Some happy news: I’m working on a new book, a cultural history of Dallas as told through its architecture. It will be published by the wonderful Dallas-based non-profit Deep Vellum, and is being serialized in the Dallas Morning News. The first installment, on the ante-bellum mansion Millermore, is already live. (Thanks to Allison V. Smith for the wonderful photos.) You can look forward to future pieces on the Adolphus, City Hall, and….well…you’ll just have to wait.
Some other recent work: A glowing new park for downtown Dallas; an affront at UTD, the plan to expand the DMA; Does Dallas really need a new convention center; a new library in Dorchester; Dallas landmarks in jeopardy; the future of I-345; Preservation efforts in the Park Cities; A Harry Bertoia exhibition at the Nasher; the problem with elevator buttons; “Dormzilla,” A tribute to Gyo Obata; the fight to save Ukraine’s patrimony; and a truly wacky building in Grapevine.
I should also note here that Kevin Lippert the founding publisher of Princeton Architectural Press, and a mentor and dear friend, passed away last month after a decades long battle with brain cancer. (The picture above is Kevin at Expo 2000 in Hanover, a trip we took following the Frankfurt Book Fair that year.) He was an immensely influential figure in the field of architecture, but also in my own life. I wrote a bit about what he meant to me and to the world, at the design site Common Edge. A terrible, terrible loss.