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Paul Hester’s Doing Time in Houston, 1966 – 2011

Magic Island site at Southwest Freeway and Greenbriar Street. All photographs Paul Hester. Paul Hester’s retrospective Doing Time in Houston at Architecture Center Houston—culled from his extensive archive documenting Houston’s architecture through all its transitions over the past 45 years–invites the viewer to contemplate all that has ever stood on this viscid alluvium we call [...]

08.08.11 Preservation
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Incredible Interventions?

Yasufumi Nakamori gave a talk at the Architecture Center Houston. Photo by Hank Hancock. On Wednesday, April 20, Yasufumi Nakamori, assistant curator of photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, spoke about his recent scholarship to an audience invited by the Houston Public Library and hosted by Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) downtown for their [...]

05.04.11 Architecture
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Honor the Railcar

KCS Red on Green, Oil on Masonite [David Cobb] If you are intrigued by David Cobb’s art and reflections on rail, industry, and culture, check out the Cite Infrastructure Issue. I began painting the railcars or “rolling stock” back in my college years at the University of Houston as a project for my undergraduate studies. [...]

10.15.09 Art & Culture
Infrastructure

Houston by Dart Board

Scene from Fifth Ward [Photo by Caitlin Ann] Mount a map of Harris County on the wall. Throw a dart at it. Photograph the little map quadrant where the dart lands — not with the idea of necessarily taking pretty pictures but to document what the area looks like. That was Paul Hester’s assignment to [...]

10.06.09 Architecture
Place