The Texas Rangers : notes from an architectural underground

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The Texas Rangers : notes from an architectural underground

Alexander Caragonne

MIT Press, c1995

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 430-[434]) and index

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Between 1951 and 1957, a group of young men came to teach at the University of Texas School of Architecture in Austin. These "Texas Rangers," as they later came to be called - Bernhard Hoesli, Colin Rowe, John Hejduk, Robert Slutzky, Lee Hodgden, John Shaw, and Werner Seligmann, among others - created an unprecedented teaching programme that challenged the important pedagogies of the time, and that contained in large part the origins and explanations for a postmodern revolution in architecture. Ten years in the making, Alexander Caragonne's illustrated story documents one of the most significant chapters in the history of postwar American architectural education. Challenging the anti-intellectual tendencies both of the pragmatic, regionalist American tradition and of the modernist pedagogy inspired by the Bauhaus, the new curriculum proposed that a workable, useful body of architectural theory could be derived from an ongoing critique of significant buildings and projects across history and cultures. Visualization and organization of architectural space was emphasized over the shaping of mass, along with the recognition and development of the architectural idea. Gestalt psychological concepts for evaluating and describing architectural form and space were encouraged, and the value of historical precedent in the design process recognized. Figuring largely in this account are Colin Rowe and Bernhard Hoesli, whose collaboration provided the intellectual basis of the new curriculum. Caragonne describes Rowe's background and his reintroduction of architectural history into the design studio, and provides a detailed analysis of the teaching programme and its subsequent influence on architectural education and thought.

目次

  • Part 1 The narrative: dramatis personae - the first Texas School, 1954-1956
  • the background
  • the scene - the worst of times, the best of times
  • the plot - the memorandum of March 13, 1954
  • the script - a new curriculum
  • Act I - the plot unfolds
  • dramatis personae - the second Texas School, 1957-1958
  • Act II and the final curtain
  • diaspora - the myth is born. Part 2 The Genesis: Bernhard Hoesli and the process of design
  • the first experimental year, 1953-1954
  • Colin Rowe's background
  • the pre-Texas essays - the superstructure
  • Rowe's approach
  • gardens of faith, thickets of doubt. Part 3 The program, 1954-1956: "something of significance might be constructed"
  • architectural space and the "Transparency" articles
  • arc. 401, freehand drawing - the new course in vision
  • the colour course
  • the reintegration of basic design
  • the nine-square grid exercise
  • Hoesli and Hejduk - the junior-year studio
  • Rowe - the junior-year studio
  • the Lockhart article - precedence, preservation, and context. Part 4 The program, 1956-1958: the architectural idea
  • the jury system - "they weren't sweet reviews"
  • the "analysis" problem
  • arc. 510 - the sophomore design studio, 1955-1957
  • the evolution of the presentation standard
  • the basic design course and the "New Vision" - remnants of a teaching program
  • the "New Vision"
  • worlds of "If" - a speculative assessment of the Texas School. Part 5 The aftermath: the lines of transmission
  • Cornell
  • the Cooper Union
  • Bernhard Hoesli and the ETH
  • other venues.

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