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Angelina Forest Products in Lufkin.
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Woodn't It Be Nice

November 10, 2021
Jack Murphy
"Airscapes #1." Courtesy University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design.
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Hines College Celebrates Historic 75th Anniversary

November 5, 2021
Stephen Schad
At Cherry Creek Innovation Center, the culinary learning labs seamlessly connect to student dining which is immediately adjacent to the Hospitality & Tourism spaces which increases exposure between programs. Photo by Bill Timmerman. Courtesy DLR Group.
Architecture, Public Space, Socioeconomics, Racial Equity, Place, Other Cities, Environment, Design

New Educational Environments for New Pedagogies

November 4, 2021
Rebeca Carranza-Hicks, Marilyn Denison, Taryn Kinney
Photograph by Casey Dunn from "Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desert." Courtesy Monacelli.
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Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desert

October 30, 2021
Helen Thompson
"Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit," by Christof Spieler. Second edition, 2021. Published by Island Press.
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Falling in Love with Trains, Buses, People—Again

October 27, 2021
John Surico
Still from Solange, "Cranes in the Sky."
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Do Nothing Without Intention

October 19, 2021
Sheila Mednick
Niki de Saint Phalle during a shooting session at Impasse Ronsin, Paris, 1962. © André Morain.
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Niki de Saint Phalle, the First Free Woman

October 7, 2021
Sandra Zalman
Race/Ethnicity by census tract in Houston as measured by the 2020 census. Via the COH Planning Department Census Map Viewer.
Urban Planning, Reviews, Place, News, Land Use Regulation, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Environment, Design

Successful Cities Require Open Data

October 5, 2021
Katya Abazajian
Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Cy Twombly Gallery, 1995, Menil Collection, Houston. Photo by Leonid Furmansky.
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Cy Twombly Gallery

September 23, 2021
Leonid Furmansky
W. H. Monroe and family, 2502 Gray Avenue. Courtesy Woodson Research Center.
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Visualizing Black Houston in 1915

September 22, 2021
Norie Guthrie
Installation view of "Dream Monuments." Photo by Paul Hester. Courtesy Menil Drawing Institute.
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Yesterday’s Monumental Fantasies, Dreamed Today

September 15, 2021
Sam Stoeltje
POST Houston and environs. Photo by Paul Hester on December 17, 2019.
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Houston Builds Itself: POST Houston

September 13, 2021
Paul Hester