KEN FRAMPTON

there are a couple events today with professor ken frampton, including the lecture at 5pm.
Frampton is well known for his writing on twentieth-century architecture. His books include Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980; revised 1985, 1992 and 2007) and Studies in Tectonic Culture (1997). Frampton achieved great prominence (and influence)in architectural education with his essay [...]

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Site Visit and Project Ideas

I definitely agree with Elyse regarding our final project. For those of you who weren’t able to come to the site visit yesterday, we basically learned that since our site is located on a flood plain and stuff has been pushed around, never stagnant, the geology students that came with us said that it is [...]

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Short History

In trying to find out who all used to own the land for the target site and what it used to be, the dates don’t go back very far. The Bryan building department supplied us with information going back to 1977, telling us that all the land in that area is owned by a [...]

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no report

The Archaeologist who did the report on the site is Bill Moore. When I told to him yesterday, he said I could go check out report or he could e-mail me. And I received his e-mail this morning…

 I am sorry, but I am not allowed to share my report with anyone.   Bill Moore

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Cattle Trails, Indians, ect.

My job was to research the history of Brazos County in regards to old cattle trails, indian inhabitants, ect. I could not find much, but I did find two sites with lots of interesting historic maps that help to help some light on the subject.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html#US
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/texas/

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Nicole, Kara, and I were responsible for investigating the cemetary next to the museum. We found several interesting things on our trip. First, we found the historical marker for the town of Boonville located on the cemetary grounds. We found the gravesite of Harvey Mitchell (and his family), who was county judge from 1851-1854 and [...]

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Archaeological researches

I did the researches on internet. I didn’t find specific things relate to the archaeology on Brazos County. I went to Evans Library, and found 14 archaeological surveys in Brazos County. I didn’t quite sure which one we need the most, therefore I borrowed them all. The categories of surveys are variety. I scan all [...]

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