The Texas Rangers

with Alex Maymind, James Michael Tate, David Turturo, and Frida Grahn

Dialogue

LOCATION

Online

DURATION

90 Minutes

DATE

06/10/2025

SUMMARY

This dialogue revisited the Texas Rangers, a group of architects and artists who taught at the University of Texas School of Architecture in the 1950s under Dean Harwell Hamilton Harris. The group included Colin Rowe, John Hejduk, Werner Seligmann, Bernhard Hoesli, Robert Slutzky, and Lee Hodgden. Together, they developed an experimental pedagogy that challenged prevailing norms and later shaped architectural education at Cornell, Cooper Union, and ETH Zurich. The dialogue reflected on the ideas and exchanges that defined this brief but influential moment, asking what conditions enabled its impact, what remains of its influence today, and what its legacy means for contemporary architectural pedagogy.

BIOGRAPHY

Alex Maymind is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota.

James Michael Tate is a visiting associate professor at the University of Arkansas and founder of T8projects.

David Turturo is an assistant professor at Texas Tech University.

Frida Grahn is an architectural historian at London South Bank University.

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CATALOGUE

with Alex Maymind, James Michael Tate, David Turturo, and Frida Grahn

The Texas Rangers

Online

06/10/2025

Format

Video

Dialogue

with Alex Maymind, James Michael Tate, David Turturo, and Frida Grahn

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