DALLAS: Mark Lamster, Dallas Museum of Art: Arts & Letters Live

Thursday, August 27, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, TX 75201

Join us in Dallas at the Dallas Museum of Art: Arts & Letters Live for a conversation with Welcome to Paradox City and Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Lamster and Deep Vellum’s Will Evans.

Welcome to Paradox City by Mark Lamster boasts an exceptional blend of architectural history, social history, and critical writing that takes readers from the sun-scorched origins of Dallas as a remote outpost on the Texas frontier and traces its development into the dynamic, if imperfect, metropolis we know today. Here Lamster presents an illuminating 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.

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CAMBRIDGE: Mark Lamster in conversation at the Harvard Bookstore

Monday, August 17, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA, 02138
United States

Harvard Book Store welcomes Mark Lamster—architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, and author of the acclaimed book The Man in the Glass House—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 Garnette Cadogan—Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer in Urbanism at the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT and editor-at-large for Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas.

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NYC: Mark Lamster in conversation at AIA NY Center for Architecture

Tuesday, August 11, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

AIA NY | Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY, 10012
United States

AIA NY | Center for Architecture 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 Christopher Hawthorne.

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