Exciting new changes are afoot. Next year will mark Texas Architect’s 75th year of production. To celebrate this significant milestone,…

In early June, I made my way to Washington, DC, for the AIA Conference on Architecture & Design. Though I’ve…

In this issue, we examine the idea of craft—of making—within the context of new technologies and how they collide with…

The wind whistled you in behind the springtimeFloat, Old Note, new among my mindYou hold the note, the note just…

The concept of “third places” was one our TxA Publications Committee latched onto early and enthusiastically in our planning for…

It’s impossible to ignore the incredible growth of Texas cities over the past decade. Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin…

Where does design really begin?

“For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings,…

In the time between the conceptualization of this issue last summer and its production this year, artificial intelligence (AI) has…

To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Braiding Sweetgrass” After…

This past May, the University of Texas at Dallas announced the groundbreaking for the new Crow Museum of Asian Art…

There’s a running joke that the best time in Austin was whenever you first moved to the city. I returned…

In 448 B.C., what is widely believed by historians to be the first professional design competition in recorded history was…

    Every seed braidedinto the crown of messengers before uncertain passages a love note to future generationsa grain of…

You Say Goodbye… Back in the early days of the Roman Republic, the term “dictator” did not have the negative…

After two years of compromised, constrained, or completely cancelled travel plans, this past winter break my family and I finally…

In the previous issue of Texas Architect, outgoing TxA President Audrey Maxwell, AIA, compared her role to that of a runner…

Last year when we chose the topic of “mental health” for this issue, we thought this whole global pandemic thing…

In the summer of 1993, “Jurassic Park” was in the theaters and Bill Clinton was in the White House. I…

As a member of an advisory group to MIT, I’ve been a bit critical. The other day while talking with…

This year, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, widely considered the discipline’s highest honor, was awarded to French architects Anne Lacaton and…

It used to be that after exiting I-35 and heading east, all you could see for miles was wide open…

A clearing in the forest. The boardwalk has brought you here, as if to show it to you. But why?…

It is, by design, dark, obscure. Some people, upon entering, feel uneasy, claustrophobic, creeped out. Others walk in, look around,…

No photos of tiny sheds in the colossal landscape under cotton ball clouds afloat in Big Texas blue skies.  This…

Two months ago, already deep into lockdown life, I conceived this editor’s note as a paean to the opportunities of…

These days, with the advent of each next global crisis, members of the architecture and design profession ask themselves what…

Last month, an anxious ripple stirred the murky waters of architectural discourse. Architectural Record reported that it had obtained a…

Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I…

“Welcome to the frontier,” is what I say at the Austin airport when picking up friends visiting from out of…

All physical ugliness and social ugliness have strong concomitants and roots. Incredibly, there is rampant today all manner of hate…

When John Saunders Chase, FAIA (1925–2012) graduated with an M.Arch degree from The University of Texas at Austin School of…

The 2019 TxA Design Conference took us to Tulsa. Entitled “Unexpected,” it laid out the proposition that, as the tag…

January 29 was a revelatory day for architecture in Texas. That morning, the Linda Pace Foundation opened the doors of…

Many architects must feel somewhat annoyed. So much of the rhetoric surrounding the profession these days directs them to solve…

In the last issue, I ended this column by suggesting that more diversity, promiscuity, and surprise in architecture might improve…

My first job after college was as a book editor at Edizioni Press, a boutique publishing house in Manhattan that…

‘‘Venice Architecture Biennale! What does that have to do with Texas?” Believe it or not, I’ve heard that more than…

On the afternoon of December 30, 2017, a Saturday, I was at Figure 8, my favorite East Austin coffee shop, struggling…

Lars Lerup has published a new book. “The Continuous City” (Park Books, 2017) presents the Swedish-American designer and writer’s latest…

TxA’s 78th Annual Conference and Design Expo took place in Austin on November 9–11, 2017. It attracted approximately 3,000 attendees…

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

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

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

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

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

“Convergence” was the theme of the Texas Society of Architects’ 77th Annual Conference and Design Expo. Of the approximately 1,200…

The view from the pool terrace was breathtaking, a sweeping vista that took in Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico —…

The building at 500 Chicon Street in East Austin has a storied past. Erected in the 1920s as a storage…

On our first day in Philadelphia for the 2016 AIA Convention, TxA Executive Vice President James Perry and I stood…