Nov 09, 2023
Urban design has always occupied the intersection of politics, social science, and economics. In an age where the town square…
Sep 01, 2023
In conjunction with last year’s Texas Society of Architects Annual Conference & Design Expo, the Texas Tech Design Leadership Alliance…
Sep 01, 2023
More than a year ago, Texas families were forced to face the unimaginable. Nineteen defenseless third- and fourth-grade students and…
Jul 03, 2023
As a part of the 88th Legislative Session, 90 architects representing 14 chapters from across the state gathered at the…
Jul 03, 2023
Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston, our nation’s fourth largest city, in 2017. In the almost six years since, the city has…
Jul 03, 2023
What happens when oil and water mix? In 2019, the city of Houston acquired the Gasmer Drive property with the…
May 01, 2023
On February 3, the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture hosted a symposium exploring the potential for artificial…
May 01, 2023
“A practicing architect of sensitivity and great distinction…. Besides achievement as a designer, he has given himself unflaggingly and quietly…
May 01, 2023
The Texas Society of Architects brought the Design Conference to the Texas Hill Country for its 11th annual event celebrating…
May 01, 2023
To me, West Texas means windmills and oil derricks. The first time I drove west on Interstate 20 through the…
May 01, 2023
Creative professionals from around the world convened in Austin in early March for the annual South by Southwest conference and…
Mar 07, 2023
Fredericksburg is known for its quaint German stone houses, its proximity to Hill Country wineries, and, increasingly, its rowdy out-of-town…
Mar 07, 2023
I stood in a wide-open field where the tall native grasses reached to grip the horizon, the only visual stitching…
Mar 07, 2023
“If you want to know the history of Dallas, look at the history of its parks,” says Ed Gray, a…
Mar 07, 2023
The Kalita Humphreys Theater is Dallas’ own historic gem designed by world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Although one can argue…
Jan 12, 2023
Athenaeum: via Latin from the Greek Athenaion, denoting the temple of the goddess Athene in ancient Athens, which was used…
Jan 12, 2023
After two years of meeting virtually, the AIA Academy of Architecture for Justice (AAJ) held its 2022 fall conference in…
Jan 12, 2023
Participants in the 29th annual Building Communities Conference and Trade Show, organized by the Lower Rio Grande Valley chapter of…
Jan 12, 2023
Writer Alyssa Morris sat down with Michelle Addington, dean of The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, to…
Jan 12, 2023
The George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center is located in the heart of East Austin in a historically…
Nov 07, 2022
Swiss-American Urs Peter “Upe” Flueckiger was born in Herzogenbuchsee, Switzerland. He is a full professor and currently serves as the…
Nov 07, 2022
Like most Western towns, Marfa’s history is in turns celebrated, exploited, contested, forgotten, ignored, and most enthusiastically traded privately among…
Sep 08, 2022
Phase 2 of the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center addresses the need for a visible cornerstone for the…
Sep 08, 2022
Louis I. Kahn was 65 and at the height of his capacities as an architect when he was hired in…
Sep 08, 2022
On May 14, at the headquarters of the iconic local company Acme Brick, the Fort Worth chapter of the American…
Sep 08, 2022
There’s a rapid time lapse happening at the intersection of East 7th and Chicon streets in East Austin: Low-slung industrial…
Jul 06, 2022
Where does one find 800,000 cubic yards of dirt? And assuming one can find it, how long would it take…
Jul 06, 2022
For more than two years now, we have been living under the “new normal,” our lives disrupted by the COVID-19…
Jul 06, 2022
It all begins with the river. Without the river, there is no park. Without the river, there is no Laredo,…
Jul 06, 2022
Every year, the Urban Land Institute Gerald Hines Student Competition challenges groups of students from across the nation to develop…
May 03, 2022
When AIA San Antonio announced “City Hall for All,” a design contest seeking an accessible solution for the east elevation…
May 03, 2022
The recent rehabilitation of the San Agustín Cathedral in Laredo represents an intriguing combination of history, culture, science, and community…
May 03, 2022
On March 3-6, some 90 architects descended upon the small Wyoming town of Jackson for the 10th Annual Texas Society…
Mar 07, 2022
For the past century, some of the darkest night skies in the continental United States could be found in far…
Mar 07, 2022
El Paso-Juárez is the second largest binational region on the United States-Mexico border. Also known as the Borderplex, or as…
Mar 07, 2022
Zoological gardens, or zoos, as they have come to be known, were at first little more than exotic collections of…
Mar 07, 2022
For many people, San Antonio is a tourist city: It has long been a draw for tourists attracted to its…
Mar 07, 2022
The official groundbreaking ceremony for the National Medal of Honor Museum will take place on March 25. The museum will…
Jan 07, 2022
We stood together, leaning back, staring up at the sky, waiting in a hilltop cemetery by a small country church…
Jan 07, 2022
Community First! Village is a master planned community for people emerging from chronic homelessness. The development features six new houses…
Jan 07, 2022
On October 19, 2021, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) issued a statement reaffirming its opposition to unpaid…
Jan 07, 2022
Hotel renovations are not generally news. Lobbies and other high-traffic areas become worn and are renovated; fabrics and furnishings go…
Jan 07, 2022
The light rail system operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is a hub-and-spoke model, designed to bring riders from…
Jan 07, 2022
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Texan parents studying at Yale, Clovis Heimsath, FAIA, would himself study at Yale before…
Nov 01, 2021
This summer, The University of Texas at San Antonio announced it would be combining its College of Architecture, Construction and…
Nov 01, 2021
Gensler, teamed with San Antonio firm GRG Architecture, has been selected by the Alamo Trust to design the new Visitor…
Nov 01, 2021
Three sites in Texas are among the 40 recipients of grants from the African-American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
Nov 01, 2021
Participants in the 28th annual Building Communities Conference of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Chapter of the American Institute of…
Sep 01, 2021
In 2021, Austin Energy Green Building (AEGB) celebrates 30 years of assisting Central Texas architects to design more sustainably. Since…
Sep 01, 2021
In 2010, the Houston-Galveston Area Council completed the Northside Livable Centers Planning Study, identifying the “heart of Northside Houston” as…