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Houston Botanic Gardens: Enhancement or Loss of Park Space?
Glenbrook Golf Course. Photographs by Paul Hester.There is a lot to like about the Houston Botanic Garden (HBG) master plan proposed by the Dutch landscape and urban design firm West 8. It would boost...
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Big Thinking on Skinnier Streets: New Books on Transportation
Sadik-Khan at Times Square. Photograph by Olugenrophotograpy.com.Books on urbanism and transportation innovation are having their moment. Here’s a look at five that have come out in the last year...
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Looking for Jane in All the Wrong Places
Love at the pulga on Airline Drive. Photo: Paul Hester.Around the world, the legacy of Jane Jacobs is being celebrated on what would have been her 100th birthday. She’s most famous for her critique of...
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Instagramming the Frame House: A 1960 Modern Design by Harwood Taylor
Frame House (Harwood Taylor, 1960). Photographs by Ben Koush.OffCite and Rice Design Alliance are exploring the potential of Instagram to engage more people in the built environment. A recent RDA...
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Architecture is about Life: A Conversation with John Zemanek
Carlos Jimenez and John Zemanek at Peden Street. Photo: Eric Hester.Johnny “John” Eugene Zemanek died at the age of 94 on Monday, April 18. His obituary was written by Patrick Peters with input from...
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Ruby City: David Adjaye Designs an “Important Civic Moment” for San Antonio
Rendering of Ruby City. Courtesy: Linda Pace Foundation.You can see in the renderings of Ruby City, the building David Adjaye Associates has designed to hold the Linda Pace Foundation’s art collection...
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New Corktown: Reporting From the Venice Biennale
New Corktown proposal by Albert Pope and Jesus Vassallo, US Pavilion, 2016 Venice Biennale. Photo: Peter Molick.The 15th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (La Biennale di...
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Postcard from Detroit
Michigan Avenue in Corktown, Detroit. Photo: Allyn West.For a few blocks, all six lanes of Michigan Avenue, the major commercial strip of Corktown, Detroit’s oldest neighborhood, are paved in brick....
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“Baronial in Scale”: Stephen Fox Does Instagram
Purcell-Cutts House, 1913, Purcell & Elmslie. Photos by Stephen Fox.Stephen Fox, architectural historian and Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas, led a Rice Design Alliance (RDA) tour of...
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Cite 2016 Candidate Survey
Cite: The Architecture + Design Review of Houston is an award-winning publication of the Rice Design Alliance founded in 1982. Through research, education, and community engagement, Cite strives to...
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Sparking Creativity: Houston’s Smaller Arts Groups Finally Meet Their MATCH
Photo by Luis Ayala.The essay appears in Cite 98. The issue explores the intersections of finance and design. You can purchase the Cite 98 at local bookstores, including Brazos Bookstore and the shops...
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An Industry in Crisis: How Construction Career Collaborative is Trying To Do...
Photo: Katie Edwards.The essay appears in Cite 98. The issue explores the intersections of finance and design. You can purchase the Cite 98 at local bookstores, including Brazos Bookstore and the shops...
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Community Design: How a New Pocket Park Came to the Near Northside
Rendering of pocket park by Open Architecture Houston team and Near Northside community members. Courtesy.Not all vacant lots are the same. Some are nestled between residential lots and looked after by...
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Changing Conversations: New Hope Housing’s Unique Approach in Houston
Interior courtyard of New Hope Housing's Rittenhouse complex. Photo: Mark Hiebert.A stigma of “hulking towers and barren blocks,” as Alan Mallach writes, is associated with affordable housing. Sam...
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Two Miles from Syria: An Update on Emergency Floor
Photos courtesy Emergency Floor. A year ago, OffCite published “Emergency Floor,” an article about a flooring solution for refugee camps developed by two Rice University graduates, Sam Brisendine and...
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Houston’s First Mixed-Use, Mixed-Income, Transit-Oriented Development
Griggs Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Photos: Raj Mankad.This article is an adapted excerpt from “Big Mixed-Use Developments and the Remaking of Houston” in Cite 98, which examines the...
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CiteSeeing: Hollie Tatnell’s Grave
OffCite invites short essays, reviews, and observations on specific moments and places. Interested in contributing your own? Let us know. The way the girls kept their distance made me think the dog...
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Postcard from Copenhagen
Photo: Kate Cairoli.My husband and I and our 1-year old daughter visited Copenhagen for two weeks while he worked from his company’s office. We tried to imagine ourselves living here in this happiest...
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The Building and the Bayou: Views of The Dunlavy
In the Kitchen, patrons point their phones toward the bayou. Instead of Instagramming their meals, diners at the small restaurant in the Dunlavy train their cameras past the chandeliers to the...
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Sugar Land: Diversity in a Beige Box
I grew up in a little box at the end of some Sugar Land cul-de-sac. Now, as a senior at Rice University, I live in the moldering attic of a pleasantly gnarly bungalow in Montrose. But with a view of...
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