The Texas Rangers – Notes from an Architectural Underground - Hardcover

Caragonne, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026203218X ISBN 13: 9780262032186

Publisher: MIT Press, 1995

Synopsis

Caragonne documents one of the most significant chapters in the history of postwar American architecture, the "Texas Rangers," a group of young men who came between 1951 and 1957 to teach at the U. of Texas School of Architecture and who 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. Highly illustrated in b&w, with several color plates. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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"Centered around the charismatic figure of Colin Rowe, an English architect and former student at the University of Liverpool, a critic and theorist of the generation of James Stirling, Colin St. John Wilson, Robert Maxwell, and Alan Colquhoun, The Texas Rangers reconstructs the peculiar conjuncture of high formalism, modernism, revived historicism and regionalism that informed this group, and pieces together the original curriculum they forged. It is a history of critical interest to the subsequent development of architectural teaching, theory, and practice in England and the United States." - Anthony Vidler, Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles " Centered around the charismatic figure of Colin Rowe, an English architect and former student at the University of Liverpool, a critic and theorist of the generation of James Stirling, Colin St. John Wilson, Robert Maxwell, and Alan Colquhoun, The Texas Rangers reconstructs the peculiar conjuncture of high formalism, modernism, revived historicism and regionalism that informed this group, and pieces together the original curriculum they forged. It is a history of critical interest to the subsequent development of architectural teaching, theory, and practice in England and the United States." - Anthony Vidler, Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles & quot; Centered around the charismatic figure of Colin Rowe, an English architect and former student at the University of Liverpool, a critic and theorist of the generation of James Stirling, Colin St. John Wilson, Robert Maxwell, and Alan Colquhoun, The Texas Rangers reconstructs the peculiar conjuncture of high formalism, modernism, revived historicism and regionalism that informed this group, and pieces together the original curriculum they forged. It is a history of critical interest to the subsequent development of architectural teaching, theory, and practice in England and the United States.& quot; - Anthony Vidler, Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026203218X
• ISBN 13: 9780262032186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 462