Mark Lamster

Smart people are saying nice things about Welcome to Paradox City, which comes out August. 4 from Deep Vellum, but is now available for preorder.

gobsmacked.

It’s a book!

Please join me in the fight to save I.M.

Up in the north Dallas exurbs, sculptor George Tobolowsky has done something that will surely drive architectural purists batty: he has smushed together Mies’s Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson’s Glass House, and somehow doing this while using metal rec…

Earlier this summer, I traveled to Spain to visit the work and spend time with the architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, who won the commission to “reimagine” the Dallas Museum of Art.

This year I celebrated my ten year anniversary as the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News, and in April I looked back at that time and the phenomenon I call Dallas Logic.

Dealey Plaza doesn’t work.

Some happy news: I’m working on a new book, a cultural history of Dallas as told through its architecture.

In this new era for architecture, with its emphasis on equity, sustainability, context, mobility, and resilience, among other social factors, aesthetics can seem like an afterthought, and understandably so.