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Vincent Snyder's academic research and teaching activities are primarily concerned with how specific cultural, contextual and constructional demands influence architectural design. Additionally, much of his current work reflects critical responses that investigate the role and appropriateness of various techniques of precision as either generative or refining modes of application. His firm, Vincent Snyder, Architect was established in Austin in 1995. His current professional work ranges in scale from residential to institutional. He is a registered architect in Texas, California and Nebraska. Prior to this, he worked several years as a senior design architect with Frank O. Gehry & Associates, Inc. and also has project experience in the offices of Michael Graves, Architect, and Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood, Architects, Inc. Some of Vincent Snyder's honors and awards include a project selected for the AIA Dallas Home Tour 2008, a C2C Home Award (with Douglas Oliver) 2005, a Progressive Architecture Award from Architecture magazine in 2003, an Award in 2002 and a Citation in 2001 from Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Design Awards program, a national Faculty Design Award 2002 from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and an Outstanding Teacher Award (Studio) 1999 at the University of Texas at Austin.