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The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture has a long and historic legacy in providing next-generation leadership for design and planning education. Always aware of our role as stewards of the built environment, we meld principle and practice to foster innovation while remaining grounded in serving our communities.
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We’re still buzzing from all the brilliant work and excitement from last week’s final reviews.
Congratulations, students, and thank you to all of the faculty, staff, and reviewers who helped make it happen!Instagram Post@utsoaThankful for you, our UTSOA community 🩵 And this courtyard #HappyThanksgiving
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Instagram Post@utsoaScenes from Masonry Day 2023 • Each fall, Associate Professor Cisco Gomes’ Construction course introduces students to commonly-used building materials and established construction practices.
Instagram Post@utsoaTomorrow, Aleida Villasana @aleida.arqui and Simon Butler @simonsks will take over our Instagram to show us what their Advanced Design Studio got up to in Mexico earlier this semester.
Instagram Post@utsoaBeautiful Battle Hall • Designed by Cass Gilbert, Battle Hall (aka the Architecture and Planning Library) was the first building on campus to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Instagram Post@utsoaOn Monday, November 6, Felecia Davis, Associate Professor in the Stuckeman Center for Design and Computation @stuckeman_views, closes out our Fall 2023 lecture series with her lecture “Soft Systems: Crafting an Architecture.”
Instagram Post@utsoaThis Halloween, we're throwing it back to two *spooooky* workshops hosted by the @materials_lab: A solar-powered workshop where students got to create a DIY solar-powered jack-o-lantern and a vacuum-formed mask workshop which introduced students to the vacuum former, using a 3D mask form and a sheet
Instagram Post@utsoaStudents in Senior Lecturer @robertstepnoski’s “Reality Capture for Architecture” class documented the entire Zilker Clubhouse site on Barton Springs Road this summer.