Emerging Practices
We survey 10 emerging Texas architectural practices that are furthering design discourse in the state. The feature represents a geographically…
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Jan 10, 2019
Many architects must feel somewhat annoyed. So much of the rhetoric surrounding the profession these days directs them to solve…
Jan 10, 2019
The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster Little, Brown and Company,…
Jan 10, 2019
On October 18, the San Antonio City Council voted to move ahead with its planned overhaul of Alamo Plaza. This…
Jan 10, 2019
The Trans-Pecos region holds many ironies without compunction: Immense stretches of flat scrubland desert give way to looming mountains capped…
Jan 10, 2019
For the fifth time in as many years, artists, architects, and Austinites alike descended the banks of Waller Creek to…
Jan 10, 2019
In October, El Paso selected Snøhetta to design a new Children’s Museum on Santa Fe Street in the city’s arts…
Jan 10, 2019
These products offer high-performance without sacrificing the cutting-edge style desired in restaurants, hotels, spas, and other hospitality spaces. Cero NanaWall…
Jan 08, 2019
In this issue, we survey 10 emerging Texas architectural practices that are furthering design discourse in the state. The following…
Jan 08, 2019
An experimental gallery working at the intersection of art and anthropology, a vacation residence in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and…
Jan 08, 2019
A house that directs curated views for its residents, another that crouches within a live oak grove, a third that…
Jan 08, 2019
A house that transitions from suburb to ravine, another that hides a private realm behind a wall, and an ADA…
Jan 08, 2019
A public art installation on an air traffic control tower, a community theater in Fort Stockton, a museum concept for…
Jan 08, 2019
A prescribed pediatric extended care center, a church in an altered metal building, a new concept for a Spanish Revival…
Jan 07, 2019
A digitally designed and fabricated selfie wall, a cross-border dust sensing network, a national de-escalation training center for law enforcement…
Jan 07, 2019
Their proposal for Hamburg was surprisingly simple: to avoid tearing up or tearing down the brick Kaispeicher and instead to…
Jan 07, 2019
Cunningham Architects added a crypt to the Cistercian Abbey chapel it designed in the 1990s. Buried under ground, lit by…
Jan 07, 2019
The Terminal East Infill Project at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport attempts to ease the passenger’s experience of passing through security. Designed…
Jan 07, 2019
Texans are proud of their often-relentless landscape with its austere vistas and vast skies, most commonly called to mind by…
Jan 07, 2019
The West Side Natatorium in El Paso by In*Situ Architecture is remarkable public architecture for Texas, or anywhere. Economically built,…
Jan 07, 2019
TxDOT’s West Pecos County Safety Rest Area, designed by Richter Architects, takes its cues from the rugged geography of West…
Jan 03, 2019
The Riverlands Avian Observatory sits next to a reconstructed wetland near the juncture of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Developed…