The gallery is intimate and dimly lit, its periphery a little unclear as one’s eyes adjust to the space. A…

Blow the Doors Off BREACH AGENCY Architecture WUHO Gallery Los Angeles, California BREACH  | Material Rituals of the Securocratic State…

The Houston Downtown Management District (Downtown District) has announced Plan Downtown: a 20-year vision that will outline recommendations for development…

As architects, many of us spend our lives in urban centers and turn our backs to the low-density landscape sprawling…

Our focus on containers of all shapes and sizes includes a New York City water tower for your desktop and…

A new Alamo Plaza Master Plan has stoked controversy in San Antonio, and for good reason: It proposes closing streets,…

Climate change. Environmental depredation. Population explosion. Dwindling resources. There’s no doubt about it: The existing mode of suburban development must…

The cultural and economic forces that continue to shape the American suburb are larger than architecture. But the profession could…

“Playa Lubbock,” a proposal by William Truitt, AIA, and Marsha Bowden, AIA, suggests a more ecologically sensitive means of developing…

The Domain is a mixed-use development of residences, shopping, and offices that creates a node of walkable density at the…

Tiny and glossy, like a piece of hard candy, this Austin eyeglass boutique designed by Baldridge Architects projects an aspirational…

Bart Shaw Architect arranged a few minimal elements in his design of Fort Worth clothing boutique Pax & Parker, creating…

The quintessential framework for individual retailers in today’s plazas is a long, thin, rectangular unit, which is challenging for natural…

Just north of the Pearl development in central San Antonio stands what appears to be an Art Deco gem —…

AIA Dallas announced the winners of its 2017 Unbuilt Design Awards at a ceremony and exhibition held on May 18.…

Located near Crawford, the Prairie Chapel Ranch is the retreat of George W. and Laura Bush. For a period of…

The movie begins in West Texas on a rusty deck overlooking the boggling beige immensity of the Chihuahuan Desert lavender…

The Texas A&M University College of Architecture organized a student design contest in Fall 2016, seeking uses for the standardized…

A UTSA ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR AND HIS STUDENTS MAP THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WORSHIP AND THE ENVIRONMENT. WHAT THEY FIND IS A…

“If I ever write a book,” says Sinclair Black, FAIA, “it’s going to be called, ‘Austin Texas: Lost Opportunity National…

How Much House? Thoreau, Le Corbusier and the Sustainable Cabin by Urs Peter Flueckiger Birkhauser, $34.95 “You want room for…

What does the near future of Houston hold? Will driverless cars crisscross the highways functioning as mobile offices, hotels, and…

After an exhaustive hunt turned up four finalists, The University of Texas at Austin has selected Michelle Addington as the…

These products combine aesthetics, cleanability, patient and caretaker comfort, and durability to help promote wellness in healthcare environments.

FOR MANY AMONG THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARCHITECTS, “TRADITION” IS NO LONGER A DIRTY WORD. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE FOR…

The Philip Johnson-designed Thanks-Giving Square and Chapel was commissioned in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, as part of a…

Architects have intuitively understood and designed awe-inspiring spaces for millennia. Now, a new body of research in the field of…

White Oak Music Hall is an only-in-Houston project, a ground-up rock club that seeks authenticity by way of its elemental…

University Health System’s new building at its Robert B. Green Campus near downtown San Antonio provides an underserved community with…

Adara, a medical spa in Houston’s Museum District, was given a bright, white, pristine interior by MC2 Architects. The design…

Houston’s Fifth Ward — also known as “The Bloody Fifth” — has for decades been synonymous with poverty and crime.…

On February 27, Preservation Texas presented its 2017 Honor Awards to 18 historic restoration and rehabilitation projects at a ceremony…

Berdoll Sawmill near Bastrop sources most of its trees from within a 100-mile radius — hand-picked, recently dead hardwoods found…

Things Which Can be Said You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn by Wendy Lesser Farrar, Straus and…

In response to the current political climate of our nation, I asked TxA web editor Alyssa Morris to write this…

The following appeared as comments on txamagazine.org in response to Richard Buday’s January/February 2017 story, “Persuasive Architecture.” Great article, Richard…

Driving on the highway: Everyone in Texas can relate to this activity. For a lot of people, it means congestion,…

“We’re hurtling at breakneck speed to get from somewhere we didn’t want to be to somewhere we don’t want to…

Last fall, five graduate students from the Texas Tech College of Architecture created an installation called “Spectrolines” for the student-run…

These new outdoor furnishings can help create distinctive public landscapes that are more practical, comfortable, and memorable.

Nick Deaver Designs a restrained and principled modern addition to an old bungalow for clients fleeing the suburbs for the…

Galveston Bay and the Houston Ship Channel are home to the nation’s second-busiest port, its largest petrochemical complex, and a…

In the Gulf Coast DesignLab at UT Austin, Coleman Coker takes a dozen students on a 15-week journey to design…

The concrete walls of the dormant Seaholm Intake dip beneath the waters of Lady Bird Lake. This abandoned work of…

The John Gaines Park and Swim Center in Austin’s Mueller neighborhood is more than just a developer amenity — it’s…

San Angelo’s downtown stretch of the North Concho River has been thoroughly made over by Kinney Franke Architects. The river…

Re-engineering a modern megacity like Dallas-Fort Worth to create the sort of dense, walkable urbanism favored by 21st-century planners is…

Just west of I-10 in downtown San Antonio, VIA Centro Plaza is a bus rapid-transit center that also serves as…

The Galveston Downtown Transit Terminal by Powers Brown Architecture occupies the last buildable plot on the island city’s beloved Strand.…