Only in New Mexico: An Architectural History of the University of New Mexico, the First Century1889-1989,9780826321350

Only in New Mexico: An Architectural History of the University of New Mexico, the First Century1889-1989

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ISBN13: 9780826321350
ISBN10: 0826321356
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-09-01
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Summary

The campus of the University of New Mexico, blending New Mexico's characteristic Pueblo style architecture with regionally sensitive modernist forms, is unique among American college campuses, most of which have been modeled on European architectural styles. Since UNM's early days its leaders have wanted the state's flagship university to be a distinctly New Mexican place, what one writer called a "pueblo on the mesa". Now Van Dorn Hooker, who served for many years as the university architect, has written a history of the architecture and planning of this beautiful campus.

UNM's third president, William George Tight, fell in love with New Mexico in the late nineteenth century. His visionary appreciation of the creative genius of Hispanic and Pueblo architects, artists, and craftsmen led him to hire an architect to remodel UNM's first building along the lines of the mission churches that dominate New Mexico's Indian pueblos. This decision set the tone. In the mid twentieth century thirty-eight UNM buildings were constructed in the Pueblo style, most of them de

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Foreword xi
Introduction xv
1989 Maps of the UNM Campuses* xx
1889--1911 There Were Pioneers with Dreams
3(26)
1912--1919 President Boyd and UNM's Australian Plan
29(16)
1920--1929 The Not-So-Roaring Twenties
45(20)
1930--1939 The Depression Years
65(20)
1940--1949 World War II and the GI Bill
85(18)
1950--1956 Coping with Postwar Enrollment
103(24)
1957--1959 New Architects on Campus
127(14)
1960--1964 Building for Athletics and Academics
141(24)
1965--1966 A Symphony Hall and a Pit
165(20)
1967--1969 Endings and Beginnings
185(14)
1970--1974 The Campus Is One Big Construction Yard
199(24)
1975--1976 Focus on the North Campus
223(18)
1977--1979 Farewell to the Last Barracks
241(18)
1980--1984 The Building Boom Begins to Slow Down
259(24)
1985--1989 Building for the Twenty-First Century and Beyond
283(18)
Appendix 1 Awards Made to the University of New Mexico and Its Architects and Landscape Architects for Building Design, Landscaping, and Administration 301(2)
Appendix 2 University Buildings on the National Register of Historic Places 303(2)
Appendix 3 Building Statistics 305(14)
Selected Bibliography 319(4)
Index 323

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