Ji Yoon stands in front of Teotitlan with their hat in their hands.

Digitizing Decolonization in Oaxaca, Mexico

January 31, 2024
With support from the Boone Powell Family Prize in Urban Design, Ji Yoon Ahn combines their interests in advanced digital documentation technologies and Mexican archaeology to explore the palimpsest of pre-colonial and colonial architecture in Central Mexico.
PRP Now Tile block for Cameron Osborne

Cameron Osborne // Renzo Piano Building Workshop

December 18, 2023
PRP Now! is a series of interviews that highlight a current UTSOA Professional Residency Program student every few weeks.
A stronghold against urbanization. Correlation of the Jaguar Corridor with the dataset of the “Three global conditions for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use” (2020). Credit: Juana Salcedo 

Mapping the Jaguar Corridor: A Radiography of Urbanization

November 20, 2023
Assistant Professor of Practice Juana Salcedo considers public space through the lens of the territory of the jaguar, uncovering the ways we make space for and through nature. This article originally appeared in the 2023-2024 edition of Platform, "Civics and Placemaking."
Students documenting a 1936 building at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

Placemaking: The Role of Historic Preservation and Building Documentation in Creating Inspiring Public Spaces 

November 20, 2023
Associate Professor Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla highlights placemaking work by the School of Architecture's Historic Preservation Program in some of our country's national parks, illustrating how historic preservation can balance the seemingly divergent aims of creation and conservation. This article originally appeared in the 2023-2024 edition of Platform, "Civics and Placemaking."
A model of a complex three-dimensional puzzle comprised of different colored and textured materials

Puzzling Forms of Assembly

October 19, 2023
An Advanced Design Studio led by Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu, and Paul Germaine McCoy challenged students to reconsider and expand the design process by prioritizing model-making and methods of assembly.
Juana Salcedo and three other scholars sit on stage in yellow chairs in front of a projection screen.

Longhorns at FILUNI Address Environmental, Journalistic, Architectural Possibilities

October 2, 2023
Texas Global looks at several School of Architecture panels from the FILUNI Book Fair & Conference earlier this fall, including conversations with Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, Juana Salcedo, Kory Bieg, Ria Bravo, and Clay Odom.
UNAM Campus

Exploring the Architecture of the Americas at FILUNI 2023

August 21, 2023
Several School of Architecture faculty will participate in a multinational book fair and conference at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, expanding the school’s relationships and highlighting faculty expertise in the region
Design futures student participants standing in a grassy field

2023 Design Futures Student Leadership Forum

August 1, 2023
We caught up with the School of Architecture students who participated in the 2023 Design Futures Forum earlier this summer about what they learned and what they hope to bring back to their work and the school.
Gulf Coast Design Lab project in Lufkin, Texas

Gulf Coast DesignLab in Lufkin, Texas

May 9, 2023
Working with the Temple Foundation, students designed and built an outdoor pavilion in deep East Texas to serve as an environmental education center within the Boggy Slough Conservation Area.
UTSOA's HUD competition student team at the site in Chicago, Illinois

Student Team Named Finalists in HUD 2023 Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition

March 14, 2023
A multidisciplinary team of students from UT Austin is one of only four selected for their plan to redevelop a public housing site in Chicago, Illinois.
Laurence S. Rockefeller Preserve Center in Jackson Hole, WY

Reimagining the Interiority of Our National Parks with Lysa Janssen’s Advanced Studio

November 9, 2021
Interior design students travel to Wyoming to consider the relationships between interiors and exterior spaces, as well as organic and inorganic spatial features, through the lens of our nation’s national park system.
Wide angle view of a town on the coast of the Galapagos, seen from afar looking through trees over a grassy area.

Do-No-Harm, Do-More-Good: Building for Sustainability in the Galapagos

September 21, 2021
Students to study sustainable growth as it manifests in the Galapagos Islands as part of the President's Award for Global Learning
Lindquist Fulbright

Lindquist Selected as Fulbright Research Finalist to China for '20-'21 Academic Year

April 17, 2020
Lindquist will complete a project in the southern province of Guangdong, China that aims to examine the lived experience of residents in internationally-planned and binational new- and eco-towns.
Three University of Texas at Austin interior design students smiling at the camera with their hands in the hook 'em symbol in front of a purple stage backdrop

Three Students Selected as Finalists in ASID’s National Student Portfolio Competition

February 28, 2020
They were among only thirteen selected out of more than 200 submissions.
Transportation in Lagos Nigeria

CRP Student Receives Prestigious Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship

November 25, 2019
Alcorn’s thesis “Informal Transit Integration with Planning Transit Systems in Lagos, Nigeria” examines the integration and relationships between informal and formal transit services in Lagos, Nigeria.
The team with UT President Greg Fenvez

Student Team Awarded Presidents Award for Global Learning

November 4, 2019
The team’s proposal will take them to Tokyo this summer during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where they will study the use of autonomous vehicles
Observe Oppenheimer Bird Observatory

Gulf Coast DesignLab Recognized by City of Galveston

October 30, 2019
Projects completed by students in the Gulf Coast DesignLab studio receive the City of Galveton's first-ever Planning & Design Awards.
Monterrey, Mexico La Campana

Students Receive Statewide Award from APA-Texas

October 16, 2019
Students win 2019 Texas Planning Award for Best Student Project for "Engaging Urban Informality in Monterrey, Mexico” which immersed students in an informal community located in the heart of urbanized Monterrey.