Welcome to Paradox City

By Mark Lamster A first-of-its-kind history, Welcome to Paradox City offers a unique history of Dallas through its most significant buildings. Publication Date: August 4, 2026 Paperback: 9781646054404eBook: 9781646054411 Description Through an exceptional blend of architectural history, social history and critical writing, Dallas Morning News contributor Mark Lamster 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. Engaging and thoughtful, Welcome to Paradox City is an astonishing and illuminating look at the often-invisible ways that architecture is more than just a building, or a skyline. It is something that shapes a city and its culture from its founding, to the present, and onward into the future. Biographical Note Mark Lamster is the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News, a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the autho