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From Mies to Oklahoma Mod: The Life and Legacy of Robert Lawton Jones

by Lynne Rostochil. To say that Bob Jones enhanced Oklahoma’s architectural landscape with his visionary designs is an understatement.  Simply put and with no exaggeration at all, he was a creative genius who has left his home state with a treasure trove of modern buildings that I hope we will preserve for eons. Sadly, Jones died […]

Living the Miesian Dream: The Jones House

by Lynne Rostochil Thanks to an invitation from the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture (TFA), last week several Squadders got to check out the little piece of perfection on a quiet wooded lot in Tulsa known as the Jones House:  (Lynne Rostochil) The home was designed by Robert Lawton Jones as his personal residence and was constructed […]

My vintage vinyl find: Conversations Regarding the Future of Architecture. 1956.

I admit, I have a problem. I’m a self possesed Vinylholic. OK, I don’t have a garage full of 33 1/3’s, but I do have an ever growing black plastics collection, many of which were purchased for the cover art alone.  For years now I’ve found myself in garage and estate sales perusing the cat […]