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Only in New Mexico : an architectural history of the University of New Mexico : the first century, 1889-1989

Title
Only in New Mexico : an architectural history of the University of New Mexico : the first century, 1889-1989 / Van Dorn Hooker with Melissa Howard ; foreword by V.B. Price.
Author
Hooker, Van Dorn, 1921-2015.
Publication
Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, ©2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Howard, Melissa.
  • Price, V. B. (Vincent Barrett)
Description
xxv, 342 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
Summary
"Hooker's account will appeal to anyone who has ever studied, taught, or worked at UNM. But its significance goes far beyond nostalgia. New Mexico was still a territory when the university was founded. And because the founding of UNM coincided with the arrival of the railroad in New Mexico, the growth of the university coincides with Albuquerque's transition from small town to city as well as with the territory's attainment of statehood and the changes it has experienced in the course of the twentieth century. To read Hooker's inside account of the ways decisions were made, buildings were funded, and the university interacted with federal, state, and local governments and events is to understand the ways institutions grow and change and the interaction of wise planning with the inevitability of unintended consequences."--Jacket.
Subject
  • University of New Mexico > Buildings > History
  • University of New Mexico
  • University of New Mexico > Constructions > Histoire
  • Buildings
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-322) and index.
Contents
1. There were pioneers with dreams -- 2. President Boyd and UNM's Australian plan -- 3. The not-so-roaring twenties -- 4. The depression years -- 5. World War II and the GI bill -- 6. Coping with postwar enrollment -- 7. New architects on campus -- 8. Building for athletics and academies -- 9. A symphony hall and a pit -- 10. Endings and beginnings -- 11. The campus is one big construction yard -- 12. Focus on the north campus -- 13. Farewell to the last barracks -- 14. The building boom begins to slow down -- 15. Building for the twenty-first century and beyond.
ISBN
  • 0826321356
  • 9780826321350
LCCN
99006976
OCLC
  • ocm42420906
  • 42420906
  • SCSB-1262607
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library