Elizabeth Danze Receives 2015 ACSA Distinguished Professor Award

January 30, 2015
Elizabeth Danze, FAIA has been recognized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture with the 2015 ACSA Distinguished Professor Award.
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Elizabeth Danze, FAIA [B.Arch. '81] has been recognized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) for the 2015 ACSA Distinguished Professor Award.

Each year, ACSA honors architectural educators for exemplary work in areas such as building design, community collaborations, scholarship, and service. The award-winning professors inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession’s knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academy into practice and the public sector. Awards will be presented at the 103rd ACSA Annual Meeting, March 19-21, 2015, in Toronto.

Recipients of this award have demonstrated a positive, stimulating, and nurturing influence on students over an extended period of time and/or inspired a generation of students who themselves have contributed to the advancement of architecture.

Professor Danze's body of work and her service to the university and the community at large have been acknowledged at the highest levels. She has received the University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award and the Texas Society of Architects Edward J. Romieniec Award for Outstanding Educational Contributions, and is a member of the University of Texas Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Danze is a principal with Danze Blood Architects, and her work integrates practice and theory across disciplines by examining the convergence of sociology and psychology with the tangibles of space and construction. She has a bachelor of architecture degree from UT Austin and a master of architecture degree from Yale University.

She is co-editor and author of CENTER 17: Space and Psyche, CENTER 9: Regarding the Proper, and Psychoanalysis and Architecture (The Annual of Psychoanalysis, Volume 33), as well as co-editor of Architecture and Feminism. She is the architect advisor to the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Psychoanalysis and the Academy and associate dean for graduate programs at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.

Previous recipients of the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award from the UT Austin School of Architecture include: Professor Juan Miró (2012), Professor David Heymann (2008), Professor Michael Benedikt (2004), Professor Emeritus D. Blake Alexander (1995), Dean Emeritus Hal Box (1994), and Professor Charles Moore (1985).