Kevin Alter is Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Sid W. Richardson Centennial Professor of Architecture, Director of the Summer Academy in Architecture and Associate Director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at The University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in design, construction, and theory. He is a graduate of Bennington College and of Harvard University and has practiced professionally in Massachusetts, New York, and Texas. His professional work has received several design awards, including a 1998 AIA Honor Award. This work has been reviewed in Texas Architect, The New York Times, and the Dallas Morning News, and he was one of seven architects featured in the "Young Americans" issue of Architecture magazine (May 1999). Editor of Center 9: Regarding the Proper; Construction Intention Detail: Five Swiss Architects (Zurich: Artemis, 1994); and Harvard Architecture Review #9, his writing has also appeared in Architecture, Progressive Architecture, and Cite. He has curated 12 separate exhibitions (including Building the California Dream: The Eichler Homes; Conception and Construction: Five Swiss Architects; and The Work of Alvaro Siza), which have appeared in many venues including Columbia University, Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. He has also been a visiting critic, reviewer, and lecturer at dozens of institutions nationally and internationally, was a Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University in the spring of 2001, and was the Favrot Professor of Architecture at Tulane University in the spring of 2000. His research, which bridges his scholarship, teaching, and professional practice, focuses upon the relationship between the material facts of architecture and its social uses and opportunities.