*JUST ADD WATER
ACSA Southwest Fall Conference
University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture
October 4-6, 2007
download the Just Add Water brief [pdf]
SCHEDULE
download the final schedule with session and panel descriptions [pdf]
10.04 thursday
| 17:00-19:00 | regional councilor's meeting Doubletree Hotel, Travis Board Room |
10.05 friday
| 08:00-09:00 | registration + check-in coffee and pastries GOL main lobby |
| 09:00-09:30 | welcome + opening remarks GOL 3.120 Billie Faircloth, conf. co-chair Jason Sowell, conf. co-chair Nichole Wiedemann, conf. co-chair Kim Tanzer, ACSA President Fritz Steiner, Dean, The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture |
| 09:30-09:45 | walk to ACES Visualization Lab |
| 09:45-10:30 | Water, Region, + Visualization Kent Butler, Associate Dean The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Susan Hovorka, Research Scientist Bureau of Economic Geography The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences |
| 10:30-11:00 | break GOL main lobby |
| 11:00-12:30 | session 01:XS panel A + panel B GOL 2.110 + GOL 3.120 |
| 12:30-13:30 | lunch break GOL 2.302 |
| 13:30-15:00 | session 02:S panel A + panel B GOL 2.110 + GOL 3.120 |
| 15:00-16:30 | session 03:M panel A + panel B GOL 2.110 + GOL 3.120 |
| 16:30-17:00 | break GOL main lobby |
| 17:00-18:00 | keynote lecture GOL 3.120 Water, Structure + Landscape: Two Case Studies from New York City Kevin Bone, Professor Cooper Union, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture |
| 19:00 | dinner Alford Young Studio E. 12th Street + Navasota |
10.06 saturday
| 08:00-09:00 | registration + check-in coffee and pastries GOL main lobby |
| 09:00-10:30 | session 04:L panel A + panel B GOL 2.110 + GOL 3.120s |
| 10:30-11:00 | break GOL main lobby |
| 11:00-12:30 | session 05:XL panel A + panel B GOL 2.110 + GOL 3.120 |
| 12:30-13:30 | lunch + closing remarks GOL 2.302 |
download the final schedule with session and panel descriptions [pdf]
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Kevin Bone
Professor, The Irwin Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union and
Partner, Bone/Levine Architects
Friday, 10.05.07, 5pm
Kevin Bone is a professor at the The Irwin Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union and a founding partner of Bone/Levine Architects. He is the editor of Water-Works: The Architecture and Engineering of the New York City Water Supply (to be released December 2007). The story of the city's water system is told in Water-Works and illustrated with an astonishing archive of drawings and photographs documenting the design and construction of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, and tunnels. Kevin Bone, Gina Pollara (Associate Editor), and students from The Cooper Union spent nine years cataloging and preserving this remarkable archive, which is held by the City of New York Department of Environmental Protection. In addition, Kevin Bone was the general editor and contributor to The New York Waterfront: Evolution and Building Culture of the Port and Harbor (1997).
REGISTRATION
Participant/Presenter by September 14, 2007: $225.00
Moderator by September 14, 2007: $175.00
Student by September 14, 2007: $125.00
Late/on-site AFTER September 14, 2007: $275.00
Prior to September 14, please register on-line at the ACSA web site. For on-site registration, the UT School of Architecture will accept checks and cash only.
HOTEL
Doubletree Guest Suites Austin
303 W. 15th Street
Austin, Texas 78701
tel. 512-478-7000
fax. 512-478-5103
Located in downtown Austin, the Doubletree Guest Suites Austin is .5 mile south of the University of Texas School of Architecture. The hotel is 20 minutes from the airport and walking distance to the Capitol, the campus and more. The free 'Dillo Trolley connects you to the campus and the downtown area. Downlaod the Dillo Map [pdf].
A block of rooms has been reserved for October 4-7, 2007 at a special room rate. They will be available until September 13 or until the block is sold-out, whichever comes first.
1 Bedroom Suite (1 occupant) $149.00
1 Bedroom Suite (2 occupants) $159.00
2 Bedroom Suite (3 occupants) $219.00
For further hotel information, directions from the airport and to reserve your room: www.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/ausfldt_acs/index.jhtml