Brooks Barr

Home, Heat, Money, God

• Author(s): Kathryn E. O'Rourke, Ben Koush

• Categories: Architecture

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2024-05-07
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• Publisher: University of Texas Press

Thematically focused analysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known architects. In the mid-twentieth century, dramatic social and political change coincided with the ascendance and evolution of architectural modernism in Texas. Between the 1930s and 1980s, a state known for cowboys and cotton fields rapidly urbanized and became a hub of global trade and a heavyweight in national politics. Relentless ambition and a strong sense of place combined to make Texans particularly receptive to modern architecture’s implication of newness, forward-looking attitude, and capacity to reinterpret historical forms in novel ways. As...

Journal of the House

• Categories: Tennessee

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1844
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Journal ...

• Author(s): Vermont. General Assembly

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1841
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• Publisher: Unknown

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House Documents

• Author(s): USA House of Representatives

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1870
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Williams' Cincinnati Directory ...

• Categories: Cincinnati (Ohio)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1853
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• Publisher: Unknown

Issues for 1860, 1866-67, 1869, 1872 include directories of Covington and Newport, Kentucky.