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The architecture of Houston includes a wide variety of award-winning and historic examples located in various areas of the city of Houston, Texas. From early in its history to current times, the city inspired innovative and challenging building design and construction, as it quickly grew into an internationally recognized commercial and ...
The Octagon House in Washington, D.C., built in 1799 and owned by the American Institute of Architects 1957 stamp commemorating the AIA's centennial. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) was founded in 1857 in New York City by a group of thirteen architects. [2]
Howard Barnstone (March 27, 1923, in Auburn, Maine – May 1987 in Houston, Texas) was a Houston-based American architect. [1] He was best known for his work with Mark Rothko on the Rothko Chapel, and for the houses and public buildings he designed with Preston M. Bolton and Gene Aubry in the 1950s and 1960s, largely in Houston and Galveston.
Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS) was an architecture firm founded in Houston, Texas, the United States in 1946.In 1983, J.E. Sirrine, an industrial engineering firm, merged with the company and the company's name was changed to CRSS, popularly known as CRS-Sirrine.
The Twenty-five Year Award is an architecture prize awarded each year by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to "a building that has set a precedent for the last 25 to 35 years and continues to set standards of excellence for its architectural design and significance" and which was designed by an architect licensed in the United States. [1]
Bayou Bend, Houston, Texas, 1927-28.. John Fanz Staub (September 12, 1892 – April 13, 1981) was an American residential architect who designed numerous traditionally-styled homes and mansions, mostly in Houston, Texas from the 1920s to 1960s.
In 1994, Alley Theatre was chosen to receive the Twenty-Five Year Award by the American Institute of Architects/Houston, which recognizes distinguished architecture of lasting quality. [21] In 1996, the Alley was featured in the “Book of American Architecture: 500 Notable Buildings from the 10th Century to Present by G. E. Kidder Smith. [22]
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