Architecture at Texas Tech University El Paso

04/15/2026

We are excited to announce this new program - years in the making with much thought and love! Come study and work with us to disentangle and reentangle what matters!

NEW M.S. IN ARCHITECTURE — FALL 2026
The Huckabee College of Architecture is launching a new M.S. in Architecture: Transboundary Spatial Practice in El Paso—focused on the U.S.–Mexico borderlands.

This research‑based program emphasizes fieldwork, ethical collaboration, and community‑engaged design addressing environmental equity, human rights, and resilient border communities.

Now enrolling — spots are limited!
Email [email protected] to learn more.

06/03/2025

Congratulations to the amazing Class of 2025! We graduated our largest class yet - we are so proud of them.

05/23/2025

We are taking applications for our Architecture Summer Camp. Reserve your spot now, as space is limited!

02/16/2024

Posted • .architecture.elpaso and students visiting the amazing in Angeles.

02/16/2024

Posted • .architecture.elpaso and students learning about Frank Lloyd Wright’s

02/15/2024

Posted • Amazing conversation with Julie Eizenberg and a visit of the Pico Branch Library.architecture.elpaso and students in Los Angeles. Thank you!

02/06/2024

Hello, we are hiring a part-time fabrication shop assistant. Please spread the word:

Job Details: Position will be for a limited duration- Spring 2024 semester only.Part time position (20 hours per week) that

12/13/2023

So thankful for such a generous and sharp group of students this semester. Their commitment to access, to affordable housing for all, to environmental stewardship, and to their own journeys toward designing a better world, is humbling and heartening. Shout out amazing colleagues .

11/30/2023

Please join us for the last lecture of the fall semester by the Madrid & Houston architectural firm Z4Z4

Founded in 2010, Z4A/Z4Z4 is an architecture and design practice based in Houston/Madrid. Led by co-principals Rafael Beneytez-Duran and Ophelia Mantz.
- Z4A/Z4Z4 understands architecture at the intersection of disciplines and scales.
- Z4A/Z4Z4 believes in the architecture’s powers to respond to the present complexities of the built environment.
- Across scales, Z4A responds to present ideological, theoretical, and aesthetic issues. Engaging the physical.
- Z4Z4 develops projects in technical and material forms.
-Z4A is committed to pedagogy.

Bio:
Ophelia Mantz is an architect DPLG, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, France, and holds a Master in Bioclimatic Architecture and Sustainability, from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Spain. She is Assistant Professor and Director of the Material Research Collaborative at the Gerald D Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston.

Rafael B. Duran is Director of Undergraduate Architecture as Associate Professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, University of Houston. He completed his BArch, MArch, and PhD studies in architecture at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid with recognition.

11/20/2023

Please join us for the last lecture of the fall semester by the Madrid & Houston architectural firm Z4Z4. Nov 30th, 5:30pm, free and open to the public.
Founded in 2010, Z4A/Z4Z4 is an architecture and design practice based in Houston/Madrid. Led by co-principals Rafael Beneytez-Duran and Ophelia Mantz.
- Z4A/Z4Z4 understands architecture at the intersection of disciplines and scales.
- Z4A/Z4Z4 believes in the architecture’s powers to respond to the present complexities of the built environment.
- Across scales, Z4A responds to present ideological, theoretical, and aesthetic issues. Engaging the physical.
- Z4Z4 develops projects in technical and material forms.
-Z4A is committed to pedagogy.
Bio:
Ophelia Mantz is an architect DPLG, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, France, and holds a Master in Bioclimatic Architecture and Sustainability, from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Spain. She is Assistant Professor and Director of the Material Research Collaborative at the Gerald D Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston.
Rafael B. Duran is Director of Undergraduate Architecture as Associate Professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, University of Houston. He completed his BArch, MArch, and PhD studies in architecture at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid with recognition.

11/04/2023

Please join us Thursday, November 9th, 5:00pm at the El Paso Museum of Art for this important talk by Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy:

TITLE: Scales of Reclamation: Indigenous Protest and the Rewriting of Place in Contemporary Mexico.

This lecture traces the networks of Indigenous resistance built across urban and rural landscapes within Mexico. Bodies, streets, buildings, plazas, and their nesting landscapes are central to this exploration of the different scales of reclamation by Indigenous peoples who organize against the neoliberal State. Using place as a tissue to weave relations with the broader society, these protesting collectives push against government-supported capitalist extractivism. United as a political front, diverse communities fight dispossession, defending the land, water, and their natural systems. I propose an architectural reading of the two forms of subversive practices I identify, some of which are anchoring—like the occupation of buildings—and some of which are mobile—like travelling protests. Often, both forms rely on ephemeral sites of resistance that bring new meanings to landscapes and that, in their increasing visibility, become key to the emergence of a constellation of activism. I contend that, in their re-signification of place, these protests and acts of reclamation spatially translate the struggles of Indigenous peoples across Mexico.

ABOUT:
Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy is assistant professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in the University of British Columbia. She studies architecture as a material and signifying practice that spatializes colonial and patriarchal forces as well as resistance mechanisms. Thematically, her work spans: historical examples of ephemeral and practised architectures, race and gender in spaces of conflict, and landscapes of Indigenous resistance. Prior to joining UBC, Tania was an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. from McGill University and was trained as an architect at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.