The TxA 2021 Design Awards jury met virtually on May 7 to review 177 submissions, selecting 15 projects for recognition.

“This project creates a domestic  environment with architecture that is sympathetic and very thoughtful in terms of daylighting, proportional scale,…

“There’s a softness that is built into the color palette and the materiality of this building that makes it extremely…

“It’s a rich building, in a building type that is rarely rich. The standard of professional competency is really, really…

“I really appreciate the discipline they showed in not doing too much with a small space. The scale, structure, and…

“The architecture functions like a drawing: It’s a composition of folded planes that create entries, entrances, and courtyards that play…

“It’s a very inventive approach to a tight lot: minimizing the building footprint in favor of introducing an outdoor space…

“This project manages to be incredibly rigorous and cohesive in terms of materiality and massing while simultaneously providing a wide…

“It’s exciting to see a potentially prototypical approach to these abandoned strip malls. It gives me hope that there can…

“We all loved this project for the romantic and historic typology, but also for how delicate the touch was. They…

“This project was really well done in terms of adapting a historic building into an extremely functional building for the…

“This project seamlessly draws a direct relationship to the existing school of architecture and offers an expansion of the communal…

“The language, the material they employed, and the way they brought complexity to something that was uniform was extremely intelligent…

“Temporary Tiger addressed an issue that we were all collectively facing in a way that was responsive to the seriousness…

“This is overall the jury’s favorite residential project. And I say that because there is so much packed into such…

“I think that they’ve used a richness of materials without it being too chaotic. It’s not a collage — instead…

Austin’s new Waterloo Park is set to open this fall. Both futuristic and familiar, it hopes, through a carefully calculated…

Houston Audubon’s Smith Oaks Bird Sanctuary at High Island, designed by SWA and SCHAUM/SHIEH, is a case study in the…

The campus of Rice University is one of Houston’s premier bubbles of development, whose accretion of buildings represents a century-long…

Lubbock has master plans in the works to invigorate and connect downtown and the Canyon Lakes, plans that put the…

Mass timber is dawning on the Texas market as a viable alternative to reinforced concrete and steel construction. Here, two…

Today, there is a wide range of carbon-negative materials on the market that can help building projects make a positive…

Once a building material of humble economy used by autochthonous peoples of the Southwest, adobe has become fashionable among Marfa’s…

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Nancy and Rich Kinder Building delivers spatial excitement without overwhelming the art on display.

Long urban walks connect people to place and reveal the intertwining of nature and culture.

Gillespie County is home to one of the largest existing collections of 19th-century American rural common schools.

Houston’s East End is currently the focus of a parks and development master plan. Here, three long-time residents tell their…

Texas celebrated its Centennial in 1936 with a spate of monument building. These structures memorialized a limited version of history…

Major transportation projects across Texas show competing visions for the state’s future.

What is the relationship between housing equity and space architecture? Not sure? Just consider the new frontiers of 3-D-printed buildings.

Artificial intelligence is coming for design, presenting both opportunities and perils for the future of architecture.

Postmodern historicism has been the predominant architectural language of baseball since at least 1992. Now, the Texas Rangers’ newly minted…

One goal of architectural postmodernism has been to accommodate more variety than was typically addressed in high modernism, an objective…

In the 1980s, Houston became the archetypal postmodern city. Many of the architectural monuments of that time remain. Here, we…

What are we missing out on by underrepresentation of people of color? What do minorities have to contribute to architecture?…

Everett Fly, FASLA, is an architect and landscape architect based in San Antonio. He studied architecture at UT Austin and…

Nkiru Mokwe Gelles is a project designer at Michael Hsu Office of Architecture in Austin. Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, Gelles…

Jonathan Moody, AIA, is the CEO of Moody Nolan, an Ohio-based architecture firm with 12 offices across the U.S. He…

DK Osseo-Asare is co-founder of Low Design Office (LOWDO), which is based in Austin and Tema, Ghana, and an assistant…

The Texas Society of Architect's 2020 Design Awards jurors — Stella Betts; Dan Kaplan, FAIA; Kirsten R. Murray, FAIA; and…

Here the most important thing is liberating the floor plan to permeate the whole public realm underneath the building, and…

It punches above its weight in terms of size and really just has a generous presence. — Dan Kaplan, FAIA

Integration of the site, architecture, and the buildings created a lot of different types of experiences and really wove together…

To me, it’s the strongest project we have, or one of the strongest ones — the craft and the detailing…

There’s something timeless and a little monumental about the forms, sort of “monumentality meets domesticity,” in a way. — Dan…

We really appreciated both the building and the landscape element. And the way the roof transitioned from interior to exterior,…

It was very innovative to actually get three different units and making sure they each get light. — Stella Betts

We all appreciated the layers of history, of site reclamation, and just the series of spaces that are created by…

Sports stadiums are usually very introverted and self-absorbed structures, and what I really loved about this project was how it’s…

Community facilities should be about that community, and this one, we found, had the most sense of place. It felt…