May 02, 2024
While Donald Judd’s artistic output was a matter of public concern during his lifetime, revealing the extent to which he…
Mar 07, 2023
How we understand and tell stories of the past is, in reality, a dynamic act of creation.
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
“Dignity and sense of place marked this project as distinctive. This project’s reading of vernacular ‘truck stop’ typology coupled with…
Sep 08, 2022
“The exquisitely detailed and executed rammed earth walls artfully express the natural and the man-made in this ephemeral architectural composition.”—…
Sep 08, 2022
“The respect for natural materials, craft, and traditional materials comes across in the design of this beautifully scaled addition to…
Jul 06, 2022
The Marfa Ranch house takes a fresh approach to a traditional way of building.
Mar 07, 2022
For the past century, some of the darkest night skies in the continental United States could be found in far…
May 03, 2021
Once a building material of humble economy used by autochthonous peoples of the Southwest, adobe has become fashionable among Marfa’s…
Nov 04, 2020
To see and experience Donald Judd’s work in depth, we in Texas have two options: Travel to Marfa, or see…
Jul 02, 2018
Through a process of careful reduction, a rambling adobe house in Marfa is transformed into a quiet getaway for a…
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 20, 2016
This little town in West Texas now exerts a tremendous amount of cultural influence, and The opening of the Hotel…
Mar 26, 2016
In 1971, the Los Angeles-based artist Robert Irwin embarked on a solitary driving tour of the country’s perimeter. A year…