Beaux-Arts (style)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Goldwin Goldsmith collection
Collection
Identifier: GOLD
Abstract
Goldwin Goldsmith (1871-1962) was a well-known professor of architecture, taught at the University of Texas School of Architecture (1928-1955) and served as chairman of the department. Born in Paterson, N.J., worked as an office assistant at McKim, Mead & White (1888-1890), studied at Columbia University and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1897), practiced in the firm Van Vleck & Goldsmith in New York (1897-1913), and established and taught at the University of Kansas School of...
Dates:
1896-1961
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Henry J. Steinbomer drawings
Collection
Identifier: STE
Abstract
Henry Steinbomer (1902-1964) was born in San Antonio, graduated from the University of Texas in 1923, and was the most prolific church architect in Texas during the 1940s and 1950s. An active collaborator, Steinbomer worked with Ralph Cameron, Atlee B. Ayres, Ellis F. Albaugh, Jack L. Duffin and was a charter member of the Texas Society of Architects. He also worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps marker program and on the Historic American Buildings Survey. This record group consists of...
Dates:
1940-1964
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Marshall and Fox records
Collection
Identifier: MF
Abstract
Marshall and Fox was a Chicago architectural firm (1905-1926), best known for luxury apartment buildings and hotels. After Charles Eli Fox's death in 1926, Benjamin Marshall continued to practice alone until the 1930s. The collection is comprised of drawings, contract ledgers, account books, photographs, project files, specifications, correspondence, plat books and a scrapbook documenting the work of the Chicago architectural firms of Benjamin Marshall, Marshall and Fox, successor firms...
Dates:
1900-1959
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Paul Philippe Cret collection
Collection
Identifier: CRET
Abstract
Philadelphia architect Paul Philippe Cret was retained by the University of Texas at Austin as a consulting architect for the development of a master plan for the campus (1930-1945). Cret was born in Lyon, France in 1876, attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1897-1903), and specialized in the design of public buildings. The collection contain drawings, floor plans, elevations, sections, details, landscape plans, diagrams and presentation renderings of Cret's work at the University of...
Dates:
1930-1957
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Ralph Cameron collection
Collection
Identifier: CAM
Abstract
Ralph Cameron (1892-1970) practiced both commercial and residential architecture in San Antonio and was instrumental in establishing the Texas Society of Architects. Personal papers, day books, office files, job files, specifications (together measuring 3 linear feet), 17 photographs, and 6,500 drawings chronicle the architectural work of Ralph Cameron from 1914-1970. Important buildings documented include: Medical Arts Building, San Antonio (1925-1926); United States Courthouse, San Antonio...
Dates:
1914-1970
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Raymond Everett drawings and slides
Collection
Identifier: EVE
Abstract
Raymond Everett (1885-1948) taught freehand drawing, painting, clay modeling and architectural history in the Department of Architecture of the University of Texas at Austin from 1915 to 1948. He also produced artwork on which he experimented with a variety of media. The collection consists of watercolor drawings documenting Everett's student work at Harvard University and slides of his book plates.
Dates:
1907-1909
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Robert Leon White drawings
Collection
Identifier: RLW
Abstract
Texas architect Robert Leon White (1898-1964) served as supervising architect at the University of Texas during the 1930s and designed significant buildings across the state. The collection consists of drawings including examples of White's student work at The University of Texas, measured drawings, and working drawings documenting White's architectural projects in central Texas.
Dates:
1920-1928
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Sanguinet, Staats and Hedrick records
Collection
Identifier: SSH
Abstract
Sanguinet and Staats, headquartered in Fort Worth was one of the largest and most influential firms in Texas (1903-1930), was best-known for design of steel-framed skyscrapers and transformation of architectural practice from the small studio to large office. Wyatt C. Hedrick joined the firm (1922), bought it when Sanguinet and Staats retired (1926), and he continued doing business under his own name. At one time the firm was the third largest in the country, known for modern style buildings...
Dates:
1910-1969,
1991
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Smith and Brewer drawings
Collection
Identifier: SB
Abstract
Arnold Dunbar Smith (1866-1933) and Cecil Claude Brewer (1871-1918) formed a partnership in London in 1895, establishing a reputation as arts and crafts architects working in the so-called "Free Style" of the 1890s. The firm's work was mainly domestic, using vernacular traditions, until their design for the National Museum of Wales (1910) in which they employed the then-popular Beaux-Arts style. The collection is comprised of architectural drawings which best represent Smith and Brewer's...
Dates:
1896-1939
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture Archives: Student Work collection
Collection
Identifier: SOASW
Abstract
The School of Architecture Student Work collection includes a selection of coursework produced by University of Texas Architecture students in design studios from 1915 to the present. The projects include drawings of buildings, objects and human figures.
Dates:
1915-2019
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives