Mark Lamster

Cambridge, Dallas, New York

Architecture Critic at The Dallas Morning News

Architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News. Harvard Loeb Fellow. Author of The Man in the Glass House

Articles

Baseball Book Review - Spalding’s World Tour By Mark Lamster

Mar 5, 2025 | baseballstoryteller.com | Mark Lamster |Noel P. Roby

I just finished reading a very interesting baseball book. The book’s characters are real, they played professional baseball circa late 1800s to early 1900s. The book’s title, “Spalding’s World Tour” references a real person, Albert Spalding, the former professional baseball player turned owner and sporting goods magnate. The book is a geography lesson, a history of world’s transportation system, and is about a seemingly half-brain idea that turned out to be a very successful campaign.
Why Neiman Marcus matters to downtown Dallas

Feb 20, 2025 | msn.com | Mark Lamster

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The Year of Meh: It’s the 2024 Architecture and Design Awards

Jan 6, 2025 | alexandralange.net | Alexandra Lange |Mark Lamster

The Year of Meh: It’s the 2024 Architecture and Design Awards By Alexandra Lange, Mark Lamster and Carolina MirandaBetter late than never? By now you’ve scrolled through a dozen annual awards with tasteful, oh-so-thoughtful selections. Another fancy house? Boooring. Another chic boutique. Snooze. Another monochromatic gridded curtain wall. Yadda yadda yadda.
The Year of Meh: It’s the 2024 Architecture and Design Awards

Jan 5, 2025 | lamstermd.medium.com | Mark Lamster |Alexandra Lange

By Mark Lamster, Alexandra Lange & Carolina A. MirandaBetter late than never? By now you’ve scrolled through a dozen annual awards with tasteful, oh-so-thoughtful selections. Another fancy house? Boooring. Another chic boutique. Snooze. Another monochromatic gridded curtain wall. Yadda yadda yadda.
A unique travel guide for fans of filmmaker Wes Anderson

Nov 16, 2024 | telegraphherald.com | Mark Lamster

DALLAS — With the possible exception of Quentin Tarantino, there is no living filmmaker with a more idiosyncratic and easily identifiable visual style than Wes Anderson. If you have seen even one of his movies, its characteristics will be familiar: Insistent axial compositions, obsessively curated interiors, frames densely packed with information, pastel hues, far-flung places, a distinct sense of preciousness and ample use of the typeface Futura.
A unique travel guide for fans of filmmaker Wes Anderson

Nov 12, 2024 | gmtoday.com | Mark Lamster

A follow-up to a 2020 bestseller, "Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures" (Little, Brown/Voracious, $45), is a hybrid photography book and travel guide to sites far and wide that seem, well, Andersonesque. That aesthetic, it should be noted, got its first public airing in Anderson’s debut feature, "Bottle Rocket," which featured locations around Dallas, including a chase sequence in Deep Ellum and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Gillin House.
A unique travel guide for fans of filmmaker Wes Anderson

Nov 12, 2024 | newsminer.com | Mark Lamster

DALLAS — With the possible exception of Quentin Tarantino, there is no living filmmaker with a more idiosyncratic and easily identifiable visual style than Wes Anderson. If you have seen even one of his movies, its characteristics will be familiar: insistent axial compositions, obsessively curated interiors, frames densely packed with information, pastel hues, far-flung places, a distinct sense of preciousness and ample use of the typeface Futura.
A unique travel guide for fans of filmmaker Wes Anderson

Nov 10, 2024 | thebrunswicknews.com | Mark Lamster

DALLAS - With the possible exception of Quentin Tarantino, there is no living filmmaker with a more idiosyncratic and easily identifiable visual style than Wes Anderson. If you have seen even one of his movies, its characteristics will be familiar: insistent axial compositions, obsessively curated interiors, frames densely packed with information, pastel hues, far-flung places, a distinct sense of preciousness and ample use of the typeface Futura.
With Kaleidoscope Park, Frisco has a new front lawn — with cool art

Oct 31, 2024 | msn.com | Mark Lamster

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

Oct 15, 2024 | architecturalrecord.com | Mark Lamster

Located in the Dallas suburb of Addison, the Greenhill School is home to one of the more unusual campuses in the United States, and not just because of the peacocks (technically, peafowl) that wander freely about its 75 acres. The school, which was founded in 1950 as a coeducational, secular institution serving grades K–12, has a unique architectural tradition established by the pioneering Texas modernist O’Neil Ford, who designed five of the school’s first buildings.