The Chameleon Effect: Architecture’s Role in Film by Dietmar E. Froehlich:...
Bruce C. Webb is Emeritus Professor, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, University of Houston. Dietmar Froehlich’s The Chameleon Effect: Architecture’s Role in Film (Birkhauser 2018)...
View ArticleAlice Mckean Young Neighborhood Library: A Review by Marcel Merwin
Marcel Merwin is a graduate of Rice Architecture and a designer at Metalab. Gathered in front of a bank of computers, four teens watch a Youtube series on animation. On the other side of the glass, a...
View ArticleChicago’s Architecture Center Shines While Houston’s Waits to be Rebuilt...
Geneva Vest is a graduate of Rice University. Learn more about efforts to rebuild the Architecture Center Houston and to donate to the campaign click here. Where there is water, there is an American...
View ArticleOn Engineering the Menil and Other Houston Landmarks: A Profile of Larry...
Dan Singer is a freelance writer based in Texas. This article first appeared in Cite 101: Be Here, which is available in bookstores. Before Larry Whaley had begun looking for his second job in Houston,...
View ArticleFrom Me to We: A Response to the 2019 Women in Architecture Panel
Marie Rodriguez is an architectural designer and historian living in Houston. She holds an M.Arch from Rice University and an MS from McGill University with a specialization in domestic environments....
View ArticleCritical Placemaking: Stephen Fox’s Favorite Places in Houston
This article originally appeared in Cite 101: Be Here, in which the editors explored the idea of creative placemaking as it applies to the context of Houston. In thinking about the places that are...
View ArticlePyburn’s Farm Fresh Foods: Place and Grocery Shopping in Houston by Todd Romero
Todd Romero is an Associate Professor of history at the University of Houston where he studies and teaches early American, public, and food history. This article first appeared in Cite 101: Be Here,...
View ArticleSouthern Downtown Park Plan Unveiled: A Response by Ernesto Alfaro
Ernesto Alfaro is a Senior Associate at SLA Studio Land where he works in planning and landscape. He is also a Lecturer at Rice University. On April 30, the Downtown Redevelopment Authority (DRA) held...
View ArticleContour Functional Art Links Houston and Malawi by M. Lawrence Dillon
A shipping container packed with furniture designed by Houston-based Jamar Simien and crafted by hand in Malawi will arrive soon in Houston, after narrowly missing inundation by Cyclone Idai during...
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