Please note this program will be held at New Canaan Library, 151 Main Street, New Canaan, CT.

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Join Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Lamster for a presentation on his new book Welcome to Paradox City. Blending architectural history, social history, and critical writing, Lamster takes readers to the sun-scorched origins of Dallas as a remote outpost on the Texas frontier, then traces the city’s development into the dynamic, if imperfect, metropolis we know today. Welcome to Paradox City is an illuminating, illustrated look at the often-invisible ways that architecture shapes a city and its culture from its founding, to the present, and onward into the future.

Mark Lamster is the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News and the winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. He is both a Loeb fellow of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture at SMU. His biography of the late architect Philip Johnson, The Man in the Glass House (Little Brown), was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.

Glass House Presents is an ongoing series of talks, performances, and other live events that extend the site’s historic role as a gathering place for artists, architects, and other creative minds. This event is co-hosted by New Canaan Library and supported in part by the New Canaan Community Foundation.