John S. Chase-The Chase Residence

by Stephen Fox and David Heymann

The low-slung brick home that architect John Saunders Chase completed for his own family in 1959 was Houston's first modernist house with a true interior courtyard, a form with which other progressive architects were only starting to experiment. It was equally radical that he built it at all. When Chase graduated from The University of Texas School of Architecture in 1952--the first African American to do so--no Houston architecture firm would hire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934951322
• ISBN13: 9780934951326
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: UT Austin School of Architecture
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 12.3" x 9.3"