Lake/Flato Houses

Embracing the Landscape

Lake|Flato Houses

Lake|Flato Architects of San Antonio, Texas, is nationally and internationally acclaimed for buildings that respond organically to the natural environment. The firm uses local materials and workmanship, as well as a deep knowledge of vernacular traditions, to design buildings that are tactile and modern, environmentally responsible and authentic, artful and... + More

Yucatán

Recipes from a Culinary Expedition

By David Sterling

The Yucatán Peninsula is home to one of the world's great regional cuisines. With a foundation of native Maya dishes made from fresh local ingredients, it shares much of the same pantry of ingredients and many culinary practices with the rest of Mexico. Yet, due to its isolated peninsular location,... + More

American Christianity

The Continuing Revolution

By Stephen Cox

Christianity takes an astonishing variety of forms in America, from churches that cherish traditional modes of worship to evangelical churches and fellowships, Pentecostal churches, social-action churches, megachurches, and apocalyptic churches—congregations ministering to believers of diverse ethnicities, social classes, and sexual orientations. Nor is this diversity a recent phenomenon, despite... + More

The Texas Bookshelf

Stephen Harrigan, Robert Abzug, Cecilia Ballí, Charlotte Canning, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Greg Curtis, Elizabeth Engelhardt, Roy Flukinger, Frank Guridy, Martha Menchaca, Karl Miller, Bill Minutaglio, Charles Ramírez Berg, Lawrence Speck, Shirley Thompson

The University of Texas Press announces a major new initiative unprecedented in publishing—The Texas Bookshelf. This project will be the most ambitious and comprehensive publishing endeavor about the culture and history of one state ever undertaken. The Bookshelf will comprise sixteen books and a companion website launching in 2017, all... + More