“The West Lynn Studio is effectively a minimalist white cube. It took an existing building and sheathed it and did…

“The Community First! Micro House attracted the attention of the jury as one of the few projects that really took…

“I was really, really impressed by the ‘Tracing the Line’ execution for educating the public about Waller Creek with very,…

Freedom and individual choice underpin the Montessori curriculum, and those ideals motivated the design of this new school in Austin.…

The new Big Brothers Big Sisters houston headquarters is a shining example of big-idea architecture done on a budget. Sited…

The Charlotte and Donald Test Pavilion at the Dallas Arboretum, set within the park’s edible gardens, provides a flexible space…

Frit technology provides a flexible means of increasing the performance of glass building envelopes while maintaining transparency. Here, a Dallas…

The Concho Center in Midland is a gem of a corporate headquarters that has used its economic weight for the…

The population of Texas continues to grow rapidly, but the state’s electricity infrastructure hasn’t kept pace. Meanwhile, stricter energy codes…

To meet increasingly rigorous energy codes, architects use modeling tools throughout the design process. These tools and strategies are becoming…

For four decades, the Seaholm Power Plant generated electricity for Austin. After decommissioning, it sat mostly vacant for the next…

Nearly every town in Texas, big or small, has at least one historically significant structure. Preserving this built heritage ensures…

The Austin Central Library is the most important Central Texas building in more than a decade. Designed to be a…

The Austin Central Library is the most important Central Texas building in more than a decade. Designed to be a…

The character of Texas’ major cities is defined more by the priorities of developers than by any design process. If…

The separation between architectural design and construction that began during the Renaissance and was consolidated after the Industrial Revolution has…

Big Bend has the most diverse deposit of fossils — spanning the longest period of time — of any National…

Chip and Joanna Gaines of hit TV show “Fixer Upper” fame may trade in the sort of Countrypolitan kitsch that…

A Houston architect, historian, and critic discovers a mid-century architect-designed home in an unassuming East End neighbor- hood. He buys…

Starting from the basic premise that knowing what not to do is as important as knowing what to do, Furman…

In the course of nearly a century, the building at 700 Congress Avenue in Austin has been a theater, a…

Even a cursory glance at recent real estate trends will reveal that something is wrong with the building market. Everywhere…

Casa de las Lomas is not a cheap house. While it could be derided as an example of conspicuous consumption,…

At the tattered fringe of East Austin, where a rough-and-tumble neighborhood ends at a busy highway, stands an architectural gem.…

Similar in size, geography, and climate, Austin and San Antonio might as well be sisters. However, they take notably different…

“The estuary is a very delicate ecosystem, and the delicate nature of the wood detailing and the filigree of the…

“The Cistern project is as much about what the architect didn’t do as what they did do.” — Andy Tinucci,…

“The way that the interior design of the space and the architecture of the space merge seamlessly into one is…

The MATCH is a great project. It has a wonderful breezeway/outdoor civic space that functions as a lobby to the…

“Every interior space had an appropriately scaled outdoor space to give out onto, and really achieved an amazing sort of…

“It’s a great example of an accessory dwelling in an urban context. It’s very well sited; it has its own…

“It creates this structural box and clamps on an end piece that’s glazed on three sides, so it’s kind of…

“It actually has this sort of extraordinary sense of being in a special place — but it’s a bathroom.” —…

“It’s funny how we appreciate agricultural buildings and the way they sit in the landscape. They are perfect references for…

“There’s always the money shot, and for us it was the room that had this two foot repetition of trusses…

“What we’re awarding here is not an art installation and not a piece of architecture, but the potential for architecture…

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…

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

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…

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…

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

in 1979, John Hejduk was visiting critic at the University of Houston College of Architecture, leading the school’s Honor Studio…