Opus in Brick and Stone: The Architectural and Planning Heritage of Texas Tech University

Opus in Brick and Stone: The Architectural and Planning Heritage of Texas Tech University explores the campus...
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Author: Brian H. Griggs
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Language: English
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Opus in Brick and Stone: The Architectural and Planning Heritage of Texas Tech University by Griggs, Brian H.

Opus in Brick and Stone: The Architectural and Planning Heritage of Texas Tech University

$67.83

Opus in Brick and Stone: The Architectural and Planning Heritage of Texas Tech University

$67.83
Author: Brian H. Griggs
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Opus in Brick and Stone: The Architectural and Planning Heritage of Texas Tech University explores the campus architecture of the Texas Tech University System, which was inspired by the sixteenth-century Plateresque Spanish Renaissance architectural style. This book details the parallels between the buildings of Texas Tech and those of their forebears from this relatively short period in Spanish architectural history, while exploring the remarkable stories behind the construction itself. A crucial element of Opus in Brick and Stone is to provide a visual chronicle of the campus's unique architectural style. In addition to historic and contemporary photography, the book also includes a comparative drawing section that, through original common scale drawings of physical structures, explores in detail historic design sources alongside their campus counterparts. Opus in Brick and Stone also tells a fascinating history: included is biographic information on figures such as Houston architect William Ward Watkin, who was convinced that this Spanish architectural style aligned well with the South Plains of Texas, and later College Architect Nolan Barrick, a Watkin prot g . Through the stories of these and other key figures, readers come to understand how it was only through the vision of specific individuals that this fascinating architectural heritage came to be situated upon the plains of West Texas. The architectural history of Texas Tech University, then, is a carefully crafted, purposeful history. Opus in Brick and Stone celebrates and elevates this little-known history into a tradition that can be appreciated by all Red Raiders, past and present.

Author: Brian H. Griggs
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 05/15/2020
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 11.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781682830444

About the Author
Griggs, Brian H.: - Brian H. Griggs (AIA) is a Principal at Parkhill, Smith, & Cooper's Amarillo Office in the Higher Education Sector. His architectural expertise includes collegiate and multi-facility master planning, charrette coordination, pre-design programming of higher educational facilities, and the design of instructional, laboratory, student life, and residential facilities for community colleges, CTE institutions, and universities. He is a 2014 recipient of the William Caudill Award from the Texas Society of Architects.

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