TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heimsath,Clovis
AU  - Hardaway,Lisa
AU  - Heimsath,Maryann
AU  - Kahn,Louis
AU  - Kahn,Louis I.
TI  - Geometry in Architecture: Texas Buildings Yesterday and Today 
SN  - 9780292759770
AV  - NA730.T5 H4 2002
U1  - 720/.9764 21
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Geometry in architecture
KW  - Texas
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Vernacular architecture
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; About This Book --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword to the Original Edition --; Introduction to Pioneer Texas Buildings, 1968 --; Introduction to the Revised Edition --; Geometry --; Porches --; Stairs --; Chimneys --; Steeples --; Materials --; Barns --; Buildings Together; restricted access
N2  - Pioneer Texas Buildings opened people's eyes when it was first published in 1968. At a time when "progress" meant tearing down the weathered houses, barns, churches, and stores built by the original settlers of Central Texas, this book taught people to see the beauty, simplicity, and order expressed in the unadorned geometric forms of early Texas buildings. It inspired the preservation and restoration of many of the remaining pioneer buildings, as well as the design of modern buildings that employ the same simple geometries. This revised edition of Pioneer Texas Buildings juxtaposes the historic structures with works by twenty contemporary architects who are inspired by the pioneer tradition to show how seamlessly the basic geometries translate from one era to another. As in the first edition, sketches and brief commentary by Clovis Heimsath explain how squares, triangles, and circles take shape in the cubic, triangular, and cylindrical forms that comprise houses and other buildings. Then black-and-white photographs, the heart of the book, illustrate these geometric forms in historic and modern buildings. The book also includes two essays in which Heimsath discusses the factors that led him and his wife Maryann to document early Texas buildings and the results in historic preservation and timeless architectural designs that have followed from their efforts
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/731455
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292759770
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292759770/original
ER  -