DENSITY|dallas Studio

"Density, as distinct from congestion, promotes engagement. Interaction, made possible by proximity, is crucial and far more difficult to sustain where things are spread out across great distances...." (Alex Krieger, "The Virtues of Cities," PLACES Journal, 1995.)

Over the past seven days, the second-year architecture class (65 students and 4 faculty members) stacked "blocks." The thousands of units were scaled and color-coded to represent LIVE (living units), WORK and PLAY (commercial), ACTIVE (community), PARK (car parking), and OPEN (gathering spaces). The eight teams, combining students from each class, produced multiple speculations of the future city.

In 1900, 10% of the world's population lived in cities. In 2006, the United Nations announced that the majority of the world's population, almost 3.3 billion, lived in urban rather than rural areas. In 2050, it is estimated that 75% or more will live in urban areas. As of 2007, the Bos-Wash region was 54.8 million, Chi-Pitts was 45 million, Bajalta California was 42 million, and, our own, Daustin was 9.1 million.

With rapid urbanization, previous models for designing and planning the city may no longer be adequate. The students and faculty will speculate on some of the following questions over the course of the semester:

How do we understand and define an urban experience that oscillates between local and global concerns?

How we reduce the city footprint, reducing consumption?

As designers, how do we engage today's cities?

The Design 4 Studio titled DENSITY|dallas_and the [mega] city is being taught by Lecturers Judy Birdsong, Charlton Lewis, Nik Nikolov, and Associate Professor Nichole Wiedemann. Across all studios, the issue of density is being explored as more than units and numbers, but rather a complex relationship between things and people that constitutes how an urban area functions. Their subject is Dallas, a city in one of the fastest growing regions in North America, with a specific site for urban design in The Cedars.

Events

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

Funding for lectures and exhibits is provided in part by the Herbert M. Greene Centennial Lectureship, the Wolf and Janet Jessen Centennial Lectureship, the Karl Kamrath Lectureship, Edwin A. Schneider Centennial Lectureship, and Brightman/York Endowed Lecture Series in Interior Design.

SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, February 7
Goldsmith Hall 3.120
9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

WEATHER PATTERNS:
Climate, Culture, and Place Making

J.D. Connor
"Get Out of My Swamp:
Hollywood and the Limits of Allegory"
Visual & Environmental Studies
Harvard University

Robert L. France
"Henry David Thoreau and Gilbert White:
Rooted in Place in a Shifting Climate"
Independent scholar
Canada

Werner Krauss
"Locating Climate Change: Ethnographic Field Notes"
Germanic Studies
The University of Texas at Austin

P.H. Liotta
"Black Storms Rising:
Weather Effects and Policy Paralysis"
Pell Center for International Relations & Public Policy
Salve Regina University

Steven A. Moore
"Technology and Place Reconsidered"
Architecture
The University of Texas at Austin

Allan W. Shearer
"Make the Weather"
Harrington Faculty Fellow
The University of Texas at Austin

A symposium sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program in collaboration with the School of Architecture.

LECTURE

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

Ignacio Bunster
Landscape architect & urban designer
WRT, Philadelphia

CAREER WEEK

February 24-26

The following firms will be offering first-round interviews to UTSOA students and recent graduates.

Alamo Architects
Beck
BOKA Powell
Corgan Associates
CTA Architects Engineers
Curtis & Windham Architects
Dewberry
F&S Partners
Fentress Architects
FKP Architects
Ford Powell & Carson
Gensler
Halff Associates
HDR Architecture
HNTB
Humphreys and Partners Architects
Jackson Ryan Architects
Laguarda Low Architects
LPA, Inc.
Marmon Mok
Norman Alston Architects
O'Connell Robertson & Associates
Overland Partners
Parsons Brinkerhoff
PDG Architects
Perkins + Will
Pickard Chilton
Rhotenberry Wellen Architects
SHW Group
Solomon Cordwell Buenz
Steinberg Architects
SWA
WRA Architects

For more information, contact the UTSOA Career Center at 512.471.1333.

EXHIBIT

Through February 27
Mebane Gallery
Goldsmith Hall

"ACROSS THE MAP | Architecture Abroad"

Student work from the school's study-abroad program.

LECTURE

Friday, February 27
Welch Hall 2.224
Pre-Lecture Fun, 5:45-7:00 p.m.
Teacher Workshop, 6:00-6:45 p.m.
Lecture, 7:00-8:15 p.m.

Dr. Werner Lang
Associate Professor
UT Austin School of Architecture

"Design with Climate:
Building for a Cooler Planet"

A “Hot Science - Cool Talks” Outreach Lecture presented by the Environmental Science Institute (ESI) and the Jackson School of Geosciences. The ESI's Hot Science - Cool Talks provides a means for leading researchers from the University of Texas and other prominent universities to communicate their research to the public in general and the K-12 educational community in particular.

LECTURE

Monday, March 2
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.

Perry Kulper
Architect and artist
University of Michigan

EXHIBIT

March 2 through April 3
Mebane Gallery
Goldsmith Hall

"DRAWINGS & WORKSHOPS | Perry Kulper"

EXPLORE UT

Saturday, March 7
11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

EXPLORE UT: The Biggest Open House in Texas

The University of Texas at Austin is hosting its 10th annual Explore UT, a day of events, performances, exhibits, lectures, and hands-on activities for the entire family. We offer you a glimpse into world-class museums, extensive library collections, numerous performance venues, and cultural centers on a historic urban campus.

With nearly 400 events and activities happening across campus, there is something for everyone. Children can test their skills while making liquid nitrogen ice cream, building forts, creating a virtual world avatar, designing miniature solar cars and engaging in dozens of other activities. High schoolers can meet with advisers, faculty, and students to learn about everything from degree plans to financial aid. Parents and teachers can enjoy a variety of cultural events, exhibits, performances, museums, and lectures.

As a public university, The University of Texas at Austin belongs to the people of Texas. As an institution of higher education, the university's mission is to educate young people and to create future leaders for every realm of society.

Come explore our campus. Enjoy a day of fun. Learn something new.

CENTER LUNCH FORUM SERIES

The Center for American Architecture and Design hosts a Friday Lunch Forum Series from 12:00 to 1:30 in the Battle Hall Conference Room (room 101).

The aim of the series is for faculty and students to meet in an informal atmosphere to debate topics and to share ideas about history, practice, theory, and new directions for architecture. Forum topics/titles are confirmed a week prior to each forum date. Visit the Center web site for updates. The spring 2009 schedule includes:

• February 20, Lois Weinthal
• March 6, Barbara Hoidn
• March 27, Kevin Alter
• April 10, Francisco Gomes
• April 24, Smilja Milovanovic-Bertram

The Friday Forum is also webcast live (visit the Center's web site), and you are invited to call in live with questions or comments during the discussion at 512.471.9890.

CITY FORUM SERIES

Friday, February 6
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Texas Union, Eastwoods Room 2.102 (ground floor, near the Information Desk)

"BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Moving Forward, Looking Back:
Institutionalized Racism and the Complexity of Urban Space"

In 1928, the city leaders of Austin enacted a zoning ordinance that codified segregation, designating the city east of East Avenue (present day I-35) as the minority district. The plan, though long since repealed, still shapes racial demographics to this day. It is instructive to revisit this issue 81 years later if for no other reason than to learn from the past and to remember how it shapes our future.

Please join us as we discuss with our distinguished panelists the historical overview of the 1928 Plan, impacts on affordable housing today as a result of that and similar plans, and the interaction of complex physical and social systems. Panelists include:

Melvin G. Wrenn, Center for Mexican-American Cultural Arts past president, current secretary, Travis County Housing Authority Commissioner, and market coordinator for ADAPT companies. Mr. Wrenn has been involved in community, economic, and business development since 1980. He has assisted companies with corporate financing, bank loans and debt restructuring, equipment leasing, venture capital, factoring, inventory loans, government financing through city, county, state and federal programs.

Dr. Elizabeth Mueller, Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning in the School of Architecture and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development. Dr. Mueller is active at both the state and local levels in community organization and affordable housing policy for low-income individuals. She is on the advisory board of the Austin Design and Community Development Center.

Dr. Reuben McDaniel, Jr., Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at the UT McCombs School of Business and co-editor of Uncertainty and Surprise in Complex Systems. Dr. McDaniel holds the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Regents Chair in Health Care Management in the Graduate School of Business. His present research interest is in management of complex adaptive systems, with a particular interest in organizational designs and information systems for more effective sense-making and decision making.

This City Forum is organized by the CRP Diversity Council.

City Forum is an urban issues speaker series hosted by the Community and Regional Planning Student Organization (CRPSO) and the Community and Regional Planning Program (CRP) at The University of Texas at Austin.

For questions, comments, or suggestions related to City Forum, contact Jenni Minner or Dr. Bjorn Sletto.

EXHIBIT

January 16-August 14, 2009
Visual Resources Collection
Sutton Hall 3.128 (Monday-Friday, 8-5)

Exhibit Open House:
Thursday, February 5, 3-5 pm.

"Perceiving Space: The Hal Box and Logan Wagner Collection of Mexican Architecture and Urban Design"

Every summer from 1985 to 1996, with the assistance of volunteer teams from Earthwatch, W.L. Moody, Jr. Centennial Professor Emeritus in Architecture and former dean of the School of Architecture Hal Box, FAIA, and Dr. Logan Wagner [M.Arch. '79; Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, with an architectural history concentration, '97] explored, photographed, measured, and made scale drawings of over ninety towns in Mexico. The collection of over 8,000 slides taken during this period was donated to the School of Architecture's Visual Resources Collection (VRC).

The exhibit highlights a selection of images from a collection that documents communal open spaces built in Mexico from 2000 B.C. to the present, concentrating on the 16th and 17th century fusion of Mesoamerican and European architecture and town planning. Contained in the collection are images of sacred open spaces formed by ancient pyramids and the plazas, atrios, cloisters, and towns' central plazas.

In 2006, the VRC and ARTstor, a digital library of nearly one million images, agreed to collaborate on a project to digitize and distribute images from the collection through the ARTstor Digital Library. With generous support from ARTstor, graduate student Kristina Kupferschmid cataloged and selected almost 6,000 images for digitization from January 2007 through September 2008. The Hal Box and Logan Wagner Collection of Mexican Architecture and Urban Design will be available in ARTstor in spring 2009 and as part of the VRC's online Image Collection.

FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP AND AWARDS

The school wishes to congratulate Associate Professor Elizabeth Danze, who was among 112 architects elevated by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to its prestigious College of Fellows, an honor awarded to members who have made contributions of national significance to the profession.

Out of a membership of more than 86,000, there are fewer than 2,600 AIA members distinguished with the honor of fellowship. It is conferred on architects with at least 10 years of membership in the AIA who have made significant contributions in the following areas: the aesthetic, scientific, and practical efficiency of the profession; the standards of architectural education, training, and practice; the building industry through leadership in the AIA and other related professional organizations; advancement of living standards of people through an improved environment; and to society through significant public service.

The new Fellows will be invested in the College of Fellows at the 2009 AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in San Francisco on May 1.

The school includes three additional AIA Fellows, Professor Sinclair Black, Professor Larry Speck and Professor Emeritus and former dean Hal Box.

O'Neil Ford Professor Wilfried Wang is presenting a lecture on February 5 at the Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm. The lecture is in connection with the opening of the exhibition, "Villa Edstrand: A Villa in Falsterbo by Sigurd Lewerentz," curated by Professor Wang.

Sigurd Lewerentz was one of the leading architects for Stockholmsutställningen (a national architecture and design exhibition) in 1930. Lewerentz also designed stainless steel windows and doors for the Malmö-based company Bröderna Edstrand AB. In 1933, Knut and Oda Edstrand commissioned Lewerentz to build them a summer house next to the golf course in Falsterbo.

In 1937, after more than ten different proposals and extensive correspondence between commissioners and the architect, the house was finally ready. The layout of the building was highly related to the golf course and the sea view.

From the cubic simplicity of Lewerentz's first sketches, the villa had developed into a modern summer house where the representative areas stretched out almost as if on a luxurious cruiser.

Through various drawings, models, and letters the exhibition puts this four-year-long process on display. The exhibition catalog features an analytic text written by Wilfried Wang in which he gives a detailed account of the relationship between place, architect, and commissioners.

The work of several UTSOA faculty members is featured in the new book, 1000 X Architecture of the Americas, by Braun. The book, published in Germany and distributed worldwide, presents 1000 outstanding projects from acclaimed and emerging architects throughout the Americas.

The Webb Dotti House, designed by Assistant Professor Francisco Gomes, Gomes + Staub Architects, is included in the book. The 2,600-square-foot residence in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is organized around an exterior garden terrace with southern exposure and views to the horizon. The house structures and extends into the adjacent landscape, allowing interior spaces direct views and access to the outdoors.

Two projects from Associate Professor Juan Miró, Miró Rivera Architects, are included -- the Guest House and the Lady Bird Lake Hike and Bike Trail Restroom, both in Austin, Texas.

The Modern Barn project, Wilton, Connecticut, from Associate Professor Louise Harpman's firm, Specht Harpman, is also highlighted.

The December 2008 issue of the British magazine Architecture Review features the projects chosen for the 2008 AR Emerging Architecture Awards, considered worldwide the most prestigious awards for emerging architecture. Miró Rivera Architects (Associate Professor Juan Miró and Miguel Rivera principals), a previous Prize Winner of the 2006 Emerging Architecture Award, is the only U.S. firm recognized in this year's program--an Honorable Mention for the Trail Restroom located on the shores of Lady Bird Lake. The complete article, "Corten Contortion" is available online. This project has previously won a Design Award from the Texas Society of Architects, was short-listed in the 2008 World Architecture Festival Award Competition in Barcelona, and won a Best Real Estate Award from the Austin Business Journal.

Miró Rivera Architects' (MRA) Residence 1414 is featured in the February 2009 "Before and After" edition of Architectural Digest. This renovation has also garnered awards from both AIA Austin and the Texas Society of Architects. MRA was previously featured in the April 2007 edition of Architectural Digest. The entire article, "Putting a Fresh Spin on Tradition" is also available online.

For additional information regarding the firm and its award winning work, see www.mirorivera.com.

Associate Professor Nichole Weidemann and Assistant Professor Jason Sowell will have their design research published in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Architectural Education [62:4 Alternative Practices]. Titled "Sponge Urbanism: The Cellular Redevelopment of New Orleans," the research, utilizing New Orleans as a case study, examines the potential of infrastructure to anticipate, rather than react to, flux in ecologic, economic, and technologic systems.

Dr. Steven Moore is interviewed in this month's on-line news of the AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) about emerging trends in sustainability education. The interview is available directly on the AASHE web site.

Anthony Alofsin, Roland Roessner Centennial Professor in Architecture, will be giving a public lecture at the St. Louis Museum of Art on April 3. Titled "Wright, St. Louis, and Organic Architecture," the lecture will look at connections between Frank Lloyd Wright and St. Louis and will analyze Wright's principles of organic architecture. Dr. Alofsin is conducting archival research on Wright at various locations around the country as part of work for a new book on America's most famous architect.

SCHOOL TO CONSTRUCT OUTDOOR THERMAL LABORATORY

By June, UT will be one of the few universities in the nation with an outdoor thermal laboratory used to test the effect of outdoor environments on buildings.

An outdoor thermal platform will be built on the roof of the West Mall Office Building facing Inner Campus Drive. The laboratory will be part of the School of Architecture's Center for Sustainable Development and used to research the thermal behavior of innovative building components and analyze the structural and visual characteristics of buildings. The results will help researchers determine the best kinds of building skins -- any materials on the exterior of a building, including roofs, windows, and façades -- to use in various environments.

"When you do research in the field of thermal performance, you cannot downscale," said Associate Professor Werner Lang. "You can't build a small box and expect it to have the same performance as a building. You have to do it in a real scale. You can of course do it indoors as well, but we wanted to have a real outdoor lab because we want to do real testing under real conditions."

The Building Environmental Systems Laboratory, located at the Pickle Research Center, is an indoor laboratory that tests the indoor conditions of buildings and their effects on human exposure and health. The outdoor laboratory will complement the indoor laboratory, said Atila Novoselac, assistant professor of engineering.

"Sometimes I want to have complete control of what's going on inside a building," Novoselac said. "However, if you want to see how solar radiation penetrates through the windows, then you need an outer lab. So you can put a [facility] like mine inside the outer lab and check how the outdoor environment affects the indoor environment."

The outdoor laboratory will be available for research personnel and students who are directly related to research.

To bring the cost of the laboratory down, the university is engaged in a bidding process to see which company will build the laboratory. Lang said he thinks the process will end in four weeks.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University's thermal fluids laboratory are comparable facilities to the one that will soon be built, Lang said.

"Other labs similar to this one are not focusing on the aesthetics at all," Lang said. "We're looking at the construction and functional issues as well as the aesthetics."

After creating a thermal office in Munich, Germany, Lang joined the UT faculty last year.

"The potential in Austin is so tremendous, especially the use of solar energy," Lang said. "There's so much sun here in Texas. You have this richness here with solar radiation and on the same hand you have a negligence with it."

Article by Viviana Aldous, The Daily Texan, February 5, 2009.

STUDENTS HELP MOVE DALLAS "FORWARD"

Fourteen UT architecture students will present their visions of Dallas to stakeholders, architects, urban planners, and designers this spring while working with the Dallas Urban Laboratory, a long-term research project aimed at aiding the development of west Dallas.

As a part of "Forward Dallas" -- the city's initiative to transform Dallas into a more vibrant, successful city -- Dean Almy, an associate architecture professor and director of the laboratory, is engaging his students by asking them to help redevelop the western bank of Dallas' Trinity River.

Almy said the land that students are focusing on is partly industrial and has many vacated areas.

"The area has culturally strong but economically depressed neighborhoods," Almy said. "We're looking for something that will further this project and take into account those neighborhoods."

The laboratory takes a new group of students every spring, and each semester students continue where the previous group left off.

"The first year the Dallas lab was in existence, we had a master plan and envisioned what would be on the west of the river corridor," Almy said. "We took the city seriously and asked, 'What would this really look like?'"

The laboratory's initial plan aims to transform this area into a mix of housing, commercial, retail, and recreational buildings, Almy said. He also said that while the city is securing a professional firm to lead the redevelopment, many of the students' ideas and visions will be implemented.

"The ideas are taken very seriously because the designers realize we're able to do work that they don't necessarily have the time or budget to do," said Chad Gnant, an architecture graduate student and the project's research assistant.

West Dallas Investments LP owns part of the land with which the students are working.

"The students came up with some really great, fresh ideas that have no preconceived notion of what anything should look like," said Butch McGregor, a managing partner of West Dallas Investments. "The mayor and most of the City Council members have looked at their proposals and embraced their ideas."

The students proposed moving Beckley Avenue, the street immediately west of the river, farther away from the levee.

"That is something we have been discussing with the city, and we're 99 percent sure it will eventually happen," McGregor said. "We don't know if it'll be in the exact form they proposed it, but being able to see what we're talking about has had a really tremendous effect."

The students are also working with international firms leading the redevelopment.

"It's not like a typical project that we present to professors," said architecture senior Kai Pedersen. "We'll get questioned from a developer's mind-set. It's a great experience."

Since Almy opened the laboratory three years ago, more than 30 architecture students have worked on the project.

"I experienced a great deal of growth through basically looking at the city overall," said Gnant, who took the class last spring. "Architecture can be focused on a piece of land, but the lab helped me envision the space between the buildings and streetscapes."

Because city development takes decades, the laboratory is a long-term initiative.

"The lab really allows the city to look at different options, whether they agree with them or not," Gnant said. "They are options that need to be presented. It can have a very good impact on how Dallas develops over the next 25 or 30 years."

Article by Viviana Aldous, The Daily Texan, February 4, 2009.

ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

CRP @ 50 ALUMNI GATHERING

We are looking forward to commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Community and Regional Planning Program with you at the CRP @ 50 Alumni Gathering on Friday and Saturday, February 27-28, 2009. Please join us to help celebrate our history and milestones and share in fun and great memories. The agenda includes an open house, a City Forum luncheon and speaker panel, topic talks, small group sessions on planning issues, boot scootin' at the Broken Spoke, displays of recent work by CRP students and faculty, and the Planner's Reception.

The weekend culminates on Saturday evening with the CRP @ 50 Golden Anniversary Banquet in the Texas Union. At the banquet, we will celebrate our many achievements; share stories with other alums, faculty, students, and guests; and announce the recipients of awards honoring alums who deserve special commendation. Event highlights include:

• City Forum luncheon and speaker panel, Friday, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m., Texas Union, Sinclair Suite
• Boot Scootin' at the Broken Spoke, Friday night, 8:00 p.m.
• Topic Talks and Discussion Sessions: Friday and Saturday, 2:00-5:00 p.m., Sutton Hall
• Golden Anniversary Reception and Banquet, Saturday, Santa Rita Room, Texas Union, "Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Present, and Shaping the Future;" reception, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.; banquet, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Please take a moment to visit the CRP web page for the full program of activities. You can register by downloading the registration form [pdf] and mailing it back to UTSOA. Or you can give the completed registration form [pdf] and a check or credit card information to Judy Parker at the front desk in Goldsmith Hall. Please respond no later than February 20.

We hope to see you at the end of the month in Austin.

ALUMNI UPDATES

Camilo Parra, AIA, [M.Arch. '94] is among eight architects selected to receive the 2009 American Institute of Architects' Young Architects Award.

Recognized widely in Houston as a designer and builder of upscale and affordable townhome developments, Camilo Parra also conducts a school of design studio and volunteers in his community. "One of the unique things about Camilo is that he not only has his own practice, but develops his own projects; last year alone Parra Design Group developed 70 housing units," points out AIA Houston President Brian M. Malarkey, AIA, in the chapter's letter of nomination. "As a member of the Houston Minority Business Council and the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Camilo serves as an outstanding role model for the students at our historically black university," adds Prairie View A&M University School of Architecture Dean Ikhlas Sabouni, PhD.

During the 69th Annual TSA Convention, October 23-25, in Fort Worth, Parra was presented the Texas Society of Architects Award for Young Professional Achievement in Honor of William W. Caudill FAIA for his strength in architectural design, practice, and community. Additionally, he was awarded the 2008 Ben Brewer Young Architect Award, AIA Houston.

The bronze sculpture, "Billy Goats Gruff," by Austin architect/sculptor Bob Coffee, FAIA, [B.Arch. '61] won the Award of Excellence at "Art on Main," an outdoor exhibit of forty sculptures by local, national, and international artists in Marble Falls, Texas.

"The Real Magic," a bronze by Coffee, has been commissioned by the Saunders Foundation of Houston as a teaching excellence award. The award will be given twice yearly to recognize outstanding public school teachers in the Texas Rio Grande Valley.

View more of Bob Coffee's sculptures on his web site.

ALUMNI EVENTS

We want you to stay involved and connected to the school, so join us for one of our many upcoming alumni events:

• Houston Alumni & Friends Reception at The Grove Restaurant - Wednesday, February 11, 2009
• CRP @ 50 Alumni Gathering - February 27-28, 2009
• Class of 1959 Reunion - April 30 - May 1, 2009
• AIA Alumni Reception in San Francisco - Thursday, April 30, 2009
• School of Architecture 100th Anniversary Celebration - Sunday, October 10, 2010

Being an alum has its benefits! As an alumnus of the School of Architecture, you will have many opportunities for ongoing contact with the school and our alumni community:

• Social and intellectual enrichment at one of our annual socials or mixers
  
• Expanded networks for professional growth and development by attending our series of lectures and exhibits
  
• Connections with UTSOA students, staff, and faculty, and continued involvement in the welfare and future of the school by joining Friends of Architecture

We are continuing our effort to find (and maintain) the most accurate contact information for all of our alumni. Stay in touch with former classmates--update your record and contact preferences by logging on to the university's online alumni directory.

More details will be available on the School of Architecture alumni web page as the events approach. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Stacy Manning at smanning@austin.utexas.edu or 512.471.0617.

FRIENDS OF ARCHITECTURE

The San Antonio tour is SOLD OUT!

Professor Kevin Alter will lead Friends of Architecture's "San Antonio...Old Meets New" tour of exclusive modern homes, beautifully preserved historic locations, and some of San Antonio's most exciting public spaces later this month. If you missed out on this exclusive tour, please visit our web site for information about future tours and Friends of Architecture membership.

Throughout the year, FOA designs and offers tours to destinations near and far, always including exclusive architectural spectacles, particularly private residences. FOA's tours are intimate and unique, designed specifically for our members, so logon to our web site today, make your donation to the School of Architecture, and start receiving tour notices and invitations.

Friends of Architecture would like to thank our Corporate Silver members and supporters Curtis & Windham Architects and Lucifer Lighting Company.

CONTACTS

In this fast-paced world, there's a lot of news to keep up with. We know you are doing great things, and we rely on you not only to share your stories, but also to keep us up-to-date on your contact information so that we can share our stories with you. Alumni, please send your news and contact updates to Associate Director of Constituent and Alumni Relations Stacy Manning at smanning@austin.utexas.edu. Students, faculty, and staff may send updates to eNews editor Pamela Peters at p.peters@mail.utexas.edu.

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