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rchitects 'Conceived’Great BowlingSouthwest LanesPioneering new concepts in form and function, Associated Architects and Planners with offices in Dallas, lists as its latest pace setting structure I'the Great Southwest Lanes, headquartered in the Great Southwest Industrial District.One o the most up-to-date bowling lanes in the country, the main design feature, of the fireproof structure Is the use of large prestressed concrete girders and roof joists and prestressed concrete wall panels.Principals in the firm are O'Neil Ford, Richard Colley, A. EL Swank, Jr., and SL, Z is man, who have been identified with important contributions in die fields of planning and building. The widely pt^licized hyperbolic paraboloid shell construction which has become a trademark of the industrial development, was perfected by AAP with Mexico City’s Felix Candela as consultant Use of the umbrella'’ design at CSC is the first in this country on a large scale for industrial work.The principals associated in the AAP have been engaged in professional practice over the oast 30 years with work ranging from industrial design through a great variety of buildings to large scale metropolitan area planning. Their creative contribution to the field of architecture and planning stems from an active interest in new methods of planning, new ideas of design, new systems and materials of construction, and new forms.Born in Pink Hill, Texas, O'Neil Ford la licensed In Texas, Colorado, and with the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. He la a corporate member of the American Institute of Architect* and a past president of the ALA, San Antonio Chapter. A visiting professor at Harvard School of Architecture, he has lectured at many schools In this country and* abroad, and Is now member of the -visiting committee to the school of Architecture, M.I.T,He has served as consultant for several governmental •agencies, and pioneered die use of lift slab method of building, working on this with the Southwest Research Institute. His work has been widely published in professional and general magazines and won many honors including die Top Honor Award San Antonio 1955, TSA Award 1956, Top Honor Award TSA 1957, and design awards from the Texas Hospital Association and Progressive Architecture magazine.Richard Colley, a graduate of Texas A M College, has a long record of architectural practice Including work in Mexico. For two years, he waa Corpus Christ!'s director of planning.With O'Neil Ford, he served .as consultant to the Institute of Jnventive Research on the lift slab process and has made notable applications of concrete shell construction. His Civic Center in Corpus. Christi was selected as the best civic design for 1952by Progressive Architecture and the Corpus Christi Housing Project was selected by the ALA and the United Statee State Department to be exhibited In die Pan Amarlcan Conference of Architects In Mexico City In 19S2. Ho has also received other top design awards for schools, office buildings, and other structures.A.B. Swank, Jr. received hie architectural degree from Texas AM College before traveling and studying In Europe. A paat president of the Dallas Chapter, American In-stituts of Architects, Swank haa served a* director of the Texas Society of Architects and aa a member of the Cepi-fiol Planning Commission.He haa been a principal in several large industrial and commercial planning and architectural projects and was elected principal architect for the seven associated firms doing the West Dallas Housing Project of 3500 units. His work has been published In Progressive Architecture, Architectural Forum Ai*chitec rural Rocord, and Nuestra Ar-quitectura.A graduate in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SLB. Zlorn an has taught at that school and at Texas AM College. He is a registered architect in Texas, a member of ALA, and a hill member of the American Institute of Planners. He has lectured and written extensively in professional and technical fields and has co-authored books onplanning and education. His work has covered large scale industrial, commercial, institutional, and housing developments including work in Pa-ducah.-JCyT^n connection with a major AEC installation
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Arlington News Texan
Arlington, Texas, US
Thu, Jul 24, 1958
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