Table of Contents
Contributors
Celeste Marie Adams; Mike Davis; Stephen Fox; Richard Ingersoll; Joanne Lukitsh; Gerald Moorhead; Peter C. Papademetriou; Joseph Rykwert; William Sherman; Drexel Turner; and Bruce C. Webb.
Cite 21
Fall 1988
Editor’s Note
Cite 21 was not given a theme, a name, or a named guest editor. The extraordinary set of articles cover a broad range of topics and ideas. In place of an editor's note, a selection from Richard Ingersoll's cover feature, "Corpus Christi City Hall: The Ghost of the Texas Courthouse," is given below:
"Once clear of the dense petrochemopolis that lines the entry to central Corpus Christi. the cityscape was dominated last spring hy two monumental outcroppings: the new City Hall and. in the distance across the Corpus Christi Bay, "Bullwinkle." the world's largest oil derrick. Bullwinkle, the equivalent of a 100-story building, was built horizontally, to be floated out and planted in the waters off the coast of Louisiana. Its tapered steel-framed structure resembled the carcass of a prone Hancock Tower. The sight of such a huge and inscrutable object - at once explicitly functional yet in its beached context totally mysterious - was thrilling. Alas, Bullwinkle was portable and as of July has left desolate flatness behind. The new City Hall, on the other hand, though slightly more cartoonish, was firmly planted on its site and, despite the city's well-established practice of frequently moving City Hall, will probably withstand changes in function and taste. Like a successful political candidate, it seeks high visibility without revealing its real values."