Feb 03, 2025
A Family’s Legacy of Excellence
Feb 03, 2025
The Black Home as Public Art exhibition and symposium, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture…
Sep 04, 2024
Exciting new changes are afoot. Next year will mark Texas Architect’s 75th year of production. To celebrate this significant milestone,…
Jul 09, 2024
In early June, I made my way to Washington, DC, for the AIA Conference on Architecture & Design. Though I’ve…
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
In this issue, we examine the idea of craft—of making—within the context of new technologies and how they collide with…
Mar 04, 2024
The wind whistled you in behind the springtimeFloat, Old Note, new among my mindYou hold the note, the note just…
Jan 05, 2024
The concept of “third places” was one our TxA Publications Committee latched onto early and enthusiastically in our planning for…
Jan 05, 2024
Photographs by Herman Ellis Dyal, FAIA, document the Riverside Church in San Antonio.
Nov 09, 2023
It’s impossible to ignore the incredible growth of Texas cities over the past decade. Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin…
Nov 09, 2023
A CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD AND LEAH ROTHSTEIN
Sep 01, 2023
Where does design really begin?
Jul 03, 2023
“For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings,…
May 01, 2023
In the time between the conceptualization of this issue last summer and its production this year, artificial intelligence (AI) has…
May 01, 2023
An Art Deco department store is reimagined as a hub for entrepreneurship and collaboration. Location HoustonClient Rice UniversityDevelopment Manager HinesArchitect…
Mar 07, 2023
To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Braiding Sweetgrass” After…
Jan 12, 2023
This past May, the University of Texas at Dallas announced the groundbreaking for the new Crow Museum of Asian Art…
Nov 07, 2022
There’s a running joke that the best time in Austin was whenever you first moved to the city. I returned…
Nov 07, 2022
From its inception in 1963 and completion in 1965, through its subsequent expansion in 2006, NorthPark Center was envisioned as…
Sep 08, 2022
In 448 B.C., what is widely believed by historians to be the first professional design competition in recorded history was…
Sep 08, 2022
Oppenheimer’s installation is the latest acquisition by The University of Texas at Austin’s public art program, Landmarks.
Jul 06, 2022
Every seed braidedinto the crown of messengers before uncertain passages a love note to future generationsa grain of…
Jul 06, 2022
The Marfa Ranch house takes a fresh approach to a traditional way of building.
May 03, 2022
“Poisoned by Zip Code,” a site-specific installation by Dallas-based visual artist Ari Brielle, spotlights South Dallas resident Marsha Jackson and…
Jan 07, 2022
The small but thoughtfully designed Richard Moya Eastside Bus Plaza in Austin has a big impact on the underserved community…
Jul 01, 2021
Oklahoma Contemporary, a uniquely progressive cultural institution not only for Oklahoma but for the region, has opened its new campus…
Mar 04, 2021
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Nancy and Rich Kinder Building delivers spatial excitement without overwhelming the art on display.
May 06, 2020
The Texas Gulf Coast is home to some of the most affordable beach communities in the country. In Port Aransas,…
Jan 07, 2020
From its beginnings in a trailer, Austin taco chain Torchy’s has sought to embody and amplify its hometown’s vibe. To…
Nov 05, 2019
Lauretta VinciarelliJudd Foundation, New York CityMarch 30 – July 20, 2019 Every landscape is, as it were, a state of…
Jul 15, 2019
Ruby City is the new exhibition space of the Linda Pace Foundation in San Antonio. Defined by precast panels in…
Mar 01, 2019
Solitary confinement has long been considered torture by international human rights groups. It is also known to be an ineffective…
Nov 01, 2018
According to some views, Tyler and Laredo represent very different versions of Texas — the former, an East Texas hub…
Sep 05, 2018
“The architects were very skillful in inserting an entirely new and modern facility within the structure of the historic. That…
Sep 05, 2018
“The Tumbleweed Residence, I think, we all feel like we all just want to move in. In the span of…
Mar 12, 2018
The separation between architectural design and construction that began during the Renaissance and was consolidated after the Industrial Revolution has…
Jan 17, 2018
A young architectural designer on a shoestring budget turns a 1920s San Antonio laundry into appealing residential space that glories…
Sep 11, 2017
“What we’re awarding here is not an art installation and not a piece of architecture, but the potential for architecture…
Jul 05, 2017
Just north of the Pearl development in central San Antonio stands what appears to be an Art Deco gem —…
May 16, 2017
Architects have intuitively understood and designed awe-inspiring spaces for millennia. Now, a new body of research in the field of…