Movement
The Texas Rangers
Explore in the Atlas →A small cohort at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (1951–1958) assembled by Dean Harwell Hamilton Harris; reformed the curriculum around space, precedent and diagram; originators of the nine-square problem; diffused via Cornell (Rowe), ETH Zurich (Hoesli) and Cooper Union (Hejduk).
Pedagogy Type Tectonics
Details
- Origin
- Austin, Texas, USA
Connections
- extends Bauhaus
Referenced by
- The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays exemplifies
- Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal exemplifies
- Bernhard Hoesli associated with
- Colin Rowe associated with
- Robert Slutzky associated with
- John Hejduk associated with
- Bernhard Hoesli founded
- Colin Rowe central to
- The Cooper Union School of Architecture (Hejduk era) extends
Sources
- Caragonne, Alexander. The Texas Rangers: Notes from the Architectural Underground. MIT Press, 1995.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "The Texas Rangers." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/texas-rangers/. Accessed July 17, 2026.