SCHOOL-WIDE OPEN HOUSE IPOD RAFFLE WINNERS
Raffle winner and graduate architecture student Chris Emens receives his prize from the Architecture and Planning Library's Head Librarian Beth Dodd.
Undergraduate architecture student Walter Medrano and graduate architecture student Chris Emens were the winners of this year's school-wide open house raffle. The event provided an opportunity for students to discover nine of the school's rich resources showcasing collections, programs, facilities, and expert staff. School of Architecture students were required to visit each participating site in order to become eligible for the raffle. Two iPod Shuffles were generously donated by the Campus Computer Store.
Both Walter and Chris found the open house event to be a valuable experience making them aware of the wide variety of resources available to students. Participating locations included the Alexander Architectural Archive, the Architecture and Planning Library, the Career Services Center, the Center for Sustainable Development, the Computer Lab I/O Central, the Design Lab (Woodshop), the University Co-op Materials Resource Center, Materials Lab and Conservation Lab, and the Visual Resources Collection.
EVENTS
For the latest updates, check out the online UTSOA Calendar.
Funding for lectures and exhibits is provided in part by: Brightman/York Endowed Lecture Series in Interior Design, Edwin W. and Alyce O. Carroll Centennial Lectureship in Architecture, Bluford Walter Crain Centennial Endowed Lectureship, Gensler Exhibitions Endowment, Herbert M. Greene Centennial Lectureship in Architecture, The Wolf and Janet Jessen Centennial Lectureship in Architecture, Karl Kamrath Lectureship in Architecture, Jane Marie Tacquard Patillo Centennial Lectureship, Edwin A. Schneider Centennial Lectureship in Architecture, School of Architecture Exhibitions Fund, and Wilsonart Endowed Lecture Series in Interior Design.
LECTURE
Monday, September 28
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Sinclair Black and
Larry Doll
"Drawings"
"Drawing on Uncertainty"
EXHIBIT
September 11 – October 23
Mebane Gallery
Goldsmith Hall (Monday-Friday, 8-5)
Sinclair Black / Larry Doll
2 x 2: Drawings & Sketches
LECTURE
Wednesday, September 30
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Niklaus Kohler
Lausanne, Switzerland
"Dematerialization"
LECTURE
Monday, October 12
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Dietrich Neumann
Providence
"Architecture of the Night"
LECTURE
Monday, October 19
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Heather Roberge
Los Angeles
"The Synthetic Real"
LECTURE
Wednesday, October 21
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Ricky Burdett
London
"Global Cities in an Urban Age"
LECTURE
Wednesday, October 28
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Norbert Kaiser
Düsseldorf
"Design with Energy"
EXHIBIT
November 1 – December 12
Mebane Gallery
Goldsmith Hall (Monday-Friday, 8-5)
Ronit Eisenbach:
Installation Tectonics
LECTURE
Wednesday, November 4
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Chris Payne
New York City
"Asylums"
LECTURE
Monday, November 9
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Carl Steinitz
Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Landscape Planning: A History of Ideas"
LECTURE
Wednesday, November 11
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Ross Wimer
Chicago
"Current Work"
LECTURE
Wednesday, November 18
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.
Ronit Eisenbach
Halifax
"Installations by Architects"
LECTURE
Monday, November 30
Location TBA
Michael Graves
Princeton
"Current Work"
CENTER LUNCH FORUM SERIES
Roughly every other Friday during the fall and spring semesters, The Center for American Architecture and Design hosts a Friday Lunch Forum Series. 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.
All Center Lunch Forums take place at 12:00 noon (CST) in Battle Hall, Room 101, and via LIVE WEBCAST. (Download RealPlayer here. It's free.)
Visit the Center website for updates and to access the live webcast. Remaining forums on the fall 2009 schedule include:
EXHIBIT
Villa Vojcsik, architect Otto Schoenthal, Vienna, Austria, 1900-1901.
September 8, 2009-January 15, 2010
Visual Resources Collection
Sutton Hall 3.128 (Monday-Friday, 8-5)
"The Passage to the New: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1938, Photographs by Christopher Long"
During the mid-1980s, Christopher Long, professor in architectural history at The University of Texas at Austin, photographed the built environment in Central and Eastern Europe. Awarded a Fulbright to study at the University of Vienna, Long researched his dissertation on the life and work of architect and designer Josef Frank.
Trained as a cultural historian, Long began a self-taught crash course in architectural history. He walked the streets of Vienna, Hungary, and Poland. He visited and observed every Frank building and photographed other examples of Viennese modernism, including buildings by Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Adolf Loos. He photographed during the cold winter months when light was clearest in order to overcome Austria's overcast weather and capture building facades often veiled in the shadows of their neighbors.
From 1994-1996, Professor Long lived and taught in Prague. He shot images of a city in transition being rebuilt after the fall of communism.
The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) collaborated with ARTstor, a digital library of over one million images licensed by The University of Texas Libraries, to catalog and digitize over two hundred of Professor Long's slides. The exhibit represents a selection of images from ARTstor's Christopher Long: Central European Architecture collection.
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
CSD News and Events
View the latest CSD newsletter online. Sustainability News includes events, opportunities, and resources of interest to the center's core interests: ecology, social equity, economy, design, and policy making.
The CSD is collaborating with the Austin Community Design and Development Center, the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation, and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on a local event celebrating 350.org's International Day of Climate Action on October 24. For more on this event and the national 350.org day, visit their local web site.
Volunteers are welcome! More information is forthcoming.
CSD Film Series
This fall, the Center for Sustainable Development is offering a free bi-weekly film series on selected Thursdays.
Films that touch on issues of sustainability will be shown in Goldsmith Lecture Hall, 3.120 from 7-10 p.m., with time alloted for general discussion of the film and the issues with which it grapples after each showing. Remaining films on the fall schedule include:
- September 24, The China Syndrome
- October 8, Transforming Energy: what is the future after oil?
- October 22, Earthship
- November 5, Student-Produced Films
- November 19, The Unforeseen
CSD Symposium Videos Now Online
As mentioned in the last issue of enews, The Zero Carbon Communities Symposium, hosted by the Center for Sustainable Development, was held August 28, 2009. Videos of the presentations and group discussion are now online.
UTSOA WELCOMES NEW FACULTY AND STAFF
Danelle Briscoe
Tamie Glass
Fernando Lara
Allan Shearer
Igor Siddiqui
The School of Architecture welcomes the following new members to our faculty and staff.
Assistant Professor Danelle Briscoe, received a Master of Architecture (2002) from Yale University and a Bachelor of Architecture Honors from UT Austin (1995). She has worked as a designer in the office of Frank Gehry (2002-2004) and is coming to us from the Unitec School of Architecture in New Zealand. Professor Briscoe teaches in our architecture program.
Assistant Professor Tamie Glass specializes in architectural environments for progressive commercial and residential projects. Tamie received a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture from Texas A&M University and holds a Master of Interior Architecture from the University of Oregon. Professor Glass's research interests and professional practice focus on environmental branding and identity. She will be teaching in our interior design program.
Assistant Professor Fernando Lara is an alumnus of the University of Michigan. His architectural career is built on prolific design and research work. He is also a practicing architect in Brazil where he is registered. Professor Lara teaches in our architecture program and is affiliated with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.
Assistant Professor Allan Shearer graduated from Princeton University and received a Master of Landscape Architecture, A.M., and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the co-author of the book, Gaia's Revenge: Climate Change and Humanity's Loss. Dr. Shearer will be teaching in our landscape architecture program and our community and regional planning program.
Assistant Professor Igor Siddiqui was born and raised in Croatia. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Tulane University and a Master of Architecture from Yale. He has been teaching at the California College of the Arts and teaches in our interior design program.
Visiting Professor Coleman Coker holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Memphis College of Art, and in 2008, he was conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from his alma mater. His firm, buildingstudio, has designed projects throughout the United States, as well as in countries such as Russia and Singapore. Based in New Orleans, Professor Coker is the holder of the Ruth Carter Stevenson Regents Chair in the Art of Architecture for 2009-10 and will teach advanced architectural design studios while in residence.
Lecturer Carmen Garufo has been practicing architecture for 30+ years and is registered in eight states including Texas. He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree (with honors) from Pratt Institute and teaches advanced architectural design.
Lecturer Jack Sanders received his Master of Architecture from The University of Texas (2005) and his Bachelor of Architecture from Auburn University. He has collaborated on a large-scale installation for First Night Austin 2006, the live music venue Mohawk in Austin, and the public art for the Lance Armstrong Bikeway, also in Austin. Currently, Jack is producing a documentary film about Sambo Mockbee scheduled for public broadcast this fall. He teaches undergraduate architecture design.
Event Coordinator Alley Lyles joined us last May from Rice University, where she served as a Conference Coordinator Assistant and Public Relations Web Project Manager at Rice University's Center for Civic Engagement. Alley also has experience in fundraising, writing and distributing newsletters, drafting press releases, grant writing, and has studied urban architecture abroad in Spain.
Graduate Program Coordinator Chaz Nailor is a UT graduate, who recently returned to Austin from Indiana University Bloomington, where he worked for six years in the Office of Student Financial Assistance, Office of International Admissions, and Office of Admissions. He is fluent in Spanish, and is an accomplished musician, with a Bachelor's degree in Music Performance in Voice/Opera from UT and a Master's in Music Performance in Voice/Opera from Indiana University.
Systems Administrator Robert Stepnoski holds a 5-year first professional degree in architecture from the Boston Architectural Center. He spent ten years with Prellwitz/Chilinski Associates, an architecture, interior design, and planning firm in Boston, as their senior systems administrator, CAD director, graphics director, webmaster, and as a design associate. For twelve years, he has also owned an IT support and services company. Rob brings the school much needed expertise and experience in BIM, plotting, and systems administration.
FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP
In September, Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor of Architecture and Planning, Steven A. Moore, presented two invited lectures. The first was "Citizen Architect: The Alley Flat Initiative," presented at the Reinvention Symposium in Seattle, September 14-15, and sponsored by the Residential Architect and American Institute of Architects. The second was "Is Sustainable Design Anything Other than Energy Efficiency?" at the 17th Annual Building Communities Conference on South Padre Island, sponsored by The Texas Society of Architects and the Associated General Contractors of America.
Professor Moore and Ph.D. candidate Barbara Wilson have co-authored a new journal article, "Contested Construction of Green Building Codes in North America: the Case of The Alley-Flat Initiative," that will appear in the December 2009 issue of Urban Studies. The article is part of ongoing research funded by the National Science Foundation that investigates the politics of code-making. Moore and Wilson will also deliver related papers at the annual meeting of the Society for the Social Study of Science (4S) in Washington, D.C., October 29-31. Two special sessions of this international conference investigating the topic of "STS and Place" have been organized by Dr. Andrew Karvonen [CRP Ph.D. '08].
Diagram detail from the Rakvere and St. Paul's Church Architectural Competition entry by Francisco Gomes, Dabney Staub, Daniel Sylvester, and Ed Dugger.
Assistant Professor Francisco Gomes's competition entry in the Rakvere and St. Paul's Church Architectural Competition was included in an exhibition in Estonia. The city of Rakvere, Estonia, organized the open international architectural competition with the a goal of improving the high quality of Rakvere's public space.
Professor Gomes led the competition team, which included Dabney Staub (Gomes + Staub Architects), graduate architecture student Daniel Sylvester, and Ed Dugger of Edward Dugger and Associates (an architectural acoustician based in Florida).
Their competition entry called for the conversion of St. Paul's Church in Rakvere to a concert hall named for and in the hometown of the composer Arvo Pärt. In addition to the concert hall, the project included a significant addition and redesign of Vabaduse Square directly in front of the church.
Although they didn't place in the competition, their entry was included in the exhibition of "the best and most interesting entries," which ran September 7 through September 21 in Rakvere, Estonia.
ALUMNI CONNECTIONS
ALUMNI UPDATES
Alum Michael Lingerfelt (right) receives the 2009 AIA Florida Presidential Award from AIA Florida President Steve Jernagan.
In August 2009, Michael Lingerfelt, AIA [B.Arch. '80] was elected to serve as the first Vice President/President Elect for the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects and also received the 2009 AIA Florida Presidential Award.
Carol Marra [B.Arch. '98] has been awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship 2009. The fellowship will enable Carol to undertake travel and research throughout China, the Philippines, and Japan for a period of two months. The purpose of the research fellowship is to undertake detailed field studies of vernacular architecture in places affected by seasonal monsoons and typhoon climate patterns. The results of this study will contribute to reinterpreting design strategies that allow buildings to passively mitigate climate change and advance the body of knowledge in environmentally responsive architecture.
Taipei Performing Arts Centre, schematic design. OMA/Frans Parthesius© All rights reserved.
Various Architects (VA) of Oslo, Norway, founded in 2008 by Jim Dodson [B.Arch. '95], has been asked by the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) to join their team of architects as consultants on the competition winning Taipei Performing Arts Centre (TPAC) project in Taiwan. The project will be run from a newly established OMA office in Hong Kong, led by David Gianotten. The Hong Kong office will also be working on several other projects, including the masterplan of the West Kowloon Cultural District and the Shenzen Stock Exchange.
Partner Ibrahim Elhayawan from Various Architects will be the project leader of the OMA team and will work closely with Rem Koolhaas and the OMA team to develop the 40,000m2 theater in Taipei from competition scheme to the definitive design phase over the next year. VA partner Jim Dodson will join the team as an advisor for three two-week periods in Hong Kong during the next year. Various Architects were approached by OMA because of their previous experience with complex cultural projects and theaters.
The TPAC contains a 1500-seat theater and two 800-seat theaters that can be connected in many different configurations via an innovative and flexible stage arrangement. Various Architects are excited to be part of the OMA team on this bold theater project and look forward to collaborations over the next year.
For more information about the project, view Various Architects' web site or the OMA project page.
2009 Natural Talent Design Competition entry by Matthew Macioge, Lindsey Jones, and Mike Pecen.
The team of Matthew Macioge [M.Arch. '08], Lindsey Jones [BSID '07], and Mike Pecen [MLA '07] won third place in the 2009 Natural Talent Design Competition (NTDC), presented by the Emerging Green Builders Committee of the U.S. Green Building Council's Central Texas – Balcones Chapter.
The purpose of the competition was to promote affordable and sustainable housing as well as smart growth development in San Antonio through a hypothetical design. Participating individuals and teams were challenged to design a development project that consisted of a minimum of eight sustainable and affordable housing units and a small gathering center using the LEED for Homes and LEED for New Construction as designing guidelines.
ALUMNI EVENTS
Landscape alumni and students gathered for Dinner with the Dean at the 2009 Chicago ASLA Convention. From left to right: Atha Phillips [MLA '06]; Dean Fritz Steiner; Jay Record; Phyllis Boyd [MLA '06]; and Steve Windhager, Curator at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
We want you to stay involved and connected to the school, so please join us for one of our many upcoming alumni events:
- Texas Society of Architects (TSA) Convention
Cocktail Reception
The Grove Restaurant, Houston, Texas
Thursday, October 22, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
R.S.V.P. online here
- American Planning Association (APA) Convention
Reception
New Orleans, Louisiana
Saturday, April 10, 2010 (tentative)
- American Institute of Architects (AIA) Convention Reception
Miami, Florida
Thursday, June 10, 2010 (tentative)
- American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Conference Reception - NeoCon World's Trade Fair
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 (tentative)
Chicago, Illinois
- School of Architecture 100th Anniversary Celebration
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Austin, Texas
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.
CAREER RESOURCES FOR ALUMNI
The Career Services Center provides services and resources to all alumni of the School of Architecture. Alums may register on Career Source to search for seasoned positions, as well as freelance opportunities. Coming this fall, the Career Center will be offering NEW online resources and programs for our alumni to support their job searches.
Did you know that as an alumnus of the University of Texas, you have access to valuable career tools such as AccessUT and Texas Exes Career Services?
AccessUT is an online job and internship database within the university's Hire Texas web site that allows students and alumni to view postings from employers searching for their next hire. It also provides employers a free, centralized place to post professional, career-related job and internship opportunities for students and alumni.
The Texas Exes offers important career services such as one-on-one career consultations, resume critiques, coaching, online career assessment tools, seminars, job-searching resources, networking opportunities, and a Virtual Career Center.
FRIENDS OF ARCHITECTURE
Friends of Architecture has provided support to the school's outreach efforts such as the Summer Academy in Architecture. Pictured above: Associate Dean and Summer Academy Director Kevin Alter tests the students' skills in the annual bridge-building exercise in the Goldsmith Hall courtyard. The students were given the task of crossing the courtyard's fountain using only corrugated cardboard, wood dowels, and string. Photo by Hal Box.
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.
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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