Honoring the past while building for the future

An intimate exploration of the diverse community within Houston's Hillcroft neighborhood.

Project Row Houses preserves Houston’s historic Eldorado Ballroom for future generations. Before Anita Webber Smith left Houston for college at…

Photographs by Herman Ellis Dyal, FAIA, document the Riverside Church in San Antonio.

The RGV's Guadalupe El Torrero arts foundation

Dijana Handanovic honors the ceremonies of everyday life in her former homeland of Yugoslavia.

For decades the Seahorse Inn was an open secret perched high on a massive Port Aransas dune. From the mid-1950s…

A company town no more, Sugar Land  establishes its identity as a city. Our digital lives, in large part, have…

Nikolas Olic crafts novel visual compositions using the forms and patterns of the built urban fabric. 

I grew up in North Carolina. Tobacco was everywhere (it was the 1960s and everybody smoked) and a mainstay of…

Many UT students are renting windowless rooms in the brand-new buildings in West Campus, and apparently, it's perfectly legal.

In my hut a square of light cast by the window moon — Basho, 17th century Our windows seem more…

El Segundo Barrio in El Paso is the site of tenement apartment buildings constructed in the early 20th century to…

Two current projects at NASA’s Johnson Space Center — the preservation of Mission Operations Control Room #2 and the new…

A young architect finds himself working for a firm that specializes in television news sets, an unexpected realm of architectural…

A Dallas architect finds a remedy to architecture media overload and the drive to stand out in a derelict ranch…

Austin’s West Campus neighborhood and College Station have become ground zero for privately developed luxury student housing. These projects look…

The new home of Houston gallerist Hiram Butler is exceedingly simple in form. Designed by Marshall Reid, it is rectangular…

The existing portions of the U.S.-Mexico border wall are already negatively impacting public and private land in the Rio Grande…

Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin,” recently completed on the grounds of the Blanton Museum at The University of Texas at Austin with…

Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin,” recently completed on the grounds of the Blanton Museum at The University of Texas at Austin with…

While his buildings have often been derided as insular anti-urban fortresses, Portman played a key role in the development of…

The recent political debates over bathroom usage inspired two Texas projects that seek a more inclusive solution to the design…

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

Since the 1950s, Dallas’ Valley House has served as a cultural salon for the display and contemplation of modern art,…

A graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture travels to Mexico City to discover what…

The size of Texas and its ecological, geological, and social diversity are obvious — as is its youth, in any…

The environment exists for the purpose of movement. — Lawrence Halprin, in Progressive Architecture 46 (July 1965) On a bluff…