Modern movement (Architecture)

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John G. York (1914-1980) was a modernist architect who practiced in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. York was appointed to the faculty at the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture in 1960 and eventually became dean. The collection includes architectural drawings and manuscript material documenting York's work as a solo architect in Texas and his continuing career as an architect while teaching at the University of Oklahoma.

Abstract Architect and engineer Preston Geren (1891-1969) established his architecture firm in 1934 and worked in Fort Worth and throughout Texas on a variety of building types - schools, universities and colleges, office buildings, public housing projects, and defense facilities. Born in Sherman, Texas, he received a degree in architectural engineering from A&M College of Texas (1912), taught at Oklahoma A&M (1921-1923), and was employed as chief engineer at the Fort Worth firm of Sanguinet,...

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Roland Gommel Roessner was a resident architect, professor in The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (1948-1982), responsible for establishing the school's Professional Residency Program and early user of computers to augment teaching. This collection highlights Roessner's two careers, academic and architectural design, from 1936 to 1991. Record types include 35mm slides, scrapbooks, publications, and architectural drawings.