2011 Texas Biennial Special #1
Domenick Ammirati with Mevis & Van Deursen
Recently I read Bruno Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern, from 1991. I’d gotten the sense from talking to my more intellectually conscientious friends that Latour had a lot to say about the current moment...
Mary Ellen Carroll and Peter Noever
On March 6, 2011, in the overhead compartment for seat 14K of an Austrian Airlines’ Boeing 767 en route from JFK to VIE (Flight 88) is a suitcase full of printed matter, most of which goes unread. The...
Morteza Baharloo
The Shahyad, currently called Azadi, is a 50,000-square-meter complex in Tehran that includes the 50-meter-tall eponymous tower and a subterranean section with a museum and audiovisual exhibition...
Simon Dance and Shezad Dawood
What if we were to see miscegenation as a neutral and factual term, not merely relating to racial admixture but to de facto as well as organic hybridizations of architectural period and culinary...
Renée Borgonjen and Berend Strik
Working with One Architecture seems to me to be a “thixotropic experience.” We both have different ways of developing a concept and working on an idea. But when these forces come together it...
Eva Hagberg
Pennzoil Place. Philip Johnson. 1975. A pair of towers, full of prismatic slippage, edged up against each other on a 250-square-foot downtown Houston block. Built by developer Gerald Hines with...
International House of Architecture
Marcos Sánchez and Mark Wasiuta with Adam Bandler
A familiar narrative of the San Fernando Valley holds that the formal repetitiveness of this vast suburbia delivers an image of bland homogeneity, while simultaneously providing cover for a...
Asmara M. Tekle
In his book Second Nature (Delta, 1992), Michael Pollan writes that at a certain moment in his childhood on Long Island, his dad decided to stop mowing the family’s suburban front lawn and let...
Paula Hayes and Florian Idenburg
The first form is a perfect transparent dome. Its widest point is just about one third above the ground, not at the ground. It first gets wider and then shapes back in. The dome is not just half...
Cynthia Chris
On March 31 and again on April 7 of the year 2000, the Grand Rapids, Michigan, public access station known as GRTV (Grand Rapids Television) aired an episode of a show called Tim’s Area of Control in a...
Michelle Mayer: Departure/Return
Lauren Adams
Ed Saavedra: Things Have Gone to...
Cameron Blaylock
Nowhere Near Here: New...
Logan Sebastian Beck
Donna Huanca: RUA MINX “POP UP...
Lynne McCabe
New Art in Austin: 15 to Watch
Ariel Evans
New Image Sculpture
Ben Judson
2011 Core Exhibition
Katia Zavistovski
Natasha Bowdoin
Rebecca Wadlinger
Jillian Conrad
Melissa Venator