Nasher Sculpture Center welcomes Mark Lamster for a discussion of his new book Welcome to Paradox City: A Critical History of Dallas as Told Through Its Architecture. He will be joined in conversation by Nate Eudaly, Executive Director of The Dallas Architecture Forum.
A first-of-its-kind history of Dallas told through the city’s most significant buildings.
With an exceptional blend of architectural history, social history, and critical writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Lamster takes readers to the sun-scorched origins of Dallas as a remote outpost on the Texas frontier, then traces the city's development into the dynamic, if imperfect, metropolis we know today. Welcome to Paradox City is an illuminating, illustrated look at the often-invisible ways that architecture shapes a city and its culture from its founding, to the present, and onward into the future.
Mark Lamster is the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News and the winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 2021, he was awarded the Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism, and in 2017 a Loeb fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is the author of several books, including The Man in the Glass House, a biography of the late architect Philip Johnson, which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.
Nate Eudaly, Hon. AIA, has successfully advanced the architecture and design professions through his focused, strategic, and steadfast leadership for over two decades as Executive Director of The Dallas Architecture Forum (The Forum). During his tenure, Nate has led The Forum to organize and present over two hundred twenty-five Lectures, more than one hundred fifteen Panel Discussions, and over sixty-five special events and symposia reaching over seventy-five thousand people.