Tour the Mission City During Convention

J. Brantley Hightower, AIA, recently purchased one of those cool new digital cameras that also shoots video. Wanting to explore this functionality, he agreed to put together a video illustrating some of the more interesting projects in San Antonio that attendees to this year's convention might want to see for themselves. At least until he's ready to move to Hollywood, Brantley works at Lake|Flato Architects.



Map out your experience of the host city for TSA's 71st Annual Convention and Design Products and Ideas Expo.


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The San Antonio Missions
The Alamo (1744)
Mission Concepcion (1755)
Mission San Jose (1754)
MissionSan Juan (1755)
Mission Espada (1756)

The Riverwalk
concept by Robert H. H. Hugman (since 1929)

Bexar County Courthouse
Gordon & Laub (1896)

Tower of the Americas
Ford, Powell & Carson (1968)

San Antonio Central Library
Ricardo Legorreta with Johnson-Dempsey & Associates and Sprinkle Robey (1995)

Pearl Brewery
adaptive reuse by Durand-Hollis Rupe; Ford, Powell & Carson; Lake|Flato Architects (since 2005)
Center for Architecture by Marmon Mok

San Antonio Museum of Art
adaptive reuse by Cambridge Seven with Martin & Ortega and Chumney, Jones & Kell (since 1981)
additions by Overland Partners

Brackenridge Park
Japanese Tea Gardens (1917)

Lucile Halsell Conservatory
Emilio Ambasz (1988)

Trinity University
master plan by O'Neil Ford and Bartlett Cocke with William Wurster (since 1952)

McNay Art Museum
original mansion by Ayres and Ayres (1929)
Stieren Center by Jean-Paul Viguier with Ford, Powell & Carson (2008)



The AIA San Antonio guidebook, Traditions and Visions, mentioned in the video can be purchased on aiasa.org.