ARLINGTON, Texas, June 9 -- The University of Texas at Arlington issued the following news release:
Mark Lamster, a former architecture faculty member at The University of Texas at Arlington, has spent more than a decade writing about the buildings, streets and civic spaces that shape life in Dallas and North Texas. He recently earned the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, the highest honor in American journalism.
The Dallas Morning News architecture critic won for a series of seven columns about downtown Dallas that sparked public debate centered on the threatened demolition of Dallas City Hall, I.M. Pei's iconic example of brutalist architecture.
Pulitzer judges praised Lamster for his rigorous and passionate criticism, noting his abil...