Herman Ellis Dyal is an American architect, designer and photographer, born in 1950. A sixth-generation Texan, he lives in Austin. He studied architecture at The University of Texas at Austin and at Tulane University, and worked with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Houston and with Philip Johnson / John Burgee Architects in New York, before founding his own practices.
His work later reached into branding, graphic design and art direction. He is a Fellow of both the American Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Austin. Today his creative interests center more and more on photography, iconography and printmaking.
His first book of photographs, The Things Not Seen Are Eternal (GOST Books, 2023), shows the interior of Riverside Church in San Antonio, the church of his family, which he entered again after fifty years. He began the project at 72, after retiring from architecture.
