SUPPORT UTSOA

Thanks to our generous donors, the School of Architecture begins 2008 with new scholarships for our students and a new endowed chair to support outstanding faculty. These gifts are extremely important in helping us to foster excellence among our faculty and students, and we are very grateful to these important friends of the school.

To find out how you can join in making a difference, we invite you to read about our annual giving program, Friends of Architecture, and our various other fundraising initiatives. Please visit our secure online giving page, where you can make a gift designated to the School of Architecture program of your choice.

GENE EDWARD MIKESKA ENDOWED CHAIR
FOR INTERIOR DESIGN CREATED

The School of Architecture has received a generous anonymous gift to boost funding of the Gene Edward Mikeska Endowed Professorship for Interior Design into an endowed chair.

Designed to provide resources to scholars of eminent stature, endowed chairs are awarded to deans, department chairs, and superior faculty to enhance their scholarly efforts and research.

Dr. Nancy Kwallek, Director of the Interior Design Program and previous holder of the endowed professorship has been named the chair. Funds from the chair will support her research and teaching efforts in the School of Architecture.

The Gene Edward Mikeska Endowed Professorship for Interior Design was created in memory of interior designer, Gene Edward Mikeska, a 1964 graduate in interior design who passed away in 1996.

FIRST CLARKE ENDOWED PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED

The School of Architecture recently made awards from the school's first endowed presidential scholarships. Third-year B.Arch. student Kendra Horn was awarded the Fred W. Clarke Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Architecture Honoring Alan Y. Taniguchi, and third-year B.S.I.D. student Kayla Lyssy received the Fred W. and Laura Weir Clarke Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Architecture Honoring Carl Bergquist.

Alan Y. Taniguchi was dean of the UT-Austin School of Architecture from 1969 to 1972. Carl O. Bergquist taught at the school starting in 1959. His contributions were recognized by his elevation to professor emeritus upon retirement in 1984. Both honorees were former professors of Mr. Clarke [B.Arch. '70], an SOA alum. Carl Bergquist was also a longtime friend of Mrs. Clarke's family. (For more information, see the 4-6-06 edition of eNews.)

Endowed presidential scholarships are among the most prestigious awards on campus. The Clarke endowments are the first of this kind to be established at our school, and Ms. Horn and Ms. Lyssy are the first two students to earn these distinguished scholarships. We congratulate them for their achievement and look forward to recognizing more Clarke scholars in the future.

ARCHITEXAS ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP CREATED

Craig Melde [B.Arch. '74] and Gary Skotnicki [B.Arch. '74], principals of ARCHITEXAS, along with principal Larry Irsik, generously donated $25,000 to the School of Architecture to create the ARCHITEXAS Endowed Scholarship, supporting undergraduate students who display an interest in historic preservation and urban design. Founded by Gary and Craig in 1978, ARCHITEXAS has grown to be Texas' largest preservation-based architecture firm, with offices in Dallas and Austin. The firm performs a wide range of planning and architectural services in the area of historic preservation, restoration, reconstruction, urban design, and new construction. We extend our sincere thanks to Craig, Gary, and Larry for their support of the School of Architecture and our students.

FRIENDS OF ARCHITECTURE

Friends of Architecture will conduct a sold-out Palm Springs Mid-Century Modernism tour February 8-11. If you are missing out on this exclusive visit to Palm Springs, be sure to make an early reservation for FOA's upcoming tours, including Seattle in July 2008. One of the most vibrant centers in America, Seattle has become a hotbed of contemporary architectural activity with new buildings by International stars like, Holl, Koolhaas and Gehry, along with extraordinary local firms such as, Miller/Hull and LMN Architects. Seattle's lively downtown and delightful waterfront make it one of the most spectacular natural settings of any city! As always, FOA and Larry Speck will take you up close and personal..., we can't wait for this exciting tour!

For a calendar of tours, reservations, and membership details, visit Friends of Architecture.

THE BLOOMHOUSE IS FOR SALE -- DEADLINE EXTENDED

The School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin's entry into the 2007 Solar Decathlon, BLOOMhouse, is being offered for sale. Proceeds from the sale will go to help fund the school's next Solar Decathlon entry in 2009.

The deadline for bidding has been extended to January 31, 2008. Visit the UT-Austin Purchasing Department web site for details.

The house won 10th place overall in the national competition, 2nd place in the "engineering" category, and 3rd place in the "comfort zone" category. See the November 1, 2007, edition of eNews for the post-competition update, or visit the BLOOMhouse web site.

The team has developed a 6.6 kilowatt (kW) photovoltaic array with a skin-based design strategy that responds to orientation, climate, and culture. This modular house has a streamlined design that is 14 feet by 50 feet. The energy saving features of the house integrate strategically placed shading devices, cross ventilation, day lighting, advanced energy star appliances, equipment and fiber optic and LED lighting prototypes, as well as the use of an evacuated tube solar hot water heating system with hydronic floor heating and a 6.6 kW roof-mounted photovoltaic powered system. Because the house was made using lightweight metal-faced R-30 Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) as a single envelope, the infiltration load is reduced to less than one-half of air change per hour and an Energy Recovery Ventilator (ERV) is incorporated into the house to ensure adequate amounts of fresh air.

Additional information, a detailed spec book, plans, and renderings are available to interested parties by contacting the School of Architecture's Assistant Dean for Administration Jeff Evelyn at jeffevelyn@austin.utexas.edu.

Events

For the latest updates, check out the online UTSOA Calendar.

LECTURE

Monday, February 4
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Sponsored by the Patillo Centennial Lectureship

Daniel Bonilla
Daniel Bonilla Architecture and Planning

"Mutations from Bogotá"

Daniel Bonilla holds a degree in architecture from the University of Los Andes, Bogota, and a Master of Arts in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University.

Daniel Bonilla worked for the Public Space Bureau in the Local Authority Central Offices of Bogotá, the London-based office of Llewelyn-Davies, and Ospinas y Cia in Bogotá. In 1997, Bonilla formally established his own firm focusing on urban design, architecture, and industrial design. Diverse projects include competition entries such as the commission for Colombia's Pavillion for Expo Hannover 2000 and the International Convention Centre of Medellín. Daniel Bonilla Architecture and Planning has also designed schools and university buildings for Colegio Los Nogales, Colegio Anglo Colombiano, and Los Andes University in Bogotá.

Bonilla has been widely published including in The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, 10x10x2, Architectural Review, Arquine, -40 A Young Generation of International Architecture, ARS Sacra, and others.

Awards include selection for the 17th, 18th, and 19th Colombian Architecture Biennales (including Honorable Mention at the 18th), Assesit Emerging Architect, best architectural work at the 3rd and 4th Iberoamerican Architecture and Engineering Biennale, Highly Commended and Prize Winner at the AR+D Awards in 2002 and 2004, Special Mention at the 3rd Frate Sole Foundation Award in 2004, Honor Mentions at the International Biennale of Quito in Ecuador in 2002 and 2004, and Colombia's Steel Blue Pencil in 2006.

"Cross Thinking: Resilience" SYMPOSIUM

Friday, February 22, 1:30-5:30 and 6:30-9:00
Saturday, February 23, 8:30-1:30
Flawn Academic Center, Fourth Floor Atrium
http://soa.utexas.edu/events/resilience/

Registration is now open for Cross Thinking, the School of Architecture's fifth annual mini-symposium, which will be held February 22-23. The series of continuing education mini-symposia are designed to provide learning opportunities to alumni and design professionals. A single topic is addressed by persons from a variety of disciplines, each with their own unique perspective. The result is a stimulating series of conversations. The participating group is deliberately small (25-30 people) to enable open dialogue. Our topic this year is Resilience.

Scheduled speakers include Senior Associate Dean Patrick Davis, UT-Austin College of Pharmacy; Professor Tara Smith, UT-Austin Department of Philosophy; Associate Professor Nichole Wiedemann, UT-Austin School of Architecture; Associate Professor Michael Holleran, UT-Austin School of Architecture; Wes Hoover, President and CEO, SEDL (formerly the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory); and Director of Faculty Development Steven Tomlinson, The Acton School of Business. Cross Thinking will conclude with a summary lunch presentation by Dean Fritz Steiner. All presenters are encouraged to participate throughout, further bridging the various disciplines.

We encourage you to visit the mini-symposium website for updated details and online registration.

EXHIBIT

January 14 through February 8
Mebane Gallery
Goldsmith Hall

"Student Foreign Study"

EXHIBIT

February 11 through March 21
Mebane Gallery
Goldsmith Hall
Gallery Talk: Monday, February 11, 5 p.m.

"Lessons from Rome:
The Work of Robert Venturi, Tod Williams, Thomas Phifer, and Paul Lewis"

Curated by Assistant Professor Smilja Milovanovic-Bertram.

Exhibit made possible through a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

LECTURE

Monday, February 25
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.

Joan Busquets
Sponsored by the Dallas Urban Lab

UTSOA WELCOMES NEW FACULTY

The School of Architecture welcomes two new members to our faculty, Dr. Werner Lang and Dr. Talia McCray. Assistant Professor McCray joins us from the University of Rhode Island. She is a significant young scholar in transportation planning, focusing on access among various population groups to transit. Associate Professor Lang comes from the Munich Technical University and is a leading authority on the energy efficiency of building skills.

FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARDS

Associate Professor Carl Matthews will present two projects and participate in a panel discussion at the International Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) conference, March 5-8, in Montreal.

"Reality versus Perception: Interior Design Student Identity and Language," a paper co-written with Caroline Hill, will be presented. "Split Level," a design/build project completed with Scott Biehle [MLA '07] was selected in the juried design competition. The project is the renovation of their former house in northeast Austin. He has been asked by the editor of the Journal of Interior Design to participate in a panel discussion about the process of getting manuscripts published.

Professor Michael Benedikt has two books recently published. God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy came out in November from Bottino Books, New York. Bishop (Ret.) John Shelby Spong, author of A New Christianity for a New World calls it "...a profound attempt to develop a new God language with which to define the human experience. [Benedikt] takes God out of the sky of theological debate and places this God in the depths of life." John Wall, Professor of Religion, Rutgers University and author of Moral Creativity says, "At once down to earth and erudite, readable and penetrating, the book explores a wide range of vital questions of moral life without losing sight of its persistent and courageous goal: locating God in life's goodness. A challenge to both religious orthodoxy and contemporary secularism, it offers a truly fresh and stimulating approach to some of the most pressing issues of our time." More at godisthegoodwedo.com.

God, Creativity, and Evolution: The Argument from Design(ers), was published in January by the Center for American Architecture and Design. J. Scott Turner, author of The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself and professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry offers this advance praise: "'Design' and 'evolution,' we are told, are words that are not meant to be juxtaposed. In his provocative new book, God, Creativity, and Evolution: The Argument from Design(ers), Michael Benedikt begs to differ. In a skillfully constructed tour that takes us from the design studio to the embodied minds of great architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Louis Kahn (with side trips to the Sistine Chapel and a visit with Shiva), Benedikt leads us to the luminous conclusion that the words 'design' and 'evolution' not only can be juxtaposed, they must be."

Associate Dean Kevin Alter's and alterstudio's Hillel House project was featured recently in AIAarchitect. In her article, "Modernist Hillel House Beckons UT Students," editor Tracy Ostroff poses the question, "How do you transform an underused campus space into a thriving center for Jewish social, cultural, and religious activities?"

The new Texas Hillel at prominent corner just a few blocks from the UT-Austin campus turns away from the traditional building type to embrace a hip, open, Modern building where all Jewish students feel at home. "I buy into a lot of the Modern tenets, in particular for this building, the notion of connecting one room to another, connecting one constituency to another. In this case, connecting the constituency of the Hillel group and the people beyond it, and the Modern language made a lot of sense for that," says Alter. The glass window wall, high ceilings, intersecting rooms, limestone, and cool tones, reinforce the Modernist language.

The School of Architecture is pleased to announce that UT-Austin President Bill Powers has approved our two promotion cases this fall. Subject to approval by the Board of Regents, Kevin Alter and Richard Cleary have both been promoted to full professor effective September 1, 2008. Congratulations to Kevin and Richard on this important academic achievement.

Associate Professor Chris Long's article, "Paul T. Frankl's Skyscraper Furniture," appears in the January 2008 issue of Antiques magazine. Frankl's Skyscraper furniture enjoyed only a brief period of popularlity, from 1926 through early 1930. But his remarkable designs have come to symbolize the energy and vitality of the Jazz Age in the United States.

Additionally, Long has contributed the chapter, "Josef Frank in New York," in the forthcoming exhibition catalog of the Jüdisches Museum, Vienna, titled Josef Frank 1885-1967, edited by Iris Meder.

Assistant Professor Smilja Milovanovic-Bertram curated the exhibit "Lessons from Rome: The Work of Robert Venturi, Tod Williams, Thomas Phifer and Paul Lewis," which was displayed at the Politecnico di Milano in Lecco, Italy, from mid-November to mid-December. She presented a lecture on the exhibit on November 19, 2007.

Professor Milovanovic, Program Director of UT-Austin's Study in Italy Program, reports that the watercolor work of architecture student Amber Czapski, who participated in last fall's program, was selected in a competition sponsored by the Santa Chiaro Study Center, home base for the Study in Italy Program, and will be displayed permanently in the town hall of Castiglion Fiorentino. Graduate architecture student Lee Ulmer and his group (including students from Texas A & M and California State University Pomona) won first place in the all-school annual courtyard charette "Tree-less in Santa Chiara." Established in 1984, The University of Texas at Austin Study in Italy Program is an interdisciplinary program sponsored by The University of Texas School of Architecture and the College of Liberal Arts.

2007-2008 ACSA AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Each year the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) honors excellence and distinguished achievement in architectural education, in recognition of those who embody these qualities and have advanced the art and science of the field. These award-winning professors inspire and challenge students, contribute to the profession's knowledge base, and extend their work beyond the borders of academia into practice and the public sector. Included among this year's winners are:

David Heymann, ACSA Distinguished Professor Award, recognizing sustained creative achievement in the advancement of architectural education through teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service.

Ulrich Dangel, ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, recognizing demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career.

Lois Weinthal, JAE Best Design as Scholarship Article Award, recognizing an article published in the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) that exhibits the top overall article from this past year's publications.

An awards ceremony, including a visual presentation of the winner's accomplishments will be showcased at a plenary session during the ACSA 96th Annual Meeting, March 27-30, 2008, to be held in Houston, Texas.

ALUMNI NEWS

ALUMNI UPDATE

Mike McCall [M.Arch. '80] and his firm, McCall Design Group, were awarded first place in Chain Store Age's 2007 Retail Store of the Year Design Competition, Drugstore Category, for their design of the Elephant Pharm in Walnut Creek, California. Competition winners will be profiled in the February issue of Chain Store Age.

Chris Stewart, AICP [BSAS '93, MSCRP '97] has been promoted to managing planner of Espey Consultants, Inc., in Austin. Espey Consultants, Inc. is a multi-disciplinary civil, environmental engineering, and planning firm with offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Laredo, Texas. Since joining the firm in 2001, Chris has been working with small and mid-sized municipal and special district clients around the state on a number of issues, such as floodplain management, master drainage planning, infrastructure planning, future land use planning, water rights, water service area disputes, and impact fees. Chris is assisted by Gabe Rojas [MSCRP '07], who is a planner with the firm.

Mike Pecen [MLA '07] recently became an accredited Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) professional, practicing with TBG Partners, the largest landscape architecture/planning firm in Texas.

IN MEMORIAM

Charles Freeman Terry [MSCRP '77] was born November 19, 1945, in Columbus, Ohio. He died peacefully, but unexpectedly, in Luang Prabang, Laos, while traveling in Vietnam and Laos.

Chuck had an intense curiosity about the world and its peoples, and traveled extensively throughout his life. He was particularly intrigued by the cultures of less-developed and less-traveled countries. He was fortunate to have explored and lived for several months at a time in Southeast Asia, China, Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, Mexico, Central America, Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Italy, Czech Republic, Cuba, and Japan. Chuck expressed his creativity in many ways, including the home he designed, which blended Asian sensibilities with the beauty of the natural environment. His knowledge of history and politics was extensive; finding strategic solutions for the world's problems was a constant focus. Chuck spent his childhood in Dallas, graduating from Highland Park High School.

Before earning his MSCRP degree from The University of Texas at Austin, he received a B.A. from Southern Methodist University in 1967. He also served with the U.S. Army Special Forces in Vietnam from 1969-1970, receiving the U.S. Purple Heart and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He conducted academic research and worked as an urban planner in Europe and Australia from 1972-1975. In the U.S., his professional career activities included urban planning, urban design, and coordinating special projects for the City of Austin.

ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

The School of Architecture is continuing its effort to find (and maintain) the most accurate contact information for all of our alumni. From young alumni receptions to 50-year reunions, and everything in between, we hope you will stay in touch. Would you like to mentor a student? Do you need to hire a fellow Longhorn? Looking for networking or continuing education opportunities? We can help, but we need to know how to reach you!

Alumni may update their records, contact preferences, and search for fellow graduates by logging on to the University's online alumni directory. Or, you may always contact Stephanie Palmer, Alumni Relations Director, at stephanie.palmer@mail.utexas.edu or 512-471-0617.

Thanks for helping us improve our relationship with you. We look forward to hearing from you!

DEAN'S REPORT:
URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL WORKSHOP AT FONTAINEBLEAU

As a guest of the French Embassy, I flew to Paris on January 7 for an exploratory workshop on the city and the environment in Fontainebleau. Eleven Americans and twenty French academics and research agency staff participated. The University of Texas at Austin, MIT, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Colorado, the University of North Carolina, Tulane University, the University of New Orleans, and the University of Montréal were represented from North America. The U.S. delegation also included individuals from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Baltimore Ecosystem Study.

The Americans and our French hosts spent the first day at the Conservatoire National des Arte et Métiers getting to know each other. We visited an exhibition originally organized in Philadelphia in 2006 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin. The exhibition helped illustrate past French-U.S. cooperation both diplomatically and in science.

Convened at the School of Mines in Fontainebleau, the workshop began in earnest on Thursday, January 10. Topics included considerations about the potential transfer of urban environmental and sustainability polices between Europe and the U.S., green building, and sustainable site standards. MIT Professor Anne W. Spirn explored the theme of "urban nature and human design." She introduced the challenge of fragmentation of knowledge and policy, a topic that would be repeated through the workshop. In particular, Professor Spirn noted that natural and social scientists approach urban research differently and that they communicate differently from designers and planners.

The need for better communication was illustrated in three talks about New Orleans. Tulane's Robert Campanella provided the best review that I've heard about the geographical history of New Orleans. He traced many of the challenges facing the region in the attempt to impose order on a young, in geological terms, dynamic landscape.

University of Montréal scholar Isabelle Thomas-Maret offered a unique perspective. The French-American planner was on the University of New Orleans faculty at the time of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. She retains an adjunct faculty member position at New Orleans and conducts French-sponsored research on urban resilience there. Professor Thomas-Maret traces the various post-Katrina planning efforts in New Orleans to illustrate the challenges of recovery and "lessons not learned."

The French government also supports the research of the Universite of Orleans' Jean-Marc Zaninetti. He has used hurricane prone areas in Louisiana and Florida to study coastal settlements at risk for disaster. With the potential for sea level rise, such places are more vulnerable. He explored what areas should be protected and speculated on the financial and political costs for such protection.

From the New Orleans focus, we moved to explorations of human-nature interfaces in California, Colorado, and Texas. (I made the Texas contribution.) An especially interesting presentation by Christian Pihet of the Universite of Angers was on "wildlife in the city." He explored the city as an ecosystem, wildlife-human relationship, and social strategies for accommodating wildlife. Through many European examples, Professor Pihet noted we view wildlife differently if they are pests, friendly neighbors like deer and fox, or pets.

Dr. Morgan Grove represented the Baltimore Ecosystem Study. Baltimore is one of two urban NSF-funded Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) projects. He described the transdisciplinary social-ecological analysis of urban dynamics through remote-sensed data and geographic information systems.

The first day ended with one American and two French presentations about urban hydrology. Water quality and quantity as well as urban land-use and environmental modeling were discussed.

The second day began with a fascinating presentation by Isabella Calmet of the École Centrale de Nantes on microclimatic modeling applied to the scale of the urban district. She explored the interrelationships between temperature, wind, solar exposures, and land use. Professor Calmet illustrated how land uses contribute to urban heat islands. She offered strategies for climate amelioration, reopening natural streams, and replacing impervious artificial surfaces with natural materials.

Next, Professor Frances Kuo of the University of Illinois discussed the role of nature in healthy human habitats. She linked nature to our physical, social, and psychological well being. Catherine Carré of the Sorbonne followed with a review of her work on small urban rivers in Paris, in particular the Bièvre River. She observed it needed more than restoration, the Bievre needs "resurrection."

Dr. Sabine Barles of the Institut Française d'Urbanisme presented work about material interactions between human society and the biosphere. She discussed food, waste, and nitrogen in Paris, illustrating how our concept of "waste" has changed since the nineteenth century.

Following a presentation on the nature of sustainable European neighborhoods, three research agency representatives reviewed potential opportunities for urban environmental studies. Pascal Bain of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (the French NSF) described their new Sustainable City program. Among other emphases, this program will support work on energy efficient and "smart" buildings. The NSF's Dan Childers described the LTER network including the urban sites in Baltimore and Phoenix. He noted that NSF expects the LTERs to produce "societal relevant results." Nathalie Blanc then explained France's Interdisciplinary City and Environmental Research Program. Its three themes are these: the metabolism of cities, the urban environment as a living resource, and the futures of cities between vulnerability and sustainability. In contrast with the science-centered U.S. programs, this French effort included applications through design, planning, and the arts.

Philippe Jamet, the science and technology attaché of the French Embassy in Washington, concluded the formal portion of the workshop with an exploration of common themes and next steps. The hope is that formal cooperation between France and the U.S. around urban ecology will result.

On Saturday, Dr. Jamet organized a tour of the Fontainebleau palace and gardens. I was especially interested in the portion of the garden designed by the pioneering landscape architect André Le Nôtre. The next day, I visited Paris. Among other destinations, I wanted to see two relatively recent projects: Parc André-Citroën and Musée du quai Branly. Designed by Alain Provost and Gilles Clément, Parc Citroën transformed the former factory site into a Parisian destination. Even in January, the park was full of people. Jean Nouvel designed the Musée de quai Branly buildings and Giles Clément its park. The synthesis between buildings and landscape is clear throughout, most notably in "the living wall" designed by Patrick Blanc -- the green façade of the building facing the Seine. Parc Citroën and Musée du quai Branly reflect the exhurbance of Paris and of ecology.

On Monday morning, we met at Ville et Mobilité Durables just outside Paris. Director General Thiery Delarbre explained the creation of a very new "competitive cluster" to promote collaboration in urban areas. The non-profit organizations include 80 industries, businesses (including Euro Disney), universities, and research institutes and is devoted to city services, mobility, and the environment. The competitiveness cluster is organized into three scientific communities exploring urban planning and management, housing and construction, and mobility and transportation. We discussed the potential for collaboration between the cluster group and U.S. partners.

That afternoon, I met with Philippe Goubet and Fulvia Pesavento of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, who we maintain a long-time partnership with through our Residency Program. RPBW is changing their internship program to focus on Asia, Latin America, and Africa. They have also established a foundation to continue internships and to create an archive. We discussed possible ways to continue our relationship. Clearly, they were delighted with the quality of our students. While at the workshop, we discussed several of their current and future projects, including the expansion of the Kimball in Fort Worth.

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