May 01, 2019
Wheat is a project architect and designer at Brown Reynolds Watford Architects in Dallas, as well as a full-blown lecturer…
May 01, 2019
Martinez is a San Antonio native who studied at MIT as a fellowship recipient and currently works at Page. He…
May 01, 2019
Reyes works for Rhotenberry Wellen Architects in Midland and has a degree in architecture from Texas Tech. She also attended…
May 01, 2019
Warr is a freelance designer and visualizer in Houston. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin School of…
May 01, 2019
The latest piece in St. Edward’s University’s ambitious building program is a modern renovation of Holy Cross Hall, which has…
May 01, 2019
The Cockrell School of Engineering’s new Engineering Education and Research Center provides more than state-of-the-art laboratory and classroom space. It…
May 01, 2019
The new fabrication building at Prairie View A&M University is the envy of architecture schools across the nation, and yet…
May 01, 2019
The Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center gives UT Dallas a comfortable place on campus where students past and present can gather for…
Mar 01, 2019
Houston architect Ben Koush’s house and studio for himself and his husband, Luis de las Cuevas, represent the latest twist…
Mar 01, 2019
The increased frequency and severity of mass shootings in the United States, particularly in schools, is altering the discourse of…
Mar 01, 2019
Solitary confinement has long been considered torture by international human rights groups. It is also known to be an ineffective…
Feb 28, 2019
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s new concervation facility includes four studios, each tuned for a specific type of media.
Feb 28, 2019
The new Review Spaces at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture provide infrastructure for print and digital…
Feb 28, 2019
The new headquarters of Fort Worth Camera is more than a retail store — it’s a community center for those…
Jan 08, 2019
Austin’s West Campus neighborhood and College Station have become ground zero for privately developed luxury student housing. These projects look…
Jan 08, 2019
The new home of Houston gallerist Hiram Butler is exceedingly simple in form. Designed by Marshall Reid, it is rectangular…
Jan 08, 2019
A writing studio/hunting blind, a house for a couple who lead separate lives, and an installation for the Waller Creek…
Jan 08, 2019
A solid-concrete wedding chapel, a floating house addition, two accessory dwelling units that rise above the roofline — in each…
Jan 08, 2019
A house with an inhabitable gable roof, a conservancy center in the vanishing Katy Prairie, an underground bathhouse in the…
Jan 08, 2019
A financial services office in the Dallas Arts District, a house on a bluff overlooking Fort Worth, an adaptively reused…
Nov 01, 2018
One year after Hurricane Harvey, TA checks on Houston's resiliency response. We round up the funding incentives available to motivate…
Nov 01, 2018
Unfired earth building materials — rammed earth, adobe, compressed earth block — are a plentiful, structurally robust, and natural alternative…
Sep 05, 2018
“Lamar Union was an extraordinary example of how to re-create public space. Every city in Texas, and every city in…
Sep 05, 2018
“It looked like it could be a very functional commercial office building, and we were convinced it would be a…
Sep 05, 2018
“The Highland Campus is incredible because it takes a typology that all cities have — especially North American cities, which…
Sep 05, 2018
“The architects were very skillful in inserting an entirely new and modern facility within the structure of the historic. That…
Sep 05, 2018
“This particular project is part of a new wave of how we think about our existing towers and existing cities.…
Sep 05, 2018
“This project opened the curtain a little bit and showed the messy interaction — the vibrancy of the project —…
Sep 05, 2018
“We felt that it was really important to recognize this project for the accomplishments it was able to achieve, which…
Sep 05, 2018
“The Tumbleweed Residence, I think, we all feel like we all just want to move in. In the span of…
May 07, 2018
For four decades, the Seaholm Power Plant generated electricity for Austin. After decommissioning, it sat mostly vacant for the next…
Mar 13, 2018
Nearly every town in Texas, big or small, has at least one historically significant structure. Preserving this built heritage ensures…
Mar 12, 2018
The Austin Central Library is the most important Central Texas building in more than a decade. Designed to be a…
Mar 12, 2018
The Austin Central Library is the most important Central Texas building in more than a decade. Designed to be a…
Mar 12, 2018
The character of Texas’ major cities is defined more by the priorities of developers than by any design process. If…
Mar 12, 2018
The separation between architectural design and construction that began during the Renaissance and was consolidated after the Industrial Revolution has…
Jan 17, 2018
Big Bend has the most diverse deposit of fossils — spanning the longest period of time — of any National…
Jan 17, 2018
Chip and Joanna Gaines of hit TV show “Fixer Upper” fame may trade in the sort of Countrypolitan kitsch that…
Jan 17, 2018
A Houston architect, historian, and critic discovers a mid-century architect-designed home in an unassuming East End neighbor- hood. He buys…
Jan 17, 2018
Starting from the basic premise that knowing what not to do is as important as knowing what to do, Furman…
Jan 17, 2018
In the course of nearly a century, the building at 700 Congress Avenue in Austin has been a theater, a…
Nov 17, 2017
Texas’ most famous architectural photographer, with a career spanning nearly 50 years, offers an alternative to traditional photography of architecture…
Nov 17, 2017
Even a cursory glance at recent real estate trends will reveal that something is wrong with the building market. Everywhere…
Nov 17, 2017
Casa de las Lomas is not a cheap house. While it could be derided as an example of conspicuous consumption,…
Nov 17, 2017
At the tattered fringe of East Austin, where a rough-and-tumble neighborhood ends at a busy highway, stands an architectural gem.…
Nov 17, 2017
Similar in size, geography, and climate, Austin and San Antonio might as well be sisters. However, they take notably different…
Sep 11, 2017
“The estuary is a very delicate ecosystem, and the delicate nature of the wood detailing and the filigree of the…
Sep 11, 2017
“The Cistern project is as much about what the architect didn’t do as what they did do.” — Andy Tinucci,…
Sep 11, 2017
“The way that the interior design of the space and the architecture of the space merge seamlessly into one is…
Sep 11, 2017
The MATCH is a great project. It has a wonderful breezeway/outdoor civic space that functions as a lobby to the…