Hogg Memorial Auditorium is a theater located on the University of Texas at Austin campus in Austin, Texas , United States. The venue was the first theater at the university's campus when it was constructed in 1933.
24-424: Designed by French architect Paul Cret , the auditorium was named after James Stephen Hogg , the 20th governor of Texas . Filmmaker Wes Anderson was a projectionist at the theater. The auditorium was renovated in the period 2021–2023. This Texas -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Paul Philippe Cret Paul Philippe Cret (October 23, 1876 – September 8, 1945)
48-670: A collection of 17,000 drawings and more than 3,000 photographs, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia has the largest archive of Cret's work. After years of limited activity, Cret died in Philadelphia of heart disease on September 8, 1945. He was interred at The Woodlands in Philadelphia. Cret taught in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania for over 30 years, and designed
72-452: A partnership. Dodge published an information service for builders and architects, originally in Boston and expanded to New York with the partnership. Together they established Sweet's Indexed Catalogue of Building Construction , a publication intended to be a summary filing of manufacturer's catalogs. In March 1938, the periodical American Architect and Architecture , first published in 1876,
96-405: A way to spotlight pioneering women pushing the boundaries of innovation and creativity in design." Each year's five honorees are categorized as Design Leader, New Generation Leader, Innovator, Activist, and Educator. Leading up to 1910, Gelett Burgess interviewed and wrote about avant-garde artists and artworks in and around Paris. The result of Burgess' investigation, "The Wild Men of Paris",
120-506: Is Josephine Minutillo. The Record , as it is sometimes colloquially referred to, is widely-recognized as an important historical record of the unfolding debates in architectural practice, history and criticism in the 20th-century United States. The magazine is currently published by BNP Media. Throughout its 133 years in print, Architectural Record has engaged readership among architecture, engineering, and design professionals through articles showcasing noteworthy architectural projects around
144-947: Is an annual feature whereby Architectural Record features emerging practices from around the world "that are demonstrating inventive approaches to shaping the built environment." Notable firms that have been recognized as a Design Vanguard include Andres Jaque , Vo Trong Nghia Architects, Bjarke Ingels Group , nARCHITECTS , Tatiana Bilbao , Sou Fujimoto, Höweler+Yoon , Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, LTL Architects , mos, Smiljan Radic , Evan Douglis , Michel Rojkind , Neri & Hu, Jeanne Gang , Peter Tolkin Architecture , Synthesis Design + Architecture , Thomas Spiegelhalter , Oyler Wu Collaborative, SsD, IwamotoScott, Abruzzo Bodziak Architects , Merge Architects, Uufie, and WORKac . In 2014, Architectural Record initiated their "Women in Architecture Forum and Awards" program, "as
168-512: Is not better known today due to his influence on fascist and Nazi architecture , such as Albert Speer 's Zeppelinfeld at the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg . [REDACTED] Media related to Paul Philippe Cret at Wikimedia Commons Architectural Record Architectural Record is a US-based monthly magazine dedicated to architecture and interior design . Its editor in chief
192-559: Is the present-day Cincinnati Union Terminal , built between 1929 and 1933 during Art Deco 's peak of popularity in architectural style in the U.S. In 1927, Cret became a U.S. citizen. Cret was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1928. In 1931, the regents of the University of Texas at Austin commissioned Cret to design a master plan for the campus, and build the Beaux-Art Main Building , which
216-470: The Folger Shakespeare Library , built between 1929 and 1932, he flexibly adopted and applied monumental classical traditions to modernist innovations. Some of Cret's work is remarkably streamlined and forward thinking, and includes collaborations with sculptors such as Alfred Bottiau and Leon Hermant . In the late 1920s, he was brought in as design consultant on Fellheimer and Wagner's, which
240-691: The Santa Fe 's Super Chief passenger cars , which were completed in 1936. He was a contributor to Architectural Record , American Architect , and The Craftsman . He wrote the article "Animals in Christian Art" for the Catholic Encyclopedia . Cret won the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1938. Ill health forced his resignation from teaching in 1937. He served on
264-553: The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1940 to 1945. Cret's work was displayed in the exhibit, From the Bastille to Broad Street: The Influence of France on Philadelphia Architecture , at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia in 2011. An exhibit of his train designs, All Aboard! Paul P. Cret's Train Designs , was displayed at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia from July 5, 2012 to August 24, 2012. With
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#1733086114936288-551: The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia . After having settled in the U.S., Cret was visiting France when World War I broke out. He enlisted and remained in the French Army for the duration of the war, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre and made an officer in the Legion of Honor . Cret's practice in the U.S. began in 1907. His first major commission, designed with Albert Kelsey ,
312-784: The Pennsylvania Historical Commission, the predecessor of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), Cret designed plaques that would mark places and buildings in Pennsylvania where historical events had transpired. Following Cret's death in 1945, his four partners assumed the practice under the partnership Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson , which for years was referred to by staff members as H2L2. The firm officially adopted this nickname as its formal title in 1976. H2L2 celebrated 100 years in 2007. Witold Rybczynski has speculated that Cret
336-994: The Pennsylvania Memorial at the Meuse-Argonne Battlefield in Varennes-en-Argonne, France (1927), the Chateau-Thierry American Monument in Aisne, France (1930), the American War Memorial at Gibraltar , and the Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial in Waregem, Belgium (1937). On the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg , President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated Cret's Eternal Light Peace Memorial (1938). For
360-627: The University of Pennsylvania and worked in Cret's architectural office in 1929 and 1930. Other notable architects who studied under Cret include Alfred Easton Poor , Charles I. Barber , William Ward Watkin , Edwin A. Keeble , Alfred Bendiner , and Chinese architect Lin Huiyin . Cret designed war memorials, including the National Memorial Arch at Valley Forge National Historical Park (1914–17),
384-503: The magazine was sold to BNP Media , along with Engineering News-Record and SNAP (a bi-monthly print product associated with Sweet’s). Architectural Record once held a close relationship with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), serving as its magazine of record. This relationship continues through programs such as AIA Continuing Education sections offered in the magazine and its website. A previous editor-in-chief of
408-623: The magazine, Robert Ivy , was a long-term CEO of the AIA. The editorial offices are located in Manhattan in the Empire State Building . Record Houses is an annual awards program organized by Architectural Record . Winning projects are selected by an editorial jury and published in the magazine. Preference is given to "projects that incorporate innovation in program, building technology, materials, and form." Started in 2000, Design Vanguard
432-843: The overall design for the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial in Fairmount Park , the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia , the master plan for the University of Texas at Austin , the Benjamin Franklin Bridge , one of the primary bridges across the Delaware River between Philadelphia and South Jersey , and the Duke Ellington Bridge in Washington, D.C. Cret's students included Louis Kahn , who studied under him at
456-509: The world. News, commentary, criticism, and continuing-education sections outline the scope of content. Of note are the glossy, high-quality photos of featured projects, which give the magazine wider readership outside of just those working in the design professions. Architectural Record began publication in 1891 by Clinton W. Sweet, who also published the Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide . Sweet and Frederick Warren Dodge soon formed
480-559: Was a French-born Philadelphia architect and industrial designer . For more than thirty years, he taught at a design studio in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania . Born in Lyon , France, Cret was educated at that city's École des Beaux-Arts , then in Paris, where he studied at the atelier of Jean-Louis Pascal . In 1903, Cret came to the United States to teach at
504-531: Was constructed between 1934 and 1937 and is the university's signature building structure. Cret went on to collaborate on about 20 additional buildings on the University of Texas at Austin campus. In 1935, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an associate member, and became a full academician in 1938. Cret's contributions to the railroad industry included designing the side fluting on Burlington 's Pioneer Zephyr , which debuted in 1934, and
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#1733086114936528-568: Was merged with Architectural Record . This combined the two oldest architectural magazines in the United States. Sweet's Catalog and Architectural Record became part of F. W. Dodge Corporation in 1912. McGraw Hill acquired F. W. Dodge in 1961. McGraw-Hill divested the subsidiary McGraw-Hill Construction to Symphony Technology Group for US$ 320 million on September 22, 2014. The sale included Engineering News-Record , Architectural Record , Dodge and Sweet's. McGraw-Hill Construction has been renamed Dodge Data & Analytics. On July 1, 2015,
552-451: Was published in the May 1910 issue of Architectural Record ; after his visit to the 1910 Salon des Indépendants , the anti-establishment art exhibition in Paris one year before the scandalous group exhibition that brought Cubism to the attention of the general public. An important painting by Pablo Picasso , Les Demoiselles d'Avignon , was reproduced in this article; one of the first mentions of
576-589: Was the Pan American Union Building , (the headquarters of what is now the Organization of American States ), in Washington D.C. , which was built between 1908 and 1910, a breakthrough that led to many war memorials, civic buildings, court houses, and other solid, official structures. His work through the 1920s was firmly in the Beaux-Arts tradition, but with the radically simplified classical form of
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