An epic social history of steamship travel from the 19th-century to the 'Lusitania', the 'Mauretania' and the 'Titanic'. The great transatlantic steamships became emblems of an age, of a Victorian audacity of spirit-cathedrals to man's harnessing of new technology. Through the innovations and designs of key engineers and shipping magnates -- Samuel Cunard, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Edward Knights Collins -- 'the largest movable objects in human history' were created. To the wealthy, steamships represented glamorous travel, but to most they offered cheap passage out of Europe to the New World. At their peak, steamships delivered one million new Americans each year, transforming the world's oceans from barriers into highways. In this fascinating history, Stephen Fox chronicles the tragedies that marked the evolution of the ocean liner, including the 1852 sinking of the 'Arctic', with the loss of three hundred and twenty-two lives, and the early 20th-century losses of the 'Lusitania' and the 'Titanic'. Using contemporary records, diaries and writing, he penetrates the experience of transatlantic passage and examines the societies created on the vast floating cities, 'a kind of third human environment, neither land nor sea but partaking of each, and bridging them in unprecedented ways'.

The Ocean Railway: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard and the Revolutionary World of the Great Atlantic Steamships

Arts & Photography

Stephen Fox

Music

Harper-perennial

AIA Houston Architectural Guide Third Edition

AIA Houston and Minor Design

Chronicles the history of the American advertising industry, focusing on colorful personalities through numerous interviews and extensive use of primary sources

The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

William Morrow & Co.

A comprehensive portrait of one of the last century's most influencial architects takes readers on a visual tour of his most spectacular achievements. 12,000 first printing.

The Architecture of Philip Johnson

Richard Payne

Philip Johnson

Hilary Lewis

Photography & Video

Bulfinch

Gwathmey Siegel: Inspiration and Transformation

Douglas Sprunt

Deborah Velders

Cameron Art Museum

Architecture

Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama

In July 1862, Confederate Captain Raphael Semmes took command of a secret new warship. At the helm of the Alabama, he became the most hated and feared man along the Union coast, as well as a Confederate legend. Now, with unparalleled authority, depth, and a vivid sense of the excitement and danger of the time, Stephen Fox describes Captain Semmes's remarkable wartime exploits. While burning one Union ship after another--newspaper headlines screaming for his head--he eluded capture time and again, ravaging Union commerce. But when the tide turned in favor of the Union, foreign ports were less willing to take in the Alabama, forcing Semmes to wander the oceans on a deteriorating ship, his ability to outwit the Union captains diminishing rapidly. Finally, in June 1864, a Union gunship sunk the Alabama--though not her captain--in a battle that was reported around the world.

History

Americas

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

The February 1954 issue of House & Garden magazine featured recent domestic architecture in Texas. The section began with a two-page photograph showing the wide steps leading up the patio of Hugo V. Neuhaus's own house, completed four years earlier, with a banner headline proclaiming Texas has taste. The introductory description went on to explain that the editors were presenting the Texas that lives with taste, mixing old and new with a free hand and a light heart. Seventeen years later, in 1971 when Hugo Neuhaus was nominated for Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects, his colleagues, Houston architects Howard Barnstone and Anderson Todd, wrote that his work, inspired by the austere and rigorous modern architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was immaculate, precise, beautifully spacious and consistent from the beginning until now. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the houses where Neuhaus mobilized Mies s deceptively simple post and lintel construction method, brick walls, plate glass, and terrazzo paving, and an unerring sense of proportion to create buildings with an exhilarating sense of spatial richness. These houses represent Neuhaus's dialectical struggle to reconcile the most demanding modern architecture of its time with the requirements of everyday life in Houston. Through the subtle regional inflection of an established architectural language Neuhaus produced a personal interpretation that tied his work to its locale and its place in Houston's social history. The tectonic economy and strict discipline exhibited in these houses remind us today of an era that seems almost impossible to recall as Houston goes about obliterating its legacy of modern buildings from the New Deal and postwar years. 
Careful examination of a limited number of Neuhaus s projects reveals characteristics that both distinguished and problematized his work. Because of Hugo Neuhaus's patrician family connections and his education at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, his architectural practice and Miesian design became intimately associated with Houston s cultural elite in the 1950s. Neuhaus and his clients used Miesian architecture to assert their cultural superiority to the adherents of historical eclecticism as well as the more formally expressive and populist variants of postwar modernism in Houston, the Usonian and the Contemporary. The critic Colin Rowe and the authors of articles about the Neuhaus House in national magazines expressed ambivalence about the ways that Miesian modern architecture was coded through oblique, classicizing allusions trabeated construction, symmetry in plan and elevation, and formal refinement as superior despite the modern movement's anti-historical and egalitarian origins. Neuhaus s modern designs were not doctrinaire. Through the use of specific materials, planning devices, and interior furnishings he sought to reconcile modern architecture with regional elements that had special resonance for his Texas clients. Many of Neuhaus s Houston houses were built in River Oaks, the city's foremost residential community. Several of Neuhaus's River Oaks houses were built on sloping sites along the wooded banks of Buffalo Bayou. These topographically varied sites in a city known for its unrelentingly flat terrain lent themselves to an integration of landscape design and architecture. Asymmetrical patios, shaded porches, swimming pools, and dense, native and subtropical vegetation were used to invoke a Texas Gulf coast version of casual outdoor living in a hot, humid climate. 
Houston Mod's third architectural exhibition will present the work of Hugo V. Neuhaus, Jr. The exhibition will be held at Architecture Center Houston at 315 Capitol, Suite 120 in downtown Houston. It will be on view from 2 August through 28 September 2007. Foreword by Stephen Fox and coda by Gwendolyn Wright.

Hugo V. Neuhaus, Jr.: Residential Architecture 1948-1966

Gwendolyn Wright

Ben Koush

Houston Mod

Spanning 15 years of propositions for suburban cities, particularly Houston, from the Rice School of Architecture. Everything Must Move is a book documenting over a decade of propositions about the suburban city in general, and Houston in particular. This city-- shapeless, polluted, traffic-clogged, water-logged, limitless--has been a workshop for testing ideas about operating in impossible situations. Everything Must Move is, in many ways, an archival project, however through the infusion of this archival material with new perspectives and projections the project remains poly-vocal, diverse, and open.This new material presented mainly in the form of short essays, written in response to the projects, photographs, and research that form the backbone of the the project that Rice School of Architecture, under the direction of dean Lars Lerup, has undertaken in the last 15 years.

Everything Must Move: Documenting a Decade-and-a-Half of Propositions about the Suburban City in General, and Houston in Particular. This City- ... Ideas About Operating in Impossible Situation

PETER COOK

Sanford Kwinter

Lars Lerup

Albert Pope

Rice Univ School of Architecture

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