Spring 2025 Visiting Faculty
The UT School of Architecture is proud to host three new visiting professors this semester. Join us in welcoming Cory Henry, the Dr. Nancy Panak Kwallek Endowed Chair in Design & Planning, Daniel Escotto, the Eugene McDermott Centennial Visiting Professor, and Eric Bunge, the Ruth Carter Stevenson Regents Chair in the Art of Architecture. Each member offers broad experience and unique insight that will enrich the work of students and faculty alike.
Cory Henry is known for his rigorous design approach, which emphasizes materiality, cultural narratives, and spatial clarity. His eponymously named office, Atelier Cory Henry, is known for work that is deeply rooted in its context and history, and that balances expressive form with a sensitivity to light, materiality, and human experience.
He was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, the Bogliasco Fellowship and others, winner of the National Emerging Architect On Olive Residence competition by Emily Pulitzer, and recognized by NCARB as an emerging force in the field. His work and writing have been published and exhibit in Empathic Design: Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces (Island Press 2024), Architecture Record, Lisbon Triennale, Monterey Design Conference, AIA, and has been part of panel discussions and lectured widely, including at the National Building Museum, Harvard University, AIA Los Angeles, Real Matter, Syracuse University, Washington University in St. Louis, Cornell University, University of Maryland, and University of Oklahoma.
Henry is also committed to academia and the next generation of creators and agents of change in design and the built environment. Currently a Visiting Critic at The University of Texas in Austin, he holds a reoccurring position with the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and twice honored with The University of Maryland’s Kea Distinguished Professorship in Architecture and Design, joining a legacy that includes Michael Graves, Nader Terhani, Phillip Freelon, Antoine Predock, Michael Graves, Collin Rowe, Brian McKay-Lyons and others. His teaching experience spans institutions such as the Washington University in St. Louis, University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, University of Southern California, and Penn State.
Henry invites students to engage with the multilayered setting of Brownsville/South Atlanta, Georgia in his 2025 Advanced Studio course: “The Third Space.” At the front lines of intense gentrification, racial violence, and redlining in a once-vibrant educational hub, this studio prompts students to build new spatial, ecological, sociocultural, and economic frameworks at multiple scales. In the midst of this cultural complexity, students will approach design as both a connection to context and a provocation for transformation, creating a speculative neighborhood library and additional civic programs based on their research and interests.
Eric Bunge, FAIA is a co-Founding Partner of Brooklyn-based nARCHITECTS. Born in Montreal of Argentinian heritage, Eric trained in London, Calcutta, Paris, Boston and New York before co-founding nARCHITECTS with Mimi Hoang in 1999. Eric is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning, and has taught at Parsons School of Design, R.I.S.D. and Columbia/Barnard Colleges, and as a visiting professor at Harvard University, Yale University, UC Berkeley, Université de Montreal, University of Toronto, and this year at UT Austin. He holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from McGill University. Along with Mimi Hoang, Eric is the co-author of "Buildings and Almost Buildings."
nARCHITECTS received the 2023 National Design Award in Architecture by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Additional honors include an American Academy of Arts and Letters in Architecture Award, AIA New York State Firm of the Year Award, AIA National Institute Honor Award, AIA NYS Excelsior Honor Award, AIANY Design Honor / Merit awards, AIANY Andrew J. Thomas Award for Pioneers in Housing, The Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices, Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization’s President’s Award, and two Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards for Spaces. ‘
In his Spring 2025 Advanced Design Studio, Bunge is bringing a cohort of students to Mexico City for “This is Not a School”: an exercise in creating a new vision for the school of architecture through a proposed hypothetical off-campus annex to the UTSOA. Drawing direct inspiration from interdisciplinary spaces in Mexico City, students will rethink and reframe their understanding of spaces for architectural education and, consequentially, architectural pedagogy itself.
Daniel Escotto is a professor of architectural theory and history. His areas of research are 20th-century architectural heritage, the European diaspora of modernity in Latin American countries and its effects on the arts and architectural culture. Holding a master’s in arts and architecture studies from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Escotto has taught at the School of Architecture of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) for the last 21 years.
Escotto has profound expertise in the implementation of projects and policies in urban public spaces and the relation to politics and civic culture. He oversaw the integration of the inscription dossier for the Central University City Campus of UNAM as a World Heritage Site, is a former Public Space Authority of Mexico City Government, and is the founder and director of the postgraduate program in Public Space and Urban Mobility at UNAM. He also led project development on the public space and infrastructure improvement program, a nationwide action of the Federal Government of Mexico.
Escotto has been teaching at UT Austin for the entire 2024-2025 academic year. In the fall, he taught a graduate seminar titled “Social Responsibility of Architecture and Urban Planning” through the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies’ (LLILAS) Tinker Visiting Professor program; and this spring he’s leading an Advanced Design Studio: “Studio Mexico 2025: New Sustainable Community Master Plan and Architectural Development in the Yucatán Peninsula.” This iteration of Studio Mexico 2025 investigates the cultural and ecological dynamics of locations along the Tren Maya passenger rail system, bringing students to the Yucatán Peninsula to propose a socially responsible and sustainable Community Master Plan and Architectural Development project that harmonizes heritage and infrastructure.