From the start, a San Antonio man’s legacy lived through the architecture of the Alamo City.
It “must have been very powerful for him,” said Blizard.
Perez went on to graduate from Burbank High School and the University of Texas, even attending the University of California at Berkley. He also served as a U.S. Navy officer, flying missions in Vietnam.Cyndy Perez, his wife of 55 years, said Ford told her husband, “Andy, you’ve got to come work for me,” and “that’s it,” she said. “He had no choice.”
Perez grew to have his own architectural firm and was asked to be chairman of what was then the Department of Architecture at UTSA. Eventually, he took part in the design team for the Alamodome.“The history was so forgotten about for so long,” Cyndy said.Blizard added, “Andy first had this notion that we shouldn’t be preserving objects. We should be understanding cultural heritage.
, which is what other cities wanted to do, “the way that we were dealing the history of San Antonio.”“He understood it,” Perez said. “It was part of his memory.”
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