TCU Press of Fort Worth is publishing Hill Country Deco: Modernistic Architecture of Central Texas, a new book written and photographed by GHPA staff members Jim Parsons and David Bush.

The book will feature original and historic photographs of more than 100 Art Deco and Art Moderne buildings in San Antonio, Austin and surrounding communities, including the 1938 Herbert Bohn house in Austin (pictured). Mark Wolfe, executive director of Texas Historical Commission, contributed the foreword. Hill Country Deco will be released in October to coincide with the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2010 conference in Austin.

Hill Country Deco was funded in part by a grant from the Fondren Endowed Preservation Services Fund for Texas of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The new book is a companion volume to GHPA's Houston Deco, which was released in 2008.

Houston Deco is the basis for tours of downtown's modernistic architecture that Bush and Parsons will conduct during Texas Historical Commission's 2010 Preservation Conference, April 22 to 24 in Houston. The conference brochure and online registration will be available in February on the THC Web site.

Photo by David Bush