Jul 09, 2024
Texas’s Big Bend region is a landscape of expansive exposure. Its treasures, however, are often difficult to spot, serenely camouflaged…
Jul 09, 2024
Four years after workers shifted out of downtown, investment trends have followed and seek a stronger thesis. A slew of…
Jul 09, 2024
On May 2, IKEA US unveiled a prototype of a permanent supportive housing unit (Small Home) at IKEA Live Oak.…
May 02, 2024
While Donald Judd’s artistic output was a matter of public concern during his lifetime, revealing the extent to which he…
May 02, 2024
Last October, six winners were recognized for their innovative designs for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), also known as casitas or…
May 02, 2024
Following the 2021–2022 survey Expanding Access to Architectural Education and the identification of transfer-friendly practices, the Association of Collegiate Schools…
May 02, 2024
Packed with people, panels, and protests, this year’s iteration of Austin’s signature spring festival, SXSW, continued to spotlight society’s most…
Mar 04, 2024
Mid-November in Austin is home to a beloved community tradition, where thousands of visitors descend on the downtown Red River…
Mar 04, 2024
In a time and place where the paving over of green is the norm—and celebrated as progress, development, and growth—we…
Mar 04, 2024
Recently, Texas Architect writer Alyssa Morris spoke with the new dean of the University of Texas at Austin School of…
Jan 05, 2024
Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021, 155 years after it was first celebrated. The holiday marks June 19, 1865,…
Jan 05, 2024
Like the title of the famous children’s books says: Everybody poops. So why is it so hard to find a…
Jan 05, 2024
Getty Street in Uvalde is bustling. Families gather on the street expectantly. It is June 29, 2023, the day of…
Jan 05, 2024
Participants in the 30th annual Building Communities Conference and Trade Show, organized by the American Institute of Architects Lower Rio…
Nov 09, 2023
As a representation of calmness and well-being, water has often influenced design through its dynamic and fluid nature. In certain…
Nov 09, 2023
At the north edge of Ray Miller Park, a small 15-acre park in the Energy Corridor District of Houston, is…
Nov 09, 2023
Urban design has always occupied the intersection of politics, social science, and economics. In an age where the town square…
Sep 01, 2023
In conjunction with last year’s Texas Society of Architects Annual Conference & Design Expo, the Texas Tech Design Leadership Alliance…
Sep 01, 2023
More than a year ago, Texas families were forced to face the unimaginable. Nineteen defenseless third- and fourth-grade students and…
Jul 03, 2023
As a part of the 88th Legislative Session, 90 architects representing 14 chapters from across the state gathered at the…
Jul 03, 2023
Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston, our nation’s fourth largest city, in 2017. In the almost six years since, the city has…
Jul 03, 2023
What happens when oil and water mix? In 2019, the city of Houston acquired the Gasmer Drive property with the…
May 01, 2023
On February 3, the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture hosted a symposium exploring the potential for artificial…
May 01, 2023
“A practicing architect of sensitivity and great distinction…. Besides achievement as a designer, he has given himself unflaggingly and quietly…
May 01, 2023
The Texas Society of Architects brought the Design Conference to the Texas Hill Country for its 11th annual event celebrating…
May 01, 2023
To me, West Texas means windmills and oil derricks. The first time I drove west on Interstate 20 through the…
May 01, 2023
Creative professionals from around the world convened in Austin in early March for the annual South by Southwest conference and…
Mar 07, 2023
Fredericksburg is known for its quaint German stone houses, its proximity to Hill Country wineries, and, increasingly, its rowdy out-of-town…
Mar 07, 2023
I stood in a wide-open field where the tall native grasses reached to grip the horizon, the only visual stitching…
Mar 07, 2023
“If you want to know the history of Dallas, look at the history of its parks,” says Ed Gray, a…
Mar 07, 2023
The Kalita Humphreys Theater is Dallas’ own historic gem designed by world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Although one can argue…
Jan 12, 2023
Athenaeum: via Latin from the Greek Athenaion, denoting the temple of the goddess Athene in ancient Athens, which was used…
Jan 12, 2023
After two years of meeting virtually, the AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice (AAJ) held its 2022 fall conference in…
Jan 12, 2023
Participants in the 29th annual Building Communities Conference and Trade Show, organized by the Lower Rio Grande Valley chapter of…
Jan 12, 2023
Writer Alyssa Morris sat down with Michelle Addington, dean of The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, to…
Jan 12, 2023
The George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center is located in the heart of East Austin in a historically…
Nov 07, 2022
Swiss-American Urs Peter “Upe” Flueckiger was born in Herzogenbuchsee, Switzerland. He is a full professor and currently serves as the…
Nov 07, 2022
Like most Western towns, Marfa’s history is in turns celebrated, exploited, contested, forgotten, ignored, and most enthusiastically traded privately among…
Sep 08, 2022
Phase 2 of the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center addresses the need for a visible cornerstone for the…
Sep 08, 2022
Louis I. Kahn was 65 and at the height of his capacities as an architect when he was hired in…
Sep 08, 2022
On May 14, at the headquarters of the iconic local company Acme Brick, the Fort Worth chapter of the American…
Sep 08, 2022
There’s a rapid time lapse happening at the intersection of East 7th and Chicon streets in East Austin: Low-slung industrial…
Jul 06, 2022
Where does one find 800,000 cubic yards of dirt? And assuming one can find it, how long would it take…
Jul 06, 2022
For more than two years now, we have been living under the “new normal,” our lives disrupted by the COVID-19…
Jul 06, 2022
It all begins with the river. Without the river, there is no park. Without the river, there is no Laredo,…
Jul 06, 2022
Every year, the Urban Land Institute Gerald Hines Student Competition challenges groups of students from across the nation to develop…
May 03, 2022
When AIA San Antonio announced “City Hall for All,” a design contest seeking an accessible solution for the east elevation…
May 03, 2022
The recent rehabilitation of the San Agustín Cathedral in Laredo represents an intriguing combination of history, culture, science, and community…
May 03, 2022
On March 3-6, some 90 architects descended upon the small Wyoming town of Jackson for the 10th Annual Texas Society…
Mar 07, 2022
For the past century, some of the darkest night skies in the continental United States could be found in far…