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Q&A
TF: We are passionate about the built environment.
Often that means designing buildings; sometimes
that means being an advocate.
David Lake, FAIA: We share the idea of the
architect as a citizen architect, as somebody who
really is thinking and moving beyond just the immediate projects at hand. One of the reasons we have
been successful is because we started in San Antonio
and made a diference. We saw what O9Neil and
his wife, Wanda, were able to do during their oghts
to keep San Antonio9s culture and historic legacy
intact. We saw how efective they were at choosing
the right battles and oghting them no matter what
the circumstances were.
Most recently, Ted and I brought together developers and architects to stop the state of Texas from
building a wall around the Alamo and disrupting
Alamo Plaza. We aligned with several architecture
orms to keep Alamo Plaza open as one of our state9s
most important urban spaces.
The state hoped to build gates and charge
admission, and to destroy parts of our built
heritage. The Woolworth Building, [which
had] one of the first desegrated lunch counters in Texas, was supposed to be demolished.
We all said:
