His work for Trinity University spanned a quarter century.

The Church of Reconciliation in San Antonio both acknowledges and extends a longstanding tradition of centrally planned churches. From Bramante's plan for St. Peter's or Borromini's Sant' Ivo to Eero Saarinen's Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana, or Louis Kahn's Unitarian Church in Rochester, New York, the centralized plan has been called upon, not only to focus attention on a spiritual locus…

Imagine the modernist Corbusian dream of the 1920s - spaciousness, light, health, and urbanity - a perch high above the city with sweeping views to hills and plains - a place surrounded by the sky yet blessed with a bit of the earth in the form of landscaped terraces occupying almost a third of the usable floor space. Then imagine almost the opposite – a Ruskinian reverence for craft, detail, and…

During the past four years we have attempted in one section of our advanced architectural design studio to help students explicitly incorporate individual values/philosophies/ principles/prejudices into their own design work. The studio addresses, in a particular way, those subjective, value-laden decisions which are a part of any design process. We accept the notion that design solutions result…

I recently visited Richard Meier's evocative new seminary building in Hartford, Connecticut. It was everything the photographs promised it should be – pure, clean, and elegant, an exquisite mastery of space, light, and shape. It is a consummate work of an eminently skilled designer. Proud and robust from the outside, serene and moving on the interior, it is a truly beautiful object. But visiting…

Its standing, like that of its author, has steadily risen in the course of a decade.

When I was a boy in Houston, I was told that a hole dug deep enough straight through the center of the earth from Texas would eventually reach China. It was a lie. The other side of the world is actually Australia-a place which bears some striking and even uncanny environmental similarities to Texas, its geographic counterpart half-way around the globe. The international stereotype of both Texas…

In the mid-twentieth century there has probably been no more confusing and neglected issue in architectural education than what to do with history. The debate has gone on long enough (and the historians have been adamant enough) that the advisability of some inclusion of historic consciousness in any architect's thinking seems beyond question. But what form that consciousness should take, what…