May 12, 2025
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May 12, 2025
A Space Designed to Age Like Whiskey
May 12, 2025
Restoring a Midcentury Townhouse
May 12, 2025
Why Every City Needs an Architect
May 12, 2025
Lessons in Mass Timber
May 12, 2025
Learning from Biogenic Materials
May 12, 2025
The Allen Teleport 50 Years Later
May 12, 2025
The hardest ticket to acquire in Texas architecture this past year was for the TxA Design Conference in Mexico City,…
May 12, 2025
In Houston’s Second Ward, a former incinerator site south of Buffalo Bayou operated from the 1920s to 1960s to burn…
May 12, 2025
Research for a book on the Mediterranean house drew me to Texas, and to the work of O’Neil Ford, FAIA,…
May 12, 2025
This year’s SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin continued to cement its place as a global nexus for innovation, creative technology,…
May 12, 2025
On September 12 and 17, 2024, Design Austin and the Trail Conservancy hosted WaterWork, a first-of-its-kind large-scale projection installation at…
May 12, 2025
Create state-of-the-art facilities or honor cultural heritage? This question is at the heart of a debate over the 10-year campus…
May 12, 2025
THE ROLE OF ARCHITECTS IN POLICYMAKING As leading experts in the built environment, architects are uniquely positioned to serve as…
May 12, 2025
Atlas of Never Built Architecture
Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin
Phaidon, 2024
May 12, 2025
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways
Megan Kimble
Crown Publishing Group, 2024
May 12, 2025
The Brutalist
Directed by Brady Corbet
Written by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
Brookstreet Pictures and Kaplan Morrison, 2024
May 12, 2025
Each of these new products takes a novel approach to traditional surfacing materials—from recycled plastic to metal to concrete.
May 12, 2025
“Doodling is more than idle scribbles—it’s a universal form of creative expression and a window into the mind,” said Architecture…
Feb 03, 2025
How Technological Feats Fuel Our Utopic Visions
Feb 03, 2025
An Ambitious Office Tower Redefines Urban Sustainability
Feb 03, 2025
Exploring the Perils and Delights of Houston’s Irreverent Approach to Urban Development
Feb 03, 2025
A Family’s Legacy of Excellence
Feb 03, 2025
How Can Utopic Ideals Be Engaged in Everyday Life?
Feb 03, 2025
Picture-Perfect Charm Along the Texas Gulf Coast
Feb 03, 2025
PS1200 Builds a Backdrop for Public Life
Feb 03, 2025
Exploring the Parallels Between Science Fiction and Architecture
Feb 03, 2025
Star Land was built by thousands of choices that favored money over people and progress before research. The only option…
Feb 03, 2025
I remember a day I spent with my grandfather in the summer of 1988. He wanted to stop by a…
Feb 03, 2025
Texas has lost one of its architecture giants. Ron Wommack, FAIA, one of the most celebrated architects in the state,…
Feb 03, 2025
There may be no place on Earth better suited to address the questions of modern urbanism than Texas. Despite global…
Feb 03, 2025
On Thursday, September 5, 2024, 45 architects toured the mid-20th-century modern architectural highlights of Harlingen as part of the 2024…
Feb 03, 2025
The Black Home as Public Art exhibition and symposium, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture…
Feb 03, 2025
In the fall of 1998, I got to know John Poston White as a senior colleague, mentor, and friend, and…
Feb 03, 2025
Illuminated Wood Panels, Inserts for Brick Walls, and Fixtures Made from Recycled Plastic, Mycelium, and Hemp
Feb 03, 2025
Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture
Text by Kathryn E. O’Rourke
Photographs by Ben Koush
University of Texas Press, 2024
Feb 03, 2025
Big Little Hotel: Small Hotels Designed by Architects
Donna Kacmar, FAIA
Routledge, 2023
Feb 03, 2025
I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Feb 03, 2025
Founded in 1986, Casa Marianella is an Austin nonprofit providing shelter and support for asylum-seeking refugees and other immigrants. Low…
Sep 04, 2024
Exciting new changes are afoot. Next year will mark Texas Architect’s 75th year of production. To celebrate this significant milestone,…
Sep 04, 2024
As the final quarter of 2024 approaches, I have been reflecting on the past year and the accomplishments within the…
Sep 04, 2024
The Texas Society of Architects announced its 2024 Honor Awards on July 17. These awards recognize exceptional members, firms, individuals,…
Sep 04, 2024
Nestled at the center of the University of Dallas’s small campus lies the Church of the Incarnation, mostly unchanged since…
Sep 04, 2024
Campus represents legacy of empowerment, resilience, and design
Sep 04, 2024
How their design approach has developed over the years
Sep 04, 2024
Honoring the past while building for the future
Sep 04, 2024
Interplay of materials now on view at the famed architect's Connecticut property
Sep 04, 2024
The Art of Architectural Grafting
Jeanne Gang, FAIA
Park Books, 2024
Sep 04, 2024
Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture
Edited by Laura Britton and Vittorio Lovato
Contributions by Shigeru Ban and Hermann Blumer
Rizzoli, 2022
Sep 04, 2024
These wall and wallcovering systems for commercial interiors offer a palette of material surfaces, including felt, wood, cork, and resin.…