mark lamster
architecture critic of the dallas morning news. author of “the man in the glass house.” www.marklamster.com
- Reposted by mark lamsterOur piece on single stair: a crucial change that is slowly coming to Canadian cities By me and @johnlorinc.bsky.social
- 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!
- I have added some more accounts to my Starter Pack on Architecture and The Built Environment, among which @mlamster.bsky.social, @paulgoldberger.bsky.social and other people. Please take a look: go.bsky.app/PqAqtFDat://did:plc:moy2a77uxleysy567smcju2i/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb2ll2bjji2d
- 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...
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[Not loaded yet] - a brief appreciation of frank gehry. rip. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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.
