Dr. Holliday’s research on historic preservation in Dallas is highlighted in this article about the devastating pressures of demolition and gentrification on the Tenth Street Historic District, one of Dallas’s last Freedman’s Towns. Read the original...
An article exploring the potential of deck parks to repair divides created by interstate highway construction in historically African-American neighborhoods includes responses to a proposal for a deck park over Interstate 35E in South Dallas from Dr. Holliday and...
The 2017 David Dillon Symposium, held Nov. 18, in the Zale Library at Paul Quinn College, explored history, preservation, and development in Dallas Freedman’s Towns, especially in Joppa and the Tenth Street Historic District. Read Dallas Morning News coverage...
In its 1993 application for national designation as a historic place, the Tenth Street Historic District is referred to as Oak Cliff’s “most important African American neighborhood.” Yet the document reads like a last gasp—by the mid-’90s, demolition had become “the...
From the areas chosen for development to the communities demolished to make way for freeways, the decisions that have built the city’s infrastructure over the last 80 years have also contributed to the division of Dallas’ communities by income and race. So...
The David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture was founded in 2011 as a way to connect the School of Architecture to the public conversation about architecture and urbanism in north Texas. The Center sponsors student and faculty research projects and organizes public events that bring together architects, historians, planners, policy-makers, and everyday citizens to examine issues of critical importance to Dallas-Fort Worth.
David Dillon was the award-winning architecture critic for the Dallas Morning News between 1981 and 2006 and after his untimely death in 2010, his wife Sally donated his papers to Special Collections at UT Arlington. The Center honors David’s tradition of insightful writing about architecture and civic culture and his role as an advocate for better design in everyday life.
The Center is funded primarily through philanthropic support. You can join in supporting our work by visiting our Donate page. https://giving.uta.edu/support_DDC
