Element 5 Architecture is proud to announce we are one of several contemporary Texas architects featured in a new book that hits the newstands this month. A long-overdue book documenting a state with a growing population, "Contemporary Texas Architecture" by E. Ashley Rooney displays the work of 34 Texas architects whose buildings embrace their region and place. These award-winning residences vary in style, scale, budget, and site, but they are all positioned to incorporate the Texas light, landscape, and local materials. More important, they are designed and constructed to deal with the prospect of climate change, including Texas-size hurricanes, tornadoes, heat, and drought. Readers will appreciate the regional rigor of these buildings sited on the Hill Country's arid escarpments, deep in the piney woods of East Texas, and in the insufferable heat of the southern coastal plain.