Fair Park Coliseum, 1959

Harper & Kemp

While its architectural virtues can be applauded-particularly the folded plate roof and cantilevered façade-this massive metal barn could use lessons in neighborly decorum.

Credits: Excerpts taken from The American Institute of Architects Guide to Dallas Architecture, published in 1999 by the American Institute of Architects, Dallas Chapter. The editor of this book was Larry Paul Fuller. The Fair Park Introduction and entries were written by Willis Winters, AIA.

Permission to publish these excerpts was granted by The American Institute of Architects, Dallas Chapter, in October 2002.