Day Trips & Beyond: Wright in Wisconsin

Wisconsin driving trail showcases architect’s diverse styles

"...Wright’s work continues to resonate in the world of architecture and art nearly 60 years after his death in..."

July 27, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

"Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death" at the Contemporary Austin

In this thought-provoking exhibition, the Suzanne Booth Deal Art Prize winner asks, “What does an architecture of power look like to you?”

"...this show, he asks the viewer, "What does an architecture of power look like to you?" He proposes some..."

March 16, 2018 Arts Feature by Melany Jean

Assassin's Creed

Popular video game series hits the screen

"...of Lynch and his fellow assassins traipsing around the architecture of 15th century Spain would be pleasurable if they..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Demolish, Revive, Reuse

Architect Michael Antenora talks about how saving rubble from going to the landfill changed his designs for Penn Field.

"...converted brick-company showroom). Integrating these other traditions, and the architecture that came with it, is how local architect Michael..."

Nov. 28, 2007 Design Post by Richard Whittaker

Playing by Heart

"...former -- and more interesting -- title, Dancing About Architecture, conveyed more figuratively what director-screenwriter Carroll is going for..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Last Emperor: Director's Cut

"...these once-holy walls, have captured oneiric visions of decor, architecture, and color (vibrant reds, golds, yellows, and blues), all..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cruise

"...Levitch wanders the city and enthuses on everything from architecture to history to all manner of persons, famous and..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

"...teams. The majesty and playfulness of Notre Dame's Gothic architecture provide a feast for the eyes, a sight no..."

June 21, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mamma Roma

In this early Pasolini film marked by the director's sumptuous neo-realism, Magnani plays a middle-aged prostitute who retires from the trade to become a full-time mother to her 16-year-old son.

"...landscape (it's all weathered ruins interspersed with ghastly Sixties architecture) help keep the overbearing use of Vivaldi at bay...."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Batman Returns

Gotham City is once again riven with crime, so Michael Keaton and director Tim Burton's Batman save the citizens from the megalomaniacs.

"...in the nightmares of Fritz Lang, complete with an architecture even the most dedicated fascist would think a little..."

June 26, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Proof

"...leaves, off center shots of people, corner pieces of architecture, a knothole in a tree seem to have a..."

June 12, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Backdraft

"...terrain of ethnic neighborhoods, political turf, and glorious modern architecture, but it has trouble when it comes in close..."

May 24, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Day Trips: Public Art in Galveston

A variety of pieces complement the city’s architecture and Southern charm

"...Galveston is a lovely city, with its old architecture and colorful crape myrtles. The public artworks are candles..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Soccer Stadium Built in Line With Austin's Love of the Outdoors

How Gensler architecture's home for the Verde keeps it green

"...color palette. Being able to integrate that into the architecture and the design makes my job easy.”..."

June 18, 2021 Features Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips & Beyond: Santa Fe, N.M.

Art and food in the enchanting city of Santa Fe

"...mountains with a mild desert climate and the soft architecture of the adobe buildings, it is a city with..."

Nov. 12, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin Homes Tour: The Art of the Craftsman Style

John Ruskin's ghost will be nearby, eating breakfast tacos and smiling

"...style, Wikipedia tells me, is a style of American architecture, interior design, landscape design, and applied and decorative arts..."

April 24, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Driftwood's Vista Brewing Offers a Peek at Tradition

Food, brews, and more on 21 acres of high-end architecture and folksy ambience

"...the old-world beer styles and hand-harvested honey, the handsome architecture and the rustic brush of Hill Country, is a..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Your Weekend in Film

What major releases and one-off screenings are worth your theatre time

"...of two loners adrift in a city of modernist architecture to a young girl growing up in Japan during..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Another Reason to Get Out: AIA Homes Tour

AIA Austin rolls it out this weekend for the 2013 Homes Tour

"...as we all know, for serious followers of local architecture, the annual AIA Homes Tour really delivers...."

Nov. 1, 2013 Design Post by Anne Harris

Luminocity

With a program of large-scale video installations called Luminocity, some UT students are turning buildings, walkways, walls, and alleys into movie screens

"...their environs. UT graduate and undergraduate students in RTF, architecture, theatre and dance, and studio art and design are..."

April 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

And Still More Dancing About Architecture

"...four, in terms of recent weeks featuring items involving architecture and the arts scene in Austin. Who knows how..."

May 22, 1998 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Silent Partner

You don't hear much about Wayne Bell when the Long Center for the Performing Arts is discussed. That may be because this honored Austin architect is low-key, modest, the consummate team player. But he's the point man on this $60 million project and arts writer Robi Polgar reveals how integral he is in getting it built in a calm, orderly, informed, and successful way.

"...program in historical preservation at the UT School of Architecture. With such a roster of achievements to his credit,..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

'Lounge!' Action

"...the conversation about the community's interaction with art and architecture. The curators have provided a sampling of books on..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Grand Design: Brady Corbet on The Brutalist

Writer/director on the foundations of the architectural drama

"...his plan to make a movie about migrants and architecture in postwar America, Corbet knew that she was the..."

Jan. 7, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

More Voices: Sinclair Black

"...Former dean, UT-Austin School of Architecture..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature

Austin x Design

"...Architecture at the Umlauf Lecture Series: Pollen Architecture & Design,..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film

Sam Wainwright Douglas on Rural Studio architect Samuel Mockbee

"...For those who feel the fetishizing of modern architecture has reached a high/low point when there's a website..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Sold on the Cool

The Blanton's 'Birth of the Cool' is midcentury modernism made sexy

"...the previous two decades. The clean lines in Koenig's architecture and the hard-edged shapes in the abstract paintings of..."

March 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Making a Front Porch for the City

As he was completing the final design for the Austin Museum of Art's long-awaited downtown facility, architect Richard Gluckman took time to discuss the project, his approach to architecture, and what it means to design buildings for a boomtown.

"...few minutes to discuss this project, his approach to architecture, and what it means to design buildings for a..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

The University of Texas announces the finalists for the design of its new art museum (after rejecting the original design as too modern) and everyone on the list, with few minor exceptions, hews closely to the classical or neo-classical tradition.

"...demonstrations, loud public mockery, and the resignation-in-protest of UT architecture dean Larry Speck...."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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