Joppa’s historic segregated school handed to community nonprofit on Juneteenth
The 70-year-old Melissa Pierce School was deeded over to a new nonprofit, the Melissa Pierce Project, which is raising money to turn the former school into a multipurpose center “to help educate, elevate and empower Joppa residents.” Joppa community leader Shalondria...
Reclamation Tour Provides an Opportunity for CAPPA to Redesign Historic Black Settlements
Historic Black settlements in urban areas across the United States are being subjected to environmental and industrial hazards that jeopardize their health and survival. Reclaiming Black Settlement is a project that will bring together faculty and students from...
Historic Black communities in Texas face steep challenges. UT Arlington wants to help.
A historical marker in a Fort Worth park is all that’s left of the original schoolhouse that once stood as a center of community life in Mosier Valley, a freedmen’s town established by formerly enslaved people shortly after the Civil War. Built in 1924, the structure was bought and moved decades ago and now operates as a beauty salon in Bedford. But the legacy of the all-Black community near Euless, among the first of its kind in Texas, continues to live on through its descendants and the families who call the far east Fort Worth neighborhood home. Those living memories, and the current challenges faced by Mosier Valley residents, were what drew a bus tour of University of Texas at Arlington students and faculty to the park on Wednesday.
UMass Department of Architecture Lecture Series
UMass Department of Architecture Lecture Series- Fall 2019- Kate Holliday
Podcast from the New Books Network features The Open-Ended City
It may only be a slight exaggeration to say that one of David Dillon’s career accomplishments was to put the words “Dallas” and “architecture” in the same sentence again. After a screed in 1980 entitled “Why Is Dallas Architecture So Bad?” launched his career as an...
Texas Book Festival features The Open-Ended City: Texas Architecture
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm Sunday, October 27, 2019 Capitol Extension Room E1.014 1100 Congress Avenue, AUSTIN Texas In 1980, David Dillon launched his career as an architectural critic with a provocative article in the Dallas Morning News. Kathryn E. Holliday discusses how...
A Daily Dose of Architecture on The Open-Ended City
If David Dillon, architecture critic at the Dallas Morning News from 1981 to 2006, were still alive he'd be 78 years old. Dillon died in 2010, though when I think about it now it doesn't seem so long ago that I heard the news. He was one of the most respected US...
How Architecture Critic David Dillon Shaped Dallas’ Development
In 1980, writer David Dillon posed the question in a commentary published in Dallas Magazine: “Why is Dallas architecture so bad?” At the time Dallas was at the height of a building boom, but in Dillon’s eyes, new construction in the city did not have the best...
Dallas Morning News: Critic David Dillon started a conversation about Dallas architecture and we’re still talking
The sprawling highways, status buildings and corporate campuses that dot the Dallas landscape can be easy targets for architecture writers, but what emerged from a discussion Tuesday night about the late Dallas Morning News critic David Dillon was that he admired it...
The Texas Standard/NPR: How Architecture Critic David Dillon Shaped Dallas’ Development
In 1980, writer David Dillon posed the question in a commentary published in Dallas Magazine: “Why is Dallas architecture so bad?” At the time Dallas was at the height of a building boom, but in Dillon’s eyes, new construction in the city did not have the best...
David Dillon’s ‘Why Is Dallas Architecture So Bad?’ Still Resonates Today
Picture the scene. It is 1980 and D Magazine founder and owner Wick Allison has just participated in a discussion at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture (another organization he helped start). A visitor to the city posed a question about Dallas’ lackluster...
O’Neil Ford gets spotlight in UNT on the Square exhibit
Dr. Holliday, director of the Center, was part of a panel discussion associated with the exhibit “O’Neil Ford: The Architect in his Works and Words,” which ran August-September 2018 at UNT on the Square. Read the original article in the Denton News...