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Offcite in China: Planned CommunityIn this series, Christof Spieler gives regular reports on his trip to China for a special issue of Cite. Read more about RDA’s China initiative here, which includes a knockout lecture series in the Fall. This is the Chinese version of a planned community: 30 highrise residential towers, each 30 stories tall, all behind gates [...] |
08.11.11 | Architecture |
Grand Parkway ProtestProtesters outside TxDOT called for an end to plans for expanding the Grand Parkway. On Wednesday May 25, approximately 50 people rallied outside the Houston district office of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Organized by the Citizens’ Transportation Coalition (CTC), the protest called for a better use of $350 million of government funds currently [...] |
05.27.11 | Environment Infrastructure |
Can Market Square Honor and Break from Past?Houston Market Square Park, designed by Lauren Griffith Associates and Ray + Hollington Architects, featuring James Surls’s “Points of View.” Photo by Hank Hancock. Visitors to the new Market Square Park in the past couple of weeks have seen significant changes, and many are distinctly hopeful about what it all means for Downtown. Designed by [...] |
09.17.10 | Place Reviews |
Houston’s Push for PreservationThe first preservation ordinance in the country came to life in Charleston, South Carolina in 1930. The Vieux Carre in New Orleans and Nantucket Island off the coast of Massachusetts followed shortly after, and historic preservation gained steady strength in the United States. Houston joined late in the game, with the city’s ordinance put into [...] |
06.03.10 | Architecture Preservation |
Strategies for Changing HoustonA model of a taco truck by Donna Kacmar’s design studio at the Initiatives for Houston exhibition. 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 [...] |
01.19.10 | Architecture Reviews |
Connect the Dots Goes to MidtownMap of HCC/Ensember area [Courtesy Morris Architects] 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 [...] |
12.14.09 | Architecture Place |
Can Houston Feed Itself?Illustration by Amir Kasem 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 [...] |
12.01.09 | Architecture |
Houston’s First Pecha KuchaBrasil Cafe and Domy Books Courtyard [iPhone photo Kathryn Fosdick] Over one hundred thinkers, innovators, and intrigued intellectuals crowded into the back porch linking bastions of indie culture Domy Books and Cafe Brasil last Thursday to participate in Houston’s inaugural Pecha Kucha event. A mix of show-and-tell, open-mike night, and happy hour, Pecha Kucha has [...] |
11.24.09 | Design |
Revisiting Cite 73: Houston TraditionsThis issue, published in the winter of 2008, could not sit still. It looked forward, it looked back, and then forward again. It considered the reshaping of Houston institutions including the University of St. Thomas and Texas Southern University. The Rurban Horseshoe examined the historically black neighborhoods on the periphery of the city. Rafael Longoria [...] |
10.20.09 | Architecture Art & Culture |
Revisiting Cite 72: Who Owns the Street?Originally published in Fall 2007, Cite 72 is now available free online in pdf format. Click on the titles below to download. Letter from the Guest Editor By 2035, the Houston Area will grow by 3.5 million people. That’s the forecast from the Houston-Galveston Area Council (HGAC), and while there may be argument about the [...] |
10.09.09 | Architecture Place |
