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Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2011 Good Brick Award, Greater Houston Preservation Alliance, 2011 Julia Ideson Award, Friends of the Texas Room, 2011 Driven by an almost fanatical desire for whatever is new, "modern," and likely to make money, Houston is constantly in the process of remaking itself. Few structures remain from the nineteenth century, and even much of the twentieth-century built environment has fallen before the wrecking ball of "progress." Indeed, the demolition of older buildings in Houston can be compared to the destruction of cityscapes such as Berlin, Warsaw, and Tokyo in World War II. But because this wholesale restructuring of Houston's built environment has happened in peacetime, historically minded people have only recently sounded an alarm over what is being lost and the toll this destruction is taking on Houstonians' sense of place. Houston Lost and Unbuilt presents an extensive catalogue of twentieth-century public and commercial buildings that have been lost forever, as well as an intriguing selection of buildings that never made it off the drawing board. The lost buildings (or lost interiors of buildings) span a wide range, from civi

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Author

Steven R. Strom

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292793378

Category

history

Subjects

Architecture, History, Art

Rating

3.5 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14