Courtesy of TEX-FAB

Taking place at the University of Texas San Antonio College of Architecture April 13-15, the TEX-FAB 3.0 Conference will include a series of workshops as part of the international digital fabrication competition. Conducted by leading practitioners in the field of digital fabrication, the workshop is comprised on four distinct sequences that begin with basic skill building and progress until a broad understanding of the topics presented is achieved. For more information, please visit here.

© Tom Jenkins

The most satisfying part of the Rachofsky House is that it is not a museum. There is no real reason why it shouldn’t be, considering the multitude of visitors and school fieldtrips that frequent the 11,000 square-foot, three-story building week in and week out. But the House remains a 100% private residence, still owned by Mr. Rachofsky and operated by a small staff. This all lends to a very unique and personal experience for the visitor, because not only does the intimacy of a house enrich one’s interaction with the art, but the lessened formal pressure allows for greater exploration of space and more appreciation to the architectural detail.

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© Casey Dunn

Architects: Furman + Keil Architects 
Location: Bryan, Texas, USA
Planning: City Lights Design Alliance
Interior architecture: Dunnam+Tita
Project completed: July 2011
Area: 9,600 square feet
Photographs: Casey Dunn 

  
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© Nic Lehoux Photography

Architect: Bing Thom Architects
Location: 245 E. Belknap Street, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Associate Architect: Bennett Benner Pettit (formerly Gideon Toal)
Design Team: Bing Thom, Michael Heeney, Venelin Kokalov, Ling Meng, Francis Yan, Shinobu Homma, Matthew Woodruff, Amirali Javidan, Bibianka Fehr, Lisa Potopsingh, Berit Wooge, Nicole Hu, Michael Motlagh
Client: Tarrant County College
Photographs: Nic Lehoux Photography

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© Luis Ayala

Architects: SHW Group
Location: Dallas, TX
Date of Completion: August 2011
Building area (total gross square feet): 110,000
Principal-in-Charge: Terry Hoyle, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB
Project Manager: Vandana Nayak, AIA, LEED AP, Mike Elmore, AIA LEED AP
Principal Designer: Konrad Judd, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB
Programmer/Planner: Roz Keck
Project Architect: Jennifer Deng AIA, Amy King AIA
Photographs: Luis Ayala

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© Paul Bardagjy & Ryan Michael

Architects: Bercy Chen Studio, LP
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Design Principal: Thomas Bercy and Calvin Chen
Project Architect: Thomas Bercy, Calvin Chen, and Dan Loe
Project Manager: Daniel Loe
Project Team: Brad Purrington, Daniel Arellano, Fred Hubnik
Completion: 2011
Area: 1600 sf
Photography: Paul Bardagjy and Ryan Michael

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© Robert Benson Photography

Architects: Hopkins Architects with Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Client: Rice University
Structural Engineer: Haynes Whaley Associates
Civil Engineer: Walter P. Moore
Landscape Architect: THE OFFICE OF JAMES BURNETT
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Robert Benson Photography

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© Michael Moran / ottoarchive.com

Architects: KieranTimberlake / James Timberlake, Stephen Kieran, Jason Smith, Steven Johns, George Ristow, Casey Boss
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Client: Rice University
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 10,219 sqm
Photographs: Peter Aaron (OTTO), Michael Moran (OTTO), Hester + Hardaway, Red Wing Aerials

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© Hester + Hardaway

Landscape Architect: The Office of James Burnett (OJB)
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Architect: KieranTimberlake
Photographs: Hester + Hardaway

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The United States Green Building Council has awarded the University of North Texas’ Apogee Stadium, designed by HKS Architects and built by Manhattan Construction Company, a LEED Platinum Certification, making it the first newly constructed collegiate football stadium in the nation to achieve the highest level of LEED certification.

The 31,000-seat Apogee Stadium features luxury suites, an amenity-filled club level, a Spirit Store, a corporate deck and a unique end-zone seating area. In addition to hosting UNT events, it will serve the entire North Texas region as a venue for outdoor concerts, community events, high school games and band competitions. More project information after the break. read more »

Courtesy of Andersson Wise Architects

Architects: Andersson Wise Architects
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Client: St. Edward’s University
Project Year: 2007
Project Area: 28,000 sqf
Photographs: Courtesy of Andersson Wise Architects

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© Charles Davis Smith-AIA

Architect: 5G Studio Collaborative, llc
Location: 9205 Legacy Drive, Frisco, Texas, USA
Project Team: Yen Ong, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP (Principal Architect); Hoang Dang, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP (Design Principal); James Warton, Associate AIA, LEED AP (Project Designer); Alesha Calvert, ASID (Interior Designer); Warren Lieu (Technical Designer)
Structural Consultant: Armstrong-Douglass Partners, LLC
Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Consultant: Telios, PC
General Contractor: Huffman Builders
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Charles Davis Smith-AIA, Michael Hemme

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© D Jules Gianakos

Most important Architectural additions to a city are those of spectacle, meant to stand out and grab attention, such as Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, or Daniel Libeskind’s extension to the Denver Art Museum. But when Renzo Piano made his American debut with the Menil Collection 25 years ago, the result was far from spectacle, but rather more supplementary to an already established neighborhood scale.

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Courtesy of Lake | Flato Architects

Architects: Lake | Flato Architects
Location: Vanderpool, Texas, USA
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 1,500 sqf
Photographs: Courtesy of Lake | Flato Architects

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Courtesy of Yonatan Pressman and Courtney Benzon

Vert House, a low-cost sustainable house design, has been approved and adopted by Houston Habitat for Humanity. Designed by Yonatan Pressman and Courtney Benzon, graduate architecture students at Rice University, the 1,300 square-foot, 3-bedroom house will be constructed by Rice students and alumni in Spring 2012 as the Rice Centennial House, a student initiative in honor of of the university’s centennial celebrations. The design will also be added to Houston Habitat’s portfolio of home designs for additional builds in the future. More information on the project after the break. read more »

© Photo by Chris Erdos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris-erdos/

In 1964 Mark Rothko was commissioned by John and Dominique de Menil (who are also founders of the nearby Menil Collection that is housed in the Renzo Piano-designed Menil Museum and Cy Twombly Gallery) to create a meditative space filled with his site-specific paintings. The original architect assigned to work alongside Rothko was Philip Johnson, with whom Rothko clashed over their distinct ideas for the building. Rothko would object to the monumentality of Johnson’s plan as distracting from the artwork it was to house. For this reason the Chapel would go through several revisions and architects working on the meditative space. Rothko continued first with Howard Barnstone and then Eugene Aubry, but ultimately did not live to see the chapel’s completion in 1971. It was after a long struggle with depression that Rothko committed suicide in his New York Studio on February 25th, 1970.

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Courtesy of Haecceitas Studio

The concept of territorial architecture is a topic that questions various strategic understandings of complex site systems defined by conceptual ideologies, environmental implications, and identification of emerging phenomenal underlying patterns.

Borrowing influences from Zaha Hadid’s dramatic early paintings, the constructed landscapes of CJ Lim, and the writings by Sanford Kwinter, these investigations by Haecceitas Studio attempt to construct a series of methods, which will reveal the haecceity of multivalent landscapes. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

Courtesy of Rice University School of Architecture

Rice University’s School of Architecture shared with us their current lecture series that started on September 1st and runs until November 17th. Each year, the Rice School of Architecture pulls big names in the architecture world to its lecture series. This year’s main topic is JUDGEMENT in Architecture, with Neil Denari and Ben van Berkel on the list to speak among others. More information on the series after the break. read more »

© Blue Lemon Photography

Architect: LoJo
Location: Chappel Hill, Texas, United States
Project Team: Jason Logan, Josh Robbins
Project Area: 731.5 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Blue Lemon Photography 

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2011 McReynolds Middle School Solar Shade Tree © Erin Ferguson

Since 1990, the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture has been guiding students through their Graduate Design-Build Studio program, which carries out one built project through all phases of design and construction to completion within one Summer.  This year, the GDBS has designed their latest “Solar Shade Tree” on the grounds of McReynolds Middle School in Houston’s historic 5th Ward neighborhood.

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