mark lamster
@mlamster.bsky.social
architecture critic of the dallas morning news. author of “the man in the glass house.” www.marklamster.com
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Lamster: Keep your hands off Dallas City Hall
Why demolishing I. M. Pei’s iconic building would be a financial boondoggle and an architectural travesty.
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Friends: Please join me in the fight to save Dallas City Hall. Spread the word.
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Reposted by mark lamster
You should read this.
stop the steal: my latest on the movement to demolish i. m. pei’s iconic dallas city hall based on inflated deferred maintenance estimates and a misguided dream of economic development.
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Lamster: Plans to abandon Dallas City Hall are a tragic farce
City leaders seem bent on leaving the iconic building without consulting voters.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
You should read this.
stop the steal: my latest on the movement to demolish i. m. pei’s iconic dallas city hall based on inflated deferred maintenance estimates and a misguided dream of economic development.
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
Lamster: Plans to abandon Dallas City Hall are a tragic farce
City leaders seem bent on leaving the iconic building without consulting voters.
www.dallasnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
stop the steal: my latest on the movement to demolish i. m. pei’s iconic dallas city hall based on inflated deferred maintenance estimates and a misguided dream of economic development.
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
when james magee died last year he left one of the most important but least known works of 21st century american art unfinished. what happens to it now.
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The enigmatic artist James Magee built a West Texas landmark. What happens to it now?
El Paso’s arts leaders face the challenge of preserving the work of Magee and his multiple personas.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
when james magee died last year he left one of the most important but least known works of 21st century american art unfinished. what happens to it now.
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if max scherzer asks you to check out his wood chipper, run.
November 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
if max scherzer asks you to check out his wood chipper, run.
Friends: Please join me in the fight to save Dallas City Hall. Spread the word.
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
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Lamster: Keep your hands off Dallas City Hall
Why demolishing I. M. Pei’s iconic building would be a financial boondoggle and an architectural travesty.
www.dallasnews.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Friends: Please join me in the fight to save Dallas City Hall. Spread the word.
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
if omly there was an organization dedicated to classical architecture that could fight this monstrosity!
September 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
if omly there was an organization dedicated to classical architecture that could fight this monstrosity!
thanks brian!
Short and sweet, this from @mlamster.bsky.social on the Trump classicism EO is a GREAT dissection of this contradiction-filled, cynical mess.
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Lamster: How not to make American architecture great
The Trump executive order on federal building is a terrible, Soviet-style mistake.
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September 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
thanks brian!
here i am on the cynical, hypocritical and un-american trump executive order mandating classical federal architecture. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
Lamster: How not to make American architecture great
The Trump executive order on federal building is a terrible, Soviet-style mistake.
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September 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
here i am on the cynical, hypocritical and un-american trump executive order mandating classical federal architecture. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
September 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
icymi, here’s what happens when you take the farnsworth house and the glass house and mush them together. like chockolate and peanut butter, two great tastes that taste great together. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
How a Dallas sculptor turned RedBird Mall scraps into an homage to modern architecture
George Tobolowsky’s “Recycled Glass House” fuses works by Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson.
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August 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
icymi, here’s what happens when you take the farnsworth house and the glass house and mush them together. like chockolate and peanut butter, two great tastes that taste great together. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
what happens when you combine mies’s @edithfarnsworth house and philip johnson’s @PJGlassHouse using steel recycled from a dying mall? this: www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
How a Dallas sculptor turned RedBird Mall scraps into an homage to modern architecture
George Tobolowsky’s “Recycled Glass House” fuses works by Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson.
www.dallasnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
what happens when you combine mies’s @edithfarnsworth house and philip johnson’s @PJGlassHouse using steel recycled from a dying mall? this: www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
the @DallasMuseumArt has a new director. brian ferisso arrives from portland, and will now be tasked with getting the museum’s expansion by nieto sobejano built. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
At ‘transformative moment,’ Dallas Museum of Art appoints new director
Brian Ferriso, director of the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, will be tasked with leading the DMA through an expansion of the downtown building.
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August 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
the @DallasMuseumArt has a new director. brian ferisso arrives from portland, and will now be tasked with getting the museum’s expansion by nieto sobejano built. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
listicle time! following up on my story on amazing st. stephen of mesquite, here are my 15 (+1) favorite sacred buildings in/around dallas.
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15 must-visit sacred buildings in and around Dallas (plus a bonus)
Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster lists his favorite religious buildings in North Texas.
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August 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
listicle time! following up on my story on amazing st. stephen of mesquite, here are my 15 (+1) favorite sacred buildings in/around dallas.
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how one of the most radical churches, in architecture and politics, wound up in a dallas suburb. the story ot st. stephen of mesquite, part ronchamp, part pueblo, from the most inventive archittecture firm you’ve probably never heard of.
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What is that?! The most radical church in Texas gets a facelift
Mesquite’s St. Stephen United Methodist Church, an icon of organic modernism, is restored to its original grandeur.
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August 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
how one of the most radical churches, in architecture and politics, wound up in a dallas suburb. the story ot st. stephen of mesquite, part ronchamp, part pueblo, from the most inventive archittecture firm you’ve probably never heard of.
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
i have no baseline issue with tall buildings but i certanly never said anything like this baloney.
"Lamster and practicing architects all rightly agree that taller buildings allow for better architectural shapes and superior design.”
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"Lamster and practicing architects all rightly agree that taller buildings allow for better architectural shapes and superior design.”
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Cothrum: Stop thinking small, Dallas
Dallas Cothrum: Why is Dallas afraid of tall buildings? I hope citizens can be taught that height creates better buildings in design, sustainability, and with...
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August 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
i have no baseline issue with tall buildings but i certanly never said anything like this baloney.
"Lamster and practicing architects all rightly agree that taller buildings allow for better architectural shapes and superior design.”
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"Lamster and practicing architects all rightly agree that taller buildings allow for better architectural shapes and superior design.”
www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
LATEST: never thought i’d be arguing to preserve this architectural peaen to reaganomics but…https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/architecture/2025/07/28/i-wrote-a-book-on-philip-johnson-his-dallas-skyscraper-does-not-need-a-tacked-on-garage/
July 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
LATEST: never thought i’d be arguing to preserve this architectural peaen to reaganomics but…https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/architecture/2025/07/28/i-wrote-a-book-on-philip-johnson-his-dallas-skyscraper-does-not-need-a-tacked-on-garage/
beyond thoughts and minds: wrote a bit about what it means to build a memorial in these times, and the challenges communities and architects in central texas will face as they begin to think about this process.
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www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
Lamster: What should a Camp Mystic memorial look like?
The families and communities suffering from the Central Texas flash floods face more questions than answers.
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July 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
beyond thoughts and minds: wrote a bit about what it means to build a memorial in these times, and the challenges communities and architects in central texas will face as they begin to think about this process.
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
breaking news: the @dallasmuseumart has a new landscape architect: @fieldoperations joins the expansion design team led by @nietosobejano. field ops replaces swa on the team.
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Lamster: Can the DMA finally connect to Klyde Warren Park?
Field Operations, landscape architects of New York’s High Line, to join the effort to reimagine the museum and better connect it to the Arts District.
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July 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
breaking news: the @dallasmuseumart has a new landscape architect: @fieldoperations joins the expansion design team led by @nietosobejano. field ops replaces swa on the team.
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
looking for interesting arch recommendations in/around dartmouth/hanover (aside from the hood). ty!
June 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
looking for interesting arch recommendations in/around dartmouth/hanover (aside from the hood). ty!
i’m sure i’ve done a lot of forgetting, but off the top of my head…
June 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
i’m sure i’ve done a lot of forgetting, but off the top of my head…
okc: worst unis and heneral identity to win a title.
June 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
okc: worst unis and heneral identity to win a title.
for the love of god resilience not resiliency.
June 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
for the love of god resilience not resiliency.
yeah but it is a complete travesty they gutted its predecessor. my kingdom for a disembodied voice talking abpoit pegmatitic fluids while i sit in a darkened conversation pit.
The Mignone Hall of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History is both figuratively and literally one of the coolest places to take kids of a certain age. Great way to beat the heat in NYC
June 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
yeah but it is a complete travesty they gutted its predecessor. my kingdom for a disembodied voice talking abpoit pegmatitic fluids while i sit in a darkened conversation pit.
very exciting: our @dallasnews plan to reimagine dealey plaza, designed by @stoss and @mdpl, will be exhibited at this year’s chicago architecture biennial, curated by @florencia.
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Reimagining Dealey: We asked a team of leading designers to redesign one of Dallas' most significant spaces
Dealey Plaza and Triple Underpass are among downtown Dallas' most profound urban failings, architecture critic Mark Lamster writes. But they don't have to be.
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June 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
very exciting: our @dallasnews plan to reimagine dealey plaza, designed by @stoss and @mdpl, will be exhibited at this year’s chicago architecture biennial, curated by @florencia.
interactives.dallasnews.com/2022/designe...
interactives.dallasnews.com/2022/designe...
my latest on dallas logic, or the city’s persistent and insistent efforts to shoot itself in the foot. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...
Lamster: Will Dallas ever get out of its own way?
Architecture critic Mark Lamster on a program that will make city streets and sidewalks worse.
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June 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
my latest on dallas logic, or the city’s persistent and insistent efforts to shoot itself in the foot. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...