Founded in 1986, Casa Marianella is an Austin nonprofit providing shelter and support for asylum-seeking refugees and other immigrants. Low…

Twelve gingko leaf-like structures now tower over the courtyard just outside the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of…

The first architect I ever spoke to told me, “The training is brutal, the pay is minimal, but the job…

My work is often a reflection of the memories and experiences that have shaped me. One recurring motif in my…

The Houston Zoo's new Galápagos Island Exhibit

The city of Houston announced in July its latest work of permanent art in public space. Arco del Tiempo (Arch…

Almost every urban Texan has experienced the arrival of hordes of birds to our cities, especially in the fall and…

Challenging the societal norms of the fast fashion industry.

Located within the Rice University campus, the Harris Gully Natural Area is a restored watershed that consists of several microhabitats…

2022 was a wonderfully productive year for the design community as a whole. One watershed moment will define it, however:…

Ongoing renovation work in The University of Texas at Austin’s Battle Hall has led to the discovery of a handwritten…

David Figueroa, developer of the mobile app Augment El Paso, is helping static art come to life in galleries, museums,…

For more than half a century, 800 Bell has graced the skyline of downtown Houston. The tower’s distinctive 44-stories of…

Labyrinth was a fleeting installation. Monumental in size, it appeared and vanished in the space of a week. The project…

“Poisoned by Zip Code,” a site-specific installation by Dallas-based visual artist Ari Brielle, spotlights South Dallas resident Marsha Jackson and…

In 1946, Frank Lloyd Wright seemed to have landed the client who would finally fulfill his decades-long ambition to build a…

Capturing the constantly changing road and landscape in front of me has become a calming, meditative obsession. I started drawing…

Designing a built environment that provides protection from the undead calls for programmatic requirements not usually included in the standard…

In the spring of 2020, I was studying abroad in Spain and having the time of my life. Like many…

OMA has unveiled The Terminal, a 5,000-capacity Live Nation performance venue slated to open in November. The project is sited…

The Steven Holl Architects-designed Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is clad with half-tubes…

Tobe Nwigwe is a Houston-based Nigerian-American rapper who thoroughly embodies the slogan “make purpose popular,” which is emblazoned on his…

Launched in 2020 by AIA Austin in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Force-Majeure is a design ideas competition that prompts…

Dove Springs in southeast Austin is a working-class Hispanic neighborhood of single-family homes. A regular destination for Central American immigrants,…

Installed at various locations throughout Austin, “Parkspace” is a straightforward but playful outdoor solution for encouraging social distancing.

For the past eight years, students from The University of Texas at Austin, led by Professor Coleman Coker, have participated…

On a sunny weekend in October, under the dappled light of several sprawling oaks, Sean Guess, AIA, of Faye and…

Each year, Ragdale, an artist community in Lake Forest, Illinois, hosts an artist-in-residence program, inviting architects, artists, and designers to…

Encountering “Zephyr,” a recent Texas Tech University Public Art commission by Mark Fornes, is like approaching an otherworldly object tentatively…

A crowd gathers around a model made of painted clay buildings, hand-drawn street grids, pieces of yarn, and other chucherias…

Deep in the hills of Utopia, John Grable, FAIA, has been working with a private client for over 10 years,…

The digital revolution in architectural photography is old enough to have become the status quo. When media lose their edge,…

Look up. Above your head in the dark, a glowing whirl dangles, emanating blue-white light. Maybe it’s a tethered alien…

The Koppel Building at 318 Congress Avenue in downtown Austin is a registered historic landmark built in 1888 by Prussian…

The Riverlands Avian Observatory sits next to a reconstructed wetland near the juncture of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Developed…

Joyce Rosner, Distinguished Senior Lecturer at The University of Texas School of Architecture, received a 2007 Gabriel Prize that sparked…

Marquise,” a new work by Marc Fornes/TheVeryMany, billows like a circus tent frozen in time. Its colorful undulations — diamonds…

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

Hidden behind a fence in Houston’s Cherryhurst neighborhood is “Ripple,” the latest collaborative house-scaled, site-specific work by artistic duo Havel…

In 2013, a quartet of beery-eyed entrepreneurs moved into a warehouse in Houston’s EaDo neighborhood, blocks from downtown. They had…

The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) was started by Richard Brettell, the…

The most memorable part of my childhood morning routine before grade school wasn’t the bowl of cereal or the cartoons…

This year’s AIA Houston Celebrate Architecture Gala, dubbed “Frame ReFrame,” highlighted the value of adaptive reuse. It was held at…

Located near Crawford, the Prairie Chapel Ranch is the retreat of George W. and Laura Bush. For a period of…

Houston’s Fifth Ward — also known as “The Bloody Fifth” — has for decades been synonymous with poverty and crime.…

The banks of the Colorado River in Austin are crowded with trees — bald cypress, sycamore, cottonwood, elm, and others.…

For about a week at the end of August 2016, the jury room of the Rice School of Architecture was…

After building military bases and oil refineries during the Second World War, Harmon Dobson became a serial entrepreneur. He sold…

While small in size, the admissions kiosk at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin accomplishes a lot. Designed…