INTERIOR DESIGN UNDERGRADUATE AWARDED
$30,000 ANGELO DONGHIA SCHOLARSHIP

Dr. Nancy Kwallek, Director of the Interior Design Program in the School of Architecture is excited to announce that fourth-year interior design student Angela Lauer has been awarded a $30,000 Angelo Donghia Senior Scholarship Award for her final year at The University of Texas at Austin. (Angela was also a recipient of the School's Debra Ann Rock Scholarship in Interior Design, 2006-2007.)

For the scholarship competition, only two students' work may be submitted each year from the 150 world-wide programs accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation. To be eligible, students in their junior year must submit both a residential and a commercial project they have designed. Each student must also meet grade point average and portfolio requirements, and they must be nominated by their interior design professors. Eleven awards were offered this year from schools across the nation.

Angela submitted renderings and materials for a commercial design project--a new high-rise building being designed in Austin, Texas--and a residential design--a work-live environment in the historic Schneider Building in downtown Austin adapted for an architectural archeologist.

The Donghia Scholarship awards are based on students' submitted budgets for their final year of studies. The scholarships fully cover each student's tuition, board, maintenance, books, and other materials. The judges consist of top New York interior designers and editors.

The Interior Design Program is proud of the impressive history of our students winning this prestigious national award. The Angelo Donghia Senior Scholarship awards are one of the largest interior design scholarship programs in the U.S., if not world-wide. Six of our students have won in the past five years.

Since the establishment of the $30,000 Angelo Donghia Senior Student Scholarship Award Program by the Angelo Donghia Foundation in 2002, UTSOA has been eligible to apply for the awards four of the six years. For each of the eligible years, our students have won a prize. In 2003-2004, Lisa Pauli won; in 2005-2006, we had two awardees (the only public university awarded two that year), Katie Wooley and Sung Mi Kim; in 2006-2007 again, we had two awardees, Dessislava Boneva and Garrett Seaman; and Angela Lauer this year.

Angelo Donghia (1935-1985) was an American interior designer whose contemporary design innovations include upholstery on overstuffed furniture, shiny lacquered walls, and unusual combinations of fabric textures and patterns. He became widely popular through shrewd marketing arrangements for products carrying his name and was the first U.S. designer to endorse a line of interior products. His DONGIA STUDIO showrooms are international, with approximately 70 showrooms in the U.S.

Events

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SUSTAINABILITY COLLOQUIUM

Wednesday, September 12
Kevin M. Anderson
City of Austin Center for Environmental Research
Battle Hall 101, noon to 1:00 p.m.

"Sustainability from the Ground Up:
Urban Ecology and Ecosystem Services in Austin"

What effects do colonial nesting mammals have on their habitat? We ask this ecological question about Austin's urban bat colony, but our city itself is a similar colony of mammals - humans. When we ask the same question about humans and our urban nest, we must acknowledge that humans are a muddle of nature and culture. Austin's built landscape bears witness to our confusion about our place in nature. Reassessing our relationship to the non-human world is the key to ecological sustainability for the Urban Rational Animal. Kevin M. Anderson will argue that this reassessment must, literally, begin from the ground up.

A geographer and philosopher, Anderson coordinates the Austin Water Utility's Center for Environmental Research. He is a board member of the Central Texas Sustainability Indicators Project, a co-founder of the Texas Riparian Association, and a former board member of the Texas Society for Ecological Restoration.

LECTURE

Monday, September 17
Yolande Daniels
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

Partner, SUMO Architects
New York, New York
Goldsmith 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Sponsored by UTSOA Professional Residency Program

"Alienated Labor"

Architecture is always two-faced. Each construction is an erasure. Every object has a back-story and an unforeseeable future. SUMO engages a spectrum of architectural production: buildings, interiors, exhibits, installations, graphics, as well as theoretical and applied research. Through this spectrum of production the emphasis of the studio is on interactive architecture where architectural production acts as a mediator between situations and desires in a world that is global and local--simultaneously divided and interconnected.

Yolande Daniels and Sunil Bald founded SUMO in 1995. The studio is located in Long Island City, New York, and is engaged in diverse contexts from New York to Miami, and Japan. In 2006, the studio won a competition for affordable housing in the Little Haiti Neighborhood of Miami, Florida, and completed two built projects: the School of Management at Josai University in Sakado, Japan, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in Brooklyn, New York. Current projects include the Mizuta Museum of Art at Josai University, the installation de facto de jure, the exhibition Grass Roots for the Museum for African Art, and a residential commission in Harlem, New York.

EXHIBIT

June 11 - September 21
Mebane Gallery
Goldsmith Hall

"Resilient Foundations:
The Gulf Coast after Katrina"

Following the successful showing at the 10th Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, September-November 2006, the exhibition, "Resilient Foundations: The Gulf Coast after Katrina," is now being shown here in our Mebane Gallery at the School of Architecture. Special thanks to Larry Doll for curating this exhibition.

The exhibition sets out the resilient foundations for the region's development. The term resilience refers to the ability for an urban area to rebound after disaster and arises from the disciplines of ecology and planning. In order to suggest responsible scenarios for the Gulf Coast, The University of Texas at Austin has gathered neither infallible science nor a singular answer, but rather the most reliable information about the region's natural hazards, important production areas, ecologically significant lands, and valuable cultural resources.

Ecological understanding can be advanced through mapping and design, but such generative prospects are part of a larger concept about people's interrelation with land and water. Katrina's lessons will reduce the loss of life and property only if we reduce the impact of that which nature will reclaim regardless of our permission. Marc Morial, former New Orleans mayor, notes that the challenge we face "is not only about rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, it is about rebuilding a culture, a human system."

A symposium and design invitation, "counterMEASURES," will be held November 1-2 at the School, which will examine the role of design at the scale of architecture, landscape, and urbanism as a means of achieving resilience in the face of extreme environmental conditions. With a series of panels focusing on ecology, economy, and technology, the speakers will consider the possible future scenarios for the Crescent City.

Special thanks to:

Exhibition Underwriter
The Howard E. Rachofsky Foundation

Symposium Underwriters
Edward W. Rose III Family Fund of the Dallas Foundation
McCall Design Group
Andersson*Wise Architects
Urban Edge Developers, Ltd.
Texas Gas Service
Boone Powell, FAIA
Gay Kokernot Ratliff
Dick Clark Architecture
Charles E. Lawrence
Laura Toups
Helen Thompson
Elizabeth Chu Richter, FAIA

LECTURE

Monday, September 24
Yoshio Kato
Tamkang University
Taiwan
Goldsmith 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation

Yoshio Kato is known as one of the pioneers of green architecture in his native Japan.

EXHIBIT

September 24 - October 19
Mebane Gallery
Goldsmith Hall
Sponsored by Hellmuth Obata Kassabaum

"2 x 2: An Exhibition of Work by Specht Harpman and designsubset"

GRADUATE PROGRAM IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
OPEN HOUSE FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

Friday, September 28
Goldsmith Hall 2.308
Dean's Conference Room
10:00 a.m.

Registration Deadline: September 14, 2007
To register and view agenda: http://soa.utexas.edu/la/openhouse

EXHIBIT

Through October 2007
Architecture & Planning Library
Battle Hall

"Information, Technology, and the Public Library"

On display are drawings and models prepared by Professor Louise Harpman's advanced design studio (spring 2006) for the new Blanco Library in Blanco, Texas.

As part of the studio, the students presented their proposals in the typical school of architecture jury format at school, but also in a large "town hall" style meeting in Blanco. Local residents, planning officials, and journalists from Blanco, Johnson City, and San Antonio attended the session. The student projects were on display throughout the summer of 2006 at the Blanco Library and were also featured in the Blanco County News.