URBAN LAND INSTITUTE GERALD D. HINES URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION 2007
Each year The Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition offers student teams a site large in scale and replete with complex challenges that need innovative solutions reflecting responsible land use. Each team is required to be multifaceted, incorporating design, planning, market potential and feasibility, and development strategies.
For this year's fifth annual competition, the student teams were required to act as the fictional, newly established, quasi-public redevelopment agency for East First Street, in Los Angeles, a major east-west commercial and commuter corridor connecting downtown Los Angeles to Boyle Heights. This agency is empowered to establish land uses, propose public investments, and act as a master developer for projects that are authorized by the city.
Ten teams of architecture, community and regional planning, landscape architecture, historic preservation, and business graduate students participated this year with nine teams submitting entries. This year's competition was coordinated by Professor Simon Atkinson with the help of Associate Professor Dean Almy, as well as several other faculty members. Local ULI members served as "mentors" to individual teams.
On February 14, a jury chaired by Dean Fritz Steiner selected the Cogburn Prize winners from among the University's competition entrants. The jury included Associate Professor Mirka Beneš, Visiting Professor Barbara Hoidn, and McCombs School of Business Lecturer Lenore Sullivan.
One of the judges noted that each of the winning teams "Had a strong community orientation to them, respecting and reflecting the nuances of the different neighborhoods and using the main intersections—both pedestrian and transit—to create points of interest and activity. Resulting in a good integration of planning and design, as you might expect."
This year saw the highest overall quality of entries from the School. Each entry had considerable merit in addressing one or more of these critical issues. The jurors saw imaginative and beautiful redesigns for the Los Angeles River basin, as well as creative approaches for revitalizing a range of run-down urban fabrics. Some of the most gifted work fell short in not addressing the full range of challenges that the competition presented. The jurors were also anxious to see that entries communicated effectively and had a high quality design impact.
As a result of the generosity of the Cogburn family, these teams will receive monetary prizes. The Cogburns are hosting a dinner for all the students, faculty advisors, and ULI participants on March 6. ULI will announce national winners on March 30.
First Place UTSOA winning entry to the 2007 Gerald D. Hines Urban Land Institute Urban Design Competition.
According to team member Jessica Braun, "Our strategy was to design a process of equitable development for a part of the city where large-scale change was inevitable. This strategy acknowledges the transitional character of the neighborhood and the importance of adaptability in urban planning (not a prescribed plan, but a designed process with room for change). Our team chose to study and embrace the existing neighborhood. Its post-industrial character was something to work with, not against. We made small-scale incremental changes that incorporated the members of existing community in the hopes that they would lead the development of their own place and not be excluded from it...
We had lots of fun with this project. We got along wonderfully, spent every working minute in each other's company, and managed to remain laid back about the whole thing."
Awards were given to the following student teams:
1st Place Team - $1500
- Jessica Braun, M.Arch.
- Melissa Eckerman, M.Arch.
- Monica Luecking, M.L.A.
- Ammanuel Metta, M.B.A.
- Mason Moore, M.Arch.
A sensitive and comprehensive study of small scale, sustainably based interventions.
2nd Place Team (tied) - $1000
- Marisa Ballas, M.S.C.R.P.
- Genevieve A. Buentello, M.L.A.
- N. Katherine Devereux, M.S.C.R.P.
- William L. Huie, M.Arch.
- Erik Johnson, M.B.A.
The most complete and comprehensive proposal, with a strong emphasis on re-building a community framework.
2nd Place Team (tied) - $1000
- William Olmstead Antozzi III, M.Arch.
- Thomas Cox, M.L.A.
- Rob Curulla, M.B.A.
- Shau Yung Duan, M.L.A.
- Peter S. Raab, M.Arch.
A dramatic new river corridor intervention transforming the identity of east LA.
Honorable Mention Team - $500
- Michael Bricker, M.Arch.
- Jason Haby, M.B.A.
- Gabriel Rojas, M.S.C.R.P.
- Emily Scarfe, M.Arch.
- Ji Zhou, M.S.C.R.P.
A thoughtful selection of community-based and environmental projects.
For more information on the ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design competition, visit: http://www.udcompetition.uli.org/index.html.
Events
LECTURE
Monday, February 19
Martin Hogue
Syracuse, New York
Goldsmith 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
"Panning"
Martin Hogue is an assistant professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture, where he teaches design studios and representation courses dealing with drawing and film. A native of Montréal, Québec, he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the École d'Architecture de l'Université de Montréal and a Master of Architecture degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He developed an interest in teaching at an early stage, first as a studio teaching assistant at the Université de Montréal and GSD, and later, as an instructor at the Boston Architectural Center.
Hogue has developed a practice that combines efforts in scholarly research, teaching, and design. His most recent work focuses on developing a broader understanding of site and site representation in architecture—specifically, to conceive of the site as constructed, of site and project mutually shaping one another—in a way that explores cross-disciplinary relationships between architecture, landscape, and conceptual art.
EXHIBIT
February 19 through March 9
[FAKE] FAKE Estates
Martin Hogue
Mebane Gallery, Goldsmith Hall
LECTURE
Louis Vuitton, Champs Elysées, Paris, France. Image provided by George Sexton Associates.
Wednesday, February 28
George Sexton
George Sexton Associates
Goldsmith 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Wilson Art
George S. Sexton III, George Sexton Associates, has established a highly professional and innovative approach to the field of museum and lighting design. In twenty-six years of practice, they have built an extensive history of involvement with challenging projects of all scales, including museums and galleries, commercial and retail projects, and civic and public buildings.
The firm's recent awards include the IIDA Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award of Excellence (2003) for the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the GE Edison Award of Excellence (2003) for the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the International Illumination Design Awards - Waterbury Capital Section Award (2005) for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Their current projects include the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Sculpture Garden, the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), and the Flight 93 National Memorial (Somerset County, Pennsylvania).
EXHIBIT
Through February 2007
Architecture & Planning Library
Battle Hall
"Landscape Representation and the Education of Landscape Architects"
Selections from the collections of Associate Professor Mirka Beneš and the Architecture & Planning Library's Special Collections.
SUSTAINABILITY COLLOQUIUM
The Center for Sustainable Development (http://www.utcsd.org) is sponsoring a sustainability colloquium from 12:00 to 1:30 in the Battle Hall Conference Room (room 101).
- February 16, Melissa Miller, Austin Independent Business Alliance, "The Business of Local Sustainability"
The Austin Independent Business Alliance (AIBA) was founded in 2002 by a group of concerned local businesses. The AIBA's mission is to shift more dollars to locally owned independent businesses by educating Austinites to make fully informed decisions about the full value that these businesses provide to our community. This value includes, but is not limited to, serving local customers' tastes and owners' preferences, spending profits locally instead of exporting them to distant corporate headquarters, carrying a higher percentage of locally made goods, and providing unique goods and services that contribute to the nature and character of Austin.
Melissa Miller has served as a fundraiser and event coordinator in the Austin nonprofit community for over ten years. She previously worked on Congressman Lloyd Doggett's staff and as a developer for local business Cielo Wind Power. Ms. Miller graduated from UT-Austin with a degree in Environmental Resource Management from the School of Geography.
SYMPOSIUM
March 2, 2007
Sanctioning Modernism:
A Symposium on Post-WWII Architecture
Keynote Speaker
Dennis Doordan
Professor and Chair, Department of Art,
Art History and Design
Professor, School of Architecture
University of Notre Dame
The history of modernism in architecture has been told many times over. While reductive partisan histories have been subjected to rigorous critique, a fuller picture has emerged only to result in a multiplication of modernisms--canonical, alternative, regional, and otherwise. The very conception of modernism as a historical phenomenon remains unclear. Ever present, however, is the issue of identity.
It is our conviction that the interrelation between modernism and identity--including the production, development, and interpretation of each--is in need of focused and systematic study. The years following the Second World War constitute a distinctively rich period for such study.
The symposium will address three specific settings of sanctioning modernism:
- political appropriation of modernism in official institutional architecture
- religious appropriation of modernism in ecclesiastical architecture in light of liturgical reform and theological modernism
- consumer appropriation of modernism in middle class residential architecture and furnishings
The symposium will be free and open to the public. For more information, visit: http://soa.utexas.edu/sanctioningmodernism or contact Timothy Parker at tkparker@mail.utexas.edu.
EXHIBIT
January 26 through August 24
Visual Resources Collection
Sutton 3.128 (Monday-Friday, 8-5)
"Frozen Notes: the Photography of Frederick R. Steiner"
Civil War Cemetery, Hopewell, Virginia, May 2006. Photograph by Fritz Steiner.
This exhibit features a selection of black and white photographs printed from 35mm Scala slides taken by the School of Architecture's Dean Frederick Steiner. Regarding his photographic pursuits, Dean Steiner says, "I seldom think about taking pictures, it is something I just do. Through my camera, I am an observer of the contemporary urban condition. Mostly, I take pictures of buildings and landscapes. I suppose my pictures might be viewed as abbreviated forms of architecture."
Dean Steiner is the Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin. During his tenure as a National Endowment for the Arts Prize Fellow in Rome in 1998, his love for photography was rekindled, and he has been photographing ever since.
CENTER FORUMS
The Center for American Architecture and Design hosts a Friday Forum Series from 12:00 to 1:30 in the Center's Battle Hall Conference Room (room 101).
Throughout the fall and spring semesters, faculty, visitors, and graduate students at the School of Architecture offer their latest work up for freewheeling discussion and debate, with subjects varying from architectural practice, design, design theory, to the arts, planning, and the politics and economics of development.
The idea is for faculty and students to meet in an informal atmosphere to debate and freely discuss topics "hot" on the minds of the speakers. Forum topics/titles are confirmed a week prior to each forum date. Visit the Center website (http://www.utexas.edu/architecture/center/lunch_forums) for updates. The remaining spring 2007 schedule includes:
- February 23, Francesco Passanti
- March 9, Chris Long
- March 30, Lynn Osgood
- April 13, Mirka Beneš
- April 27, Dennis Doxtater
- May 4, Smilja Milovanovic
The Friday Forum is also webcast live (visit the Center's web address above), and you are invited to call in live with questions or comments during the discussion at 512-471-9890.
CITY FORUMS
City Forum is an urban issues speaker series hosted by the School's Community and Regional Planning Program. The bi-monthly program features discussions of contemporary urban issues with national and local perspectives. During the spring of 2007, the program will be held on selected Fridays from 12:00 noon until 1:30 p.m. in the Texas Union Board of Governors Room, 3.116 (on Guadalupe Street between 22nd and 24th Streets).
- February 16, Dr. Elizabeth Mueller, Assistant Professor in Community and Regional Planning and Social Work, "Connecting the Dots: Planning for Affordable Housing in Texas Cities"
Despite tremendous needs, Texas has historically spent little state money on providing affordable housing opportunities for its citizens. As federal resources continue to decline, cities struggle to find local resources that will allow them to address priority housing needs. At the same time, in the name of sustainability and all things good, planners are pushing for more compact urban development. Caught between these two trends, low income residents face both rising costs and fewer affordable opportunities in their neighborhoods or across the city. Come hear the results of a three-year study on how Texas cities are doing at addressing housing needs in this changing context.
Elizabeth Mueller is active in state and local affordable housing policy and advocacy, producing research aimed at advancing public discussion of priorities and strategies. She was co-author of the 1999 report, Through the Roof: A Report on Affordable Homes, on the barriers to affordable housing in Austin and chair of a statewide advisory group appointed to oversee a state-mandated study of foreclosures by the Texas legislature in 2006.
The City Forum schedule is available at: http://www.utcityforum.org. For more information on the City Forum Speaker Series or to be added to the email list, contact Sungmin Lee at sungminlee@mail.utexas.edu.
FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP
John Blood's and Elizabeth Danze's home featured on the February 2, 2007, cover of Glossy magazine. Photograph by Amber Novak.
Lecturer John Blood's and Assistant Professor Elizabeth Danze's home was featured on the February 2, 2007, cover of Glossy, the Austin American-Statesman's lifestyle magazine (http://adserver1.harvestadsdepot.com/austint/ss/058039/).
In the article by Melanie Spencer, Blood says, "one of the things we wanted to do was break down the conventional sense of rooms. Each space is wonderfully different in many ways, not slavishly dependent on a label you assign to a room."
The most unique aspect of the bedroom (pictured on the cover of Glossy) is a pivoting wall. When closed it resembles a modified Dutch door. A wood “window” opens to reveal the bedroom and makes the view visible from other rooms in the house. Quoted earlier in Custom Home magazine, Danze said, "I see this door as a microcosm of the whole house. It acts as a door, but also a wall or a window." "So, it starts to question and modify basic architectural elements, which is what we tried to do throughout the whole house," explains Blood.
Dr. Anthony Alofsin, Roland Roessner Centennial Professor, will present a lecture at the Dallas Architecture Forum on Thursday, March 1, at 7:00 p.m., at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Dr. Alofsin will lecture on his newest book, When Buildings Speak, Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and its Aftermath, 1867-1933. A book signing will be held after the lecture. Visit the Dallas Architecture Forum events page at http://www.dallasarchitectureforum.org/forum_events?detail=28 for details.
Assistant Professor Ulrich Dangel has been awarded a 2007 Summer Research Assignment (SRA) to continue his research on contemporary Austrian architecture. The SRA grants are part of the UT Graduate School's Faculty Development Program and enable the recipient to concentrate on research and writing during the summer session.
ALUMNI NEWS
Monty Howard. Photograph provided by Marmon Mok.
Monty Howard [B.Arch. '83], AIA, has been promoted to Associate Partner and K-12 Education Group Leader with Marmon Mok L.L.P., San Antonio. He has been with Marmon Mok for eight years.
Monty's expanded responsibilities with the firm will include a new leadership role that focuses on K-12 educational services and clients. He has many years of experience with educational design and will spend his efforts building and expanding the K-12 section of the Education Studio.
"Monty's excellent project management and people skills are a tremendous asset with our clients," states Bill Reeves, Partner and Education Studio Leader. "He truly cares about the education of children and providing a state-of-the-art learning environment."
Briant Harkiewicz. Photograph provided by Marmon Mok.
Briant Harkiewicz [M.Arch. '87], AIA, was named Associate Partner and Government Studio Leader at Marmon Mok, San Antonio's largest architecture firm.
Briant attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a Bachelor of Architecture in 1984. He then went on to The University of Texas at Austin, where he received his Master of Architecture in 1987. Briant has been with Marmon Mok for nine years.
Briant's expanded responsibilities with the firm will include leading the management of the Government Studio. Briant has been part of the Government Studio for many years and has extensive experience with many government agencies including City Public Service, Bexar County, and the General Services Administration.
"Briant has been a leader at Marmon Mok. He is an outstanding project manager, and his working knowledge of government agencies is a tremendous asset to our practice," said managing partner Steve Souter.
Alumnus Charles Sims at a traditional wooden bridge, Tai Shen County, China.
Charles Sims [M.Arch. '89] is an architect with a practice in both the U.S. and China. He was recently requested by the governments of China and Thailand to design a Thai theme park in Xian, China, quite an honor for a foreigner. During his five years in China, he has seen a great deal of the country, including Tai Shen County and their old wooden bridges.
STUDENT NEWS
Community and Regional Planning student Jin-OH Kim was awarded the 2007 "Nature and Ecology Network Student Paper" award by the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) for a paper on biodiversity conservation planning for Korea's Demilitarized Zone and Civilian Control Zone. The $150 scholarship will be awarded at this spring's EDRA conference in Sacramento.
FRIENDS OF ARCHITECTURE
Kitchen of the Prothro Residence, renovated by Larry Speck, Page Southerland Page. Photograph by Stephanie Palmer.
On February 3 and 4, Professor Larry Speck guided a sold-out crowd through some of Dallas' most architecturally renown private residences during Friends of Architecture's Bright Lights, Big "D" tour. In addition to visiting one of Professor Speck's own residential projects, the tour included a look inside a home by architect Sharon Odum and interiors by Emily Summers Design Associates; a unique renovation of the Turtle Creek Pump Station by Cunningham Architects and Emily Summers; two new designs by Cunningham Architects; and amazing renovations by Bodron + Fruit of a 1951 Howard Meyer design and a 1963 design by E.G. Hamilton. In addition, participants experienced the heart of downtown living by visiting two high-rise condominiums at new W Dallas - Victory, followed by cocktails at the Scott + Cooner design showroom.
To view the Bright Lights, Big "D" photo journal, visit: http://soa.utexas.edu/foa/gallery/index.php?g=dallas07.
Details on Friends of Architecture's next exclusive tour will be announced soon. In the meantime, we invite you to secure your space on our tours by visiting our website at http://www.friendsofarchitecture.org/upcoming/.
KARL KAMRATH COLLECTION DONATED TO ALEXANDER ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE
Karl Kamrath (left) first met Frank Lloyd Wright (right) in 1946 at Taliesin, following Kamrath's discharge from the Army Corps of Engineers. This photograph was taken three years later when Wright came to Houston to accept the AIA Gold Medal. (Kamrath's son Tom is also an alumnus of the School, and son Karl Jr. has a B.S. in Arch. Eng.) Photograph provided by the Kamrath family.
The University of Texas Libraries has acquired a collection of materials belonging to Houston architect and Frank Lloyd Wright devotee Karl Kamrath (1911-1988) [B.Arch. '34].
The materials, donated by Karl's children—Eugenie Mygdal, Jack Kamrath, Karl Kamrath Jr., and Tom Kamrath—will join an earlier lot donated to The Alexander Architectural Archive.
The collection (which includes business papers, project records, correspondence, original architectural design drawings, photographs, prints, and ephemera) provides insight into the prolific Texan's work, much of whose modernist design aesthetic paid homage to Wright.
The strengths of this archive are in its design drawings and post-construction photographs, including some of Kamrath's award-winning projects such as the Kamrath residence of 1939, Temple Emanu-El in Houston, the Houston Fire Alarm Building, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, and the Contemporary Arts Association in Houston.
Karl Kamrath grew up in Austin and earned his bachelor's degree from the UT-Austin School of Architecture. In 1934, he moved to Chicago, where he worked for the architectural firm Pereira and Pereira, the Interior Studios of Marshall Field and Co., and the Architectural Decorating Company.
In 1937, he and another former graduate of the University, Frederick James MacKie Jr. [B.S.Arch. '28], opened their own architectural firm, MacKie and Kamrath, in Houston, Texas. MacKie and Kamrath were among the first Houston architects to follow a modernist approach to design for which they received national recognition.
Kamrath left the firm from 1942 to 1945 to serve as a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers. Shortly after his return in 1946, Kamrath met Wright and immediately became an advocate of Wright's Usonian architecture style.
Kamrath became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1939 and was elected to fellowship in the institute in 1955, and at various times served in an adjunct capacity at the University of Oklahoma, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, and the University of Oregon. He was also a founder and served on the board of the Houston Contemporary Arts Museum from 1948 to 1952.
"Our archive already contains a strong collection of Frank Lloyd Wright-related work," says Dean Fritz Steiner. "The Kamrath Collection enhances the depth of Wright-related materials and will benefit architectural scholars for generations to come."
The Kamrath archive is projected to be processed and available for use by patrons by August 2007. For more information contact Travis Willmann, University of Texas Libraries, 512-495-4644.
"THIS OLD HOUSE" TO INCLUDE THE LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILDFLOWER CENTER
"The Austin House," a 1926 Craftsman bungalow in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Austin, Texas, subject of the current "The Old House" television show.
For the first time ever, the experts at "This Old House" traveled to Austin, Texas, to transform an historic bungalow into an expanded, eco-friendly home with the help of a team of local green building experts. The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's Andrea DeLong-Amaya, director of horticulture, made recommendations about native plants, landscape materials and design, with homeowner Michael Klug and the "This Old House" crew. The show will include eight episodes from Austin, and the visit to the Wildflower Center is scheduled to air at 5:00 p.m., Saturday, March 10 on Austin's KLRU and at 1:00 p.m. on San Antonio's KLRN.
Visit the "This Old House" website to watch the project progress: http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tvprograms/currenthp/0,16515,,00.html.
Dean's Journal
After class on Thursday, February 1, I flew to snowy Lubbock for the annual meeting of the Big 12 architecture deans. We were joined by Texas Society of Architects president Elizabeth Chu Richter [B.Arch '74]. We discussed issues such as fundraising, budget challenges, graduate assistantships, research, and women in the architecture, design, and planning professions. Both the University of Kansas and Kansas State University are replacing their architecture bachelors degrees with a five-year Master of Architecture, joining Texas Tech, which also offers a five-year M.Arch. In addition, Kansas State is converting its five-year Bachelor of Landscape Architecture to a five-year Master of Landscape Architecture.
On Monday, the Deans Council met with UT-Austin President Bill Powers and Provost Steve Leslie to continue strategic development planning. We reviewed the potential roles for faculty, department chairs, and associate deans in fundraising. Vice President for Development Rick Eason emphasized the importance of strengthening academic discipline leadership. We also discussed strategies for encouraging diversity across the campus.
NOAA's Historical Hurricane Tracks tool is an interactive mapping application that allows you to search and display information about hurricanes in the Gulf Coast and along the eastern seaboard. This map, showing all of the severe storms that hit the Gulf Coast from 1851 to 2000, helps illustrate the potential danger associated with living in the region. © EDAW: Jim Sipes and Barbara Faga for the National Consortium to Map Gulf Coast Ecological Constraints, co-chairs: the Frederick Steiner, the University of Texas at Austin, and Robert Yaro, the Regional Plan Association.
Following an Envision Central Texas executive committee meeting, a faculty meeting, and my Environmental Readings class, I flew to New Orleans for a gathering of the Philanthropy Roundtable at the newly opened Ritz-Carlton on February 6. The Philanthropy Roundtable is a national organization of foundations that meets to discuss pressing issues, in this case the environmental restoration of the Gulf Coast region. We met all day on February 7 to address topics such as the human costs of environmental degradation, wetlands loss and restoration, hypoxia and nutrient transport, coastal wetlands loss, and non-structural alternatives to reduce flooding. I described our environmental risk mapping project undertaken with EDAW and the Regional Plan Association. Ann Hamilton of the Houston Endowment and Mary Margaret Hamilton of Shell Oil led a donors forum that explored actions foundations can undertake to facilitate the environmental restoration of the Gulf Coast. (You can view the RPA's Gulf Coast mapping report on the "America 2050" website at: http://www.america2050.org/gulf_coast/.)
The next day I was back in Austin and attended the Real Estate Council of Austin's annual "KnockOut Night." Hundreds of developers, homebuilders, bankers, attorneys, architects, engineers, and planners descended in black tie and formal gowns for an evening in the downtown Hilton ballroom.
On Friday morning, February 9, I participated in a School of Journalism panel on urban growth. Each semester a panel is organized to focus on an important issue that leads to a semi-annual issue of The Texas Journalist. Joining me on the panel were Steve Drenner, an attorney with Drenner & Golden Stuart Wolff, LLP; Stevie Greathouse, a CAMPO planner; Jeff Jack of the Austin Neighborhoods Council; Kate Morton of the Austin American-Statesman; and Mark Yznaga of Livable City.
I attended EnviroMedia's tenth anniversary celebration on Saturday night. EnviroMedia is an Austin-based advertising and public relations company devoted to environmental and health issues. They have provided services to Envision Central Texas and pro bono to the School of Architecture.
On Wednesday, I chaired a jury to select Cogburn prize winners from our Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition entrants. Associate Professor Mirka Beneš, Visiting Professor Barbara Hoidn, and McCombs School of Business Lecturer Lenore Sullivan joined me on the jury. This year's competition was coordinated by Professor Simon Atkinson with the help of Associate Professor Dean Almy, several other faculty, and local ULI members.
Ten teams of architecture, community and regional planning, landscape architecture, historic preservation, and business students participated this year with nine teams submitting entries. We selected a first prize, two second prizes, and an honorable mention from this year's submissions. As a result of the generosity of the Cogburn family, these teams will receive monetary prizes. The Cogburns are hosting a dinner for all the students, faculty advisors, and ULI participants on March 6. ULI will announce national winners on March 30. Given the quality of this year's entries, I believe our School has the potential to do well in the national competition.
—Fritz Steiner
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