Ford, Powell & Carson Architects & Planners, Inc.

07/27/2026

We’re building something that gives back.

We are teaming with EEA Consulting Engineers for the 19th Annual Canstruction San Antonio, coordinated by AIA San Antonio and SDA San Antonio Chapter. The competition brings together members of the AEC community to create large-scale structures entirely from canned food. After the event, every can is donated to the San Antonio Food Bank to support families across our community.

Our team is raising funds to purchase the cans needed to bring this year’s design to life. Donations of any amount make a difference. Support our team via GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/cf7940049

Help us build this year’s structure and contribute to Canstruction’s larger effort to fight hunger in San Antonio!

After an award-winning showing last year, Ford, Powell & Carson … Allison Chambers needs your support for Support FPC's Fight Against Hunger with CANstruction

07/24/2026

A visit to Mission Tejas State Park begins in the pine trees of East Texas.

The visitor center helps orient guests to the park’s history, landscape, and daily life. Three small buildings connected by a single path guide visitors between 24-hour restrooms, interpretive exhibits, the park store, offices, and a research library.

Along the way, visitors encounter stories of El Camino Real, views toward the Rice Family Log Home, and a design shaped by the surrounding forest. Shou Sugi Ban wood siding recalls the park’s history with fire management, while sustainable design strategies, including preserved trees, reused site wood, and rainwater collection, keep the center closely tied to the landscape around it.

07/13/2026

Historic Award Entry
Travis Park United Methodist Church Rehabilitation
Ford, Powell & Carson Architects & Planners, Inc

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Years of water infiltration had left their mark on Travis Park United Methodist Church. For FPC, the rehabilitation was about careful repair: replacing slate in kind, repointing limestone with a soft mortar matched to the historic material, restoring stained glass and wood doors, and repairing the sanctuary plaster with a mix that matched the original. Piece by piece, the rehabilitation shows how careful preservation can extend the life of a landmark while keeping its materials, craftsmanship, and history intact.

People + Place Celebration | Tuesday, July 28
https://aiasa.org/participate/people-place/

07/09/2026

The Grand Opening and Dedication for Kellyanne Park, the City of Alamo Heights’ pool pocket park, is set for July 11th at 11am. Located in a portion of the parking lot between the Alamo Heights Pool and the Little Leage fields, the almost half-acre park will include a pavilion, play area & features & public restrooms outside the existing Alamo Heights Pool area. The concessionaire at the Heights Pool Grille will be able to serve walk-up customers via the new Pocket Park.

Kellyanne Park is named after Kellyanne Lytal, a young Alamo Heights resident who tragically lost her life in 2025’s historic flooding near Kerrville. The park also honors two young grandchildren of local Alamo Heights families whose lives were lost during the same event, Lila Bonner and Sarah Marsh. The park will serve as both a place of joy and remembrance of the young lives that were lost too soon.

Kellyanne Park is designed by architecture firm Ford, Powell & Carson and landscape architecture firm Coral Studios. Malitz Construction has constructed the project.

07/09/2026

For TMI Episcopal, the renovation and expansion of Coates Hall gives students more room to learn while keeping part of the original building in daily use. Now organized as Harthan Hall and Coates Science Hall, the project brings new classrooms, expanded labs, and the Petty-Donnell Library together around the life of the campus.

Old and new spaces meet at The Plaka, a naturally ventilated breezeway designed for movement, shade, and everyday conversation. Inside, custom light fixtures made from salvaged locker doors carry a piece of the building’s history forward in a way students can still see and use.

07/08/2026

Civic/Institutional
Travis Park United Methodist Church Rehabilitation
Ford, Powell & Carson Architects & Planners, Inc

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Years of water infiltration had left their mark on Travis Park United Methodist Church. For FPC, the rehabilitation was about careful repair: replacing slate in kind, repointing limestone with a soft mortar matched to the historic material, restoring stained glass and wood doors, and repairing the sanctuary plaster with a mix that matched the original. Piece by piece, the rehabilitation shows how careful preservation can extend the life of a landmark while keeping its materials, craftsmanship, and history intact.

People + Place Celebration | Tuesday, July 28
https://aiasa.org/participate/people-place/

07/07/2026

Our landscape master plan for the McNay Art Museum makes the 23-acre campus easier to explore and more welcoming to the surrounding community. Native planting, improved accessibility, clearer circulation, and updated entries strengthen the relationship between the museum buildings and the grounds. At Mays Family Park, Alexander Liberman's Assent rises from a planted hill and shifts with each approach.

07/02/2026

This South Texas ranch home was placed carefully within the rolling landscape so family life could extend naturally from the house to the land around it. The main house and two guest houses gather around a central courtyard, with deep porches providing shade and a 100-foot vaulted hallway linking the spaces inside. Limestone walls, wood beams, and a hand-carved Douglas Fir entry door give the home a quiet sense of permanence.

07/01/2026

Love seeing progress on the Alamo Heights Pocket Park! We had a special helper today testing out all the play equipment “just in case” 🤩

06/30/2026

Earlier this month, FPC was honored to receive the Patron of Masonry award from the San Antonio Masonry Contractors Association.

For a firm shaped by San Antonio’s architectural traditions, this recognition means a great deal. Thank you to SAMCA and to the masonry community whose craft continues to give our city its lasting character.