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The Little Chapel in the Woods, Denton, Texas, 1938-39

Title
The Little Chapel in the Woods, Denton, Texas, 1938-39 / O'Neil Ford & Arch Swank ; Wilifried Wang, editor.
Author
Ford, O'Neil, 1905-1982
Publication
  • [Austin, Texas] : University of Texas at Austin ; Berlin : Wasmuth & Zohlen Verlag, [2021]
  • New York, NY, USA : Sole distributor in the United States of America and Canada Artbook LLC, D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Swank, Arch B.
  • Wang, Wilfried
Description
160 pages : illustrations (some color), plans; 22 x 30 cm.
Summary
As part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Program Administration building projects, the Little Chapel in the Woods was constructed in Denton, Texas, toward the end of the Great Depression, by O'Neil Ford (1902-82), a leading architect of the American Southwest, and his protégé Arch Swank (1913-99). With the help of 300 students from the Texas State College for Women and young men from the National Youth Administration, Ford and Swank created a simple configuration with two surprising features on the interior: parabolic arches inspired by the work of Felix Candela, and student-designed and manufactured stained-glass windows that assert the right of women to their fair share in modern life. In this book, a series of essays places the chapel in the international and regional context of architectural trends of the time. Reproductions from the Alexander Architectural Archive at the University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, provide a detailed insight into the careful design of this much-admired manifesto for a regional architecture by Ford and Swank.
Series Statement
  • O'NFM_8
  • O'Neil Ford Monograph ; 8
Uniform Title
O'Neil Ford monograph ; 8.
Subject
  • Chapels > Denton
  • Regionalism in architecture
  • Chapelles > Denton
  • Régionalisme en architecture
  • Chapels
  • Texas > Denton
Note
  • "Joint publication between The University of Texas at Austin and Wasmuth & Zohlen Verlag, Berlin"--Cover flap.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
  • 9783803022141
  • 3803022142
LCCN
99991224777
OCLC
  • on1256541660
  • 1256541660
  • SCSB-14468111
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries