As a member of an advisory group to MIT, I’ve been a bit critical. The other day while talking with…

In May, the American Institute of Architects announced that Robert Ivy, FAIA, will retire at the end of this year,…

On June 14, the Texas Society of Architects welcomed Jennifer Briggs as its new executive vice president. Briggs was previously…

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

This year, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, widely considered the discipline’s highest honor, was awarded to French architects Anne Lacaton and…

Why do architects make books about their own work? Especially these days, when basically everone has a website presenting their…

It used to be that after exiting I-35 and heading east, all you could see for miles was wide open…

The SXSW Center shows that Austin’s biggest little festival organizer is all grown up, for the most part.  Architect Pei…

A clearing in the forest. The boardwalk has brought you here, as if to show it to you. But why?…

Since 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt donated all of his official papers to the federal government for safekeeping and public…

The Rothko Chapel is 50 years old this February, and it has never looked better, thanks to a studious update…

It is, by design, dark, obscure. Some people, upon entering, feel uneasy, claustrophobic, creeped out. Others walk in, look around,…

Milby High School in Houston’s East End preserves history while providing 21st-century pedagogy. Architect Kirksey Architecture Associate Architect Huerta &…

No photos of tiny sheds in the colossal landscape under cotton ball clouds afloat in Big Texas blue skies.  This…

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…

Two months ago, already deep into lockdown life, I conceived this editor’s note as a paean to the opportunities of…

These days, with the advent of each next global crisis, members of the architecture and design profession ask themselves what…

The Dakota Mountain house in Dripping Springs combines passive environmental strategies and affordable construction with a co-living concept. Architect Low…

Michael Imber, FAIA, is principal of Michael G. Imber, Architects in San Antonio. Imber, a self-described “modern classicist,” submitted a…

Last month, an anxious ripple stirred the murky waters of architectural discourse. Architectural Record reported that it had obtained a…

An Austin bungalow renovation blends the old Texas dogtrot and the contemporary Texas air-conditioned box, with pleasing results. Architect Charles Di…

Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I…

The digital revolution has changed nearly every aspect of life, including the design of built space. For an extreme example,…

“Welcome to the frontier,” is what I say at the Austin airport when picking up friends visiting from out of…

The Commune, a co-working spot for creatives in Austin’s North Loop neighborhood, occupies a 1940s commercial building that formerly housed…

All physical ugliness and social ugliness have strong concomitants and roots. Incredibly, there is rampant today all manner of hate…

When John Saunders Chase, FAIA (1925–2012) graduated with an M.Arch degree from The University of Texas at Austin School of…

Founded in 1991 at the dawn of the Neoliberal era, Humphreys & Partners Architects has from the start taken an…

The 2019 TxA Design Conference took us to Tulsa. Entitled “Unexpected,” it laid out the proposition that, as the tag…

January 29 was a revelatory day for architecture in Texas. That morning, the Linda Pace Foundation opened the doors of…

Many architects must feel somewhat annoyed. So much of the rhetoric surrounding the profession these days directs them to solve…

A solid-concrete wedding chapel, a floating house addition, two accessory dwelling units that rise above the roofline — in each…

A house with an inhabitable gable roof, a conservancy center in the vanishing Katy Prairie, an underground bathhouse in the…

A public art installation on an air traffic control tower, a community theater in Fort Stockton, a museum concept for…

A digitally designed and fabricated selfie wall, a cross-border dust sensing network, a national de-escalation training center for law enforcement…

In the last issue, I ended this column by suggesting that more diversity, promiscuity, and surprise in architecture might improve…

Oh! Many a widow, many an orphan cursed The building of that fane; and many a father, Worn out with…

Despite their strict functional requirements, parking garages have given rise to a surprising number of typological inventions. There are continuous…

My first job after college was as a book editor at Edizioni Press, a boutique publishing house in Manhattan that…

In May, the Houston Botanic Garden unveiled plans for its first phase of development. The nonprofit organization, founded in 2002,…

‘‘Venice Architecture Biennale! What does that have to do with Texas?” Believe it or not, I’ve heard that more than…

Exhibit Review Accessing FREESPACE The 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale The Giardini, Arsenale, and points elsewhere within…

Deep Vista took place at Texas A&M University on April 27 and 28. Curated by architecture professor Gabriel Esquivel, the…

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

On the afternoon of December 30, 2017, a Saturday, I was at Figure 8, my favorite East Austin coffee shop, struggling…

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He has collaborated with Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Olafur…

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

Lars Lerup has published a new book. “The Continuous City” (Park Books, 2017) presents the Swedish-American designer and writer’s latest…