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…
Sep 11, 2017
“Every interior space had an appropriately scaled outdoor space to give out onto, and really achieved an amazing sort of…
Sep 11, 2017
“It’s a great example of an accessory dwelling in an urban context. It’s very well sited; it has its own…
Sep 11, 2017
“It creates this structural box and clamps on an end piece that’s glazed on three sides, so it’s kind of…
Sep 11, 2017
“It actually has this sort of extraordinary sense of being in a special place — but it’s a bathroom.” —…
Sep 11, 2017
“It’s funny how we appreciate agricultural buildings and the way they sit in the landscape. They are perfect references for…
Sep 11, 2017
“There’s always the money shot, and for us it was the room that had this two foot repetition of trusses…
Sep 11, 2017
“What we’re awarding here is not an art installation and not a piece of architecture, but the potential for architecture…
Jul 05, 2017
Climate change. Environmental depredation. Population explosion. Dwindling resources. There’s no doubt about it: The existing mode of suburban development must…
Jul 05, 2017
The cultural and economic forces that continue to shape the American suburb are larger than architecture. But the profession could…
Jul 05, 2017
The Domain is a mixed-use development of residences, shopping, and offices that creates a node of walkable density at the…
May 16, 2017
A UTSA ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR AND HIS STUDENTS MAP THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WORSHIP AND THE ENVIRONMENT. WHAT THEY FIND IS A…
May 16, 2017
FOR MANY AMONG THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARCHITECTS, “TRADITION” IS NO LONGER A DIRTY WORD. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE FOR…
May 16, 2017
The Philip Johnson-designed Thanks-Giving Square and Chapel was commissioned in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, as part of a…
May 16, 2017
Architects have intuitively understood and designed awe-inspiring spaces for millennia. Now, a new body of research in the field of…
May 16, 2017
White Oak Music Hall is an only-in-Houston project, a ground-up rock club that seeks authenticity by way of its elemental…
Mar 01, 2017
Galveston Bay and the Houston Ship Channel are home to the nation’s second-busiest port, its largest petrochemical complex, and a…
Mar 01, 2017
In the Gulf Coast DesignLab at UT Austin, Coleman Coker takes a dozen students on a 15-week journey to design…
Mar 01, 2017
The concrete walls of the dormant Seaholm Intake dip beneath the waters of Lady Bird Lake. This abandoned work of…
Mar 01, 2017
The John Gaines Park and Swim Center in Austin’s Mueller neighborhood is more than just a developer amenity — it’s…
Feb 28, 2017
Re-engineering a modern megacity like Dallas-Fort Worth to create the sort of dense, walkable urbanism favored by 21st-century planners is…
Jan 09, 2017
in 1979, John Hejduk was visiting critic at the University of Houston College of Architecture, leading the school’s Honor Studio…
Jan 09, 2017
Architecture was the world’s first broadcast communications platform. But in the modern era, the practice largely abandoned its narrative approach…
Jan 09, 2017
For the first time in its history, UT Austin has a medical school. The building that houses it — the…
Jan 06, 2017
Having just completed its third consecutive year, Creek Show — a series of light-based art and architecture installations at Waller…
Nov 10, 2016
The City of El Paso Quality of Life Bond Program, passed in 2012, has instigated a number of public projects…
Nov 10, 2016
After a five-year revitalization effort, Houston’s Buffalo Bayou Park has taken its place among the city’s top public green spaces.…
Nov 10, 2016
The Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston may be the only venue in the country created specifically to provide affordable…