EVENTS

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EXHIBIT

September 11 – October 23
Mebane Gallery
Goldsmith Hall (Monday-Friday, 8-5)

Sinclair Black / Larry Doll
2 x 2: Drawings & Sketches

Sketches and drawings are exploratory tools that architects use to dream, to invent, and to search. They can be regarded as means of uncovering buried ideas or subsconscious desires. What appears ordered - as a definite black line that cannot be smudged - may turn out to be a screen or a foil for further projections and reroutings. So, depending on how they are used, sketches and drawings are as dumb or as vivid as the perceptive mind permits. Sinclair Black and Larry Doll use their sketches and drawings variously as sounding boards, as mirrors of their own minds, as well as ways of essentially and selectively documenting what they have seen. This exhibition of the drawn work of two UTSOA faculty members presents a part of what otherwise might have remained as very private documents. We are grateful to both of them for sharing their work and opening a window onto their ways of thinking.

Professor Sinclair Black is an urban designer, planner, architect, educator, and author. He has planned, programmed, designed, and built projects in Central Texas for forty years. His programming and planning work is based on a commitment to the client, an understanding of the needs of the end-users, and a thorough analysis of each site and its context.

Associate Professor Larry Doll is founding Director of the European Study Abroad Program and continues to conduct the fall semester program. Each year, the students follow a different itinerary through Western Europe studying a wide range of scales and approaches to architecture. He returned to full-time teaching after serving as Assistant Dean of the School of Architecture for ten years and currently teaches design and a seminar on his primary area of research, morphology.

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:

• October 9, François Lévy, "BIM for Skin: Designing Sustainable Skin-Load Dominant Buildings"
• October 23, Danilo Udovicki-Selb
• November 6, Michael Garrison
• November 20, Vincent Snyder

CITY FORUM SERIES

City Forum is a planning and 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. The bi-weekly speaker series is intended to broaden the curriculum in the CRP program by presenting the experiences, perspectives, and insights of scholars, community leaders, practicing planners, and policy makers who engage in timely issues.

For questions, comments, or suggestions related to City Forum, contact Kathryn Howell.

Friday, October 9
"Home Means Everything: Planning and Affordable Homes"
Location: Texas Union, Sinclair Suite (UNB 3.128), noon to 1:30 p.m.

Rapid gentrification in Austin has resulted in the loss of thousands of unsubsidized, affordable housing units. As more families find themselves fighting rising rents and property taxes, maintaining a diverse city population remains a challenge. Although the city has increased new construction of affordable housing units in some areas, such as the Mueller Airport redevelopment, more efforts are needed to stem this trend. This City Forum will focus on the current housing situation, efforts to preserve affordability, and challenges to these efforts.

Speakers:

• Francie Ferguson is the chair of the national real estate team, NeighborWorks America, HousingWorks Board, the Founding Director of Foundation Communities, and a consultant on the Affordable Housing plan for Mueller Airport.
• Cathy Echols serves on the boards of Liveable City, a local civic organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for all in Austin, and HousingWorks. She has participated in local planning issues as a community leader for many years, helping to shape the Triangle development on behalf of a local neighborhood. Over the past few years, she has helped ensure attention to housing needs in such planning efforts as the downtown plan, the PUD ordinance, and vertical mixed use design standards.

EXHIBIT

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 façades often veiled in the shadows of their neighbors.

From 1994 to 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.

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.

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.

On Saturday, October 24, the Center for Sustainable Development is sponsoring a 350.org Day of Action event, the international effort to increase awareness about climate change. The CSD has partnered with several community organizations, including the Austin Community Design and Development Center and the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation, to organize a site clean-up for the future home of the Guadalupe-Saldana Net-Zero Energy Subdivision. This new residential development will be the first of its kind in the country: every unit on this property will have net zero energy bills and will be affordable to rent or own, truly raising the bar for local, affordable, community-based development.

This clean-up event will be from 8:00 a.m. till noon on Saturday, October 24, at the corner of Webberville Road & Goodwin Avenue. There will also be other community organizations on-site with information about other progressive efforts in the Austin area. All volunteers are welcome and are asked to bring a water bottle, sturdy shoes, and gloves (if you have them), and to wear long pants and sleeves to the site. If you would like more information, contact E.B. Brooks at e.b.brooks@mail.utexas.edu or visit the event website: www.350.org/GetCleanGetGreen.

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, room 3.120, from 7:00-10:00 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:

• October 8, Transforming Energy: what is the future after oil?
• October 22, Earthship
• November 5, Student-Produced Films
• November 19, The Unforeseen

FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP

The fall 2009 issue of Austin Monthly Home features a custom dining table by Lecturer Mark Macek [B.Arch. '90]. It was made for an artist/art collector and her family, who live in a house designed by McKinney York Architects. The article highlights how the featured dining room has been made more active by including a library function and by making the table large enough to serve as a work surface with stainless steel cord grommets.

Austin Monthly Home, edited by UTSOA Advisory Council member Helen Thompson, excels at featuring local residential architecture and interiors. Other UTSOA alumni featured in the fall 2009 issue include David Webber [B.Arch. '92], Janell Cottam [B.Arch. '90], Jay Hargrave [B.Arch. '90], Patrick Ousey [B.Arch. '86], and Donna Osborn [B.S.A.S. '87]. (See details below in the alumni section.)

Steven A. Moore, Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor of Architecture and Planning, will deliver an invited position paper at the "Environmentally Conscious Design: Educating Future Architects" symposium at Penn State University, Department of Architecture, October 23-25, 2009.

Associate Professor Ming Zhang has been accepted to the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB) Site Visitor pool. As part of a team comprised of two planning educators and one practitioner, site visitors conduct multi-day, in-depth, fact-finding visits to planning programs seeking initial accreditation or re-accreditation. They review programs' Self Study Reports and curriculums, and interview administration, staff, students, alumni, and local planning professionals to assess program performance and quality. Site visitors then work with their teams to produce a Site Visit Report. The PAB reviews the Site Visit Report in addition to other materials when considering programs for (re) accreditation.

Each year, the PAB organizes roughly twelve site visits to planning programs around the country. Site visitors are appointed for renewable five-year terms, and ideally, each site visitor will be asked to conduct a site visit once every two or three years.

Serving as a site visitor provides the opportunity to visit universities around the country, meet planners, educators, students, and community leaders and gather new ideas and perspectives on planning.

Professor Richard Cleary has been named the recipient of the 2009 SESAH Essay Award by the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians for his article, "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Romance of the Master Builder," published in the catalog of the Guggenheim Museum's recent exhibition, "Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward" (New York: Skira/Rizzoli, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2009). Cleary served as a member of the curatorial advisory committee for the exhibition.

Professor Steven A. Moore will present his paper, "Coding Consumption in the Built World: A Framework for Analysis and Action," at an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by Clark University and Tellus Institute, Individual Consumption and Systemic Societal Transformation, October 16-18, 2009, at Clark University. The proceedings of the conference will be edited as a compendium by Dr. Philip Vertragt.

ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

ALUMNI UPDATES

The fall 2009 edition of Austin Monthly Home highlights the work of seven UTSOA alums: David Webber [B.Arch. '92], Janell Cottam [B.Arch. '90], Jay Hargrave [B.Arch. '90], Patrick Ousey [B.Arch. '86], Mark Macek [B.Arch. '90], Jim Poteet [M.Arch. '87], and Donna Osborn [B.S.A.S. '87].

In the "Designer Spotlight," Donna Osborn gives her "top ten" list of places and things. The Redbud Trail Resident project of Cottam Hargrave is featured, as is David Webber's (Webber + Studio) Fairfield "dream home" project in a central Austin neighborhood.

A feature story on "Getting It Right" showcases an 8,000-square-foot loft in a renovated San Antonio former candy factory made "perfect" by many design talents, including Austin architect Patrick Ousey (FAB Architecture); San Antonio architect Jim Poteet; and furniture designer Mark Macek, who designed and fabricated the dining room's centerpiece, an 11-foot-long boat-shaped table.

Mary Hardin [B.Arch. '79, M.Arch. '83], an architecture professor at the University of Arizona (UA), is working with UA faculty and students to build energy-efficient, low-cost housing prototypes in a Tuscon neighborhood a mile south of the campus. The homes are built by the Drachman Design-Build Coalition, a nonprofit corporation formed by UA architecture faculty to introduce sustainable design to the neighborhood. In a partnership with the City of Tucson, the program will build five houses.

"There are a lot of really high-tech ways to save energy and water, but lower-income people can't get there," Hardin said. The idea was to develop designs for efficient, modestly priced houses that could be duplicated around the city.

Tina Roach, AIA, LEED AP [M. Arch. with Historic Preservation Certificate '98], is the twentieth recipient of the Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship, co-sponsored by the American Architectural Foundation and The French Heritage Society. The fellowship is a professional exchange awarded every two years to an American architect pursuing a career in historic preservation; on alternate years, the fellowship is awarded to a French historic preservation architect for travel in the United States. The award is named for Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to study at the École des Beaux-Arts.

Tina is on a leave of absence from Quinn Evans | Architects in Washington D.C. and is beginning the six-month work/study program in France, with studies focused on the synergies and conflicts between sustainable design and historic preservation. Her activities can be followed on her web site.

Rebecca Graham, AIA, LEED AP [B.Arch. '03], is now a licensed architect with Perkins + Will in Dallas, and is pursuing NCARB certification.

Jonathan Geib [B.Arch. '02] is pursuing an advanced master's degree at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. The "Master of Human Settlements" degree "addresses rapid urbanization in the developing world and contemporary urban transformations within the scope of sustainable development."

ALUMNI EVENTS

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.

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.

We want you to connect with our current students!
If you have internships, or part-time or full-time positions available for UTSOA students, contact the Career Services Center to post your opportunities on Career Source. You can also contact the Career Services Center to learn more about career events, including Career EXPO, Career Week, portfolio reviews, on-campus recruiting, and mock interviews.

Career Week 2010
Registration for Career Week 2010 begins October 15. Career Week is our annual spring on-campus recruitment event that allows employers the opportunity to interview pre-selected candidates from our current student body for part-time, full-time, and internship positions. This spring's event is scheduled for March 30-April 1. For more information, log into Career Source.

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.

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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