Mark Lamster

Dallas has made the erasure of its built heritage something of a civic tradition. Entire neighborhoods have been virtually wiped off the map, among them La Reunion , the short-lived socialist enclave founded in Oak Cliff in the 1850s. Minority communities... See more

The West Texas town of Marathon (pronounced Mara-thun) is not the most likely place to find an advanced and highly crafted work of modern public architecture. The unincorporated desert outpost, best known — to the extent it is known at all — as a rest sto... See more

With the death of Frank Gehry this week at the age of 96, America lost its most recognizable and influential architect, a polarizing figure whose flamboyant works reshaped both the direction of architecture and cities around the world. Not since Frank Llo... See more

With the death of Robert A.M. Stern this past week at the age of 86, American architecture lost one of its great champions, an educator, gadfly, historian and practitioner known for his encyclopedic knowledge, conservative buildings and taste for yellow h... See more

It’s difficult to steal a building, and even harder when that building is made of poured-in-place concrete and roughly the size of an aircraft carrier. But that is precisely what is happening to Dallas City Hall — a monumental theft transpiring in plain s... See more