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In this issue of Texas Architect, we explore how the state’s changing energy landscape is affecting architecture (are we about…

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May 10, 2018
The Concho Center in Midland is a gem of a corporate headquarters that has used its economic weight for the…
May 08, 2018
On the afternoon of December 30, 2017, a Saturday, I was at Figure 8, my favorite East Austin coffee shop, struggling…
May 08, 2018
Garden City|Mega City Austin Central Library From February 27 through April 15, 2018, the Austin Public Library in collaboration with…
May 08, 2018
In an unassuming backyard on Austin’s east side, nonprofit New Story and construction technologies company ICON teamed to create the…
May 08, 2018
Harvey dumped 51.6 inches of rain in a few days, leaving 300,000 still homeless in January 2018, 36 fatalities, and…
May 08, 2018
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He has collaborated with Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Olafur…
May 07, 2018
May 07, 2018
Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin,” recently completed on the grounds of the Blanton Museum at The University of Texas at Austin with…
May 07, 2018
Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin,” recently completed on the grounds of the Blanton Museum at The University of Texas at Austin with…
May 07, 2018
With a simple volumetric shift, the Holly ADU goes from efficient backyard apartment to multivalent indoor-outdoor space that can be…
May 07, 2018
The population of Texas continues to grow rapidly, but the state’s electricity infrastructure hasn’t kept pace. Meanwhile, stricter energy codes…
May 07, 2018
To meet increasingly rigorous energy codes, architects use modeling tools throughout the design process. These tools and strategies are becoming…
May 07, 2018
The Center for Industrial Technology at San Jacinto College’s North Campus is tilt-wall architecture done right. Designed by Huitt-Zollars, the…
May 07, 2018
Murray Legge Architecture’s adventurously contextual addition to Austin’s Griffin School formalizes an ad-hoc campus with a communal outdoor quad that…
May 07, 2018
Hidden behind a fence in Houston’s Cherryhurst neighborhood is “Ripple,” the latest collaborative house-scaled, site-specific work by artistic duo Havel…