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by Steven R. Strom| 2010| 199 pages| 187| English

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Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2011Good Brick Award, Greater Houston Preservation Alliance, 2011Julia Ideson Award, Friends of the Texas Room, 2011 Driven by an almost fanatical desire for whatever is new, and “modern, and ” and likely to make money, Houston is constantly in the process of remaking itself. Few structures remain from the nineteenth century, and even much of the twentieth-century built environment has fallen before the wrecking ball of and “progress. and ” Indeed, the demolition of older buildings in Houston can be compared to the destruction of cityscapes such as Berlin, Warsaw, and Tokyo in World War II. But because this wholesale restructuring of Houston’s built environment has happened in peacetime, historically minded people have only recently sounded an alarm over what is being lost and the toll this destruction is taking on Houstonians’ sense of place. Houston Lost and Unbuilt presents an extensive catalogue of twentieth-century public and commercial buildings that have been lost forever, as well as an intriguing selection of buildings that never made it off the drawing board. The lost buildings (or lost interiors of buildings) span a wide range, from civic gathering places such as the Houston Municipal Auditorium and the Astrodome to commercial enterprises such as the Foley Brothers, Sears Roebuck, and Sakowitz department stores to and “Theatre Row and ” downtown to neighborhoods such as Fourth Ward Freedmen’s Town. Steven Strom’s introductions and photo captions describe each significant building’s contribution to the civic life of Houston. The and “unbuilt and ” section of the book includes numerous previously unpublished architectural renderings of proposed projects such as a multi-building city center, monorail, and people mover system, all which reflect Houston’s fascination with the future and optimism that technology will solve all of the city’s problems.

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Author:Steven R. Strom
Publication Year:2010
ISBN:9780292721135
Pages:199
Language:English
File Size:187
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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