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w Cite Spring 1987

Once upon a time, there was a boomtown called Houston.

There was more than enough money to go around* People remodeling or building a new home called up a contractor and let him loose with their money.

How times have changed. Now, no matter who you are, any change that costs money has to be worth it It has to be right the first time and have true value.

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THEMEI N < ® T H M I LDKORKS

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COVER: From left to right, archlt.eti Frank Gohry, Mario Botta, and Charlet Moor* wilh photograph by Ooorga 0. Jackson. D.ilgn by

Incite 3 Big Cit<5 Beal 4 Citelines 8 ForeCite 8 The Public Gallery K) The Architecture of Mario Botta 12 A Conversation With Charles

Moore 14 Citeseeing: The Warehouse

District 16 City Edges 17 Citeations

Editorial Committee

Bruce C. Webb Chairman

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\ Neil Printz -^Malcolm Quantrill \ Eduardo Robles - William F. Stern — Drexel Turner ^ Peter D. Waldman

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Guest Editor: Peter D. Waldman Managing Editor: Linda Leigh Sylvan Editorial Assistant: Nancy P. Henry Graphic Designer: Alisa Bales Typesetting: Wordseller Director of Advertising: Kathryn Easterly Publisher: Lynette M. Gannon

The opinions expressed in Cite do not necessarily represent the views of the Board of Directors of the Rice Design Alliance.

Publication of this issue of Cite is supported in part by grants from the Brown Foundation and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston.

Rice Design Alliance Board of Directors 1986-1987

Frank F Douglas President Elizabeth S. Glassman President-Elect Elizabeth P. Grirfin Vice President Burdetic Keciand Secretary Paul G. Bell Treasurer

Barbara Cochran Executive Director

Howard Barnstone Anne S. Bohnn Raymond D. Brochstein Peter Brown Robert Carney Joseph P. Colaco Elouise A. Cooper Stephen Fox Steve Gendler Antony Harbour Daniel K. Hedges Ann Holmes Katherine Howe Susan B. Keeton Paul Kennon Karl Laurence Kilian

Truett Latimer Phillip Lopale J. Pittman McGehee Jack McGinty O. Jack Mitchell Jan O'Brien Danny Samuels Barrie Scardino Pierre M. Schlumberger John Slainback William F. Stern Craig Taylor Drexel Turner Peter D, Waldman Sally Walsh

Corporate Members of the Rice Design Alliance

Anchorage Foundation, Inc. Anchorage Foundation of Texas Associated General Contractors of

America, Inc. Barker Interests Limited W. S. Bellows Construction Corporation Brochsteins, Inc. CBM Engineers, Inc. DMJM/Houston Gensler and Associates/Architects Gerald D. Hines Interests Houston Natural Gas Corporation

Interfin Corporation Lloyd Jones Fillpot and Associates, Inc. Robert E. McKee, Inc. Waller P. Moore and Associates, Inc. Morris Architects The SWA Group Skidmore, Owings and Merrill William F. Stern & Associates 3D/International Michael Underbill

Architect/Urban Designer

Notes on Contributors

Stephen Fox is a Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas.

Christopher Genik is an instructor at the College of Architecture. University of Houston.

William Hartman is a Houston architect.

Jay C. Henry is an associate professor of architecture ai the University of Texas at Arlington where he teaches courses in American and modern architecture.

Marti Mayo is director of the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston.

Gerald Moorhead is an architect with Lloyd Jones Fillpot and Associates, Inc.

Albert Pope is an assistani professor of architecture at Rice University.

Neil Printz. research curator at the Menil Collection, loves the movies.

Eduardo Robles is an architect with William F Stern and Associates.

William Sherman is an assistani professor of architecture al Rice University.

Drexel Turner is assistant to ihc dean of the School of Architeclure at Rice University.

Peter D. Waldman is a Houston architect and associate professor of architecture at Rice University.

Bruce C Webb is associate professor of architecture and director of Graduate Studies in the University of Houston's College of Architecture.