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Cave of New Being

Model of Cave of New Being and meditation pond

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 [...]

02.10.10 Architecture
Art & Culture

Can Houston Feed Itself?

Illustration by Amir Kasem

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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 [...]

12.01.09 Architecture

Houston Needs a Mountain

Houston Needs a Mountain by Lysle Oliveros, recipient of a Rice Design Alliance Initiatives for Houston Grant

This project was Lysle Oliveros’s 2009 Masters Thesis project. The concept originated as a point of humor during a dinner party. “I asked my neighbor if he recently mulched the yard (due to a pungent odor), and he replied [...]

05.31.09 Infrastructure
Place

Market Square and the Great Big Empty

A parking lot to the southwest of Market Square [Photo by Christof Spieler]

Chronicle columnist (and former Cite editor) Lisa Gray recently reported on the plans to rebuild Market Square Park with a dog run, a food stand, and maybe a farmers’ market. This builds on a report done by the non-profit Project for Public Spaces, [...]

12.21.08 Place