O'Neil Ford on Architecture / / ed. by Kathryn O'Rourke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• HerausgeberIn: O'Rourke, Kathryn,
• MitwirkendeR: O’Rourk, Kathryn E.,; Williams, David R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Acclaimed for his designs of the Trinity University campus, the Little Chapel in the Woods, the Texas Instruments Semiconductor Components Division Building, and numerous private houses, O’Neil Ford (1905–1982) was an important twentieth-century architect and a pioneer of modernism in Texas. Collaborating with artists, landscape architects, and engineers, Ford created diverse and enduringly rich works that embodied and informed international developments in modern architecture. His buildings, lectures, and teaching influenced a generation of Texas architects. O’Neil Ford on Architecture brings together Ford’s major professional writings and speeches for the first time. Revealing the intellectual and theoretical underpinnings of his distinctive modernism, they illuminate his fascination with architectural history, his pioneering uses of new technologies and construction systems, his deep concerns for the landscape and environment, and his passionate commitments to education and civil rights. An interlocutor with titans of the twentieth century, including Louis Kahn and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ford understood architecture as inseparable from the social, political, and scientific developments of his day. An introductory essay by Kathryn E. O’Rourke provides a critical assessment of Ford’s essays and lectures and repositions him in the history of US architectural modernism. As some of his most important buildings turn sixty, O’Neil Ford on Architecture demonstrates that this Texas modernist deserves to be ranked among the leading midcentury American architects.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction The Language of O’Neil Ford -- PART I The Making of a Modern Architect -- 1927 Architecture of Early Texas PART 1 -- 1927 Architecture of Early Texas PART 2 -- 1928 Architecture of Early Texas PART 3 -- 1932 Organic Building -- PART II Growth and Synthesis -- 1940 Review of Williamsburg— Today and Yesterday -- 1951 O’Neil Ford Lectures on Slab Lifting -- 1953 Statement on Behalf of the San Antonio Conservation Society -- 1955 Imagineering -- 1959 History and Development of La Villita Assembly Hall -- 1960 Response to J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Institute of Architects Annual Convention -- PART III In and Against the World -- 1964 Texas Idyll -- 1964 The Condition of Architecture -- 1965 History and Development of the Spanish Missions in San Antonio -- 1966 Mr. O’Neil Ford’s Speech at the Sculpture and Environment Symposium -- 1967 The End of a Beginning -- 1968 Culture—Who Needs It? -- 1968 Physical Planning versus or for the Individual -- PART IV Looking Back, Looking Forward -- 1978 Foreword to Lynn Ford: Texas Architect and Craftsman -- 1981 Lessons in Looking -- 1981 Eulogy for Tom Stell -- 1982 Foreword to David R. Williams, Pioneer Architect -- Acknowledgments -- Image Credits -- Index