exhibits
The Visual Resources Collection curates two exhibits each year. Exhibits are on display in Sutton 3.128 and open to the public Monday-Friday, 8-5..
Past exhibits can be viewed in the Exhibit Archive.
Visual Transpositions: A Photographic Dialog Between Austin Past and Present
Congress Avenue, Austin, TX. June Jung, 2013.
Monday, February 18, 2013 to Friday, August 16, 2013
Exhibit Opening:
Thursday, February 28, 2013 from 2-4 pm
Visual Resources Collection, Sutton 3.128
The images in this exhibit highlight Austin's Congress Avenue, with streetscapes captured in the 1950s and 60s alongside scenes of Congress and its environs as they stand today. The exhibit's historical images are available from the Texas Architecture: A Visual History Website and the VRC's Online Image Collection. Contemporary images were shot by VRC staff members and developed and printed in the UTSOA Darkroom, a resource managed by the VRC and available to all currently enrolled UTSOA students.
Ideas In and Out of Place: Architecture in Brazil, 1930-2010
Copan Building, Oscar Niemeyer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1945
Monday, September 17, 2012 to Friday, August 16, 2013
Exhibit Opening:
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 from 2-4 pm
Visual Resources Collection, Sutton 3.128
Images are on display through August 16, 2013 in Battle Hall
The images in this exhibit were contributed to the Visual Resources Collection by Community and Regional Planning Ph.D. student Kristine Stiphany.
"The images explore the adaptation of modernist architecture to the socio-technical and biophysical conditions of the contemporary Brazilian city. Since the 1920s, a diverse set of actors—architects, engineers, and builders—have developed new approaches to a largely Eurocentric architecture, resulting in points of contact and divergence. The resulting hybrids challenge the contextual independence inherent in high modernist architecture and introduce strategies of environmental management, citizen involvement, public education, and integration of materials and methods endemic to Brazilian building culture." --Kristine Stiphany
