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JAY BAKER AND BARRIE SCARDINO
House, The ~nwhtgs C~udL~ & 8~whtt pr~dvce~ h~ the 194~s had ~ 9r~h~ shn~li~t¥ ~ntended tr~ mgke
943. On his return
at
~ B.Arch, from
946 to live near his
ar the Univer-
self-
"In the
,imple: ro pro-
o nlake some
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and
in his first book, Space [or Teaching. 2
Caudill's interest in school architecture
was complemented bv Rowtetr's double
major in education and architecture,
Without ever having designed a school~
the pair garnered a reputation as innova-
tors in school design. And even though
they promoted their firm on the basis of
producing schooks, their first commissions
*vere primarily residential3
The work e
Rowlett during its
period ~s decidedly
tenrly rooted in the
climate. At nines the ,J
rusttc, rugged materiality.
ment to client
core of CaudilJ
told ~
flow pattern and, if there was no water
problem, to
upside down.TM
I'heir
R S
his
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across from Texas A&M a
Bush Drive~
ideas. With a house
Philip
/nog, North) Rosemary
look
what would h
tic ryp,
e the best
the firm in
;forage caN-
roof is
with brick
houses built
the Frank Lawyer
Street.
Yho became one of
a production drawing
his house at
~t 1958. The
one o{
condition-
Ben H.
architecture facult)
~vorked on occasion for
their houses on The
Knoll houses have
n Bryan and College
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· 1955 the firm bad
in other Texas and
This client pattern
local pro-
cecelvmg
sought a Few
many small
firm's promoters
of dollars and
because of
find a
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worked for ~
McCurchan became a
{ 946 h~r
to pursl{e an
Tech. Wallie E.
partner m 1948. and th~
changed m Caudilk Ro
In 1950. Willie Pefia
fourth partner, but h~
firm's name expand
eight men, all of whom
during the
days, would be known
of CRS.
Al Martin
became th*
working
brought in
worked in the office in
that
Al Martin x
ahead of Cf
Of the
CRS. Tom
from Bill Caudill
and fast in those days.''17
Charles E.
gifted designe
homa City m 1955.
Many young architects who worked
for CRS in College Station or Bryan Were
on to other It)cat firms~ Most welbknown
members of the Bryan-College Station
architectural community from the 1950s.
to the /970s
As Caudill &
ful. ~t also became the
mughr
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