Fellowships

FELLOWSHIPS

Bi-annually, The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture awards two fellowships to emerging scholars and practitioners within the disciplines of the built environment. The prestigious two-year fellowships offer promising individuals at the beginning of their academic careers the opportunity to develop their teaching and work within an intellectually diverse and dynamic academic context. Each of these fellowships includes teaching related to the candidate’s area of interest, resources for developing a distinctive body of work, and opportunities to interface with faculty and other disciplines within the School of Architecture and with The University of Texas at Austin at large.

EMERGING SCHOLAR IN DESIGN

The Emerging Scholar in Design Fellowship is open to candidates who hold a professional or terminal degree in a design discipline, and who are positioned to integrate their scholarly trajectory with their pedagogical agenda. The scholar teaches two design studios and an elective or support course each year, and is expected to contribute to the school’s intellectual life by engaging in critical theoretical or creative work. During the last semester of their appointment, they will present this work to the university community through a public format, such as a lecture or exhibition.

2024-2026: Andy Bako 
2023-2025: Patrick Danahy 
2022-2024: Tyler Swingle 
2021-2023: Tekena Koko 
2020-2022: Stephanie Choi 
2019-2021: Piergianna Mazzocca

LAND, SPACE, AND IDENTITY IN THE AMERICAS

Launched in 2023, the Land, Space, and Identity in the Americas Fellowship supports the professional development of a scholar whose research or design work examines the changing relationship between social identity, placemaking, and the built environment in the Americas, past, present, or future. The School of Architecture has a long history of considering the role of design thinking in the Americas, and this fellowship encourages research that explores studies of spatial practices in the Americas. The fellow teaches two courses related to their research each year, and is expected to produce ongoing theoretical, empirical, or creative work which they will present to the university community. 

2024-2026: Michael Moynihan

RACE, GENDER, AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Awarded between 2016 and 2023, the Race, Gender, and the Built Environment Fellowship supported the development of future scholars whose work centers on the relationships and intersections between race, gender, and the built environment in the fields represented within the UT School of Architecture. The rotating fellow was part of a greater initiative designed to strengthen the school's teaching and research in this area, and to build a transformative approach to issue of race, gender, and social equity within the disciplines of the built enviornment. 

2021-2023: Todd Levon Brown 
2019-2021: Adam Miller 
2018-2019: Sara Zwede 
2017-2018: Edna Ledesma 
2016-2017: Ana Livia Brand and Andrea Roberts

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    Join us next Friday, May 2 for our End of Year Show, an exhibit celebrating a year of UTSOA, themed Overexposed.<br>
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    Join us next Friday, May 2 for our End of Year Show, an exhibit celebrating a year of UTSOA, themed Overexposed.

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    Congrats @utsoafirstyears on wrapping up Design II final reviews yesterday! <br /><br />Final review week continues tomorrow through Friday. For a list of guest critics, visit the link in our bio. And tune in and follow along on our stories all week. <br /><br />Best of luck everyone!
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    Congrats @utsoafirstyears on wrapping up Design II final reviews yesterday!

    Final review week continues tomorrow through Friday. For a list of guest critics, visit the link in our bio. And tune in and follow along on our stories all week.

    Best of luck everyone!

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    Congratulations to the three interior design students named to Metropolis Magazine’s 2025 Future 100 list: Winnie Lin @winnlin (MID), Ashley Marie Sparks @ashleysparks_ (BSID), and Nandita Warrier (MID II).
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    Congratulations to the three interior design students named to Metropolis Magazine’s 2025 Future 100 list: Winnie Lin @winnlin (MID), Ashley Marie Sparks @ashleysparks_ (BSID), and Nandita Warrier (MID II).

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    The Interior Design Program at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture is hosting the Interior Provocations symposium, in collaboration with Pratt Institute, on Friday, November 7, 2025.<br>
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    The Interior Design Program at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture is hosting the Interior Provocations symposium, in collaboration with Pratt Institute, on Friday, November 7, 2025.

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    Waterloo Park is a 11-acre park and green space along Austin’s Waller Creek less than one mile from the @utaustin campus.
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    Waterloo Park is a 11-acre park and green space along Austin’s Waller Creek less than one mile from the @utaustin campus.

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    Assistant Professor Daniel Koehler’s (@punktiert ) advanced research-by-design studio is exploring the convergence of Generative AI (GA) and advanced material systems in architectural design, using the typology of a contemporary school building as a testing ground. <br>
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    Assistant Professor Daniel Koehler’s (@punktiert ) advanced research-by-design studio is exploring the convergence of Generative AI (GA) and advanced material systems in architectural design, using the typology of a contemporary school building as a testing ground.

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    Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Landscape First conference last week!
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    Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Landscape First conference last week!

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    A multidisciplinary team of students took home first place in this year’s @americanplanningassociation Planning and Design competition.
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    A multidisciplinary team of students took home first place in this year’s @americanplanningassociation Planning and Design competition.

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    “540 Howard St.” by Jamie Treadwell for Lisa Iwamoto’s and Craig Scott’s (@cs_sf) Advanced Studio // 2023-2024 Design Excellence winner<br>
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    “540 Howard St.” by Jamie Treadwell for Lisa Iwamoto’s and Craig Scott’s (@cs_sf) Advanced Studio // 2023-2024 Design Excellence winner