The Eclectic Odyssey of Atlee B. Ayres, Architect,9781585441228

The Eclectic Odyssey of Atlee B. Ayres, Architect

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ISBN13: 9781585441228
ISBN10: 1585441228
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-09-01
Publisher(s): Texas A & M Univ Pr
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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; private homes; businesses and 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. In The Eclectic Odyssey of Atlee B. Ayres, Architect, Robert James Coote focuses on Ayres's early-twentieth-century residential architecture and the sources from which he drew inspiration. During the three decades Coote examines, Ayres designed nearly two hundred homes in the fashionable San Antonio suburbs of Monte Vista, Olmos Park, and Terrell Hills -- homes that even now rank among the most cha

Author Biography

Robert James Coote is professor emeritus of architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
vii
Preface ix
An Eclectic Inheritance
3(6)
Architectural Education: New York, 1892--94
9(10)
Foreign Travels: England and Western Europe, 1911; Around the World, 1914; Spain and Italy, 1921 and 1928; Mexico, 1924
19(11)
``In Love with California'' 1919, 1923, 1926, 1929
30(8)
Florida
38(6)
Ayres's Library
44(9)
Ayres and the Magazines: The Clippings Files and Publicity
53(13)
Ayres Houses: Eclectic Experiments, 1898--1923: Colonial Revival, Mission, Prairie, Tudor Revival, Arts and Crafts Styles
66(18)
Mediterranean Style I, 1918--31: Italian Renaissance Style
84(13)
English Interlude, 1923
97(4)
Mediterranean Style II, 1924--31: Spanish Style
101(24)
Neoclassical Mansions, 1931--38
125(6)
Postscript: Post-1945 Varieties of Eclecticism
131(8)
Selected List of Ayres Houses 139(2)
Representative Plans of Ayres Houses 141(16)
Notes 157(6)
Glossary 163(4)
Bibliography 167(4)
Index 171

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