STUDENTS:JOSEPH HSU AND ELLIOT YAMAMOTO PROFESSOR: JESUS VASSALLO RICE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE,RICE UNIVERSITY “We thought the double roof was an…

Z4A ARCHITECTS – RAFAEL B. DURAN & OPHELIA MANTZ COLLABORATORS: DIEGO CONTRERAS, MILI KYROPOLOU RENDERINGS: SIMON CHIQUITO “This project drew…

NORVERTO DIAZGERALD D. HINES COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON “The construction methods—lashed together bamboo structure and thatch—are…

CORGAN “There’s the implication that the project is capable of producing different microclimates by atomizing the massing of the building,…

DLR GROUP AND ROOT ARCHITECTS “This project showed a lot of ambition for a public building type that is a…

CLOVISBARONIAN “Amongst all the projects, this building had the most compelling, thoughtful, and consistent relationship to its site. The way…

LUTZ OFFICE “We appreciated that this project rigorously deployed self-similar volumetrics in order to accommodate multiple families, produced compelling renderings,…

STUDENTS:APARNA PRABU, ALFRED RIVERA, AND EDWIN TOVAR PROFESSOR:RAFAEL B. DURAN OF FERAL DELTA II STUDIO GERALD D. HINESCOLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE…

In partnership with LCRA Parks, the ÖÖD Mirror Houses have been introduced for the first time to a public park…

Concrete Architecture
Phaidon Editors, with Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin
Phaidon, 2024

In Depth: Urban Domesticities Today
Edited by Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu, et al.
Lars Müller, 2025

These finishes and furnishings focus on the power of color to influence mood, productivity, and overall well-being.

Our brains are constantly trying to make sense of the cacophony around us…. We arrange things into recognizable arrays of…

The sudden and untimely passing of JuanRaymon Rubio, Assoc. AIA, this past December left a profound void in the hearts…

For more than 40 years, the Architectural League of New York has supported emerging talent in architecture, landscape architecture, urban…

From April 4 to 6, 2025, the dusty West Texas town of Marfa became the site of a rich interdisciplinary…

Texas Tech University’s Huckabee College of Architecture (TTU HCOA) continues its proud tradition of recognizing excellence through its annual awards…

For the first time since 1978, and after six years of meticulous effort, Preservation Austin finally has a home of…

As architects, we intuitively understand how design affects the way people feel in a space. Yet it can be difficult…

“Brewing Art” is the fitting and playful slogan of the beloved San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), cleverly tying together…

In downtown El Paso, one feels a slight charge in the atmosphere—a quality mostly absent from its regional neighbors but…

Designing for Neurodiverse Students

Snøhetta Transposes the Borderland

At the Intersection of Neuroscience and Design

Modern Hospitality Meets Cultural Legacy

Shaping the Culinary Experience

Reimagining the Courtyard House

Design for a Changing Climate

Why we love the places we love

A Space Designed to Age Like Whiskey

Restoring a Midcentury Townhouse

Why Every City Needs an Architect

Lessons in Mass Timber

Learning from Biogenic Materials

“Doodling is more than idle scribbles—it’s a universal form of creative expression and a window into the mind,” said Architecture…

The Allen Teleport 50 Years Later

Each of these new products takes a novel approach to traditional surfacing materials—from recycled plastic to metal to concrete.

The Brutalist
Directed by Brady Corbet
Written by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
Brookstreet Pictures and Kaplan Morrison, 2024

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways
Megan Kimble
Crown Publishing Group, 2024

Atlas of Never Built Architecture
Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin
Phaidon, 2024

THE ROLE OF ARCHITECTS IN POLICYMAKING As leading experts in the built environment, architects are uniquely positioned to serve as…

Create state-of-the-art facilities or honor cultural heritage? This question is at the heart of a debate over the 10-year campus…

On September 12 and 17, 2024, Design Austin and the Trail Conservancy hosted WaterWork, a first-of-its-kind large-scale projection installation at…

This year’s SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin continued to cement its place as a global nexus for innovation, creative technology,…

Research for a book on the Mediterranean house drew me to Texas, and to the work of O’Neil Ford, FAIA,…

In Houston’s Second Ward, a former incinerator site south of Buffalo Bayou operated from the 1920s to 1960s to burn…

The hardest ticket to acquire in Texas architecture this past year was for the TxA Design Conference in Mexico City,…

Founded in 1986, Casa Marianella is an Austin nonprofit providing shelter and support for asylum-seeking refugees and other immigrants. Low…

I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture
M+ Museum, Hong Kong

Big Little Hotel: Small Hotels Designed by Architects
Donna Kacmar, FAIA
Routledge, 2023