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. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

thanks!

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. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

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. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

I made content this week!!! 2025 Architecture & Design Awards with @mlamster.bsky.social + @cmonstah.bsky.social lamstermd.medium.com/the-good-the... Q&A on swings, teens + Cop Slide @99pi.org 99percentinvisible.org/episode/649-...

a brief appreciation of frank gehry. rip. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

I look forward to these awards every year from @langealexandra.bsky.social @cmonstah.bsky.social and @mlamster.bsky.social!

omg it’s the annual architecture and design awards from @langealexandra, @cmonstah, and yrs trly (with a little help from chatgpt). our 16th consecutive year! enjoy! lamstermd.medium.com/the-good-the...

You should read this.

stop the steal: my latest on the movement to demolish i. m. pei’s iconic dallas city hall based on inflated deferred maintenance estimates and a misguided dream of economic development. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

when james magee died last year he left one of the most important but least known works of 21st century american art unfinished. what happens to it now. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

if max scherzer asks you to check out his wood chipper, run.

Friends: Please join me in the fight to save Dallas City Hall. Spread the word.  www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

if omly there was an organization dedicated to classical architecture that could fight this monstrosity!

thanks brian!

here i am on the cynical, hypocritical and un-american trump executive order mandating classical federal architecture. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

always good to be on the cover! www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

icymi, here’s what happens when you take the farnsworth house and the glass house and mush them together. like chockolate and peanut butter, two great tastes that taste great together. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

what happens when you combine mies’s @edithfarnsworth house and philip johnson’s @PJGlassHouse using steel recycled from a dying mall? this: www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

the @DallasMuseumArt has a new director. brian ferisso arrives from portland, and will now be tasked with getting the museum’s expansion by nieto sobejano built. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

listicle time! following up on my story on amazing st. stephen of mesquite, here are my 15 (+1) favorite sacred buildings in/around dallas. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

how one of the most radical churches, in architecture and politics, wound up in a dallas suburb. the story ot st. stephen of mesquite, part ronchamp, part pueblo, from the most inventive archittecture firm you’ve probably never heard of. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

i have no baseline issue with tall buildings but i certanly never said anything like this baloney. "Lamster and practicing architects all rightly agree that taller buildings allow for better architectural shapes and superior design.” www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

LATEST: never thought i’d be arguing to preserve this architectural peaen to reaganomics but…https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/architecture/2025/07/28/i-wrote-a-book-on-philip-johnson-his-dallas-skyscraper-does-not-need-a-tacked-on-garage/

beyond thoughts and minds: wrote a bit about what it means to build a memorial in these times, and the challenges communities and architects in central texas will face as they begin to think about this process. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

breaking news: the @dallasmuseumart has a new landscape architect: @fieldoperations joins the expansion design team led by @nietosobejano. field ops replaces swa on the team. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

looking for interesting arch recommendations in/around dartmouth/hanover (aside from the hood). ty!

i’m sure i’ve done a lot of forgetting, but off the top of my head…

okc: worst unis and heneral identity to win a title.

for the love of god resilience not resiliency.

yeah but it is a complete travesty they gutted its predecessor. my kingdom for a disembodied voice talking abpoit pegmatitic fluids while i sit in a darkened conversation pit.

very exciting: our @dallasnews plan to reimagine dealey plaza, designed by @stoss and @mdpl, will be exhibited at this year’s chicago architecture biennial, curated by @florencia. interactives.dallasnews.com/2022/designe...

my latest on dallas logic, or the city’s persistent and insistent efforts to shoot itself in the foot. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

hey architecture bskyverse: any one have an address for paul krueger’s mark house in truro/cape cod?

how to make downtown dallas more safe: hint, the real problem is cars, not criminals. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

The inimitable @mlamster.bsky.social writes about all the things Dallas could do with $3 billion other than redo its convention center: fix its sidewalks, plant trees, build 10,000 units of affordable housing AND possibly even cover federal cuts to arts funding. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

got heart like john starks got heart like josh hart

here i am on dallas’ plan to spend $3b on a new convention center. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

Excellent news! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/a...

WHAT!!!!! go ny go ny go!

dfw’s new terminal f is more like a b-minus. but maybe that’s okay. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

GO NY GO NY GO

OMG

happy architectural mothers day to all who celebrate.

safdie office: pretty swank.

OMG MIRACLE KNICKS!!!

went on texas standard to talk about dallas planning. www.texasstandard.org/stories/dall...

a welcome to dallas and some advice for the new director of the nasher on museum tower, the arts district, and his new job. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

the best.

OMG YESSSSSS!