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Discovery Green at Ten Years: An Interview with Barry Mandel
Barry Mandel is President and Park Director of Discovery Green. Andrew Albers is Chair of the Cite Editorial Committee and Vice President at OJB Landscape Architecture. This edited conversation took...
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Sharpstown Prize for Architecture by Cheryl Joseph
With 15,000 homes on 4,000 acres built by Frank Sharp beginning in the 1950s, the Sharpstown neighborhood was at one time among the nation’s largest communities of single-family homes. The streets were...
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An Initial Response to the New Glassell School of Art by Raj Mankad
The new Glassell School of Art building is not subtle. At the media preview, Gary Tinterow, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston director, called the building “muscular.” The designers Steven Holl and...
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Masterplan of Cool: An Interview with Steve Radom by Cynthia Dehlavi
Steve Radom is Managing Principal of Radom Capital. Cynthia Dehlavi is Research and Design Associate with OJB Landscape Architecture. Cynthia Dehlavi: I am a big fan of your Heights Mercantile...
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Bus Love from Houston to Grand Rapids by Raj Mankad
I recently returned from a “Mobility Solutions Summit” in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I would like to share a few takeaways from the trip. 1) Houston’s new bus network is considered a national model....
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Advocates Speak Up as Ghost Bikes Run Out: A Report by Cat Modlin-Jackson
Houston Ghost Bike organizer Steve Sims was scrambling to find a bike for Sudipta Roy. Two days after a dump truck driver killed the 30-year-old woman at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Main...
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Radically Alive in Awareness of a Bleak, Beloved World: An Essay on Polly...
Friends of Polly Koch have organized a day of action Wednesday May 30, 2018, calling for safe streets for all. For more information visit safestreetshouston.org or the Facebook event page. I have known...
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“Nothing partisan about it”: How a State Redder than Texas Committed to...
In 1917, a young Georgia O’Keeffe would watercolor the Texas sky, the first evening star at dusk, over and over, transfixed. The elegant lone star of the Lone Star State reminds us of independence,...
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Hypergentrification: What Does Houston Have to Learn from Displacement in New...
Jeremiah Moss’s Vanishing New York is his sad, angry account of the aggressive gentrification over the last forty years that has changed the look and the culture of New York City. Actually, he does not...
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Jackson Boulevard: Palimpsest of Urban Life and Southern Myth by Randal Hall
Randal Hall is Editor, Journal of Southern History, and Associate Professor of History at Rice University. Jackson Boulevard is short. Running from Waugh Drive to Montrose Boulevard and a stone’s throw...
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Complete the Community Design Competition and a Report on the 2018 Gulf Coast...
Every week, another forum about rebuilding a more resilient Houston after Hurricane Harvey. All the talking can seem like an end in itself. At the 2018 Gulf Coast Green conference, held at Rice...
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“Unless you learn this you are not going to be a great architect”: An...
Laura Carrara-Cagni is a director at Edward Williams Architects with significant experience in designing, managing, and delivering large public projects such as hospitals and university buildings. For...
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Planning and Zoning in Houston: A Cite Literature Review by Falon Mihalic
This literature review of discussions in Cite since 1982 around Houston’s modern planning history begins by defining the terms and then moves through different phases — the gridiron, rail, and ports of...
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Touring the Gamble House: A Postcard from Pasadena, California by Minal Saldivar
Minal Saldivar moved from Houston to Pasadena, California in 2016. She won the National Scholastic essay writing competition in fall 2016 for her essay, “A friendship created by a sequin.” Saldivar...
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“A Multitude of Approaches” to Flood Mitigation: An Interview with County...
John Blount is the County Engineer and leader of the Harris County Engineering Department. Steve Albert is an editorial committee member of Cite and principal with Sherwood Design Engineers, a civil...
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Houston Ship Channel Tour: Fenceline Communities
In March 2018, Houston hosted the Funders’ Network Annual Conference to explore strategies for and stories behind creating more equitable, sustainable, and resilient communities. Rice Design Alliance...
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Tiny and Expansive: A Review Havel and Ruck’s “Open House” by David Miller
David Miller is an artist and owner of Dungan Miller Design Ltd. “Open House” is modest, tiny even. This project is the latest house-transformation by the two artists, Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, known...
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Martin Luther King Boulevard Beautification Pop-Up Charrette: A Response by...
Numerous neighborhood streets around Houston have undergone reconstruction as a part of ReBuild Houston, the City of Houston’s 2010 Charter Amendment which created a dedicated fund for projects that...
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Bay Area to Bayou City: Lessons on Resilience by José Solís
José Solís is Founder of Big and Bright Strategies and Project Manager with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership. With the upcoming post-Harvey bond election, many people throughout the region are...
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A Review of New Hope Housing Harrisburg by Marie Rodriguez
Marie Rodriguez is an associate at Morningside Architects. She holds an M.Arch from Rice University and an MS from McGill University with a specialization in domestic environments. You are driving to...
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