Sep 04, 2024
Nestled at the center of the University of Dallas’s small campus lies the Church of the Incarnation, mostly unchanged since…
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Mar 04, 2024
Recently, Texas Architect writer Alyssa Morris spoke with the new dean of the University of Texas at Austin School of…
Nov 09, 2023
When driving near Falfurrias off Texas Highway 281, you might happen to stop on a long journey at a uniquely…
Jul 03, 2023
The City of Austin Permitting and Development Center elevates the public’s experience of civic processes. Project City of Austin Permitting…
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…
Jan 12, 2023
Writer Alyssa Morris sat down with Michelle Addington, dean of The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, to…
Nov 07, 2022
Office and retail design are reconsidered on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 03, 2022
When AIA San Antonio announced “City Hall for All,” a design contest seeking an accessible solution for the east elevation…
Nov 01, 2018
Joyce Rosner, Distinguished Senior Lecturer at The University of Texas School of Architecture, received a 2007 Gabriel Prize that sparked…
Jul 02, 2018
Freedom and individual choice underpin the Montessori curriculum, and those ideals motivated the design of this new school in Austin.…
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 07, 2018
With a simple volumetric shift, the Holly ADU goes from efficient backyard apartment to multivalent indoor-outdoor space that can be…
Mar 12, 2018
Clickspring Design inserts a visitor whiskey-tasting room inside Jack Daniel’s Barrel House 1-14. The steel and glass intervention is discreet,…
Nov 16, 2017
The 34-person Michael Hsu Office of Architecture sits on a busy stretch of Burnet Road, tucked away behind weathering steel…
Jul 05, 2017
Tiny and glossy, like a piece of hard candy, this Austin eyeglass boutique designed by Baldridge Architects projects an aspirational…
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
After an exhaustive hunt turned up four finalists, The University of Texas at Austin has selected Michelle Addington as the…
Mar 02, 2017
In response to the current political climate of our nation, I asked TxA web editor Alyssa Morris to write this…
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 06, 2017
The Rothko Chapel has hired New York’s Architecture Research Office (ARO) to undertake renovation and master planning efforts for the…
Nov 11, 2016
San Diego, California, is one of the few cities in the United States that has an international airport at its…
Sep 07, 2016
“Hello … my name is ROBERT,” begins Dallas’s architectural ’zine, an artifact of 2010, when the city was between architecture…
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,…