By Maria Barker, Library Assistant
The current Featured Collection in the Reference Reading Room, Architecture of Texas and Beyond, covers the stories and history of significant spaces across the US and Mexico. From cabins to sky scrapers, churches to highway visitor centers, the selection gives the interested reader a sense of the qualities that make a structure significant, and how buildings manage to go up and come down over time.
To search for these books and more, check out our catalog at www.tsl.texas.gov/catalog. If you are interested in checking out a title on our Featured Collection shelf, please visit the Reference Desk in room 109. Below is the complete list of titles you’ll find on our Featured Collection shelf this month.
Want to learn more about the Featured and New Book Collections at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission? Check out Maria’s previous post about these displays in the Reference Reading Room.
| Title | Author | Call No. | Collection |
| Alfred Giles : an English architect in Texas and Mexico | George, Mary Carolyn Hollers | 720.924 G391j | MAIN |
| Architecture in Texas, 1895-1945 | Henry, Jay C. | 720.9764 H396A | MAIN |
| Building the Lone Star: an illustrated guide to historic sites | Baker, T. Lindsay. | 917.64 B177B | MAIN |
| Cowtown Moderne : art deco architecture of Fort Worth, Texas | Cohen, Judith Singer | 725.09764 C66C | MAIN |
| Dallas Architecture, 1936-1986 | Tomlinson, Doug | 720.9764 T597D | MAIN |
| Dog Trots & Mud Cats : the Texas Log House | Lavender, Linda | 720.9764 L386D | MAIN |
| Pioneer Texas Buildings; a geometry lesson | Heimsath, Clovis | 720.9764 H364 | MAIN |
| Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo : Spanish architecture and urbanism in the United States | Early, James | 720.976 Ea764p | MAIN |
| Restoring Texas : Raiford Stripling’s Life and Architecture | McCullar, Michael | 720.924 M139R | MAIN |
| Texas Public Buildings of the Nineteenth Century | Robinson, Willard Bethurem | 720.9764 R568 | MAIN |
| The Architectural Legacy of Alfred Giles : Selected Restorations | George, Mary Carolyn Hollers | 720.92 G293a | MAIN |
| The People’s Architecture : Texas courthouses, jails, and municipal buildings | Robinson, Willard Bethurem | 725.15 R568P | MAIN |
| The See-Through Years : creation and destruction in Texas architecture and real estate, 1981-1991 | Barna, Joel Warren | 720.9764 B252S | MAIN |
| The Texas Courthouse | Welch, June Rayfield | 725.15 W444 | MAIN |
| Architecture as Revolution : episodes in the history of modern Mexico | Carranza, Luis E. | Z UA380.8 C231AR | Texas Documents |
| Lone Star steeples : historic places of worship in Texas | Christensen, Carl J. | Z TA475.8 C462lo | Texas Documents |
| Lost architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands | George, Eugene. | Z TA475.8 G293Lo | Texas Documents |
| Master Builder of the Lower Rio Grande : Heinrich Portscheller | George, W. Eugene | Z TA475.8 G293ma | Texas Documents |
| Modern Architecture in Latin America : art, technology, and utopia | Carranza, Luis E. | Z UA380.8 C231mo | Texas Documents |
| Sanctioning Modernism : architecture and the making of postwar identities | Kulić, Vladimir | Z UA380.8 SA559mo | Texas Documents |
| The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston : an architectural and social history | Beasley, Ellen | Z TA475.8 B38AL | Texas Documents |
| The American Idea of Home : conversations about architecture and design | Friedman, Bernard | Z UA380.8 F914am | Texas Documents |
| The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present : Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur | Burian, Edward R. | Z UA380.8 B916ar | Texas Documents |
| The Moodys of Galveston and their mansion | Wiencek, Henry | Z TA475.8 W636mo | Texas Documents |
| Aesthetics in transportation : guidelines for incorporating design, art and architecture into transportation facilities | Héder, Lajos | TD 1.8:AE 8 | U.S. Documents |
| Examples and ideas to stimulate and improve the design, art & architecture of airports | Bowman, Donald P. | TD 4.2:AI 7/36 | U.S. Documents |
| Historic America: Buildings, Structures, and Sites | LC 1.2:H 62/5 | U.S. Documents | |
| Mission 66 visitor centers : the history of a building type. | Allaback, Sarah | I 29.2:M 69/5 | U.S. Documents |
| Architecture that speaks : S.C.P. Vosper and ten remarkable buildings at Texas A & M | McCoy, Nancy T. | Z TA475.8 M137ar | Texas Documents |