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ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY NEWS

News and updates from The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture's Architectural History Program

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Mellon Foundation Grants Awarded to Tara Dudley and Charles L. Davis II

September 5, 2025

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May Term Travel Opportunities

August 25, 2025

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Announcing "Planetary Imaginaries"

August 22, 2025

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Kotchakorn Voraakhom Urges Graduates to Become the “Compassion Generation”

May 12, 2025

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Meet Michael Moynihan

March 10, 2025

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Spring 2025 Public Programming

January 17, 2025

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Meet Visiting Faculty Daniel Escotto

December 3, 2024

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Faculty, Alumni, and University Win 2024 Preservation Austin Awards

October 24, 2024

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Visiting Faculty Join UTSOA

September 11, 2024

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The Black Home as Public Art Symposium Pluralizes the Architectural Canon

August 12, 2024

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Congratulations to the Class of 2024

May 13, 2024

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Meet Professor of Practice Dora Epstein Jones

February 23, 2024

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The Life & Architectural Legacy of John S. Chase

February 19, 2024

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Digitizing Decolonization in Oaxaca, Mexico

January 31, 2024

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The Tower’s Beloved History and Renewed Future

September 1, 2023

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New and Visiting Faculty Join UTSOA

August 10, 2023

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Graham Foundation Awards Funding for Exhibition

July 25, 2023

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Visualizing the Racial Epistemologies of the Architectural Canon

March 30, 2023

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Professor Long’s Scholarship Praised in The New York Review of Books

March 28, 2023

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“For Whites” Exhibition on Display through April 14

March 23, 2023

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Q&A with Charles L. Davis II

March 9, 2023

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What Starts Here: Highlights from Career Fair

February 10, 2023

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Celebrating Black History Month at UT Austin

February 3, 2023

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Spring 2023 Visiting Faculty

January 18, 2023

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Race and Architecture at UT: Researching and Teaching Difficult and Contested Histories in the Built Environment

December 10, 2022

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The Ones Who Inspire Us

October 12, 2022

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Welcoming New Faculty Members

August 18, 2022

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Call for Papers | CROSSROADS: Uncovering the Histories of the Built Environment in the Americas and the Global South

June 9, 2022

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One of Austin’s first Black communities has largely been erased. This building tells its tale.

March 3, 2022

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Q&A with Dr. Tara Dudley

February 22, 2022

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Meet Assistant Professor Bryan Norwood

September 3, 2021

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PhD Candidate Willa Granger Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard

August 31, 2021

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New Stackable, Transcriptable Graduate Certificates Available Fall 2021

July 13, 2021

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Dr. Sarah Lopez Awarded Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship

June 7, 2021

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Mapping John S. Chase

April 5, 2021

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International Conference on Architectural Criticism

March 3, 2021

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Two Doctoral Candidates Receive Carter Manny Citation of Special Recognition

November 5, 2020

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CENTER 22 Explores Latitudes: Architecture in the Americas

November 3, 2020

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Students Launch 20th Century Latin American Modernism Podcast Series

July 27, 2020

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Student Research on Display at Neill-Cochran House Museum

June 8, 2020

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Fall 2018 Studio Work on Display at 12th Annual Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale

September 16, 2019

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Magdalena Novoa, Student

March 1, 2019

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Richard Cleary on Spatial Invention in Sports

September 7, 2018

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Sutton Hall at 100

April 17, 2018

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Center for American Architecture and Design Releases New Book by Joyce Rosner

June 22, 2017

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Archive & Personal Library of Scholar and Architect Anthony Alofsin Acquired by UT Libraries

April 12, 2017

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Museo di Castelvecchio: Photographs by Sean O'Brien

February 16, 2017

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UTSOA Students Propose New Solutions for U.S./Mexico Border

December 14, 2016

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Richard Cleary, Faculty

April 27, 2016

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Sarah Lopez, Faculty

April 12, 2016

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A WITNESS TO HISTORY: Battle Hall and the Past, Present, and Future of the School of Architecture

May 27, 2014