UT SOLAR D::2007 COMPETITION UPDATE

Now that the dust has settled from the 2007 Solar Decathlon Competition, project manager and recent grad Alex Miller [B.Arch. '07] gives the following report:Over the course of the past three weeks, we moved a house 1500 miles to Washington, D.C., erected the house on the National Mall and passed building inspections, competed in the Decathlon, met with Senators and Congressmen to advocate for renewable energy and energy efficient buildings, gave tours to the public, and participated in interviews for print, tv, and web media from around the globe. We also brought home a few accolades and had a lot of fun representing both Texas and the university in an international competition. Did I mention we also beat MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and our rivals from down the way, Texas A&M? You could say we've been busy.

The first shift of 12 students that traveled to the Mall was responsible for assembling the house, passing rigorous building inspections, and troubleshooting technical systems. We were the first house to get their photovoltaic system operational and the first house to complete all building inspections, due to our extensive planning and prefabricated design for rapid deployment. The second group of 12 students was responsible for competing in the contests and providing tours to the public, and due to the frantic pace of the competition schedule, sometimes both contests and tours all at once. We also got some extra help from friends, family, and alumni that came to town just to lend a hand.

Hot Water: 1st Place
Engineering: 2nd Place
Comfort Zone: 3rd Place
Communications: 4th Place
Overall: 10th Place

This year, all of the competitors and their entries truly raised the bar in terms of the quality and sophistication of the houses. We took second place in engineering, beating numerous teams based out of other top-ranked engineering programs. This is a serious accomplishment that speaks to our strong collaboration with Dr. Atila Novoselac and the dedicated students from engineering to develop highly integrated and robust systems, numerous rounds of modeling and analysis, as well as developing strong active and passive strategies for cooling.

Our 3rd place in Comfort Zone is a testament to our approach to active and passive heating and cooling systems. Due to a leaking coolant line, we actually achieved this distinction without using any of our active systems for three out of the five days of monitoring through passive ventilation of the house for daytime cooling and a highly insulated and tightly sealed envelope for retaining warmth overnight.

Overall, the best part of this event was participating as one of twenty teams and twenty houses both as competitors and as neighbors. We hosted and attended dinner parties at the other teams' houses, borrowed and lent tools across the fence, and learned from each team's unique and regional take on energy efficient housing.

This has been an amazing achievement for so many dedicated students from the School of Architecture and other departments involved over the last two years. We're so thankful for all the help and advice we've received from the school, our sponsors, industry partners, as well as understanding family and friends.

Thanks to all our sponsors!

PLATINUM ($25K+)
Applied Materials
BP Solar
ProLogis/Catellus Development Corp.
Struct-All
University Co-op

GOLD ($10K - 25K)
Alno Kitchens, Austin Energy, Interstate Powercare, Marvin Windows & Doors/BMC West, Palm Harbor Homes, Polygal/Laird Plastics, Texas State Energy Conservation Office, and UT-Austin School of Architecture

SILVER ($5K - 10K)
Austin Commercial, Inc.; College House Cooperatives; DutchTub, U.S.; Southern Cypress Manufacturer's Association (SCMA); Urban Edge Developers, Ltd.; U.S. Department of Energy; Viega; and Warmboard Inc. Radiant Subfloor

GREEN ($1K - 5K)
Architectural Engineers Collaborative; Center for Sustainable Development; Fry Reglet; Gensler; Håfale; Interface Carpet; Kohler; Lake/Flato Architects; Liebherr Rerigeration; Lower Colorado River Authority; R.E.P.M.T., L.L.C.; Southwest Research Institute; U.S. Green Building Council; UT Friends of Architecture; University of Texas InterCooperative Council; Venmar Ventilation, Inc.; Y Lighting

Reflections on the National Mall

Dean Fritz Steiner visited the UT SolarD team on the National Mall and offers the following reflections:

From October 2 to 20, our Solar Decathlon team joined 19 others on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. I arrived as the event was wrapping up on Saturday, October 20. Thousands of visitors continued to crowd the solar village between the Capitol and the Washington Monument. This event has an amazing impact on the public consciousness. Our team reported that many Senators and Congressmen visited the BLOOMhouse. The print and broadcast media provided extensive coverage.

Many individuals contributed to this effort. Significant obstacles were overcome even to finish the project. We need to acknowledge the efforts of our students who devoted much hard work and considerable time. In addition to our own, students from Engineering and Fine Arts contributed to the project. Our faculty went above and beyond their normal responsibilities. The extraordinary efforts of Assistant Professor Samantha Randall, Lecturer Russell Krepart, Professor Michael Garrison, and Lecturer Elizabeth Alford should be acknowledged as should the contributions of Assistant Professor Atila Novoselac and architectural engineering senior Sam Covey from the College of Engineering. Our team ended up second in the engineering competition. Many staff members were very helpful, as well, in ensuring the success of the team, in particular Jeff Evelyn, Rita Omrani, Xavier Sandoval, and Ray Vargas.

The Solar Decathlon involves considerable fundraising by the team, the school’s Advisory Council, and our development staff. I appreciate the leadership of Assistant Dean Julie Hooper in this regard. The total budget for the BLOOMhouse was approximately $410,000.

As significant as this figure is, it is dwarfed by the $1.5 million spent by the winning team from Technische Universität Darmstadt. The German team also brought around 50 people to Washington, which probably cost another $100,000. The team from Madrid was well represented both with a stunning entry and large team. Clearly, Europe is investing in sustainable design.

The Darmstadt house set a new benchmark for the Solar Decathlon. Certainly, the green building technologies were impressive. The quality of the workmanship was awesome. Finally, the Darmstadt house exemplifies high quality, high style, and contemporary design.

Events

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

"counterMEASURES" SYMPOSIUM + EXHIBIT

The University of Texas at Austin is hosting the counterMEASURES symposium on November 1-2, 2007.

The counterMEASURES symposium will examine New Orleans as a case study for what strategies and tactics landscape, urbanism, and architecture adopt as a means of achieving resilience in the face of extreme circumstances. The participants will present diverse, yet complimentary, positions regarding how design may anticipate, rather than react to, ecological, economical, and technological issues.

In addition, the counterMEASURES exhibition will be on view from November 1-30, 2007. Focusing on New Orleans, the design teams will demonstrate "extreme" design strategies for cities, landscapes, and buildings set within dynamic environments.

11.1.07
Reed Kroloff, Director, Cranbrook Academy of Art
"Rebuilding: A Contemporary Response"

Keynote Lecture: Thursday, 5 p.m. in Gol 3.120
Followed by an opening reception in Mebane Gallery.

11.2.07
counterMEASURES symposium
Panels: Ecology, Economy, and Technology

Symposium: Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in Mebane Gallery
Followed by BBQ in the Courtyard.

For information on the panelists and designers, as well as a comprehensive schedule, please visit: counterMEASURES symposium. Participants include:

Symposium:
Michelle Addington, Yale University
Eelco Hooftman, GrOSS.MAX
Kristina Hill, University of Virginia
Reed Kroloff, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Nina-Marie Lister, Ryerson University
Anuradha Mathur, University of Pennsylvania
Miho Mazereeuw, Wheelwright Fellow
Albert Pope, Rice University
Fritz Steiner, The University of Texas at Austin
Charles Waldheim, University of Toronto

Design Invitation:
Emery McClure Architects
Miho Mazereeuw
designsubset
Chris Hight and Natalia Beard
North Design Office
SWiMcau

We are very appreciative of the support of our donors. 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, November 12
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.

Michael Dennis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsored by the Roberta P. Crenshaw Centennial Professorship in Urban Design and Environmental Planning

"From Bombs to Blobs:
The Search for a Contemporary Urban Architecture"

Michael Dennis teaches Urban Design and Theory of Urban Form in the SM Architecture Studies program at MIT. He has also taught at Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Rice, and Columbia. He was the 1986 Thomas Jefferson Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia and the 1988 Eero Saarinen Professor of Architecture at Yale.

He has been in private practice in Boston since 1981 and prior to that in Ithaca, New York, from 1970. His experience extends over 30 years and includes projects of various types and scales. The firm's work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. Much of the firm's recent work is institutional, beginning with the Art Museum for the University of California at Santa Barbara, which received First Prize in a national design competition in 1983. Recently completed are the Science/Technology Building at Syracuse University and the first buildings in the extensive plan for Carnegie Mellon University.

Dennis has also been actively involved in research concerning campus design and planning. He has used the design studio to explore such issues as the possibility of buildings having their own independent identity, but also relating to the continuity of the place and being a part of the campus fabric. Over the last few years, work at Arizona State University, Syracuse, University of Virginia, the University of Southern California, and Carnegie Mellon University has provided the opportunity for such exploration.

OPEN HOUSE: DESIGN>BUILD>TEXAS

Saturday, November 17

The School of Architecture is hosting an open house for DESIGN>BUILD>TEXAS, the award-winning model house designed and built by architecture students and faculty as a hands-on learning experience. This small Hill Country house demonstrates sustainable, affordable design practices. The project has been published in many national and international design publications and won a prestigious Texas Society of Architects honor award in 2006. The house has also been featured on HGTV.

Tours are free, but reservations are required.

Tour 1 9:30 a.m.
Tour 2 11:00 a.m.
Tour 3 1:30 p.m.

For reservations and a map, please contact Judy Parker at jparker@mail.utexas.edu or 512-471-1922.

For more information about the project, see designbuildtexas.

LECTURE

Wednesday, November 14
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.

Lori Ryker
Author, Off the Grid
Livingston, Montana

LECTURE

Monday, November 19
Goldsmith Hall 3.120, 5:00 p.m.

Rebecca Aarons-Sydnor
Sustainable Design Consulting
Richmond, Virginia
Sponsored by the UTSOA Materials Lab and
the Gene Edward Mikeska Endowed Professorship for Interior Design

EXHIBIT

September 10, 2007, through January 4, 2008
Visual Resources Collection
Sutton Hall 3.128 (Monday-Friday, 8-5)

"Images of India: Photography by Sarah Hill"

Traveling throughout India for six weeks in summer 2006 with the Advanced Travel India Studio led by Lecturers Pankaj Gupta and Christine Mueller, Sarah Hill was provided with many opportunities to document the visually rich environment. The selection of images in this exhibit represents a small sampling of over 3700 digital images that are now part of the School of Architecture's Visual Resources Image Collection; the images will be available shortly for use by the University community for study, teaching, and research.

Sarah Hill graduated from the School of Architecture in May 2007 with a Master of Architecture degree. This project was supported in great part by a ~FAST Tex Grant from the University's Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment.

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 web site for updates. The remaining fall 2007 schedule includes:

• November 9, Simon Atkinson
• November 16, Michael Benedikt and Wilfried Wang
• November 30, Chris Long, Books & Buildings

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

CITY FORUM SERIES

City Forum is an urban issues speaker series hosted by the school's Community and Regional Planning Program. The bi-monthly program features discussions of contemporary urban issues with national and local perspectives. During the fall of 2007, the program is being held on selected Fridays from 12:00 noon until 1:30 p.m. in the Texas Union Board of Directors Room, 4.118 (on Guadalupe Street between 22nd and 24th Streets).

• November 9, Theresa O'Donnell, Director of Development Services, City of Dallas, "Forward Dallas Plan"

For five years Theresa O'Donnell has served as Director of Development Services for the City of Dallas. She has overseen comprehensive planning, zoning, building inspection, property management, and engineering departments. O'Donnell directs more than 300 employees and manages an annual budget of roughly 24 million dollars.

The City Forum schedule is available on their web site. For more information on the City Forum Speaker Series or to be added to the email list, contact Anna Glover at glover16@mail.utexas.edu.

FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP

As part of the "Architecture at the Umlauf Monthly Lecture Series," Professor Louise Harpman and Scott Specht, Specht Harpman Architects, will present their lecture, "Everything Must Go!," on Thursday, November 8, at 7:00 p.m. The series is co-sponsored by the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and by Scott Harvey and Carla Umlauf of AvenueOne Properties. For information, including admission cost and to make reservations, call 922-3574 or respond to rsvp@aveone.com.

While working as Fellow in Architecture at the Ligurian Study Center for Arts and Humanities near Genoa, Italy, last month, Professor Anthony Alofsin visited the studio of architect Renzo Piano. While touring the studios he met Emily Moore [M.Arch. '06], who is working at the office. The studio was working on twenty projects, with a staff of 160.

On November 10, Dr. Alofsin will be the guest of Wright in Wisconsin for a reception at Wright's Frederick C. Bogk House in Milwaukee. The sponsoring organization promotes, protects, and preserves the heritage of Frank Lloyd Wright in his native state of Wisconsin.

CRP STUDENT WINS ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH GRANT

Community and Regional Planning Program Ph.D. student Jin-Oh Kim was awarded the Yuhan Kimberly Environmental Research Fund from Yuhan Kimberly Ltd., Seoul, Korea, for the study of "Biodiversity Conservation Planning in the Civilian Control Zone in Korea." The $7000 research award will help support Kim's dissertation research.

Yuhan Kimberly, the Korean subsidiary of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, has significantly supported environmental campaigns and research in Korea. While Kim was in Korea conducting dissertation research, he met then-CEO of Yuhan Kimberly, Kook-Hyun Moon, to present a proposal for funding support. After a review process, he was recently notified of the award. Kook-Hyun Moon is a respected figure in the environmental movement in Korea and recently resigned his position as CEO to become a presidential candidate.

PARENTS' WEEKEND

Parents' Weekend 2007 was a very special weekend of fun and festivities. This was the perfect opportunity for families to visit their new architecture or interior design student, see how they are adjusting to college life, studio life, and meet their new professors and friends.

The school hosted a continental breakfast, presentations by Associate Professor Christopher Long and Assistant Dean Jeanne Crawford, as well as a student panel representing the different undergraduate majors and years in the school. The morning concluded with tours of the UTSOA facilities provided by undergraduates students for the 130+ attendees.

LONGHORN HALLOWEEN

Longhorn Halloween is a fun and safe Halloween program for the children of UT-Austin staff, faculty, and students. The festival features activities such as games, carnival events, a haunted house, face painting, fortune telling, chemistry circus, fire safety programs, and much, much more.

This year, the Undergraduate Architecture Student Council sponsored a mask- and wand-making booth in which participating children were given laser-cut masks and wands to decorate with stickers, sequins, pipe cleaners, and feathers. In addition, children received candy for completing their project.

ALUMNI NEWS

ALUMNI UPDATES

Philip A. Jabour, AIA [B.Arch. '90], was recently named Director of Planning, Design and Construction at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He and his staff are responsible for the new construction and major renovations of all campus facilities at the main and satellite campuses of SMU.

Carol Marra [B.Arch. '98] and Kenneth Yeh [B.Arch. '98] of Marra + Yeh were appointed to teach 2nd year Design Studio at the University of Sydney (Australia) Faculty of Architecture in 2007 and have been invited to do so again in 2008.

ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

The School of Architecture is continuing its effort to find (and maintain) the most accurate contact information for all of our alumni. From young alumni receptions to 50-year reunions, and everything in between, we hope you will stay in touch. Would you like to mentor a student? Do you need to hire a fellow Longhorn? Looking for networking or continuing education opportunities? We can help, but we need to know how to reach you!

Alumni may update their records, contact preferences, and search for fellow graduates by logging on to the University's online alumni directory. Or, you may always contact Stephanie Palmer, Alumni Relations Director at stephanie.palmer@mail.utexas.edu or 512-471-0617.

Thanks for helping us improve our relationship with you. We look forward to hearing from you!

SUPPORT UTSOA

Private support for the School of Architecture is a crucial component of our ability to recruit and retain the highest caliber faculty and students. To find out how you can make a difference, we invite you to read about our annual giving program, Friends of Architecture, and our various other fundraising initiatives. Please visit our secure online giving page.

FRIENDS OF ARCHITECTURE

This weekend, Friends of Architecture is hosting "At Home in Austin," a tour of Austin's hottest residential architecture. There is no better way to appreciate fine architecture and design than to be invited inside the most phenomenal private designs of today. For nearly fifteen years, Friends of Architecture has been partnering with renown designers from around the world to bring you up close and personal educational experiences.

With Associate Professor Juan Miró, Friends of Architecture is at it again, opening the doors to Austin's most exclusive residential designs, including the work of Gluckman Mayner Architects, Miró Rivera, John Watson, Clayton Morgan, Urban Jobe Architecture, Peter L. Gluck & Partners, and Webber + Studio.

If you are missing out on this one-of-a-kind opportunity, visit friendsofarchitecture.org for details on FOA membership and to secure your spot on our upcoming tours, including:

February 9-11, 2008 - Palm Springs, California
July 2008 - Seattle, Washington
November 2008 - New England

RAQUEL ELIZONDO STAFF EXCELLENCE FUND

Raquel Elizondo, one of the School of Architecture's most dedicated staff members and a good friend, retired in August 2006. Raquel had served the School for 14 years, acting as Assistant Dean for Administration to two deans. Previously, Raquel had worked in office of the Vice President for Development and University Relations. She is known and loved across campus, but nowhere more so than in the School of Architecture.

During Raquel's tenure at the School, she was an advocate for the creation of a Staff Excellence Fund to provide resources for professional development, thereby improving staff performance and thus the position and function of the School. Currently, there is no such funding available, and staff members who wish to grow in their positions must seek such opportunities at their own expense.

The tremendous regard we all share for Raquel inspired us to initiate this campaign to create the Raquel Elizondo Staff Excellence Fund. To date, faculty and staff have come together and raised $6,000 in seed money for this endeavor; our campaign goal is $25,000.

We invite you to join the momentum of this campaign by contributing to the Raquel Elizondo Staff Excellence Fund as a permanent endowment for the benefit of the School of Architecture.

If you are interested in supporting the Raquel Elizondo Staff Excellence Fund or other UTSOA programs, please contact Assistant Dean for Development Julie Hooper at jhooper@austin.utexas.edu or 512.471.6114.

DEAN'S REPORT: "MY VISION"

As I begin my second term as your dean, it is fair to ask: "What is my vision for the future?" My simple response is to become the best public school of architecture in the nation. This simple, but audacious, statement prompts several questions: why strive to be the best? Why limit the goal to public universities? Hey, aren't we the best already? How do we determine what's "best"? What would it take to go from where we are to great?

We should strive to be the best because that's what's expected of us. UT-Austin President Bill Powers has declared becoming the best public university as his goal for our future. The state constitution established our university and declared it should be of the "first class." (It would be nice if the state legislature would provide some first-class funding.)

We compete for faculty and students with private schools of architecture, so why limit this goal to public institutions? The funding gap between our school and several Ivy League schools plus MIT is too vast to bridge in the near term. In addition, some private schools differ significantly from us in terms of mission, scale, and range of programs, which makes comparisons challenging. I should add we are already better than many private schools of architecture. In the long run, I think becoming the best--period--should be our long-term goal.

Are we the best already? We're certainly darn good. Arguably our bachelor of architecture program is the best in the nation, or at least the best public university program. Our master of architecture, interior design, and sustainable design programs are among the best. Other programs are good with considerable potential for greatness, including community and regional planning, historic preservation, architectural history, and urban design. Landscape architecture is still new, but it is off to an excellent start.

Determining what's best is a tricky venture. Traditional measures include faculty and student quality and "reputation," which is both vague and powerful. We already attract the best and the brightest undergraduate students in the state. Continued recruitment of the best graduate students is more competitive and requires significant fellowship support. The recruitment of the best graduate students is central to being the best school. In addition, I believe alumni, former faculty, and staff contribute much to quality. We stand on the shoulders of the giants who proceeded us both as students and faculty. The accomplishments of our alumni contribute much to our reputation. We depend on a high quality staff in order to teach effectively and to pursue our scholarly endeavors. Recruiting and retaining an excellent faculty, strong graduate students, and a high quality staff is one of my major goals. This requires investment beyond what the state provides.

In order to become the best, we need to determine who is better. Among public universities, I would single out Michigan and Cal Berkeley as peers. Over the past year, we have discussed our optimal size and our organization.

Our size compares nicely to both Michigan and Berkeley, although their planning and landscape architecture programs indicate ours could grow to be more similar to both peers. Like us, the University of Michigan was created by its state's constitution. The Michigan College of Architecture and Planning does not have departments either and is also organized in programs. However, as reflected in the college name, it focuses on only two disciplines with urban design as a bridge. Michigan has recently launched a real estate program also bridging urban planning and architecture. Landscape architecture is in another college, and interior design does not exist at Michigan.

Berkeley's College of Environmental Design is organized into three departments: architecture, landscape architecture and environmental planning, and city and regional planning, again with an urban design program as a bridge. So, should we become a "college" rather than a "school"? Should we change our name to add other disciplines or with a term spanning disciplines?

Perhaps. Personally, I think our name fits with other professional schools, like Law and Pharmacy, here at UT. I also like "Architecture" in our name, but then I tend to view architecture more broadly (like the Italians) rather than more narrowly (like the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners, which, however, does include landscape architecture and interior design under its purview).

I think a more important barrier to becoming better is our organization. Our current structure demands considerable service from faculty. The time spent on service could be more effectively spent on teaching and scholarship. I do not advocate departmental structure. Academic departments are a nineteenth century invention that results in silos between disciplines. We should create a new model that responds to the cross-disciplinary challenges of the twenty-first century. I believe we are close.

Such an organization will help us tap into the university's coming campaign goals, which will emphasize strengthening academic program leadership. Although Harvard's $360 million endowment is out of reach in the next capital campaign, Michigan's and Berkeley's endowments are closer. Michigan's endowment is currently $74 million and is expecting more as they close out their capital campaign. Cal Berkeley has a $33 million endowment compared to our $28 million. Berkeley's College of Environmental Design has more students than we do, so our per student endowment is about the same as theirs.

But, we should look beyond our major peers--Arizona State is reportedly close to a $25 million gift, Clemson received a $20 million endowment for architecture, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo recently landed a $60 million planned gift. The University of Kentucky has a new endowment devoted to the academic development of assistant professors. Clearly, many public schools of architecture are expanding their endowment support, too.

We enter the capital campaign with several advantages: Battle Hall is approaching its 100th anniversary. This is one of the finest buildings on campus, in the state really. Battle faces important ADA, fire-safety, maintenance, and preservation issues that must be addressed. Concerns about sustainability and urbanization have galvanized the public's attention. Increasingly, our disciplines are taking center stage in the public discourse about concerns ranging from the relationship between public health and the built environment to global climate change.

Over the past two years, we have worked together with our Advisory Council to identify priorities for the next capital campaign. Although this remains a work in progress, I'm confident that major focuses will be Battle Hall and enhancing the human capital of the school.

Of course, all this depends on donors willing and eager to support these initiatives. We are getting close to a list of realistic priorities and will begin soon to write our case statement for the campaign. Such support is necessary for us to indeed become the best public school of architecture in the nation.

My vision, any vision, only resonates if it is shared by others. In our case, we can only become the best if the faculty and staff share that goal. We are at a university that expects the best at a time when the public is turning to architecture and the other disciplines in our school to address the important challenges of our day.

—Fritz Steiner

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