Architectural Historian Stephen Fox is Recognized with 2014 Arthur Ross Award
The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) has announced its 33rd annual Arthur Ross Awards for excellence in the classical tradition. Among the honorees identified across six categories is Houston architectural historian Stephen Fox, who received the 2014 Arthur Ross Award in the category of History-Journalism-Editing-Publishing at the awards ceremony that took place on May 5 at the University Club in New York City. Stephen Fox is a Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas and an adjunct lecturer in architecture at Rice University and the University of Houston. His area of research encompasses American architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries. In his scholarship he explores the interrelationship of economic, cultural, architectural, and political forces at work in the city. Fox is the author of The Country Houses of John F. Staub, a volume that has become a respected resource on this Houston architect’s work. In it, Fox delves into the social aspect of Staub’s architecture with an examination of Houston’s social elite, the garden suburbs they built, and the emergence of Houston on the national stage. He has also authored the AIA Houston Architectural Guide, The Campus Guide: Rice University, and (with Ellen Beasley) the Galveston Architectural Guidebook. He is a regular contributor to the Rice Design Alliance's journal Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston and is an oft-quoted source on the architecture and urban environment of Houston. Through his work as writer, lecturer, and teacher, Fox chronicles the development of America’s fourth largest city, an effort that is recognized and commended with the announcement of this award.
