You are here

Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast » Central Texas » Navasota to Salado » College Station (Brazos County) » Langford Architecture Center

Langford Architecture Center

-A A +A
1977, HKS
  • (Photograph by Gerald Moorhead )

Established in 1905, the College of Architecture is the oldest in Texas and one of the largest in the United States, with nearly 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The curriculum in architectural engineering was developed by Frederick E. Giesecke, a graduate of A&M in 1886 at age seventeen who received his architecture degree from MIT in 1904. Designed by Jack R. Yardley, class of 1958, the center's bush-hammered Brutalist aesthetic reflects the influence of Kallmann, McKinnell and Knowles's Boston City Hall (1968), with rising floors projecting dramatically outward, creating deep shadows over the strong forms.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
×

Data

What's Nearby

Jack K. Williams Administration Building
Academic Building
George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, and George P. Mitchell '40 Physics Building
Texas A&M University
Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Langford Architecture Center", [College Station, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-NS6.3.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 111-112.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,