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CULTURE AND COMMUNITY

At The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, we believe our disciplines play a key role in advancing a better built environment and quality of life for all people. As architects, designers, and planners who are shaping the world around us, it is imperative that our professions look like the world we serve. 

If we are to design meaningful buildings, spaces, and communities, and address some of society’s most pressing challenges, we must include and engage a broad array of perspectives and backgrounds. To this end, our faculty are pursuing important work and research that opens up new avenues of discourse, engages the greater community, and brings more voices, more experiences, and more knowledge to bear. 

Here, we strive to create an inclusive campus community that fosters an open, enlightening, and robust learning environment for everyone, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background. Every member of our school—whoever you are, wherever you are from, and whatever you believe—is valued. You belong here.

PEOPLE OF UTSOA

Landscape architecture students gather around Assistant Professor Maggie Hansen in studio as she's drawing something out for them

MEET OUR COMMUNITY

Students on bikes along Dean Keeton

STUDENT LIFE

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EXPLORE OUR RESEARCH AND WORK

A messy studio in Goldsmith Hall

STUDIO CULTURE

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    Final reviews kick off next week and we’re excited to invite several out-of-town reviewers to @utaustintx. Visit the link in our bio for bios and more information about these accomplished practitioners and academics.<br>
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    Final reviews kick off next week and we’re excited to invite several out-of-town reviewers to @utaustintx. Visit the link in our bio for bios and more information about these accomplished practitioners and academics.

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    We’re excited to announce that Luis E. Carranza has been named the School of Architecture’s 2024 commencement speaker.<br>
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    We’re excited to announce that Luis E. Carranza has been named the School of Architecture’s 2024 commencement speaker.

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    There’s still time to support UTSOA during this year’s #UT40for40 campaign! Donate by 10 pm tonight at the link in our bio to benefit our students, faculty, and programs. <br>
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    There’s still time to support UTSOA during this year’s #UT40for40 campaign! Donate by 10 pm tonight at the link in our bio to benefit our students, faculty, and programs.

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    40 Hours for the Forty Acres is here! A gift of any size will help the School of Architecture level the playing field for our students. <br>
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    40 Hours for the Forty Acres is here! A gift of any size will help the School of Architecture level the playing field for our students.

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    As part of a long-standing collaboration with the @nationalparkservice, students in Associate Professor Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla’s @el__chubasco Graphic Documentation course traveled to Maryland last fall for four days of fieldwork in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Historic Park.<br>
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    As part of a long-standing collaboration with the @nationalparkservice, students in Associate Professor Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla’s @el__chubasco Graphic Documentation course traveled to Maryland last fall for four days of fieldwork in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Historic Park.

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    On Friday, April 12, our 2022-24 Emerging Scholar Tyler Swingle @tylrswngl will host a one-day “Fiber Fiction” colloquium in the Mebane Gallery.<br>
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    On Friday, April 12, our 2022-24 Emerging Scholar Tyler Swingle @tylrswngl will host a one-day “Fiber Fiction” colloquium in the Mebane Gallery.

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    We’re still buzzing from all the excitement from Friday’s Graduate Open House ☀️ Thank you to all of the prospective students and families who joined us—We hope to see you back here this fall!
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    We’re still buzzing from all the excitement from Friday’s Graduate Open House ☀️ Thank you to all of the prospective students and families who joined us—We hope to see you back here this fall!

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    Tomorrow, Bachelor of Interior Design student Eamanne Moharram is taking over our Instagram to show us what her Advanced Studio, “Design in 4D: Adaptive Cultural Constructs,” got up to in Mexico City earlier this term.<br>
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    Tomorrow, Bachelor of Interior Design student Eamanne Moharram is taking over our Instagram to show us what her Advanced Studio, “Design in 4D: Adaptive Cultural Constructs,” got up to in Mexico City earlier this term.

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    On Wednesday, the artist @claudia__wieser closes out our Spring 2024 lecture series with her lecture “Material Matters,” taking place at 5:00 in the Goldsmith Lecture Hall.
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    On Wednesday, the artist @claudia__wieser closes out our Spring 2024 lecture series with her lecture “Material Matters,” taking place at 5:00 in the Goldsmith Lecture Hall.