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grover01 Photo by Jim Caldwell, Courtesy Buffalo Bayou Partnership & Minetta Brook. (On-screen image from James Bennings' Ten Skies, 2004, 16mm, color, 109 min.”)
Tish Stringer and Harbeer Sandhu
  • Tish Stringer and Harbeer Sandhu
  • Mar. 8, 2010
  • 2:18 PM

Pecha Kucha Houston, Volume 2

Retention ponds masquerading as water features, custom bobble-heads and PEZ dispensers, chopper bikes, drunk mellow mice and junkyard drive-ins—where could you have found these things together? At Houston’s second Pecha Kucha, which took place last Thursday.

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Model of Cave of New Being and meditation pond

Steven Thomson
  • Steven Thomson
  • Feb. 10, 2010
  • 9:44 PM

Cave of New Being

With the growing genre of architecture generated by biomorphic design and biomimetic processes, a reevaluation of Frederick J. Kiesler’s work is ever more timely. During the mid-20th century he became increasingly occupied with the relationship of structure and natural form in architecture. The Cave of the New Being (also known as the Grotto for Meditation), proposed in the 1960s for New Harmony and contracted by Mrs. Blaffer Owen, represented the designer’s pièce de résistance, embodying all of the intellectual currents of his era, from surrealism to biotechnics, yet it was never realized.

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A model of a taco truck by Donna Kacmar's design studio at the Initiatives for Houston exhibition.

Jessica Winegardner
  • Jessica Winegardner
  • Jan. 19, 2010
  • 2:21 PM

Strategies for Changing Houston

The conversion of the Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) into a think tank of what Houston is, could be, and should be is worth the visit. The curated exhibition of Rice Design Alliance’s Initiatives for Houston Grant Program captures ten years of thinkers, dreamers, and designers putting their heads together to better understand our city and steer its future.

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Lakes of Cypress Forest [Photo from Hendricks Interests]

Raj Mankad
  • Raj Mankad
  • Jan. 5, 2010
  • 11:43 AM

Headlines December 23 to January 4

The coming of the new year brought year-end and decade-end posts including the Swamplot awards. “Lakes of” won favorite Houston design cliché of the year. Christof Spieler looked back on a decade of transit megaprojects. Also of note, the Chronicle published two pieces on philanthropist Cynthia Woods Mitchell, who passed away (1, 2). A good story I missed in the last headline post was the Rice News piece on Chris Hight’s and Michael Robinson’s studio on Brays Bayou and their website hydraulicity.org.

Monday January 4

Black medical museum to honor pioneers Facility will be located in historic Freedmen’s Town and focus on the struggles of black doctors to provide care [Houston Chronicle] “Historians hope to restore the home at 1319 Andrews owned by the Rev. Ned P. Pullum, a minister and entrepreneur, and transform it into the Pullum Health and Business Museum. The Pullum Museum would become part of an educational and cultural park corridor in Freedmen’s Town that includes the Rutherford B.H. Yates Museum – another reclaimed historic home. Freedmen’s Town, just west of downtown, is the only remaining post-Civil War, freed-slave historic district of its kind.”

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Mayor-Elect Parker is flanked by TxDOT's Delvin Dennis, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Councilmember Gonzalez, Public Works Director Mike Marcotte, and members of the local Boy Scout Troop. [Photo from Houston Bikeways]

Raj Mankad
  • Raj Mankad
  • Dec. 23, 2009
  • 3:35 PM

A Great Holiday Present: Headlines December 7 to 22

After a long wait, the MKT rail-to-trail that connects the Heights with Downtown was officially opened. Annise Parker was there not long after winning the Mayoral election. The University light rail line passed a major federal hurdle and has entered the engineering phase. The Metro president called it “a great holiday present” for Houston. Read on to catch up on what’s going with Houston architecture, engineering, construction, and urban planning.

December 22

Museum idea could save threatened Heights church: One man’s plan could provide a way to keep a historic structure from demolition [Houston Chronicle] “On-again, off-again plans to raze Houston Heights’ historic but long unused Immanuel Lutheran Church may be in limbo again today as preservationists float a plan to convert the striking Gothic Revival sanctuary into a museum for Texas art. Ken Bakenhus, president of the church’s governing body, which overwhelmingly favors demolition, said the 1932-vintage building at 1448 Cortlandt St. likely will be torn down this summer unless feasible plans to save it are proposed.”

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Map of HCC/Ensember area [Courtesy Morris Architects]

April Lind
  • April Lind
  • Dec. 14, 2009
  • 10:04 AM

Connect the Dots Goes to Midtown

Cite Editor, Raj Mankad, and Editorial Chair, Christof Speiler, spoke on KPFT 90.1 FM radio’s Connect The Dots with host Robert Muhammad on Wednesday, December 9, 2009. They were on during the final fifteen minutes of the show to discuss the new issue of Cite (number 80) and an article about the future of Midtown and Houston’s other “inner loop neighborhoods”.

The full audio of the Cite magazine segment can be downloaded and listened to below in mp3 format:
Click to Listen to Cite on Connect the Dots

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Cite 80 cover [Art by Jorge Galvan, Color Aid paper, thread, and pins]

Nicola Springer
  • Nicola Springer
  • Dec. 10, 2009
  • 1:09 PM

Cite 80: Houstopia 2035

Letter from the Editor
In the 1990’s, a new wave of architecture professors at Rice University took on Houston as an experiment in urbanism. Whereas American cities like Boston and New York offered infill and contextual strategies by which to analyze and investigate, the seemingly blank canvas of the “Space City” offered up the idea of a new breed of city, or anti-city. As students we were rolled out to all corners of the region to investigate the hidden city — how the industrial warehouse, the bayou, the suburban tract, the mega-mall, the parking lot, and all the spaces in between created the tapestry that is Houston.

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Houston FBI Office, Design by Larry Speck of PageSoutherlandPage in a joint venture with Leo A Daly [Image from FBI.gov]

Raj Mankad
  • Raj Mankad
  • Dec. 8, 2009
  • 11:55 AM

Spies and Astronauts: Headlines November 24 to December 6

Jesse Hager recounts how he was detained after photographing the new Houston FBI office. The Houston Parks and Recreation department is dedicating its new offices in a renovated MacKie & Kamrath building that once housed NASA.

Sunday December 6

A little-known piece of the city’s NASA past is being renovated, modernized and opened to the public historic: Design inspired by Wright [Houston Chronicle]

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Illustration by Amir Kasem

John Jacob
  • John Jacob
  • Dec. 1, 2009
  • 3:56 PM

Can Houston Feed Itself?

The next issue of Cite is at the bindery. Enjoy this preview and subscribe or join the Rice Design Alliance now to get the whole issue.

It was soil, not oil, that determined the location of Texas’ largest cities. It was good dirt that drew people here—good dark, rich soil that is found in two prominent strips: the Texas Blacklands that extend from Dallas to Austin and San Antonio, and the coastal Blacklands that run from Houston to Corpus Christi. Seventy percent of the population of Texas now reside on these relatively narrow Blackland strips, most of them oblivious to the role of soil in their history.

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Oak floor removed from house under deconstruction [Lantz Full Circle]

Raj Mankad
  • Raj Mankad
  • Nov. 26, 2009
  • 2:59 AM

Deconstruction: Headlines October 31 to November 23

Lisa Gray devoted her column to several interesting Houston places:
Karen Lantz’s deconstruction project in the Museum District,
the Willow Waterhole flood control and greenspace project,
and an East End exhibition.

Also, Jesse Hager assessed the 2009 AIA Houston home tour at a new online publication called Culture Map.

Read on for a recap of the last month’s stories about the built environment.

Monday November 23

Help on way for knotted U.S. 290 interchange [Houston Chronicle] “The $315 million allocation will allow work to begin on rebuilding the interchange of U.S. 290, Loop 610, and Interstate 10. The next 18 months will be spent acquiring rights-of-way and moving utilities.”

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