Architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News. Harvard Loeb Fellow. Author of The Man in the Glass House
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16 Oct 2025
Friends: Please join me in the fight to save Dallas City Hall. Spread the word.
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My full critique of the Obama Center will come next month. Here's what I wrote after touring the site last November. chicago.suntimes.com/archite…
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Apr 29
Q: What do the Beatles, Doris Day, Raquel Welch, the Teamsters, Katrina refugees, a jail, the Roman empire, and affordable housing have in common?
A: The Cabana Motor Hotel.
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Apr 15
your eyes don’t lie, but architectural renderings sure do, especially in the age of aia. my latest is a short history of how we got to the dubious place we're at.
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In City Hall's shadow, another neglected icon with an uncertain future | @marklamster
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Apr 1
FREE HENRY MOORE! this is NO WAY to treat one of the city’s jewels. save city hall, remove the barricades, and create a respectful and secure setting for the moore. my latest on this:
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Mar 11
my latest on the future of dallas city hall after a 16-hour city council hearing. there are some reasons for optimism, but the process has been disingenuous, disorganized, rushed, and lacking in transparency.
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Today's column looks at what will be the final resting place of the Rev. Jesse Jackson: 19th Century landscape designer Adolph Strauch's solemn and picturesque Oak Woods Cemetery on the city's South Side. chicago.suntimes.com/archite…
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Mar 5
council meeting moving toward hour 12 since scheduled beginning with zero end in sight…maybe the meeting will outlast the building?
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Mar 3
LFG!!!!!!!!
Mar 3
Cover reveal for WELCOME TO PARADOX CITY, a first-of-its-kind history of Dallas through the city’s most significant buildings, by Dallas Morning News architecture critic @marklamster!
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Mar 2
public speakers at the city council meeting on the future of city hall now running 19-2 in favor of preservation.
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Feb 10
In Preston Hollow, a hobbit house inspired by ‘The Lord of the Rings’ | @marklamster dallasnews.com/arts-entertai…
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Feb 10
taking a (short) break from the dallas city hall shenanigans to bring you this feature on one of the secret gems of dallas, phylls glazer’s lord of the rings inspired compound, complete with a full-on hobbit house and, of course, lots of dragons.
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Jan 14
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.
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Jan 7
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. obviously, pei’s city hall would top the list.
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9 Dec 2025
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.
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4 Dec 2025
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!
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3 Dec 2025
Robert A.M. Stern, prominent architect of the Bush Presidential Center, dies at 86 | @marklamster dallasnews.com/arts-entertai…
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