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Hazardous: The Redlining of Houston Neighborhoods
For a larger, high-resolution version of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) map of Houston, visit this link. Why are we so compelled to define neighborhoods as “good” or “bad”? Is there one...
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The Hangout: Why the White Poles?
In my sophomore year, I began to feel that the Rice campus did not fully accommodate its students’ often unpredictable oscillation between stimulation and decompression. Instead, the university favors...
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It Creates Its Own Light: Havel Ruck Projects Puts “Sharp” in Sharpstown
“Sharp,” located at 6822 Rowan Lane, is open to visitors daily for a period of a few months. Click here for a map. On the 10-block shuttle bus ride from the remote parking to the latest...
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The Kingwood Greenbelt: Houston’s First Greenways
Follow OffCite’s Synthetic Nature series that supplements the forthcoming issue of Cite (99). Use the hashtag #SyntheticNature to view related content on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. As the...
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Bending the Future: A Review
This review is part of a special series about preservation in Houston, edited by Helen Bechtel, published in connection with two national conferences in Houston in November. This week Houston serves as...
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Past Forward: How Houston’s Preservation Movement Turned the Corner
This review is part of a special series about preservation in Houston, edited by Helen Bechtel, published in connection with two national preservation conferences in Houston in November. Houston has...
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“Managing change starts with memory”: Preserving Communities of Color Workshop
This article is part of a special series about preservation in Houston, edited by Helen Bechtel, published in connection with two national preservation conferences in Houston in November. In Dust...
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H-Town As Found: “A New Seeing of the Ordinary”
Funded in part by a 2016 Rice Design Alliance Initiatives for Houston grant, Boggess will document buildings in Houston’s industrial East End in danger of demolition to prompt a dialogue of exploration...
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Postcard from 1111 Lincoln Road
I saw the most beautiful parking garage in the world. Located in South Beach, just across the causeway from Downtown Miami, it was designed by Herzog & De Meuron and completed in 2010. It cost $65...
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“There is no one nature”: A Conversation with Emma Marris
Follow OffCite’s Synthetic Nature series that supplements the forthcoming issue of Cite (99). Use the hashtag #SyntheticNature to view related content on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Allyn West:...
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Evelyn’s Park: Bellaire’s First Front Yard
Follow OffCite’s Synthetic Nature series that supplements the forthcoming issue of Cite (99). Use the hashtag #SyntheticNature to view related content on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Opened in...
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Landscape and City Building are Inseparable: An Introduction to Cite 99
This is the introduction to the new issue of Cite (99), which is now available. OffCite’s Synthetic Nature series supplements the new issue. Use the hashtag #SyntheticNature to view related content on...
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Why Does Houston Seem Young?
This article is part of a special series about preservation in Houston, edited by Helen Bechtel, and is a collaboration of the Rice Design Alliance and Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban...
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Flashpoints on the Road to Black and Brown Power: Sites of Struggle in...
This article originally appeared in Cite 82 (pdf) and is now accompanied by a digital map. Houston has a long history of segregation and racial violence. From the lynchings of George White in 1859 and...
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Do No Harm: A Message to Dr. Carson about Housing and Health
The appointment of a physician, Dr. Ben Carson, to run the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) raised eyebrows. What does a brain surgeon know about affordable housing? But health...
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Postcard from the Prairie Festival
Salina, Kansas, is a town like so many others in America. Its downtown stands as a reminder of what once was — brown paper is taped to the inside of windows, lackluster rental signs hang askew...
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X-Change: Bold Visions for EaDo Streets
Last June, Janette Sadik Khan, the former transportation commissioner for New York, tweeted: “A smart street can speak for itself anywhere. No translation needed.” Accompanying her tweet were before...
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“We Just Needed Some Curly Engineers”: Terry Hershey in Her Own Words
Terry Hershey, who President George H. W. Bush called “a force of nature for nature,” recently died at the age of 94. She led efforts to protect bayous and was a speaker at the first major event...
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Artificially Natural: On the Transformation of Austin’s Waller Creek
This article by Jack Murphy is part of a series on flood management in advance of RDA’s H20uston architecture tour, March 25 and 26. Follow our publications and events about living in the floodplain at...
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Looking for the Town in Townhouses
In December of 2014, my partner and I (and our large cat) were huddled around a space heater in our tiny mother-in-law suite apartment behind a 1940s Montrose bungalow. It was then that we realized...
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