Main entry:

Coote, Robert James, 1931-

Title & Author:

The eclectic odyssey of Atlee B. Ayres, architect / Robert James Coote ; color photographs by W. Eugene George.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2001.

Description:

xi, 177 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 29 cm.

Series:

Sara and John Lindsey series in the arts and humanities ; no. 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1 An Eclectic Inheritance 3 -- Chapter 2 Architectural Education: New York, 1892-94 9 -- Chapter 3 Foreign Travels: England and Western Europe, 1911; Around the World, 1914; Spain and Italy, 1921 and 1928; Mexico, 1924 19 -- Chapter 4 "In Love with California" 1919, 1923, 1926, 1929 30 -- Chapter 5 Florida 38 -- Chapter 6 Ayres's Library 44 -- Chapter 7 Ayres and the Magazines: The Clippings Files and Publicity 53 -- Chapter 8 Ayres Houses: Eclectic Experiments, 1898-1923: Colonial Revival, Mission, Prairie, Tudor Revival, Arts and Crafts Styles 66 -- Chapter 9 Mediterranean Style I, 1918-31: Italian Renaissance Style 84 -- Chapter 10 English Interlude, 1923 97 -- Chapter 11 Mediterranean Style II, 1924-31: Spanish Style 101 -- Chapter 12 Neoclassical Mansions, 1931-38 125 -- Chapter 13 Postscript: Post-1945 Varieties of Eclecticism 131 -- Representative Plans of Ayres Houses 141.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Atlee B. Ayres was one of the most prominent Texas architects of the early twentieth century. In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ayres was involved in more than five hundred architectural projects, principally in San Antonio and South Texas, but also in Kansas, Oklahoma, and New York. His architectural successes include distinguished public buildings such as San Antonio's first skyscraper, the Smith Young Tower, as well as private homes, businesses, churches, and five buildings on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. However, it was in the houses he designed that the influences of the refined eclecticism for which Ayres became known are most evident."--Publisher.

ISBN:

1585441228 (acid-free paper)
9781585441228 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Ayres, Atlee Bernard, 1873-1969 Criticism and interpretation.
Ayres, Atlee Bernard, 1873-1969 Critique et interprétation.
Ayres, Atlee Bernard, 1873-1969.
Architecture, Domestic Texas.
Architecture Texas History.
Architecture domestique Texas.
Architecture Texas 20e siècle.
Architecture Texas Histoire.
Architecture.
Architecture, Domestic.
Texas.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

George, Eugene
Sara and John Lindsey series in the arts and humanities ; no. 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225191
Call No.: NA44.A985.9 C6 2001
Status: Available