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A Washington Post article once described O'Neil Ford, the irascible, cigar-chomping San Antonio architect who died in 1982, as "the nation's leading architect, although the nation may not know it yet." Much of the nation still hasn't heard of him. But if you view any of his creations - from San Antonio's Trinity University and the Tower of the Americas in HemisFair Park to the Texas Instruments semiconductor plant in Dallas - you'll understand why he was considered a genius at using materials like stone, brick, and wood. More than anyone else, Ford preserved the indigenous character of Texas architecture from the encroachment of what he called "bulldozer mentalities" and "that nasty, modern stuff."
--Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly December 1999
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