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THEODORE M. FREEDMAN MEMORIAL GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

University of Texas at Austin alumna Phyllis Freedman [B.A. '72] is intimately familiar with charitable giving, having been involved in the not-for-profit sector her entire life, including as founder of SmartGiving, a consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. Phyllis' late brother, Ted Freedman [B.Arch. '80], died of complications from AIDS in 1997. In his honor, their mother, Reba Freedman, established the Ted Freedman Endowed Scholarship. To date, the scholarship has provided support to 19 students in the School of Architecture.

Recently, Phyllis established a provision in her will to create an endowment upon her passing, also honoring Ted and his passion for landscape architecture and the environment. The Theodore M. Freedman Memorial Graduate Fellowship in Landscape Architecture will support graduate students in landscape architecture who have a demonstrated involvement with GLBT organizations, a commitment to the environmental ethics of Lady Bird Johnson, or a demonstrated interest in historic preservation, sustainable design, or Texas vernacular architecture.

The School of Architecture transforms lives for the benefit of society, and we are able to best serve outstanding students when we support their education through scholarships and fellowships. We extend our great thanks to Phyllis for her generous spirit in continuing to honor the legacy of her brother through her giving to the school.

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.

COLLABORATION WITH THE LANDMARKS PUBLIC ART PROGRAM

During the fall 2009 semester, students in Senior Lecturer Fran Gale's Materials Conservation: Field Methods course are learning about the university's collection of public art. The Field Methods course provides an introduction to architectural materials conservation, focusing on on-site examination and testing of historic building. In past years, students have studied the materials of historic buildings on the UT campus, learning about the deterioration mechanisms that affect them. This year, collaboration with the UT Austin Landmarks Public Art Program has expanded course content to include outdoor sculpture.

Landmarks, the premier public art program of the university, launched its program to the public in 2008, with the installation of twenty-eight major mid- to late-twentieth century sculptures on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The works include "Veduggio Glimpse" by Anthony Caro, which is located just east of the Goldsmith Hall courtyard. As part of their agreement with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Landmarks works with local conservators to conduct periodic inspections of the sculptures and provide routine care and maintenance. Catherine Williams of Silver Lining Art Conservation, LLC, provides consulting services for the Landmarks public art collection.

The Landmarks program is participating in three Field Methods sessions during the fall semester. In an introductory session, Landmarks Coordinator Nicole Vlado and Catherine Williams discussed the Landmarks Program and Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. In addition to providing a history of the Landmarks program, Vlado discussed acquisition and installation of sculpture and the importance of understanding the artist's intent. Catherine Williams discussed the materials of the collection and the processes that were used in creating them. During a walking tour, the class discussed existing conditions of several pieces, including Willard Boepple's "Eleanor at 7:15," located in the courtyard between Batts and Mezes Halls and Joel Perlman's "Square Tilt" installed in the Perry-Castaneda Library plaza.

In their next session, Vlado and Williams provided an overview of the Landmarks maintenance program and discussed the materials and techniques used by art conservators. During a field session, students assessed conditions of Peter Reginato's "Kingfish," and Catherine Williams directed the students in small-scale maintenance cleaning tests.

A final session will focus on the development of conservation plans for outdoor sculpture. Vlado and Williams will discuss the interventions that are sometimes required and the importance of obtaining input from the artist and the owner. Topics will include conservation ethics, preventative maintenance, and practical matters such as scheduling and project budgets. Students will learn about protective treatments and assist in applying them.

Collaboration with Landmarks provides an opportunity for Field Methods students to learn about stewardship of outdoor sculpture, as well as historic buildings. Several students also are participating in the Landmarks Preservation Guild, a group of volunteer interns who assist in inspecting and maintaining works of art in the Landmarks collection. Landmarks Preservation interns contribute one to two hours per week and receive a certificate of completion after two successful semesters. For more information about the Landmarks Preservation Guild, visit the Landmarks web site.

EVENTS

For the latest updates, check out the online UTSOA Calendar.

EXHIBIT

September 11 – October 30
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.

EXHIBIT

October 5 – December 12
Materials Lab
West Mall Building, Room 3.102 (Monday-Friday, 9-6)

Constructions in PAPER

Current students from three UTSOA studios explored the material properties of paper in their first assignment of the semester. Each studio assignment was different in their program and design requirements; however, collectively through analog and digital methods of manipulation - folding, bending, perforating, ripping, scoring, crushing, weaving, and/or cutting - each form of representation provides a unique designed component and assembly of parts. Generative and iterative explorations are seen three-dimensionality and in form and surface.

The work on display is a collaboration from Design 5 Architecture with Assistant Professor Michael Beaman, Design 5 Interior with Assistant Professor Igor Siddiqui, and Vertical Studio with Assistant Professor Danelle Briscoe.

EXHIBIT

November 1 – December 12
Mebane Gallery
Goldsmith Hall (Monday-Friday, 8-5)

Ronit Eisenbach and Sarah Bonnemaison:
Installation Tectonics

LECTURE

Monday, November 2
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.

Michael Sweeney

lecture title TBA

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
College Park, Maryland

"Installations by Architects"

Ronit Eisenbach is an associate professor of architecture and chair of the Kibel Gallery at the University of Maryland. She teaches design to majors, as well as a general education undergraduate course, Introduction to the Built Environment. An interest in thinking through making and refining perception has led her to teach a series of situation-based, design-build studios that frame elements of architecture such as light, color, space, and movement.

Eisenbach's installations and maps have been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad in venues such as the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Graham Foundation, the Cranbrook Art Museum, the Art Gallery of Windsor, Princeton University, and the streets of Tel Aviv. These temporary works explore how perception of subjective, invisible, and ephemeral objects affects understanding and experience of place.

Her new book (with Sarah Bonnemaison), Installations by Architects: Experiments in Building and Design explores the rising importance of installations as professional and pedagogical tools of architecture that can serve as a vehicle to generate public dialogue about the built environment.

PRESENTATION

Tuesday, December 1
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Auditorium
11:30-1:00
4801 La Crosse Avenue, Austin, Texas

Steve Windhager, Ph.D.
Director of Landscape Restoration,
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

"What is the Sustainable Sites Initiative?"

The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an interdisciplinary effort by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and the United States Botanic Garden to create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, construction, and maintenance practices.

The central message of the Sustainable Sites Initiative is that any landscape—whether the site of a large subdivision, a shopping mall, a park, an abandoned rail yard, or even one home—holds the potential both to improve and regenerate the natural benefits and services provided by ecosystems in their undeveloped state. While there are existing standards for sustainable structures, there are no comprehensive guidelines for those who want to create and measure sustainable landscapes. The Sustainable Sites Initiative Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks 2009 is intended to be a tool for those who design, construct, operate, and maintain landscapes, including but not limited to planners, landscape architects, engineers, developers, builders, facility managers, horticulturists, governments, land stewards, and organizations offering building standards.

For more information, write to: info@sustainablesites.org.

You are invited to bring your lunch to the presentation or purchase one in the café.

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 23, Danilo Udovicki-Selb, "Smackdown! Hitler vs. Stalin at the Paris World Expo, 1937"
• 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 23
"Cultivating Cities: Austin's Urban Agriculture Movement"
Location: Texas Union, Sinclair Suite (UNB 3.128), noon to 1:30 p.m.

The phrase "urban agriculture" conjures up many thoughts: safe, local, healthy, sustainable. The movement encompasses everything from backyard gardens to large organic farms and everything in between. As Americans are becoming aware of toxins in their food system and the effect of food miles in global warming, it has become increasingly important that we not only know how our food is produced, but also how far it has travelled to get to our table. This City Forum will address the efforts and challenges of urban agriculture in Austin, including initiatives from government and non-profit organizations, opportunities for participation, as well as food access and the social justice realm of local food.

Panelists:

• Stephanie Scherzer, an urban farmer in east Austin, has a long history of installing and developing landscapes throughout the area. She worked with the Natural Gardener for six years, and was co-owner of Rain Lily Design for eight years. In 2003, she and her partner Kim Beal bought the home and land on Shady Lane that has become Rain Lily Farm, a place rich with produce and livestock resources, which has become a much-loved gathering place for culinary and community events. Stephanie recently became co-owner of Farmhouse Delivery, an innovative online local produce company that provides solutions to the challenges of local produce distribution by bringing farm fresh local produce to customers' doors.
• Marysol Valle has used her hands to cultivate food at Hands of the Earth, a small organic farm in east Austin, for the past three years. Her passion for farming began in upstate New York at Sacred Seed farm, where she developed her skills in growing veggies and was first introduced to CSAs. Upon returning to Texas, Marysol began working on Oasis Farm, which she has transformed into a 120-member CSA called Hands of the Earth. Each week, Marysol participates in two farmers' markets and prepares 75 baskets of fresh produce for Austin residents.
• Jenna R. Neal has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from Texas Tech University and an Associate of Applied Science in Commercial Art and Advertising degree from Texas State Technical College. Her career began in the private sector and, over time, her focus shifted to parks and trails master planning for municipalities. In 2006, she joined the City of Austin's Parks and Recreation Department (PARD). Her primary focus is the Long Range Plan for Land, Facilities and Programs, which is a guide for PARD on how to address residential growth and recreational demands within the city for the next five years.
• Max Elliott serves on the Austin/Travis County Sustainable Food Policy Board. In 2006, he co-founded YouthLaunch's Urban Roots program, which creates empowering opportunities for high school students to give back to their community by growing food on a 4-acre farm in east Austin. He received a master's degree in environmental studies from the University of Essex in Colchester, England, and is currently a graduate student in the UT School of Social Work. He has extensive experience in urban agriculture through his work with Austin Community Gardens and the New Orleans Food and Farm Network.

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 Events

Calling all volunteers! Do you care about climate change? Have you heard of 350.org's "International Day of Climate Action?" Are you looking for a way to get involved in making Austin a better, more sustainable place to live? If you answered "YES!" to any of those questions, we've got the perfect opportunity for you!

On Saturday, October 24, the Center for Sustainable Development is partnering with the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation and the Austin Community Design and Development Center to help clean-up the future home of the Guadalupe-Saldaña Net-Zero Energy Subdivision!

This will be a huge day of volunteering around the globe thanks to 350.org's efforts, with more than 4,000 groups taking some form of action in over 160 countries to stand up for climate change awareness. Our site clean-up event ties into this issue by directly supporting Austin's first affordable, sustainable energy subdivision.

This clean-up event will take place from 8:00 a.m. until noon on Saturday, October 24. We'll meet at the site for the Guadalupe-Saldaña Net-Zero Energy Subdivision at 8:00 a.m. at the corner of Webberville Road & Goodwin Avenue. For a map or directions to the site, please click here. Refreshments will be available, but feel free to bring a water bottle and pack your own snack.

We'll work in teams throughout the morning, focusing on tire removal from the site (with the help of wheelbarrows) and litter/trash pick-up around the site and along the creek bed, so be sure to wear long-sleeves and pants and sturdy shoes.

We'll call it a day at noon, but before then, we'll take a group photo to submit to the 350.org campaign organizers, who will put it up on the big screen in Times Square!

Please invite your friends, family, and co-workers to our clean-up. There's no better reason to get dirty than for a good cause, and this Saturday is the perfect opportunity.

If you would like more information, contact E.B. Brooks at e.b.brooks@mail.utexas.edu.

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 22, Garbage Warrior
  This award-winning documentary follows the epic story of radical Earthship eco-architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to build off-the-grid, self-sufficient communities with natural and recycled materials. Location: Goldsmith Courtyard
• November 5, Student-Produced Films
• November 19, The Unforeseen

FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP

Associate Dean Kent Butler was quoted in the front page article of the October 19, 2009, edition of the Austin American-Statesman, "Crucial Vote on Treatment Plant Could Come Thursday." The article discusses Thurday's vote by the Austin City Council that could push forward a $508 million water treatment plant, potentially ending 25 years of debate about the project. Critics of the project are pushing forward alternative ideas.

Butler proposes that alternative plans would be less expensive. He wants the city to explore four ideas:

• Expanding an existing plant on Lake Austin and piping water from it to storage tanks in Northwest Austin to serve new development there.
• Adopting more stringent drought management rules.
• Building a much smaller treatment plant on Lake Walter E. Long in East Austin and near an existing city power plant to serve development along the fast-growing Texas 130 corridor.
• Building an "interceptor sewage plant" in North Austin that would treat sewage to use for lawn watering only. This would require a separate set of pipes; Butler says they could be installed relatively cheaply for new subdivisions, satisfying most of Austin's new water needs, and then gradually be installed elsewhere. St. Petersburg, Fla., started building such a system in the late 1970s, and it provides 37 million gallons of reclaimed water per day to 10,284 customers, according to the city's web site.

View the entire article here.

ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

ALUMNI UPDATES

Lawrence Holdren Connolly, AIA [B.S.A.S. '75 and B.Arch. '76], and Willis Winters, FAIA [B.Arch. '80], will receive 2009 Texas Society of Architects (TSA) Honor Awards. Both will be presented with Awards for Excellence in the Promotion of Architecture through the Media in Honor of John G. Flowers Honorary AIA at the 70th Annual TSA Convention, taking place October 2224, in Houston.

The TSA Architecture Firm Award will be presented to PageSoutherlandPage, Professor Larry Speck, principal.

Alexis (Cooper) Weaver [M.S.C.R.P. '07] has been named Director of Community Affairs for the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce Community Development department. In this position, she will oversee various education and community initiatives for the Greater Waco area.

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:

• 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.

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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