Moments of Connection, Fragile Future

New Gift Supports Craft and Artisanship in Interior Environments

March 23, 2022
The Emily Summers Fund for Craft & Artisanship in Interior Design will bring in recognized leaders and emerging voices in the fields of applied arts and design to explore craft, making, and fabrication as areas with profound potential for innovation.
What Starts Here Capital Campaign Kick Off Reception

School Sets $30M Campaign Goal to Support Students, Faculty, Research, Facilities

March 15, 2022
As we look to the next 100 years and address complex challenges, our work in the disciplines of the built environment will be key in providing solutions. With the generous and strategic support of the School of Architecture’s alumni, friends, and supporters, we can achieve this vision and build a better future for Texas and beyond.
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Three Planning Faculty Awarded Faculty Innovation Grants Focused on Affordable Housing

March 14, 2022
By focusing the university’s resources on acute societal challenges like housing affordability, faculty expertise can be leveraged to help ameliorate some of these issues. To this end, three Community & Regional Planning faculty members will each receive $25,000 to support their research proposals.
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One of Austin’s first Black communities has largely been erased. This building tells its tale.

March 3, 2022
The Texas Standard speaks with Dr. Tara Dudley about Austin's Wheatville freedmen community and The Gold Dollar Building in West Campus.
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CM2 Researchers Launch New Book Exploring Megaregions

March 1, 2022
Megaregions and America’s Future aims to encapsulate the work of the CM2 Center by offering a look at the history of the megaregion as well as a menu of policy options for how to take advantage of it.
John Chase Enrolls at UT in 1950

$1 million donated to UT Austin School of Architecture honoring John S. Chase, their first Black graduate

February 28, 2022
Archinect highlights the Chase family's gift to the school to create two new permanent endowments to to increase diversity and representation in the field.
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Two Faculty Elevated to AIA College of Fellows

February 25, 2022
As long-time members of our faculty, John Blood and Keith Simon have left a lasting impact on the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, and on the lives of the many students they have served during their time here.
John Chase and his two sons stand in front of their Houston home in the early 1960s

Houston businessman donates $1 million to UT in honor of his father, the state’s first Black architect

February 24, 2022
The Houston Chronicle covers the announcement of John Chase's family's $1M donation to the school.
John Chase Enrolls at UT in 1950

Gift Honors Architect John S. Chase, Aims to Increase Diversity in the Field

February 24, 2022
The $1 million donation committed by Chase and his wife Dr. Dina Alsowayel will create two new permanent endowments: The John S. Chase Family Endowed Graduate Fellowship and The John S. Chase Family Endowed Professorship in Architecture
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Student Team Advances to ULI Competition Finals

February 23, 2022
Now in its 20th year, the annual ULI Hines Competition offers graduate students the opportunity to form their own multidisciplinary teams and engage in a challenging exercise in responsible land use.
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Q&A with Dr. Tara Dudley

February 22, 2022
To celebrate Dr. Tara Dudley's appointment as a full-time faculty member, we sat down with her to discuss her background and professional trajectory and learn more about her current and future research projects
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PRP Now! Ramsey Robinson // Architecture Studio

February 20, 2022
PRP Now! is a series of interviews that highlight a current UTSOA Professional Residency Program student every few weeks.
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Meet Our Presidential Management Finalist Kelsey Wingo

February 15, 2022
To recognize and celebrate Wingo’s selection as a Presidential Management Fellow, we recently caught up with her to learn more about her background, interests, and what she’s looking forward to as her fellowship kicks off later this year.
Haettasch Middle Grounds

Haettasch Receives ACSA Architectural Education Award

February 14, 2022
Hättasch is one of only three educators to receive the AIA / ACSA Housing Design Education Award for his Comprehensive/Integrative Design Studio sequence “Middle Grounds—New Prototypes for Medium-Density Housing” between 2018-2021.
Large City Architecture Research Exhibition

Large City Architecture Research Exhibition on Display in Mebane Through Mid April

February 9, 2022
Curated by Daniel Koehler and Rasa Navasaityte, this exhibition explores forms of community housing created when architectural parks physically compute shared ownership, community amenities, micro-climates, terraced gardens, and carbon sinking.
A timelapse of vehicles traveling along South Congress Avenue looking towards the Texas State Capitol

Karner Receives Three Grants to Study Impacts of Transportation Decision Making

February 8, 2022
Community & Regional Planning Associate Professor Alex Karner recently received three grants to study the impacts of transportation decisions on different communities and at different scales
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PRP Now! Anna Parkison // Olson Kundig

February 1, 2022
PRP Now! is a series of interviews that highlight a current UTSOA Professional Residency Program student every few weeks.
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Spring 2022 Lecture Series

January 19, 2022
Starting Wednesday, January 26, and continuing throughout the semester, a broad-cross section of practitioners and representatives from the academy will present lectures that address some of the built environment’s most urgent issues