by Lynne Rostochil. photos by Julius Shulman. As the 1960s dawned, jet airplanes were just becoming a thing and one of the very first airports designed specifically for jet travel was the Tulsa Municipal Airport (renamed Tulsa International Airport in 1963), designed by Murray Jones Murray. Soon after the airport opened in 1961, architectural photographer […]
by Lynne Rostochil When it was completed in 1962, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church created quite a sensation, especially when architectural photographer Julius Shulman came to town to take pictures of this elegant piece of modernism then shared his images with various publications upon his return home. The editors of Progressive Architecture were smitten and decided to put […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Vintage photos from Progressive Architecture, modern-day photos by Lynne Rostochil. I always thought that the popular OKC institution known as Brown’s Bakery was housed in an old Safeway but then found out that the building was constructed a full decade before that chain’s “marina” style came into being. It was built for Clyde’s […]
by Lynne Rostochil Before Bruce Goff reigned supreme at OU, there was Henry L. Kamphoefner, who began his teaching career at OU in 1937 and became the chairman of the School of Architecture there in 1944. Kamphoefner arrived in Norman with an impressive academic pedigree. Born in 1907 in Des Moines, Iowa, he graduated from the […]
After posting the color photo of John York’s house in our blog about the Cole Clinic the other day, Robyn did a little research and found that she owns a book that contains several more images of his beautiful home in Harlingen, TX. The book, Designs for Living by Katherine Morrow Ford and Thomas H. […]