斯蒂芬-福克斯的《伯德索尔-P-布里斯科的建筑》(评论)

IF 0.2 3区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY
Kathryn E. Holliday
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Briscoe's designs for River Oaks, for Ima Hogg's Bayou Bend, for the Kappa Kappa Gamma House at the University of Texas at Austin, for ranch houses in East Texas, and dozens of other private commissions, represent the pinnacle of stylish good taste in Texas domestic architecture in the first half of the 20th century.</p> <p>Stephen Fox's painstakingly researched and beautiful new monograph argues that Birdsall Briscoe's designs for these luxurious houses should be understood as integral to the larger social and political history of Houston and Texas, evidence of the ways that Houston's elite used their social and financial capital to create tasteful neighborhoods and domestic settings that reflected their sense of appropriate urban order. Briscoe's designs, Fox writes, \"enabled their owners to be identified as patrician leaders as well as the symbolic capital that constructed collective landscapes of power that nonelite Houstonians experienced as authoritative and beautiful rather than exclusionary and oppressive.\" (p. 12) Fox draws on the cultural theory of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to provide the foundations for this analytical framework, which contextualizes Fox's painstaking examination of Briscoe's designs.</p> <p>Fox has written extensively across his long career about architecture in Texas, especially in Houston, Galveston, and Brownsville, and this book shows the depth of his understanding of architecture as formal and visual, as well as reflective of complex social dynamics. The book is arranged both thematically and chronologically, and while its title emphasizes Birdsall Briscoe as a designer, the chapter titles show that the book is equally about Houston itself, from Chapter Three \"Progressive Houston,\" to Chapter Seven, \"The City That Never Knew the Depression.\" Briscoe's biography is outlined in Chapter Two, allowing the rest of the book to focus on clients, houses, and neighborhoods. The photographs by Paul Hester are beautiful and largely in color, and especially shine when focused on <strong>[End Page 368]</strong> design details and intimate interior spaces. Fox points out that Briscoe designed particularly lovely formal stairs that were both functional in the ways the facilitated movement and air circulation, and joyful in the ways that the provided settings for formal social events. Hester's photographs of these stairs, especially, seem to capture the larger argument about the intersection of public and private purposes for these designs that consolidated an elite community's sense of who they were and how they should behave (see the Davis House, p. 212; Hutcheson House, p. 231; and Clemens House, p. 272).</p> <p>This book should be rewarding for any scholar interested in the interplay between urban history, material culture, and class dynamics, especially for scholars studying young cities that invented localized patrician traditions during the twentieth century. For advocates of historic preservation, it also provides a fine template for arguments about the significance of pre-World War II luxury houses, which today often fall to the wrecking ball to clear the way for ever grander, larger, and more obviously ostentatious expressions of wealth. 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以下是内容的简要摘录,以代替摘要:评论者 斯蒂芬-福克斯的《伯德索尔-P-布里斯科的建筑》 凯瑟琳-E-霍利迪 《伯德索尔-P-布里斯科的建筑》。作者:斯蒂芬-福克斯。摄影:保罗-赫斯特。(学院站:德克萨斯 A&M 大学出版社,2022 年。页码,456。308 张彩色照片、36 张黑白照片、6 张线条艺术照片;附录、参考书目、索引。)虽然对于德克萨斯州的历史学家来说,"Briscoe "这个姓氏很容易辨认,但伯德索尔-P-布里斯科(Birdsall P. Briscoe)肯定不是一个知名人物。伯德索尔-布里斯科是休斯顿哈里斯县(Harris County)的命名者约翰-理查森-哈里斯(John Richardson Harris)的曾孙,也是德克萨斯州独立战争军官安德鲁-布里斯科(Andrew Briscoe)的孙子,他避开了其更著名的祖先的政治和军事角色,成为了一名建筑师,从 1912 年到 1962 年在休斯顿执业长达 50 年。他的家族与休斯顿的精英阶层有着亲密的多代联系,这为 Briscoe 的优雅、庄重的城市和乡村住宅提供了即时客户群,这些住宅至今仍在定义着这座城市的奢华外观和感觉。布里斯科为奥克斯河、伊玛-霍格的 Bayou Bend、德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的 Kappa Kappa Gamma 大宅、东德克萨斯的牧场住宅以及其他数十座私人住宅设计的作品,代表了 20 世纪上半叶德克萨斯州住宅建筑的时尚品味巅峰。斯蒂芬-福克斯(Stephen Fox)在这本经过精心研究的精美新专著中认为,伯德索尔-布里斯科为这些豪华住宅所做的设计应被理解为休斯顿和德克萨斯州更广泛的社会和政治历史的组成部分,是休斯顿的精英们利用其社会和金融资本创造有品位的社区和家庭环境的证明,反映了他们对适当的城市秩序的认识。福克斯写道,布里斯科的设计 "使其所有者被认定为贵族领袖以及象征性资本,这些象征性资本构建了集体的权力景观,休斯顿的非精英阶层将其视为权威和美丽,而非排斥和压迫"(第 12 页)。(第 12 页)福克斯借鉴了社会学家皮埃尔-布尔迪厄的文化理论,为这一分析框架奠定了基础,并将福克斯对布里斯科设计的精心研究融入其中。福克斯在其漫长的职业生涯中撰写了大量关于德克萨斯州,尤其是休斯顿、加尔维斯顿和布朗斯维尔的建筑的文章,本书展示了他对建筑作为形式和视觉,以及反映复杂社会动态的深刻理解。本书按主题和时间顺序编排,虽然书名强调伯德索尔-布里斯科是一位设计师,但章节标题显示本书同样是关于休斯顿本身的,从第三章 "进步的休斯顿 "到第七章 "从未经历过经济萧条的城市"。第二章概述了布里斯科的生平,让本书其余部分的重点放在客户、房屋和社区上。保罗-海斯特(Paul Hester)拍摄的照片非常精美,而且大部分是彩色照片,尤其是在关注 [第368页完] 设计细节和私密的室内空间时,这些照片更是大放异彩。福克斯指出,布里斯科设计了特别可爱的正式楼梯,这些楼梯既有促进运动和空气流通的功能性,又有为正式社交活动提供场所的愉悦性。尤其是海丝特拍摄的这些楼梯的照片,似乎捕捉到了关于这些设计的公共和私人目的交叉的更大论点,这些设计巩固了精英社区对他们是谁以及他们应该如何行事的认识(见戴维斯宅邸,第 212 页;赫彻森宅邸,第 231 页;以及克莱门斯宅邸,第 272 页)。对于任何对城市历史、物质文化和阶级动态之间的相互作用感兴趣的学者,尤其是研究 20 世纪发明了地方贵族传统的年轻城市的学者来说,这本书应该会让他们受益匪浅。对于历史保护的倡导者来说,这本书也为论证二战前豪宅的意义提供了一个很好的模板,如今,这些豪宅往往被拆毁,为更宏伟、更庞大、更炫耀性的财富表现开辟了道路。福克斯对休斯顿乡村俱乐部庄园安德森宅邸的描述是 "一种慷慨、简洁和优越的感觉,因为它们看起来自然而不受影响,所以更加引人入胜"(第 203 页)。
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The Architecture of Birdsall P. Briscoe by Stephen Fox (review)
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The Architecture of Birdsall P. Briscoe. By Stephen Fox. Photographs by Paul Hester. ( College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2022. Pp, 456. 308 color, 36 b&w photos, 6 line art; appendix, bibliography, index.)

While for historians of Texas the last name "Briscoe" is instantly recognizable, Birdsall P. Briscoe is certainly not a well-known figure. Great-grandson of John Richardson Harris, namesake of Houston's Harris County, and grandson of Andrew Briscoe, officer in the Texas war of independence, Birdsall Briscoe eschewed the politics and military roles of his more famous forbears and became an architect who practiced in Houston for 50 years, between 1912 and 1962. His family's intimate, multigenerational connections with Houston's elite provided an instant clientele for Briscoe's elegant, stately city and country houses that continue to define the look and feel of luxury in the city today. Briscoe's designs for River Oaks, for Ima Hogg's Bayou Bend, for the Kappa Kappa Gamma House at the University of Texas at Austin, for ranch houses in East Texas, and dozens of other private commissions, represent the pinnacle of stylish good taste in Texas domestic architecture in the first half of the 20th century.

Stephen Fox's painstakingly researched and beautiful new monograph argues that Birdsall Briscoe's designs for these luxurious houses should be understood as integral to the larger social and political history of Houston and Texas, evidence of the ways that Houston's elite used their social and financial capital to create tasteful neighborhoods and domestic settings that reflected their sense of appropriate urban order. Briscoe's designs, Fox writes, "enabled their owners to be identified as patrician leaders as well as the symbolic capital that constructed collective landscapes of power that nonelite Houstonians experienced as authoritative and beautiful rather than exclusionary and oppressive." (p. 12) Fox draws on the cultural theory of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to provide the foundations for this analytical framework, which contextualizes Fox's painstaking examination of Briscoe's designs.

Fox has written extensively across his long career about architecture in Texas, especially in Houston, Galveston, and Brownsville, and this book shows the depth of his understanding of architecture as formal and visual, as well as reflective of complex social dynamics. The book is arranged both thematically and chronologically, and while its title emphasizes Birdsall Briscoe as a designer, the chapter titles show that the book is equally about Houston itself, from Chapter Three "Progressive Houston," to Chapter Seven, "The City That Never Knew the Depression." Briscoe's biography is outlined in Chapter Two, allowing the rest of the book to focus on clients, houses, and neighborhoods. The photographs by Paul Hester are beautiful and largely in color, and especially shine when focused on [End Page 368] design details and intimate interior spaces. Fox points out that Briscoe designed particularly lovely formal stairs that were both functional in the ways the facilitated movement and air circulation, and joyful in the ways that the provided settings for formal social events. Hester's photographs of these stairs, especially, seem to capture the larger argument about the intersection of public and private purposes for these designs that consolidated an elite community's sense of who they were and how they should behave (see the Davis House, p. 212; Hutcheson House, p. 231; and Clemens House, p. 272).

This book should be rewarding for any scholar interested in the interplay between urban history, material culture, and class dynamics, especially for scholars studying young cities that invented localized patrician traditions during the twentieth century. For advocates of historic preservation, it also provides a fine template for arguments about the significance of pre-World War II luxury houses, which today often fall to the wrecking ball to clear the way for ever grander, larger, and more obviously ostentatious expressions of wealth. Fox's description of the Anderson House in Country Club Estates in Houston as having "a sense of generosity, simplicity, and superiority that are the more beguiling because they seem natural and unaffected" (p. 203), blends his ability to write lucidly and descriptively about design and...

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期刊介绍: The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, continuously published since 1897, is the premier source of scholarly information about the history of Texas and the Southwest. The first 100 volumes of the Quarterly, more than 57,000 pages, are now available Online with searchable Tables of Contents.
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