Jul 28, 2025
In downtown El Paso, one feels a slight charge in the atmosphere—a quality mostly absent from its regional neighbors but…
Stephen (Chick) Rabourn, AIA
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Stephen “Chick” Rabourn (REMOTE) is an architect, builder, and writer in Marfa, with projects featured in AN Interior, Dwell, and Texas Architect magazine. He writes about architecture, place, and Far West Texas for The Architect’s Newspaper and Texas Architect, where he also chairs the Publications Committee. In 2023, AIA El Paso recognized MT7, an office rehabilitation project in Midland with a Merit Award.
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May 12, 2025
Why we love the places we love
Jul 09, 2024
Texas’s Big Bend region is a landscape of expansive exposure. Its treasures, however, are often difficult to spot, serenely camouflaged…
May 02, 2024
While Donald Judd’s artistic output was a matter of public concern during his lifetime, revealing the extent to which he…
May 02, 2024
Lina Bo Bardi: Material IdeologiesEdited by Monica Ponce de LeonPrinceton Architectural Press, 2022 Who among architects is immune to the…
Jul 03, 2023
Architect Andrea Kabala left her role as project architect at Perkins&Will in 2014 to work as design manager for the…
Mar 07, 2023
How we understand and tell stories of the past is, in reality, a dynamic act of creation.
Nov 07, 2022
Like most Western towns, Marfa’s history is in turns celebrated, exploited, contested, forgotten, ignored, and most enthusiastically traded privately among…
Mar 07, 2022
For the past century, some of the darkest night skies in the continental United States could be found in far…
Jan 07, 2022
Rida Asfahani, AIA, and Christopher Esper, Assoc. AIA, of Root Architects are winning hosts at their mixed-use headquarters north of…
Jul 15, 2019
Finding Community at Mextrópoli 2019 Produced by Arquine, Mexico City With over 21 million inhabitants, Mexico City is the most…
Mar 01, 2019
Donald Judd’s building projects in Marfa are as prodigious as they are conspicuous in the remote but highly scrutinized town…
Jan 10, 2019
The Trans-Pecos region holds many ironies without compunction: Immense stretches of flat scrubland desert give way to looming mountains capped…
Jan 07, 2019
TxDOT’s West Pecos County Safety Rest Area, designed by Richter Architects, takes its cues from the rugged geography of West…