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Home » Authors » Mark Lamster

Mark Lamster

Mark Lamster is architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News and a professor at the architecture school of the University of Texas at Arlington.

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Rosa O. Valdes STEM + Innovation Center
K-12 Schools 2024

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson's Mass-Timber Addition to a Texas School Offers a Lesson in Sustainable Design

Addison, Texas
Mark Lamster
October 16, 2024
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The Rosa O. Valdes STEM + Innovation Center follows neatly in the campus's Modernist tradition while emphasizing forward-thinking environmental solutions.
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MIT Museum

Höweler + Yoon's Redesigned MIT Museum Pays Homage to the Institution's 50-Year History

Mark Lamster
December 13, 2022
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A museum by Höweler + Yoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, devoted to MIT’s history of innovation, was an exercise in collaboration.
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Adams Street Branch Library.

Adams Street Branch Library by NADAAA

Boston
Mark Lamster
March 1, 2022
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The firm's Boston branch library draws on its surrounding context and historic precedents.


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Sid Richardson Residential College.

Rice University's Sid Richardson Residential College by Barkow Leibinger

Houston, Texas
Mark Lamster
November 1, 2021
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A residential college by Barkow Leibinger continues the tradition of good design at Rice University.
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University of Texas at Dallas Brain Performance Institute

Brain Performance Institute by Page

Dallas
Mark Lamster
July 10, 2018
One Comment

In its services and its design, a multidisciplinary brain-health center of the University of Texas implements the findings of the latest scientific research.


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Preservationists Protest Changes

Preservationists Protest Changes to the AT&T Building

Mark Lamster
January 3, 2018
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Architecture critic Mark Lamster discusses how moving forward should not entail erasing the past.


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Taussig Center

Taussig Cancer Center by William Rawn Associates and Stantec Architecture

Cleveland
Mark Lamster
July 3, 2017
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A collaboration among architects and client results in a Cleveland medical facility designed to empower patients.


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Legacy ER

Legacy ER (Allen) by 5G Studio Collaborative

Allen, Texas
Mark Lamster
May 16, 2014
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Legacy ER, a freestanding emergency room and urgent-care facility, stops traffic in Allen, Texas, with an angular folded roof of zinc panels and perforated screens.


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Lebbeus Woods: 1940-2012

Mark Lamster
October 31, 2012
No Comments
Woods' "Labyrinthine Wall," a protective wall abstraction for Bosnia. Lebbeus Woods, the visionary draftsman and educator considered by many to be the conscience of the architectural profession, died at home in New York City on Tuesday morning at the age of seventy-two. The causes were natural, but observers could hardly fail to note that his death came with Hurricane Sandy’s inundating waters still flooding New York. No architect had devoted more energy to the consequences of catastrophic urban failure than Woods. The last of the great paper architects, Woods achieved cult-idol status among architects for his post-apocalyptic landscapes of dense
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