Welcome to Paradox City: A Critical History of Dallas as Told Through Its Architecture

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: La Reunion Publishing
Published: 08/04/2026
ISBN: 9781646054404
Pages: 250