Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2531: Reading Vienna
Posted on · Episode: 2531 Reading Vienna – A history through architecture. Today, we read Vienna.
Tag: architecture
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2344: Transco/Williams Tower
Posted on · Episode: 2344 Transco/Williams Tower, your perfect neighborhood skyscraper. Today, a lone skyscraper.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1940: The American Woman’s Home
Posted on · Episode: 1940 In which Harriet Beecher Stowe and her sister build a model house to pay for a mansion. Today, architectural historian Margaret Culbertson tells us about a cabin, a mansion, and a model home.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2313: Atlantropa
Posted on · Episode: 2313 Herman Sörgel’s Atlantropa project: Lebensraum from a lowered Mediterranean. Today, we rewrite geography.
Houston Matters
Checking in on Harvey recovery, five years later (Aug. 23, 2022)
Posted on · On Tuesday's show: Five years after Hurricane Harvey we discuss what's been done to recover from the storm, how architecture and design could play a role in preventing flooding, and whether home buyouts after flood events truly work.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2289: The Tower Building
Posted on · Episode: 2289 The rise and demolition of New York’s first skyscraper. Today, the skyscraper arrives.
Houston Matters
Harris County takes issue with latest election audit (Aug. 4, 2022)
Posted on · On Thursday's show: The county's plans to sue the state over the latest audit of its elections, potential laws designed to stop abortion-related travel, the lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons, and the stories behind Houston's skyline.
Houston Matters
Preparing for more triple-digit heat, and how tax incentives keep costing taxpayers (June 23, 2022)
Posted on · On Thursday's show: Local municipalities are taking action to prepare for more intense heat in the coming days. Then we learn why expiring corporate tax incentives will cost Texas taxpayers billions of dollars. Plus: Using architecture to prevent flooding, and Tiffany Derry of The Great American Recipe.
Houston Matters
Houston’s strong place in the global economy despite the pandemic (May 20, 2022)
Posted on · On Friday's show: How Houston fared in international trade and business in 2021, plans to restore natural prairie around town, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week, and how bees have influenced human architecture.
Houston Matters
Calls For Ken Paxton’s Resignation, And Congressional Candidate Mike Siegel (Oct. 6, 2020)
Posted on · On Tuesday's show: Inside the latest allegations against the state's attorney general, a conversation with Congressional candidate Mike Siegel, journalist Peter Baker discusses the career of James Baker, and the concept of architectural activism.
Houston Matters
Renovating Historic Buildings In Houston Comes With Challenges
Posted on · Houston Matters examines the task of renovating historic buildings and the process that goes into them.
inDepth
Another One Bites The Dust: A Closer Look At The Shelor Building Demolition
Posted on · Chevron's decision to demolish the Shelor Motor Company Building, built in 1928, was met with resistance. But what place does preservation have in Houston?
Houston Matters
Inside Some Of The Most Eerie And Intriguing Abandoned Building Across Texas
Posted on · Photographer Bronson Dorsey tells Houston Matters about his book of photography called Lost, Texas.
Arts InSight
WATCH: Tour The Innovative, Intimate Menil Drawing Institute
Posted on · The sleek, natural-light-filled building blends institutional and domestic design.
News
Houston Got Hammered By Hurricane Harvey — And Its Buildings Are Partly To Blame
Posted on · The city itself — skyscrapers, homes and factories — snagged the moist air of Hurricane Harvey and caused more rain to fall. Two new studies detail how humans are making hurricane flooding worse.