Blair McCay

1 month ago | magazine.texasarchitects.org | James Russell |Abigail Thomas |Aaron Seward |Blair McCay

ProductsVolume 75, Issue 2 - Feedback Each of these new products takes a novel approach to traditional surfacing materials—from recycled plastic to metal to concrete. Pour Tile CollectionBert & MayThe Pour tile collection was created in collaboration between British tile maker Bert & May and Henry Holland Studio. Pour features hand-poured encaustic and printed glazed tiles inspired by the Japanese art of nerikomi—the stacking and cutting of colored pieces of clay to form different patterns.

1 month ago | magazine.texasarchitects.org | James Russell |Abigail Thomas |Rita Catinella Orrell |Blair McCay

Film ReviewVolume 75, Issue 2 - Feedback The BrutalistDirected by Brady CorbetWritten by Brady Corbet and Mona FastvoldBrookstreet Pictures and Kaplan Morrison, 2024 This article contains discussions and themes that may be distressing or disturbing to some readers, including references to violence. Reader discretion is advised. It’s a mistake, though an understandable one, to watch The Brutalist expecting to see a film about Brutalist architecture.

1 month ago | magazine.texasarchitects.org | James Russell |Rita Catinella Orrell |Aaron Seward |Blair McCay

Book ReviewVolume 75, Issue 2 - Feedback City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s HighwaysMegan KimbleCrown Publishing Group, 2024 “The sun will go out in five billion years, and they’ll have to finish I-35 in the dark!” Although this joke is decades old, told again and again by weary and cynical Texas drivers, the sentiment still rings true today.

1 month ago | magazine.texasarchitects.org | Abigail Thomas |Rita Catinella Orrell |Aaron Seward |Blair McCay

Book ReviewVolume 75, Issue 2 - Feedback Atlas of Never Built ArchitectureSam Lubell and Greg GoldinPhaidon, 2024 Sometimes architects’ grand ambitions fallflat, and the public may be better for it. In other cases, what may have benefitted the public and the team of architects, engineers, and the other laborers involved is killed for reasons out of their control, namely financial, political, and ideological considerations.