Houston’s East End is currently the focus of a parks and development master plan. Here, three long-time residents tell their…

The Rothko Chapel is 50 years old this February, and it has never looked better, thanks to a studious update…

Texas celebrated its Centennial in 1936 with a spate of monument building. These structures memorialized a limited version of history…

Major transportation projects across Texas show competing visions for the state’s future.

What is the relationship between housing equity and space architecture? Not sure? Just consider the new frontiers of 3-D-printed buildings.

Artificial intelligence is coming for design, presenting both opportunities and perils for the future of architecture.

To see and experience Donald Judd’s work in depth, we in Texas have two options: Travel to Marfa, or see…

Postmodern historicism has been the predominant architectural language of baseball since at least 1992. Now, the Texas Rangers’ newly minted…

One goal of architectural postmodernism has been to accommodate more variety than was typically addressed in high modernism, an objective…

In the 1980s, Houston became the archetypal postmodern city. Many of the architectural monuments of that time remain. Here, we…

In “Architecture Beyond Experience," Michael Benedikt, director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at UTSOA, advances the idea…

What are we missing out on by underrepresentation of people of color? What do minorities have to contribute to architecture?…

The Texas Society of Architect's 2020 Design Awards jurors — Stella Betts; Dan Kaplan, FAIA; Kirsten R. Murray, FAIA; and…

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

El Segundo Barrio in El Paso is the site of tenement apartment buildings constructed in the early 20th century to…

Pine House in San Antonio is a model of affordable infill residential design and another case for the reintegration of…

The capitalist economy has many strengths, but strict adherence to market principles does not lead to the creation of transcendent…

On the other side of the patron coin is the crank: an individual, a group, or a force that prevents…

In today’s rapidly developing Texas cities, it’s common to see large apartment blocks being constructed entirely of dimensional lumber. At…

When a museum-quality residence catches fire, the architect finds that best-laid plans don’t always turn out as expected.

Legge Lewis Legge’s “Amphibious” is a new kind of monument for the city of Austin. Composed of 35 life-sized bronze…

The Arrive Hotel disguises its identity behind an aggressive architectural screen and a wrapper of wining and dining, fitting perfectly…

The design of Willow House in Terlingua sets an intriguing mold for hospitality: a gathering of concrete boxes that can…

Texas’ hardened international frontier garners most of the headlines, but its porous state-to-state border, the one legislated to absorb as…

According to United States law, being in the country without proper authorization is not a criminal offense. So why are…

El Paso-Ciudad Juárez is the second largest binational metropolitan region on the U.S.-Mexico border (behind San Diego-Tijuana). While much of…

With Arabella, the majority of whose 99 units are unique, the weirdly shifting mirage of Houston’s high-rise luxury residential development…

Lucero, a new affordable housing development in South Austin, shows how designers can slip some poetry into a tight budget.

From its beginnings in a trailer, Austin taco chain Torchy’s has sought to embody and amplify its hometown’s vibe. To…

The digital revolution has changed nearly every aspect of life, including the design of built space. For an extreme example,…

One of the leading trends in contemporary interior design is the exposure of structural and mechanical systems. Far from the…

Located in the W Austin Hotel and Residences, this condo defines zones of use between its concrete slabs with finely…

A new condo in Dallas’ Museum Tower is helping revise the building’s reputation as an embodiment of high-design refinement.

For the moment, The Independent, a high-rise condominium development, is Austin’s tallest building. While its form of shifted boxes rising…

In its nearly 200-year history, the Treviño-Uribe Rancho in San Ygnacio has endured Indian raids, political turmoil, Anglo incursion, banditry,…

Gary Cunningham, FAIA, is the recipient of this year’s O’Neil Ford Medal for Design Achievement. In nearly 40 years of…

Architecture in large part involves placing things in space: a building on a site, a door in a wall, an…

While we focus on Architecture, the vast majority of the built envirionment multiplies around us. Constructed without academicism or consciousness…

The Dallas Arts District may be the nation’s largest culture ghetto — a “decontaminated island” of monuments by world-class architects…

Austin-based company Kasita was poised to reinvent the housing market with its tiny, modular units — pods that could be…

The social stair has become a near-ubiquitous feature of 21st-century architecture. It can be found in public and institutional buildings;…

The Menil Drawing Institute is the latest addition to the Menil Collection’s Houston campus. Elegant and thoughtful on paper, its…

The Transart House sits a block east of the Menil in Houston. Monumental in form but residentially scaled, it’s an…

Ruby City is the new exhibition space of the Linda Pace Foundation in San Antonio. Defined by precast panels in…

Two current projects at NASA’s Johnson Space Center — the preservation of Mission Operations Control Room #2 and the new…

Side Angle Side’s house design for architectural photographer Casey Dunn combines Marfa minimalism with Austin vernacular. Simple, but thoughtfully planned…

Wilson graduated from Texas Tech and is now a design lead at Clayton & Little. He participated in the Land…

Redington works at Side Angle Side in Austin and holds degrees in architecture from Texas Tech and Pratt Institute. He…

Borges holds degrees in architecture from the Central University of Venezuela and Cornell University. Currently, he is an assistant professor…

Koloskov is an architectural illustrator who is currently working as a designer and illustrator at Rottet Studio. Maksim got his…