The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) was started by Richard Brettell, the…

There is a small crack in the flashing around one of the pipe vents that protrudes from my house’s metal…

In late August, Hurricane Harvey camped out over southeast Texas. In some places, it dumped, over the span of a…

“Trapped, A Consequence of Forced Implementations” by Munjer Hashim, a former University of Houston architecture student currently working for Sage…

Dallas’ decades-long saga of its Trinity River project reached a turning point on August 9, when the Dallas City Council…

In 1942, my grandfather joined the Army Air Corps and was sent to San Antonio for his preflight training. He…

Though I’ve practiced for 33 years and have been enriched by a plethora of unique clients and colleagues, I never…

These new furnishing options for the modern office respond to the needs of the worker, rather than the other way…

The Texas Society of Architects Studio Awards recognize real or theoretical unbuilt projects that demonstrate excellence in design. Submissions from…

DO.GROUP DESIGN, Austin From the Jury: There’s a social purpose to this project that embodies an idea about bringing awareness…

Legge Lewis Legge, Austin From the Jury: Most, if not all, architecture tends to be guided by constructing views, so…

Connie Chang and Alex Yen-Jung Wu, The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture From the Jury: There’s a…

Matt Fajkus Architecture / The University of Texas at Austin From the Jury: It’s an elegant sculpture made of simple…

Rogers Partners Architects + Urban Designers, Houston From the Jury: The project was not just about infrastructure, but about bringing…

Texas’ most famous architectural photographer, with a career spanning nearly 50 years, offers an alternative to traditional photography of architecture…

Even a cursory glance at recent real estate trends will reveal that something is wrong with the building market. Everywhere…

Casa de las Lomas is not a cheap house. While it could be derided as an example of conspicuous consumption,…

At the tattered fringe of East Austin, where a rough-and-tumble neighborhood ends at a busy highway, stands an architectural gem.…

Similar in size, geography, and climate, Austin and San Antonio might as well be sisters. However, they take notably different…

“Big room. Parking. Display element,” says Dillon Kyle, AIA, ticking the items off on his fingers. “That’s the building.” The…

When their longtime home became unavailable, Alterstudio, an award-winning Austin-based architecture firm founded in 2005, looked to purchase a space…

The 34-person Michael Hsu Office of Architecture sits on a busy stretch of Burnet Road, tucked away behind weathering steel…

DSGN’s reuse of a midcentury engineer’s office glories in the building’s rigid structural grid and flexible interior space. A slight…

On August 3, the Texas Society of Architects announced its 2017 Honor Award winners. These awards recognize exceptional members, firms,…

The 2017 jury for the Texas Society of Architects O’Neil Ford Medal for Design Achievement has named Max Levy, FAIA,…

Melba Whatley, president and founder of the Waller Creek Conservancy of Austin, has been named the Texas Society of Architects’…

The Moore/Andersson Compound has received the Texas Society of Architects 25-Year Award. Charles Moore, FAIA, would be touched to know…

The most memorable part of my childhood morning routine before grade school wasn’t the bowl of cereal or the cartoons…

‘‘It’s all basically Mexico now, from San Antonio on down,” said the taxi driver who took me to the Austin…

Drawing often appears early in the lives of architects. For us, it is a way of connecting with life, a…

Frank D. Welch, FAIA, died the morning of June 22 in his Dallas home. He was 90 years old. With…

This issue of Texas Architect marks the 50th  anniversary of The Birthday appearing on the September/October 1967 magazine cover —…

When I met Frank Welch for the first time, I was so young and innocent that I had no idea…

Word came to me, by chance, less than 30 minutes after Frank Welch’s death. I was out of town and…

These new surfacing options offer a range of finishes, textures, and patterns for interiors from ceiling to floor — including…

1. You could only find the Impala by accident. It was way off trail, in the back part of a…

“The estuary is a very delicate ecosystem, and the delicate nature of the wood detailing and the filigree of the…

“The Cistern project is as much about what the architect didn’t do as what they did do.” — Andy Tinucci,…

“The way that the interior design of the space and the architecture of the space merge seamlessly into one is…

“Every interior space had an appropriately scaled outdoor space to give out onto, and really achieved an amazing sort of…

The MATCH is a great project. It has a wonderful breezeway/outdoor civic space that functions as a lobby to the…

“It’s a great example of an accessory dwelling in an urban context. It’s very well sited; it has its own…

“It creates this structural box and clamps on an end piece that’s glazed on three sides, so it’s kind of…

“It actually has this sort of extraordinary sense of being in a special place — but it’s a bathroom.” —…

“It’s funny how we appreciate agricultural buildings and the way they sit in the landscape. They are perfect references for…

“There’s always the money shot, and for us it was the room that had this two foot repetition of trusses…

“What we’re awarding here is not an art installation and not a piece of architecture, but the potential for architecture…

This year’s AIA Houston Celebrate Architecture Gala, dubbed “Frame ReFrame,” highlighted the value of adaptive reuse. It was held at…

Project Cheatham Residence, Dallas Client Diane and Chuck Cheatham Architect Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners Design Team Tod Williams, FAIA; Billie Tsien,…

This spring, I had the opportunity to interview three of contemporary architecture’s bright lights — Mark Foster Gage and Patrik…