First edition of this architectural walking guide documenting downtown Houston at the culmination of its extraordinary postwar building boom. Includes historic landmarks alongside contemporary skyscrapers and civic projects by I. M. Pei, SOM, and other leading architects, with photographs, building histories, architectural commentary, and construction data. Published in 1984 by the Houston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. 8vo (4.5 × 8.25 inches, red wire spiral binding, pictorial wrappers, 53 pages plus index, b/w architectural photographs, folding map. Graphic design by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Anthony Adduci and Angélique Pendley). Includes historic landmarks alongside contemporary skyscrapers and civic projects by I. M. Pei, SOM, and other leading architects, with photographs, building histories, architectural commentary, and construction data. An important contemporary record of Houston's transformation into a center of American corporate modernism, capturing the city's built environment and the architectural profession's assessment of it in 1984. Distinctive modernist graphic design, with black street-grid wrappers, red wayfinding markers, and matching wire binding. From the working library of architectural historian Carol Herselle Krinsky, with her ownership inscription dated February 10, 1988, on the underwriters page. Light bumping and rubbing wrappers, otherwise Near Fine.
First edition of this architectural walking guide documenting downtown Houston at the culmination of its extraordinary postwar building boom. Includes historic landmarks alongside contemporary skyscrapers and civic projects by I. M. Pei, SOM, and other leading architects, with photographs, building histories, architectural commentary, and construction data. Published in 1984 by the Houston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. 8vo (4.5 × 8.25 inches, red wire spiral binding, pictorial wrappers, 53 pages plus index, b/w architectural photographs, folding map. Graphic design by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Anthony Adduci and Angélique Pendley). Includes historic landmarks alongside contemporary skyscrapers and civic projects by I. M. Pei, SOM, and other leading architects, with photographs, building histories, architectural commentary, and construction data. An important contemporary record of Houston's transformation into a center of American corporate modernism, capturing the city's built environment and the architectural profession's assessment of it in 1984. Distinctive modernist graphic design, with black street-grid wrappers, red wayfinding markers, and matching wire binding. From the working library of architectural historian Carol Herselle Krinsky, with her ownership inscription dated February 10, 1988, on the underwriters page. Light bumping and rubbing wrappers, otherwise Near Fine.
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