These 10 buildings define Texas architecture

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Article in the DMN on new book...

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/architecture/2024/05/06/these-10-buildings-define-texas-architecture/

A new book traces the forces that have shaped modern architecture in Texas.

“I am large, I contain multitudes,” wrote Walt Whitman. He was talking about himself, but the words apply equally to the architecture of Texas. I have a substantial library on the subject — monographs, guidebooks, essay collections, scholarly studies, photographic compilations — and not one of those books might be considered definitive. Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture (University of Texas Press, $45) gets about as close as any. A chunky, colorful pleasure, it is the work of historian Kathryn E. O’Rourke, who provides the text, and the architect and critic Ben Koush, who supplies the photographs.

Martin Luther King Jr. Humanities Center, Houston, 1969

Carnegie Branch Library, Houston, 1982

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Worth noting:  Of the "ten buildings that define Texas Architecture" 3 are in Houston, a 4th is in the Houston Metro area and a fifth is in the Houston Combined Statistical Area.