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Stern From the BLOG 120 Architects 80 27 On Neighborhoods: Trends and Michael Malone, AIA The Blaffer 25-Year Award San Antonio’s Marketplace Reworked 62 Lavaca District 29 WORK Architecture 124 A Quiet, Stately Philip Zimmerman and Honor Awards Company (WORKac) Backpage Statement Rita Heck (Design Architect) 33 HOK and Gensler Essay: What Starts Thomas Hayne (Architect of Record) Here… Upchurch, AIA Ronnie Self Brantley Hightower, 68 AIA 86 On the Cover Not A Little Cozy Completing the 37 Affair Circle Essay: Giesecke and Skidmore, Owings Andersson-Wise Vosper at Texas & Merrill (Design Architects A&M Architect, 1966–67) Brett Koenig Greig Nancy McCoy, FAIA and Overland 63 Partners (Design 94 Architect, 2009) with A Vocabulary of ARCHITEXAS Speed Al York, AIA Miró Rivera 06 Architects Aaron Seward Open House Campus Architecture Four Under 40 46 62 80 94 111 Y. 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