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TWO NEW ENDOWED PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Dean Fritz Steiner and Assistant Dean Julie Hooper celebrated two new Endowed Presidential Scholarships (EPS) for the School of Architecture at President Powers' dinner reception on Tuesday, March 31. The EPS program was established in 1973 to provide merit-based scholarship support to outstanding UT Austin students. The C. William Brubaker/Perkins+Will Endowed Presidential Scholarship and the Lily Rush Walker and Coulter Hoppess Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Architecture will support the very best undergraduate students in the B.Arch. Professional Program.

Richard Miller [B.Arch. '84] and Ray Beets represented Perkins+Will at the dinner. Terry Forrester [B.Arch. '59], husband of the late Nancy Forrester (daughter of Lily Rush Walker [B.Arch. '31] and Coulter Hoppess), and Dara Dru Bickham [B.A. '87] (daughter of Terry and Nancy Forrester) represented the Hoppess family.

WILMONT "VIC" VICKREY ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP ESTABLISHED

Alumnus Wilmont "Vic" Vickrey, FAIA [B.Arch. '49] has generously pledged a gift of $25,000 to establish a new undergraduate scholarship to recruit the highest caliber students from across the United States. After an 18-year tenure with the firm Perkins+Will, Mr. Vickrey established his own firm, Vickrey-Ovresat-Awsumb (VOA Associates) in 1969. VOA Associates is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year with offices around the world and a portfolio of architecture, planning, and interior design projects garnering over 200 local and national awards for design excellence. We are grateful for Mr. Vickrey's generosity and his support for future generations of undergraduate talent at The University of Texas at Austin.

GENSLER EXHIBITIONS ENDOWMENT ESTABLISHED

Through the generosity of gifts from many Gensler employees and matching gift support from Gensler's corporate office, a wonderful new endowment has been established to support exhibitions at the School of Architecture. Almost $30,000 has been contributed through this multi-year effort to create the Gensler Exhibitions Endowment. Many generations of students, faculty, and the broader design community will be able to enjoy and learn from the exhibitions this endowment will support. We want to thank our friends at Gensler for their commitment to the school and their creativity and perseverance in successfully leading this unique fundraising campaign.

Gensler Exhibitions Endowment donors:
Thomas Atwell [B.Arch. '76], Shahzaneen Barhamand [B.Arch. '98], David Botello, Joseph Brancato, Stephanie Burritt, Joni Calkins [B.Arch. '82], Robert Cataldo, Stephen Chen [BBA '91, MBA '01], Brian Credeur [BSCS '97], Corey Credeur [BSAS '97], Denis Ducey, Richard Ferrara, Jr. [B.Arch. '86], Evelyn Fujimoto [BSID '81], James Furr, Katherine Galpin [BSID '81], Gerald Gehm, Gensler, David Gensler, Donald Ghent Jr., Rocco Giannetti, Julie Gibbons [M.Arch. '03], Monica Gill [B.Arch. '95], Gregory Giordano [B.Arch. '92], Charles Hagemeier [BA '75], Julie Hendricks [M.Arch. '97], Gustavo Hinojosa, Allison Hughes [M.Arch. '99], Walter Hunt, Jr., Ted Kollaja, Greg Lacour, Emily Layton [BSID '93], Kent Lew [B.Arch. '81], Hao Lu [M.Arch. '99], Mark Mathews [B.Arch. '80], Kelly Matula [BSID '97], Alan McClung, Jennifer McPhail-Scafidi [BSID '98], Anna Montez [B.Arch. '88], Linda Moriarty [B.Arch. '70], Linda Nelson, Diana Nicklaus [M.Arch. '97], Ruth Ortiz [BSID '84], Chi Pang, Duncan Paterson, Judy Pesek [BSID '78], Mary Piette [BSID '79], Olga Popova [M.Arch. '97], Kerry Ray [BS '87], Bruce Rogers [M.Arch. '89], Monica Savino [M.Arch. '99], Catherine Schoolar [BBA '88], Shaw Industries, Luke Sheridan [M.Arch. '82], Delbert Shuford, Aimee Lafleur St. Cyr [BA '92], Rachel Stanford [BSID '98], Sonu Thomas [BSID '98], Robert Traub [B.Arch. '75], Steven Weindel, Edward Wood, and David Wyckoff.

FRIENDS OF ARCHITECTURE

Friends of Architecture (FOA) is an annual giving program within the School of Architecture with a mission to increase knowledge and awareness of superior architecture, planning, and design and to advance quality education for future generations. Our members are current students, faculty, alumni, patrons, practitioners, and aficionados who believe in the significance of the built environment and are looking to take part in shaping its future by supporting excellence within the School of Architecture.

FOA membership benefits include involvement opportunities through the school's lectures, exhibitions, and publications and access to significant architecture and design with our exclusive tours.

How to Join
As of September 1, 2007, all donors to the Annual Fund Program who direct their gifts in the amount of $50 or more to the School of Architecture automatically receive a one-year membership to Friends of Architecture.

Make your gift today at our giving page. Click on "School of Architecture" in the right-hand menu to make your donation and start receiving your FOA benefits!

You may also make a contribution directly to FOA online. Log on to our website to join online, learn about member benefits, and get information about upcoming tours and events.

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

HONORS DAY 2009

On Saturday, April 4, The University of Texas at Austin celebrated Honors Day, an annual celebration of academic achievement. Introduced in 1948, Honors Day is the occasion when students who have achieved academic excellence are honored by administrative officials, academic deans, and members of the faculty. It serves as an important prelude to Commencement. The Honors Day Convocation includes ceremonial elements such as an academic procession, orange and white honors cords worn by students, heraldic banners, inspirational messages, and celebratory music.

Following a university-wide ceremony at Bass Concert Hall, students and parents joined Dean Fritz Steiner and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs Nichole Wiedemann for a School of Architecture brunch. Dean Steiner provided opening remarks touching on issues of sustainability and the economy, while Nichole Wiedemann acknowledged each Honors Day student present and provided closing remarks that gave a context to their significant achievements. Not only are the students at the top of their classes, she noted, but they excel in nationally top-ranked academic programs in architecture (#6 in DesignIntelligence rankings) and interior design (#9 in DesignIntelligence rankings). Of 315 total undergraduates in the School of Architecture, 109—a little more than a third—were acknowledged this year.

This year's School of Architecture honorees are:

DISTINGUISHED COLLEGE SCHOLARS
Lisa Diane Anderson
Jaclyn Rose Baker
Carolina Bobadilla
Flaviu Borcoman
Benjamin Matthew Bowman
Erin Suzanne Brown
Alix Marissa Bulleit
Conner Garrison Callahan
Amanda Cambre
Agustin Corwin Cepeda
Anca Daniela Clintoc
Brittany Dawn Cooper
Amber Leigh Czapski
Katia Marie Davidson
James Andrew Edwards
Drew Michael Finke
Charles Julius Franck, Jr.
Judson Douglas Garwood
Carolyn Marie Gawlik
Stephanie Lynn Griffith
Lydia Haise Guarino
Emily Rene Hamilton
Stephen Huy Hoang
Joshua Nicholas Hogan
Everett Mark Hollander
Kendra Lea Horn
John Benton Howell
Todd Garrett Hutchison
Joshua Michael Jow
Andrei A. Klypin
Alison Catherine Ledwith
Kayla Michele Lyssy
Adam Benjamin Martin
Nicole Renee Melzer
Pedram Mireshghi
Daniel Patrick Morrison
Yannik Andrew Neufang
Todd Michael Niesner
Justin H. Oscilowski
Nishiel Ramesh Patel
Kai Wall Pedersen
Amanda Mae Prins
Manmeet Singh Sabharwal
Daniel Aaron Saenz
Megan Elisabeth Sanguinetti
Daniel Jay Selensky
Andrea Danielle Sheets
Kirti Singh
Emily Marie Teng
Parker Daniel Thompson
Kimberly Felicia Tseng
Katherine Ann Tucker
Xin Wang
Jessica Lynn Weber

COLLEGE SCHOLARS
Mario Alfredo Alvarez
Brian Alden Anderson
Michael Yang Walters Arbuckle
Robert N. Astrich
Joshua David Bailey
Joshua James Banda
Stacy Marie Barnett
Meegan Nicole Beddoe
Vikki Lynn Benefiel
Christopher John Bennett
Sara Bensalem
Melissa Sarah Berry
Renae Marie Briles
Caitlin Fair Coffey
Kimberly Ann Cole
Rachel Nicole Dao
Ana Laura Davila
Benjamin Daniel Dimmitt
Ashley Nicole Elgie
Olga Finkelshteyn
Marissa Renee Flores
Stacy Lyn Gauthier
Alexander Julian Goldberg
Kelsey Elizabeth Harper
Anne Christine Herndon
Aaron Michael Hollis
Creighton Morris Hoover
Vidya Shivram Iyer
Christina Jih
Nandita G. Kamath
Courtney Marie Kizer
Shreya Krishnan
Jarod West Kurzner
Christina Marie Kwiecienski
Amanda Renee Lane
Valerie Lee Liang
Walter Alexander Medrano
Matthew Lee Montry
Luis Bryant Olivas
Miguel Angel Ortiz
Hyo Jung Park
Emily Elizabeth Ray
Chauncey Kaili Robinson
Sabrina Joelle Rocha
Julie Diane Rochelle
Justin William Scurlock
Amy Lee Stewart
Orsi Tihanyi
Kasey Irene Turney
Briana Kay Walters
Katherine Elizabeth Welsh
Allison Lee Wicks
Nina Marie Wilson
Heather Michell Wright
Natalia Brooke Zieman

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, the Edwin A. Schneider Centennial Lectureship, and the Brightman/York Endowed Lecture Series in Interior Design.

EXHIBIT

April 6 - 30
Mebane Gallery
Goldsmith Hall

"MACHINES | Arthur Ganson"

LECTURE

Monday, April 13
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.

Deborah Berke
Deborah Berke & Partners Architects
New York City, New York

LECTURE

Wednesday, April 15
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.

Keith Kaseman and Julie Beckman
Landscape architects, KBAS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

BEAUX ARTS BALL

Sunday, April 19

All Austin architecture and design professionals, alumni of the School of Architecture, and students are invited to enjoy an event that is unique to the design community, the UT Austin School of Architecture Beaux Arts Ball! Join UTSOA students and faculty Sunday, April 19, 2009, from 7 pm-midnight, for a delightful evening of hors d'oeuvres, libations, and dancing at the beautiful Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center!

This event is an opportunity for social engagement among professionals, alumni, students, and faculty. Tickets are $20 for students and $50 for professionals and will be on sale through April 17.

Tickets are also available through next week at AIA Austin for professionals. For more details, contact Nina Wilson at nmariewilson@gmail.com. Don't miss this exciting celebration!

LECTURE

Monday, April 20
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.

Cristiane Muniz
Una Arquitetos
Saõ Paulo, Brazil

LECTURE

Wednesday, April 22
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.

Marianne Burkhalter and Christian Sumi
Burkhalter & Sumi
Zurich, Switzerland

LECTURE

Monday, April 27
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.

Kristina Hill
Director of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

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 website for updates. Remaining forums on the spring 2009 schedule include:

• April 10, Francisco Gomes
• April 24, Smilja Milovanovic-Bertram

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

CITY FORUM SERIES

April 10, Texas Union, Sinclair Suite (UNB 3.128), noon to 1:30
"Equity and Access in Transportation System Planning and Delivery: It's More Than You Think It Is"

• Sandi Rosenbloom, Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona
• Talia McCray, Community and Regional Planning Program, University of Texas School of Architecture

April 17, Sinclair Suite (UNB 3.128), noon to 1:30
"Environmental Justice and the Multicultural City: The Transformative Role of Urban Planning"

• Martina Cartwright, Environmental Law and Justice Center, Texas Southern University
• Wendy Jepson, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
• Susana Almanza, People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources (PODER)

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.

EXHIBIT

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

"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.

The Hal Box and Logan Wagner Collection of Mexican Architecture and Urban Design will be available in ARTstor later this spring and as part of the VRC's online Image Collection.

FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP

Dr. Danilo Udovicki-Selb recently returned from Florence where he consulted a thirteenth-century codex that likely belonged to Filippo Brunelleschi. Published in Strasbourg, the twelfth- and thirteenth-century capital of the cathedral builders, the codex was incorporated into the collection of the Badia Fiorentina library at the time of his death. The volume, over 400 pages, is a collection of treatises on descriptive geometry that represented the most advanced knowledge in statics of the time. Brunelleschi is known to have used descriptive geometry to build his dome, an art completely unknown in fifteenth-century Florence.

Dr. Nancy Kwallek, Director of the Interior Design program, presented a talk on April 2 on significant furniture designers' work featured in the Blanton Museum's "Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury" special exhibition.

Dr. Kwallek is the recipient of a Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) 2009 Fairchild Topical Issues Grant Award. She will use the grant to study the indoor air quality of interior materials on occupants' well-being and will use Engineering Professor Richard Corsi's testing equipment at the J. J. Pickle Research Campus.

Assistant Professor Ulrich Dangel presented a paper titled "Material Regionalism: Vorarlberg's Sustainable Timber Construction Tradition" at the 2009 ACSA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, last month. He also moderated the paper session "Teaching Technology As Design," which brought together technology instructors in a dialogue and discourse surrounding the teaching of building technology.

On Monday, March 30, Dean Fritz Steiner presented a lecture at the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design, as part of their Robert B. Church III Memorial Lecture Series, in which nationally and internationally prominent architects, designers, historians, and theorists present their work. His lecture, "Making Territory," focused on how cities and landscapes change and how technology connects us. The presentation also explored the sense of place and sense of region and how certain regional identities foster creativity.

Dean Steiner provided opening remarks in the University of Texas at San Antonio's "Great Cities Dialogue" series on April 8. The half-day event, organized by UTSA's College of Public Policy, gathered city and regional leaders in land development, urban and regional planning, conservation and architecture to discuss the history of natural resource conservation in San Antonio, its current status, and projections for the future.

Steiner co-authored with M. Elen Deming, Darrel G. Morrison, Arnold R. Alanen, Joan I. Nassauer, Patrick A. Mill, and Anne W. Spirn the article "Retrospect and Forecast: Remarks on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Landscape Journal" in the volume 28, number 1, 2009, issue of the journal. Landscape Journal is produced by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

CLASS OF 1959 REUNION

Come and join your Class of 1959 reunion April 29-May 1 here on UT campus! The Texas Exes is hosting this three-day event, and registration is already under way. Log on to the reunion website to sign up, view, and print a schedule of reunion activities and make your travel plans.

During the three-day reunion, hosted by Texas Exes, you will have an opportunity to visit the School of Architecture, hear updates on the school's programs, and visit with faculty and students.

If you have questions about the 50-Year Alumni Reunion events or haven't received your packet of information, please don't hesitate to contact Stephanie Perez at 512.471.8098 or toll free at 1.888.628.0003.

ALUMNI UPDATES

Martha L. Bennett [B.Arch. '75] was among three AIA Colorado members recently elevated to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.

A principal at Bennett Wagner & Grody Architects, PC (Denver), Bennett was elected to receive this honor because of her contributions through 30 years of leadership. Bennett has challenged AIA to embrace diversity in the architectural profession and is nationally recognized as a pioneer and one of the first female leaders of the Colorado architectural community. Beginning in 1976, Bennett organized and became the first president of Denver Women in Architecture. As the first woman elected to the AIA Colorado Board of Directors in 1979 and the first woman elected to the AIA Denver Board of Directors in 1981, she became a model, changing mindsets and mentoring colleagues. Today, Bennett still is leading by example with her own firm, Bennett Wagner & Grody Architects, which currently is celebrating its twentieth year in practice, is the largest woman-owned architectural practice in Colorado, is able to uniquely maintains a 50:50 gender balance with a staff nearing 40, and openly shares options for change in the practice of architecture.

Catherine Hardwicke [B.Arch. '79] was inducted into the 2009 Texas Film Hall of Fame at its ninth annual celebration in Austin on March 12. She was presented the Ann Richards Award by actor Brendan Fraser.

Hardwicke, a native from McAllen, Texas, recently made history with her newest film Twilight as the highest grossing theatrical opening by a female director. Other works under her directorial belt include Lords of Dogtown, The Nativity Story, and Thirteen.

View the Austin American-Statesman's March 8 interview with Hardwicke here.

Scott Carpenter [B.Arch. '91] was appointed by his city councilman to be on the City of San Antonio's Historic and Design Review Commission.

Julie Howard [B.Arch. '91] won the competition for the reconstruction of the Pont Rouge in Maubeuge, France. The team includes SETEC TPI and VongDC, Julie Howard and Sam Mays architects.

Lake|Flato Architects received a 2009 Texas Medal of Arts in Architecture, presented at a gala ceremony on April 7 at the Long Center in Austin. The Texas Medal of Arts Awards are the signature event of the Texas Cultural Trust Council. The awards spotlight and celebrate the creative excellence, exemplary talents, and outstanding contributions by Texans in selected categories.

In 1984, David Lake, FAIA [B.S.A.S. '77] and Ted Flato, FAIA founded Lake|Flato Architects, which for the past 25 years has produced some of the most respected buildings in the state. The work produced by Lake and Flato exhibits an appreciation for the honesty of modernism, the pragmatic solutions of vernacular architecture, and a respect for the rich and varied context of the Texan landscape.

Professor emeritus Wayne Bell won the award in 2001.

ALUMNI EVENTS

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

• Class of 1959 Reunion - April 30 - May 1, 2009
• AIA Alumni Reception at the offices of EDAW/AECOM in San Francisco - Thursday, April 30, 2009, 6:00 p.m. R.S.V.P. online here.
• 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 events approach. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Stacy Manning at smanning@austin.utexas.edu or 512.471.0617.

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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