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Watershed Urbanism: Shoal Creek’s Infrastructural Future
This article by Jack Murphy is the second of a two-part series on flood management. Read the previous article here. Follow our publications and events about living in the floodplain at #H2Ouston and...
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Beyond the Riverwalk: San Antonio Working to Honor Many Histories in its Parks
This article by Raj Mankad was originally published by The Dirt on March 21, 2017. Follow Rice Design Alliance‘s publications and events about living in floodplains at #H2Ouston and #SyntheticNature....
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Tour the Houston Ship Channel and Behold Its Awesome Power
This article by Geneva Vest is part of a special series called #H2Ouston. If you’re looking for a day trip to kick off this spring weather, look no further than the Sam Houston Boat Tour. The Houston...
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A New Levy Park Shines, While Houston Struggles to Keep Up
Several weeks ago, a fully recharged Levy Park opened, complete with food trucks, the obligatory ribbon-cutting, a mayor cameo, and live improvised graffiti by the street artist Gonzo. Attendees were...
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How Tape, Trees, and Traffic Cones Transformed a Houston Street
“It’s amazing how putting tape on the ground can change people’s behaviors,” said Taylor McNeill, Associate Designer with Asakura Robinson, as cars parked in newly marked spots. A one-day event,...
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It’s a Big World: A Review of Renzo Piano’s The Complete Logbook
Renzo Piano’s The Complete Logbook was released in the United States this spring. It covers the period from 1966 to 2016 and includes over 70 projects documented with photos, drawings, and sketches and...
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Emancipation: New Building and Landscape Raises Profile of Houston’s Oldest Park
If any American city is properly harnessing the transformative powers of good landscape architecture and improved public greenspace, it’s Houston. Newer spaces such as decade-old Discovery Green and...
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Big Data, Small Parks: Houston Turns to School Campuses to Improve Park Equity
Dazzling parks seem to open every few weeks in Houston, including the redesigned Levy and Emancipation parks, but by one important measure the city is failing to meet a basic standard of park access...
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Emancipation Park, Emancipatory Art: Flipping the Gentrification Playbook
This article is the first of a two-part series by artist Carrie Schneider coinciding with the reopening of Emancipation Park. “In the beginning, there was function … form came later,” says Jesse Lott...
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Building Nomadic
The Super Bowl is over and the partygoers have left … and one building left with them. In February 2017, Houston transformed in preparation for the influx of one million guests. While many visitors...
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Flood Management Done Right at Willow Waterhole
This article by Eric Leshinsky is an updated excerpt from an article that appeared in Cite 99, “Designed to Flood: Urban Design in the Age of Unrelenting Floods.” The prevailing story in Houston is...
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Witness on the Water: Sunset Coffee Building Gives Window to Houston’s...
Colley Hodges is an architect and former journalist. He currently serves on Kirksey Architecture’s EcoServices team. Immigrants to Houston once came by boat. They stepped off the muddy bayou banks....
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Review of Architecture Matters (2017) by Aaron Betsky
This review is written by NuNu Chang, co-owner and principal of Albers Chang Architects in Houston. She serves on the editorial committee of Cite. Architecture matters, but not in the way we might...
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A Visual Connection: New Architecture Center Houston to Open with Expanded...
The writer, Barry Moore, is Senior Associate with Gensler and a member of the Cite editorial committee. Since the city’s founding 180 years ago, the northernmost street in downtown Houston has been...
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“Remaking the process of gentrification”: Emancipation Economic Development...
This article is the second of a two-part series by artist Carrie Schneider coinciding with the reopening of Emancipation Park. Click this link to read the first part: Emancipation Park Emancipatory...
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Why Do We Stay in Houston? A Personal History of Three Momentous Arrivals
This review is part of a special series about preservation in Houston, edited by Helen Bechtel. The writer Marta Galicki is a longtime historic preservationist living in Houston and a contributor to...
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An Optimistic Response to Harvey
As we begin to understand the extent of damage and start picking up the pieces from Harvey’s devastation, we need to think of how we should rebuild. The nomenclature of flood events, 100-year and...
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Planning the Houston Way, Part 1: A Tussle over Townhouses at the Planning...
Written by NuNu Chang, co-owner and principal of Albers Chang Architects in Houston. She serves on the editorial committee of Cite. In place of conventional zoning-based planning, Houston has a...
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Harvey Musings: “Zoning made no difference. But stricter building codes did.”
Danny M. Samuels, FAIA, is Co-Director of Rice Architecture Construct (formerly Rice Building Workshop), Professor in Practice, Rice University, and Partner at Taft Architects. So far, in my Montrose...
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