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Sowell and Stiphany Receive Honorable Mention in Brasilia Housing Competition

September 6, 2016
The competition submission proposed sustainable strategies that integrate participatory processes with architecture, public space, and landscape for adapting to three different sites in Brasilia’s Sobradinho district.
Muelhaupt

Fall 2016 Material Grant Awards Announced

September 6, 2016
Congratulations to our three Material Grant winners, and thank you to everyone who applied!
Anna Brands and Andrea Roberts Appointed As First Fellows

UTSOA Establishes New Initiative on Race, Gender, and the Built Environment

September 2, 2016
Anna Brand and Andrea Roberts join the school as the first emerging scholar fellows of its newly-established initiative on race, gender, and the American built environment.
PRP Now Sherman

PRP Now! Hattie Sherman // Leroy Street Studio

September 1, 2016
PRP Now! is a series of interviews that highlight a current UTSOA Professional Residency Program student every few weeks.
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PRP Now! Clifford Vickrey // Kieran Timberlake

August 30, 2016
PRP Now! is a series of interviews that highlight a current UTSOA Professional Residency Program student every few weeks.
Miro Rivera Vertical House

Black and Miró Named 2016 Honor Award Recipients

August 26, 2016
The award program recognizes exceptional members, firms, individuals, and organizations for outstanding achievements in support of the profession of architecture, the built environment, and quality of life in Texas.
Matt Fajkus Architecture Full Team

Matt Fajkus Architecture Establishes MFx, Trains Next Generation of Designers

August 25, 2016
Matt Fajkus Architecture establishes new collaborative identity, MFx, to explore unknown variables in the field of architecture.
Junfeng Jia - SOA Voices

Junfeng Jiao, Faculty

August 15, 2016
In this SOA Voices, we speak with Community & Regional Planning faculty member Junfeng Jiao
Fall 2016 Lecture Poster

Fall 2016 Lecture Series

August 15, 2016
Join the School of Architecture for a semester-long series of public lectures.
VR

The Future is Here: VR Comes to UTSOA

August 5, 2016

The School of Architecture prides itself on providing students with an education rooted in tradition. With a heavy focus on design, and studios that emphasize hand drawing and modeling, UTSOA has a time-honored curriculum that truly sets us apart. At the same time, our leadership and faculty have always embraced tools that advance design education and the field at large. Beginning with the Texas Rangers in the 1950s, UTSOA faculty have been early adopters of new modes of thinking and technology.



Last semester, the school began integrating virtual reality (VR) into select courses. This exciting new tool allows students to engage with their designs in unprecedented ways.



Robert Stepnoski, Senior Software Developer-Analyst at UTSOA, has been instrumental in incorporating VR into our curriculum. We asked him a few questions to learn more:



What exactly is virtual reality?

Museu do Amanha (Museum of Tomorrow) in Rio de Janeiro’s port zone

Fernando Lara on the Impact of the Rio Olympics

August 4, 2016

Associate professor Fernando Lara, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellows in Latin American Studies, penned an excellent op/ed on the Rio Olympics and the impact that event will have on the architecture and infrastructure of Brazil. Read it here!

At the HUD compettiion in DC

UTSOA Team Wins HUD Affordable Housing Competition

August 4, 2016

Brianna Garner, with other UTSOA students Sarah Simpson, Megan Recher, and Tatum Lau--and Brett Clark from the McCombs School of Business--have won the 2016 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition. Read more here.

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Symposium: The Secret Life of Buildings

July 19, 2016
Organized by the Center for American Architecture and Design, the conference will explore Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology (OOO)—an emerging philosophy that imagines that buildings and the things in and around them not only promote human life, but also have lives of their own, separate from our experience of them.
Understanding Pedestrians’ Travel Behavior in Large Chinese Cities, A Case Study of Shanghai Central City.

“14th World Conference on Transport Research, Shanghai, China, 10-15 July 2016”

July 5, 2016
Dr. Junfeng Jiao presents research at the 14th World Conference on Transport Research in China.
Elizabeth Danze

Meet Elizabeth

July 1, 2016
As Elizabeth Danze steps into her role as dean, ad interim, of the School of Architecture, we sat down with her to learn more about her interests and her thoughts on the future of architecture.
Kuka robotic arms

Maker Culture & New Digital Technologies

June 21, 2016
With the broad support of the Provost and the President, the School of Architecture has embarked on a major initiative to integrate cutting-edge technologies into its teaching and research practices.
Design Excellence Exhibition in Mebane Gallery

Endowed Chair in Design and Planning

June 20, 2016
Bringing leaders from across the school's disciplines.
David Sharratt rendering

AIA Austin Announces 2016 Student Award Winners

June 20, 2016
The awards further the school's shared goal with the AIA of recognizing and rewarding design excellence across all programs and levels.