville ; New Braunfels to Bandera ; Castroville to Jourdanton -- South Texas. Corpus Christi ; Port Aransas to Violet ; Kingsville to Alice ; Laredo ; San Ygnacio to Mission ; McAllen to Raymondville ; Hidalgo to Los Indios ; Brownsville to South Padre Island -- Gulf Coast. Houston ; Tomball to Montgomery ; Orange to Port Arthur ; Beaumont ; Anahuac to Texas City ; Galveston ; Angleton to Stafford ; Wharton to Danevang ; Bay City to Edna ; Victoria ; Refugio to Fulton ; Goliad to Beeville -- Glossary
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-535) and index
Beschreibung:XV, 582 S Ill., Kt. 26 cm
ISBN:9780813932552

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