ARC 327R.2 / 386M.3
Open to all students, Apply through Texas Global before Nov. 1st
David Heymann: heymann@utexas.edu
We will use London and its surroundings as a daily laboratory to explore how architectural meaning and experience can be conveyed through photography and related media.
These days, architecture – of a room, building, square, urban sequence, landscape – is almost exclusively communicated and consumed through photographs or photograph-like images. Conventional architectural photography is notoriously limited in what it can convey, favoring form over other factors that give the built environment value, like experience, social and historical context, environmental performance, etc. But the rise of after-Modern art, digital technologies, and social media have changed our understanding of how a photograph is made, what its interactions are with other media, and what we consider a photograph to be. We will ask you to use these changes to experiment with how you represent architecture in London.
We will meet daily at locations around London to work on photographic exercises, then meet in class to discuss your work, which will include developing your own portfolio project. Each week we will also have one full day excursion, and there will be one long weekend free (you can also travel before and after the program).
May Term tuition is part of Spring 2026 tuition. Though this class does not have a formal 1-hour seminar during the Spring 2026 semester, we will organize three long class sessions to cover various topics at times that work for everyone enrolled.
Applications for enrollment (and one UT travel scholarship) are due by November 1st.
