Jan 18, 2018
The Houston Downtown Management District, Asakura Robinson, and Sasaki have released an ambitious master plan in the wake of Hurricane…
Jan 18, 2018
In program, Austin’s new East Side District is nothing out of the ordinary: a stadium and arena paired with a…
Jan 18, 2018
For nine nights in November, Austin was once again illuminated by the temporary light-based and site-specific art installations of “Creek…
Nov 20, 2017
In late August, Hurricane Harvey camped out over southeast Texas. In some places, it dumped, over the span of a…
Nov 20, 2017
“Trapped, A Consequence of Forced Implementations” by Munjer Hashim, a former University of Houston architecture student currently working for Sage…
Nov 20, 2017
Dallas’ decades-long saga of its Trinity River project reached a turning point on August 9, when the Dallas City Council…
Nov 20, 2017
In 1942, my grandfather joined the Army Air Corps and was sent to San Antonio for his preflight training. He…
Nov 20, 2017
Though I’ve practiced for 33 years and have been enriched by a plethora of unique clients and colleagues, I never…
Sep 12, 2017
Drawing often appears early in the lives of architects. For us, it is a way of connecting with life, a…
Sep 12, 2017
Frank D. Welch, FAIA, died the morning of June 22 in his Dallas home. He was 90 years old. With…
Sep 12, 2017
This issue of Texas Architect marks the 50th anniversary of The Birthday appearing on the September/October 1967 magazine cover —…
Sep 11, 2017
When I met Frank Welch for the first time, I was so young and innocent that I had no idea…
Sep 11, 2017
Word came to me, by chance, less than 30 minutes after Frank Welch’s death. I was out of town and…
Jul 06, 2017
The gallery is intimate and dimly lit, its periphery a little unclear as one’s eyes adjust to the space. A…
Jul 06, 2017
Blow the Doors Off BREACH AGENCY Architecture WUHO Gallery Los Angeles, California BREACH | Material Rituals of the Securocratic State…
Jul 06, 2017
The Houston Downtown Management District (Downtown District) has announced Plan Downtown: a 20-year vision that will outline recommendations for development…
Jul 06, 2017
As architects, many of us spend our lives in urban centers and turn our backs to the low-density landscape sprawling…
Jul 06, 2017
May 16, 2017
The Texas A&M University College of Architecture organized a student design contest in Fall 2016, seeking uses for the standardized…
May 16, 2017
What does the near future of Houston hold? Will driverless cars crisscross the highways functioning as mobile offices, hotels, and…
May 16, 2017
How Much House? Thoreau, Le Corbusier and the Sustainable Cabin by Urs Peter Flueckiger Birkhauser, $34.95 “You want room for…
May 16, 2017
After an exhaustive hunt turned up four finalists, The University of Texas at Austin has selected Michelle Addington as the…
Mar 06, 2017
Things Which Can be Said You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn by Wendy Lesser Farrar, Straus and…
Mar 02, 2017
Driving on the highway: Everyone in Texas can relate to this activity. For a lot of people, it means congestion,…
Mar 02, 2017
“We’re hurtling at breakneck speed to get from somewhere we didn’t want to be to somewhere we don’t want to…
Mar 02, 2017
Last fall, five graduate students from the Texas Tech College of Architecture created an installation called “Spectrolines” for the student-run…
Jan 09, 2017
On April 30, 2015, a team of architects and landscape architects assembled by the local urban strategy firm Ash+Lime implemented…
Jan 06, 2017
The Rothko Chapel has hired New York’s Architecture Research Office (ARO) to undertake renovation and master planning efforts for the…
Jan 06, 2017
Beyond Documentation: Photography’s Role in Contemporary Architectural Production Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture by Jesús Vassallo…
Jan 06, 2017
On October 20 and 21, the Rubin Center in collaboration with AGENCY Architecture, with participation by Crossway Foundation and Angel…
Jan 06, 2017
Low Plains is the alias of John Redington, Assoc. AIA, a graduate architect at Clayton&Little Architects in Austin. Under this…
Jan 06, 2017
Jim Williamson has had a busy semester. As new dean of the Texas Tech University College of Architecture, he returns…
Nov 11, 2016
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) has finally landed at Rice University. Like the flying saucer it vaguely resembles, the new…
Nov 11, 2016
The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM) in the Philippines is building a new visitor center designed by Richter Architects…
Nov 11, 2016
San Diego, California, is one of the few cities in the United States that has an international airport at its…
Nov 11, 2016
Nick Srnicek is a UK-based theorist and co-author, with Alex Williams, of the book “Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a…
Sep 07, 2016
The theme of the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture, “Reporting from the Front,” frames the work of architects as a…
Sep 07, 2016
“Hello … my name is ROBERT,” begins Dallas’s architectural ’zine, an artifact of 2010, when the city was between architecture…
Sep 07, 2016
In 1965, Sanger-Harris opened its first new, ground-up department store in downtown Dallas as its flagship. Designed by Dallas architect…
Sep 07, 2016
Pedro Ayala, Assoc. AIA, wants to preserve the 1959 McAllen Civic Center in the booming Texas border city of McAllen.…
Jul 20, 2016
Houston’s Alley Theatre is a masterpiece. Any renovation of it, no matter how greatly needed, is sure to stir up…
Jul 20, 2016
On May 4, AIA Dallas announced the four winners of its 2016 Unbuilt Design Awards contest. The award recognizes excellence…
Jul 19, 2016
It was 1993 when I met Bill Booziotis. A friend was working in his office, and since she knew I…
Jul 19, 2016
“Where Are the Women Architects?” By Despina Stratigakos Princeton University Press, $19.95 When the American Institute of Architects released the…
May 25, 2016
The home of the future might only be as big as a large closet. At least, that’s what Jeff Wilson,…
May 25, 2016
The 2015 Solar Decathlon took place in Irvine, Calif. in mid-October after nearly two years of work by 14 teams.…
May 25, 2016
The pavilion that stood in the Nasher Sculpture Center’s garden from January 23 to April 17 was the centerpiece of…
May 25, 2016
Curated by Delaney Harris-Finch and Anna Mod, “Uncommon Modern” presented photographs of more than 100 overlooked pieces of Houston’s modern…
May 25, 2016
The Llano Estacado is flat And seems to go on forever Yellow fields under the blue sky Then without preamble…
Mar 26, 2016
On January 11, 2016, 11 Austin city leaders broke ground on a whimsical and well-appointed signifier of Texan self-regard: the…