An exhibit of UTSoA faculty research was on display in the University Co-op Materials Lab during the Texas Architects Annual Convention held October 18-20, 2012 at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.
Participants: Danelle Briscoe, Kory Bieg, Cisco Gomes, Matt Fajkus, Igor Siddiqui
Curator: Sydney Manister
More images from the VRC
The images in this exhibition were contributed to the Visual Resources Collection by Community and Regional Planning Ph.D. student Kristine Stiphany.
Work by UTSoA students was featured in the inaugural WEST Austin Studio Tour in Spring 2012. Though the tour took place May 19-20, the UTSoA work remained on exhibit throughout the summer in the Materials Lab. The selected students' projects demonstrate intelligent, sophisticated material exploration.
Featured Work:
Construction 5, Associate Professor Elizabeth Danze
Hector Garcia-Castrillo, Julie Huynh, Judson Garwood, Rebekah Broadfoot, Daniel Morrison, Brian Anderson
Environmental Controls 1, Adjunct Professor Adam Pyrek
This workshop, hosted by Molly Purnell, M.Arch '14, included a brief introduction to loom weaving as well as a hands-on opportunity to try Danish cord weaving, a technique for creating seats for fine furniture.
Hosted by Jeff Williams, Assistant Professor in Sculpture
Students in Judy Birdsong’s fall 2011 Vertical Studio photographed the images displayed in the Visual Resources Collection’s (VRC) spring-summer 2012 exhibit. Students designed and constructed their own pinhole cameras, and using either film negatives or silver-gelatin print paper, took photographs that they developed and printed in the School of Architecture Darkroom, a facility managed by the VRC.
The Center for American Architecture and Design, the College of Fine Arts and the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music held the Music in Architecture – Architecture in Music Symposium on the University of Texas at Austin campus in October 2011.
Over two decades, Professor Wilfried Wang took thousands of slides with the robust single lens reflex camera (Leica SL2 either with the Zeiss Biogon 21mm wide angle lens or with the Vario-Elmar 14-50mm lens). Over the past few years, Professor Wang has been systematically donating his collection to the School of Architecture (SoA) Visual Resources Collection (VRC). The VRC has in turn been digitizing and cataloging the slides so that digital versions are available to SoA faculty and students to support teaching and research.
Michael Gatto is co-founder and Executive Director of the Austin Community Design and Development Center (ACDDC), a non-profit whose mission is to improve the quality of life for all by providing sustainable design, planning, and development services to low and moderate income individuals, families, and neighborhoods. The Alley Flat Initiative marks one of ACDDC’s important affordable housing developments, designed in collaboration with the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development and the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development. Michael earned a B.S.