Caprock Chronicles is edited each week by Jack Becker, librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. This week’s article, originally published in December 2018, is by Lynn Whitfield, associate archivist at the Southwest/Special Collection Library found on the campus of Texas Tech. Her article is about one of Lubbock’s first and arguably most well-known landscape architects.
The Texas Tech University campus is very much a walking campus, highlighted by striking Spanish renaissance architecture and a nationally recognized public art collection that includes numerous outdoor sculptures, and attractive landscaping.
Over the years the landscaping has evolved to become more water efficient and climate friendly. It certainly wasn’t this way in 1949 when Elo J. Urbanovsky accepted a teaching position in Lubbock…