Jan 07, 2020
A Downtown Houston site adjoining Spotts Park that once held an award-winning YWCA by Taft Architects will soon hold another…
Jan 07, 2020
“Make Austin’s Zoning Weirder” was one of the more unusual pleas during recent Planning Commission public hearings focused on the…
Jan 07, 2020
In March, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced Kingston-based firm Design Collaborative as winner of the Government of Jamaica Houses…
Jan 07, 2020
Waterloo Greenway (formerly Waller Creek Conservancy) welcomed a record-setting 60,000 guests to its 6th Annual Creek Show. This temporary, interactive…
Nov 05, 2019
“City of Dallas putting a homeless shelter 2-3 blocks from our community” read the email subject line. The email went…
Nov 05, 2019
Japenese architect Kengo Kuma visited Dallas for the completion of the new Rolex building in Harwood, which his firm designed.…
Sep 12, 2019
Real estate development in Houston throughout its history has been mostly unremarkable, the minimum product of pro formas and adherence…
Sep 12, 2019
If you hop the fence for a closer look at the Seaholm Intake Building, you’ll find little bits of graffiti…
Sep 12, 2019
Many Austinites could be forgiven for failing to recognize their own public, classical radio station. Despite being an institution whose…
Jul 15, 2019
The way Houstonians talk about Houston has changed since 2007. Among many of those I know, there’s a more familial…
Jul 15, 2019
Two recent announcements from Rice Architecture have caught the attention of the state and nationwide architecture communities: On April 16,…
Jul 15, 2019
In mid-April, Austin City Council unanimously adopted the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan (ASMP), the first comprehensive city-wide transportation plan since…
Jul 15, 2019
Want to save the planet? Quit using language like “save the planet” and talk about individual health instead. That’s the…
May 03, 2019
Finding Architecture at the 2019 SXSW Interactive Festival The SXSW Interactive Festival (formerly the Film & Multimedia Festival), is already…
May 03, 2019
For nearly the past 100 years, Houston has been proud to be a world leader in the oil and gas…
May 03, 2019
The first full mass timber structure in the nation to use southern yellow pine cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels is set…
May 03, 2019
The University of Texas at Austin recently announced a $5 million donation from Professor Emeritus Sinclair Black, FAIA, to support…
Mar 01, 2019
Between the years 1963 and 1978, the artist Ed Ruscha generated a series of small photography books in parallel to…
Mar 01, 2019
Donald Judd’s building projects in Marfa are as prodigious as they are conspicuous in the remote but highly scrutinized town…
Mar 01, 2019
The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of photographer Paul Hester’s long-term project to create a visual record of Houston.…
Jan 10, 2019
The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster Little, Brown and Company,…
Jan 10, 2019
On October 18, the San Antonio City Council voted to move ahead with its planned overhaul of Alamo Plaza. This…
Jan 10, 2019
The Trans-Pecos region holds many ironies without compunction: Immense stretches of flat scrubland desert give way to looming mountains capped…
Jan 10, 2019
For the fifth time in as many years, artists, architects, and Austinites alike descended the banks of Waller Creek to…
Jan 10, 2019
In October, El Paso selected Snøhetta to design a new Children’s Museum on Santa Fe Street in the city’s arts…
Nov 01, 2018
San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, with almost 1.5 million people. By 2050, that number could…
Nov 01, 2018
Modern Architecture in Mexico City: History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital by Kathryn E. O’Rourke University of Pittsburgh…
Nov 01, 2018
The site on East 6th Street just one block east of Interstate 35 is one of many patches of dirt…
Nov 01, 2018
Handsome, passionate, and as smart as a whip, my friend and colleague Larry Doll died too young. He was 69.…
Nov 01, 2018
Since we last reported on the Texas Central Partners (TCP) student rail station design competition (TA March/April 2017), several major…
Nov 01, 2018
“The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease,’ said his son, James Venturi, an urban planner … ” So began the…
Sep 06, 2018
Constructing Houston’s Future: The Architecture of Arthur Evan Jones and Lloyd Morgan Jones By Ben Koush, AIA Houston Mod, $30.00…
Sep 06, 2018
Trinity University had been located on three different sites already when, in 1945, the school found and bought its promised…
Sep 06, 2018
In 2009, the newly established Dallas Center for Architecture was featured in Architectural Record. The article, by former TA editor…
Jul 18, 2018
At Uber’s 2nd Annual Elevate Summit, which took place this past May in Los Angeles, over 700 industry leaders in…
Jul 03, 2018
Exhibit Review Accessing FREESPACE The 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale The Giardini, Arsenale, and points elsewhere within…
Jul 03, 2018
Aula, the Spanish word for a university classroom or lecture hall, is the acronym of an occasional journal: Architecture and…
Jul 03, 2018
On March 27, Galveston — the center for all things Victorian in Texas — moved out of its comfort zone…
Jul 03, 2018
Houston First Corporation has selected Rios Clementi Hale (RCH) Studios to redesign downtown Houston’s Jones Plaza, unveiling one of the…
Jul 03, 2018
Deep Vista took place at Texas A&M University on April 27 and 28. Curated by architecture professor Gabriel Esquivel, the…
May 08, 2018
Garden City|Mega City Austin Central Library From February 27 through April 15, 2018, the Austin Public Library in collaboration with…
May 08, 2018
In an unassuming backyard on Austin’s east side, nonprofit New Story and construction technologies company ICON teamed to create the…
May 08, 2018
Harvey dumped 51.6 inches of rain in a few days, leaving 300,000 still homeless in January 2018, 36 fatalities, and…
May 08, 2018
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He has collaborated with Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Olafur…
Mar 13, 2018
Lagos, Nigeria, is the largest city in Africa and one of the most populous urban areas in the world. With…
Mar 13, 2018
The first time the American public saw the compound — an awkward collection of simple volumes punctuated by a tall,…
Mar 13, 2018
Atlas of Another America: An Architectural Fiction By Keith Krumwiede with an afterward by Albert Pope Park Books, $44.20 A…
Mar 13, 2018
RELi, pronounced “rely,” is a national consensus standard rating system, similar to LEED, that focuses on resiliency. Developed by a…
Jan 18, 2018
Chicago Architecture Biennial: Make New History Curated by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee Having ridden past countless billboards promoting the…
Jan 18, 2018
Donald Judd Writings Edited by Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray Co-published by Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books, $39.95 In…