Jul 01, 2021
The campus of Rice University is one of Houston’s premier bubbles of development, whose accretion of buildings represents a century-long…
May 03, 2021
THE BROCKMAN HALL FOR OPERA AT RICE UNIVERSITY PACKS PROFESSIONAL ACOUSTICS AND AUDIO/VISUAL TECHNOLOGY WITHIN A HISTORICIST SHELL INSPIRED BY…
Sep 01, 2020
In “Architecture Beyond Experience," Michael Benedikt, director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at UTSOA, advances the idea…
Mar 11, 2020
Rule of Capture by Christopher BrownHarper Voyager, 2019 In “Rule of Capture,” Christopher Brown’s second novel, we meet Donny Kimoe, a…
Nov 05, 2019
Vibrant, a new healthy eating establishment in Houston’s Hyde Park neighborhood, occupies a 1960s building previously used as a dry…
May 01, 2019
Look up. Above your head in the dark, a glowing whirl dangles, emanating blue-white light. Maybe it’s a tethered alien…
Mar 01, 2019
The new Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston provides daylight-rich studio spaces for the teaching…
Feb 28, 2019
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s new concervation facility includes four studios, each tuned for a specific type of media.
Jan 08, 2019
An experimental gallery working at the intersection of art and anthropology, a vacation residence in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and…
Sep 05, 2018
Marquise,” a new work by Marc Fornes/TheVeryMany, billows like a circus tent frozen in time. Its colorful undulations — diamonds…
May 07, 2018
Hidden behind a fence in Houston’s Cherryhurst neighborhood is “Ripple,” the latest collaborative house-scaled, site-specific work by artistic duo Havel…
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 12, 2018
In 2013, a quartet of beery-eyed entrepreneurs moved into a warehouse in Houston’s EaDo neighborhood, blocks from downtown. They had…
Nov 20, 2017
In late August, Hurricane Harvey camped out over southeast Texas. In some places, it dumped, over the span of a…
Sep 11, 2017
“It creates this structural box and clamps on an end piece that’s glazed on three sides, so it’s kind of…
Jul 05, 2017
The cultural and economic forces that continue to shape the American suburb are larger than architecture. But the profession could…
Feb 28, 2017
San Angelo’s downtown stretch of the North Concho River has been thoroughly made over by Kinney Franke Architects. The river…
Jan 06, 2017
Sanders Architecture and Cravotta Interiors transform an East Austin warehouse into a dramatic and alluring spatial experience for Juniper, a…
Nov 10, 2016
Security, ventilation, and durability compose the bottom line when it comes to public restroom facilities. The Heron Creek Restroom on…
Sep 07, 2016
“It’s great just as a path that a human would take naturally, wanting to sort of look in certain directions,…
Jul 20, 2016
This little town in West Texas now exerts a tremendous amount of cultural influence, and The opening of the Hotel…
May 25, 2016
Project Franklin Mountain House Architect Hazelbaker Rush Design Team Dale Rush, AIA; Darci Hazelbaker, Assoc. AIA Photographer Casey Dunn The Franklin Mountains are the…
Mar 26, 2016
Typically, a house is the most expensive purchase a person makes. Home-ownership remains one of the boxes to be checked…
Jan 27, 2016
Architecture was once said to be technologically decades behind other constructive disciplines. Post-World War II mass production yielded the modern…