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…

Wheat is a project architect and designer at Brown Reynolds Watford Architects in Dallas, as well as a full-blown lecturer…

Martinez is a San Antonio native who studied at MIT as a fellowship recipient and currently works at Page. He…

Reyes works for Rhotenberry Wellen Architects in Midland and has a degree in architecture from Texas Tech. She also attended…

Warr is a freelance designer and visualizer in Houston. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin School of…

The latest piece in St. Edward’s University’s ambitious building program is a modern renovation of Holy Cross Hall, which has…

The Cockrell School of Engineering’s new Engineering Education and Research Center provides more than state-of-the-art laboratory and classroom space. It…

The new fabrication building at Prairie View A&M University is the envy of architecture schools across the nation, and yet…

The Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center gives UT Dallas a comfortable place on campus where students past and present can gather for…

Houston architect Ben Koush’s house and studio for himself and his husband, Luis de las Cuevas, represent the latest twist…

The increased frequency and severity of mass shootings in the United States, particularly in schools, is altering the discourse of…

Solitary confinement has long been considered torture by international human rights groups. It is also known to be an ineffective…

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s new concervation facility includes four studios, each tuned for a specific type of media.

The new Review Spaces at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture provide infrastructure for print and digital…

The new headquarters of Fort Worth Camera is more than a retail store — it’s a community center for those…

Austin’s West Campus neighborhood and College Station have become ground zero for privately developed luxury student housing. These projects look…

The new home of Houston gallerist Hiram Butler is exceedingly simple in form. Designed by Marshall Reid, it is rectangular…

A writing studio/hunting blind, a house for a couple who lead separate lives, and an installation for the Waller Creek…

A solid-concrete wedding chapel, a floating house addition, two accessory dwelling units that rise above the roofline — in each…

A house with an inhabitable gable roof, a conservancy center in the vanishing Katy Prairie, an underground bathhouse in the…

A financial services office in the Dallas Arts District, a house on a bluff overlooking Fort Worth, an adaptively reused…

One year after Hurricane Harvey, TA checks on Houston's resiliency response. We round up the funding incentives available to motivate…

Unfired earth building materials — rammed earth, adobe, compressed earth block — are a plentiful, structurally robust, and natural alternative…

“Lamar Union was an extraordinary example of how to re-create public space. Every city in Texas, and every city in…

“It looked like it could be a very functional commercial office building, and we were convinced it would be a…

“The Highland Campus is incredible because it takes a typology that all cities have — especially North American cities, which…

“The architects were very skillful in inserting an entirely new and modern facility within the structure of the historic. That…

“This particular project is part of a new wave of how we think about our existing towers and existing cities.…