Table of Contents
Contributors
Barbara Cochran; Stephen Fox; Diane Ghirardo; Malcolm Heard, Jr.; Mark A. Hewitt; Ann Holmes; John Kaliski; Peter C. Papademetriou; Michael Underhill; and Peter D. Waldman.
Cite 7
Fall 1984
Editor’s Note
This issue of Cite, guest edited by Mark A. Hewitt, explores the architecture of Houston in the 1950s. In his feature article, "Neoclassicism and Modern Architecture, Houston Style," Hewitt writes, "The Menil House brought the fashionable progressive MOMA Modem style to Houston, and its impact on the younger generation of architects was tremendous. Led first by Johnson' s influential collaborator, Hugo Neuhaus, who built a sprawling house for his family in River Oaks in 1951, the Miesian creed spread through the University of Houston faculty. Its most successful early proponents were Barnstone and Keeland, who by 1955-1956 had acquired a national reputation through publication of their modern houses, especially in the Los Angeles-based magazine, Arts and Architecture. Bolton and Barnstone's Gordon House (1954), which innovatively used the garage and a small entry court to screen the main two-story block of the house from the street, appeared on the cover of Architectural Record's Record Homes of 1956. Shortly before, House and Garden featured the Neuhaus residence in an article that confidently proclaimed "Texas Has Taste."
Mark A. Hewitt