The Architecture, Design, and Art Library has added the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art’s Digital Rare Books Archive to its recommended databases lists for art and architecture. Browse or search this compendium of carefully curated digitized rare books about classical architecture and the allied arts, hosted by institutions around the world and assembled by the ICAA.
Books and Bytes is a series of talks by local authors who discuss the research, writing, and publication of their art, architecture, or design book. Our community of scholars is invited to participate in discussions afterward, so they may learn from one another’s experiences. Books and Bytes is co-sponsored by the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design and the University of Houston Libraries.
This conversation will take place on Wednesday, April 17th, at 6 pm in the Architecture, Art, and Design Library on the first floor of the College of Architecture Building.
Making a Scene! is the story of how visionary individuals created an international art world around photography. A classic Texas tale of seemingly quixotic ideas, audacious goals, oil booms and busts, generous philanthropists, southern sensibilities, grandiosity, and resolve, this book documents the social history of ‘who did what and when’ to create an international photography scene in such an unlikely place as Houston.
Tracy Xavia Karner is a visual sociologist who writes about photography in fine art venues and everyday life. She is the chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Houston where she teaches courses in Visual Sociology, Sociology of Art, and Visual Culture.
Four books on the works of Diego Rivera from the Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room are now on display in the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library. The bound books and portfolios are liberally illustrated with reproductions of frescoes, watercolors, portraiture, as well as other genre and media. All were published in Mexico between 1934 and 1967. Rivera was arguably the most important figure in the Mexican mural movement. His style featured “a new iconography based on socialist ideas and exalted the indigenous and popular heritage in Mexican culture.” (O’Connor, F. (2003). Rivera (y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez), Diego. Grove Art Online.)
The works on view are:
12 reproductions in color of Mexican frescoes by Diego Rivera
Acuarelas, 1935-1945: Colección Frida Kahlo
El genial muralista mundialmente discutido maestro: Diego Rivera
UH professor and author of Big Little Hotel: Small Hotels Designed by Architects, will discuss her latest book in the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library at 5 pm on Friday, August 25th. This presentation is part of the Books + Bytes series, which serves as a platform for local authors of art and design books to discuss challenges and methods in art and design publishing with student and faculty researchers.
This fall semester the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library will host three author talks in its Books + Bytes series. These talks serve as a platform to discuss challenges and methods in art and design research, writing, and publishing. They are held in the library on Friday evenings at 5 pm. Dates and speakers are listed below.
August 25th – Donna Kacmar, UH professor and author of Big Little Hotel: Small Hotels Designed by Architects
September 29th – Pete Gershon, author of Impractical Spaces: Houston, an anthology of artist-run galleries, co-operatives, pop-ups, & other ad-hoc venues
October 25th – Kathryn O’Rourke with Ben Koush, authors of the forthcoming Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture
An important change in access to EBSCO journal and database content has been activated, affecting direct links in syllabi, handouts, bookmarks, and other course materials.
Your saved links expire August 31, 2023. To ensure continued access, UH faculty are encouraged to immediately update any direct links in your materials (instructions below). This includes the affected databases, and any links or “permalinks” you may have used to access full text articles or journals that are provided through these EBSCO databases.
We regret the timing of this update, however EBSCO recently informed us that, due to a licensing change that goes into effect September 1, 2023, all of our links must be updated. Links are already updated on Libraries systems, including the website, subject and class guides, and course reserves. UH Libraries remains committed to ensuring continued access to this critical content and is working quickly to ensure seamless access through our systems for the beginning of the semester.
Update your saved links using the following steps below:
Update direct links to individual databases
Step 1: Access the Libraries’ A-Z databases list
Step 2: Find the database you intend to use and access from there
Update links for journals
Step 1: Access the Libraries’ Journal Title search
Step 2: Search for the journal title of interest
Step 3: Click on the Permalink button on the journal record, and copy the link
Update links for articles
Step 1: Access the article via the search box on the Libraries’ homepage
Step 2: Search for the article title of interest and select it
Step 3: Click on the Permalink button on the article record, and copy the link
Journals and articles may be available from multiple vendor platforms or providers. For example, a specific journal may be provided by EBSCO, ProQuest, etc.; you may have multiple options to link to when performing these searches.
While rare, certain kinds of hyperlinks (such as saved filtered searches) may need to be manually recreated to ensure correct link resolution, and these suggestions do not cover all hyperlinks that may be impacted. If you have any questions, please contact collections@uh.edu.
To avoid having to update links in the future, we recommend that you access databases via the Libraries’ A-Z databases list and include your article readings via course reserves.
We appreciate your understanding at this busy time in the year and we wish you a great start of the new semester.
Due to unexpected power losses on Saturday, July 9th, the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library will close for that day only. We expect to resume normal hours of operation on Monday, July 11th. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.
If you missed Tuesday’s Books and Bytes event in which Margaret Culbertson discussed her latest book, Waxahachie Architecture Guidebook, you can watch the recording here (passcode: 3&cM^Usn).
The first speaker in the 2021-2022 series of Books and Bytes is Jesus Vassallo, architect and writer and Associate Professor of Architecture at Rice School of Architecture. On November 8th Dr. Vassallo spoke about his work Epics in the Everyday: Photography, Architecture and the Problem of Realism. The discussion afterwards was moderated by Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design professor Jesse Hager. Use the link below to listen to this virtual event.
https://zoom.us/rec/share/tbviQDFR_6hjj5L9o3r_CP-60BMlTydJ9_bPjdZuaOj10fn4ffbAt9XZ53rW8Q2l.tp7IImDOg8WXAq2Q Passcode: @k&qEy9i
Those wishing to hear the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design’s celebration of the life of its former dean, Joe Mashburn, may do so here: