Architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News. Harvard Loeb Fellow. Author of The Man in the Glass House

Dallas - Cambridge - New York
Joined March 2009
my latest on the future of dallas city hall after a 16-hour city council hearing. there are some reasons for optimism, but the process has been disingenuous, disorganized, rushed, and lacking in transparency.  dallasnews.com/arts-entertai…
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Today's column looks at what will be the final resting place of the Rev. Jesse Jackson: 19th Century landscape designer Adolph Strauch's solemn and picturesque Oak Woods Cemetery on the city's South Side. chicago.suntimes.com/archite…
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council meeting moving toward hour 12 since scheduled beginning with zero end in sight…maybe the meeting will outlast the building?
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Cover reveal for WELCOME TO PARADOX CITY, a first-of-its-kind history of Dallas through the city’s most significant buildings, by Dallas Morning News architecture critic @marklamster!
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public speakers at the city council meeting on the future of city hall now running 19-2 in favor of preservation.
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now at 30-4, with 1 say what?
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final count, 35-4-1.
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taking a (short) break from the dallas city hall shenanigans to bring you this feature on one of the secret gems of dallas, phylls glazer’s lord of the rings inspired compound, complete with a full-on hobbit house and, of course, lots of dragons. dallasnews.com/arts-entertai…
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my latest on how to save downtown dallas: it ain’t a convention center, it ain’t an arena, and it certainly ain’t tearing down city hall. it is reversing generaitons of auto-centric urban planning.   dallasnews.com/arts-entertai…
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with city hall on the block, here’s my list of the 20 most significact demoliions in dallas history. list could have been 10 times as long and still inadequate. obviously, pei’s city hall would top the list. dallasnews.com/arts-entertai…
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here i am on the should-be-better-known dallas architect dan shipley’s wonderful, detail rich new library for rural marathon (pronounced: mara-thun) in the west texas desert. dallasnews.com/arts-entertai…
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