Book Description
Through photographs, Architecture of the Lower Rio Grande Valley: An Introduction, celebrates the architecture of the Texas-Mexico border region, its craftsmen, its cultures and its climate. The architectural images by Pino Shah provide a journey through 160 years of history and heritage, revealing the border’s built environment as filtered through diverse cultures: Mexican, Spanish, American, German, and French. The photographs highlight the distinctive styles -- Spanish and Mexican Colonial, border brick, Mid-century Modern, Pan American and 21st Century – found in the southernmost region of Texas. These architecturally significant buildings are often culturally and historically significant as well.

Pino Shah is a McAllen, Texas, and Ahmedabad, India based photographer that specializes in architecture and performing arts (ArtByPino.com) photography.

Stephen Fox, adviser to the project, is an architectural historian and a Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas.