Our two-part workshop on solar power launched Thursday, October 22nd, 2020, with a virtual talk from Stan Pipkin, an Austin-based architect and owner of Lighthouse Solar, on the trajectory of solar power in our local community and beyond. Then on Thursday, October 29th, 2020, Materials Lab TAs Andrea Alvarez Barrios and Hannah Oppelt led students in a virtual workshop where participants assembled solar-powered luminaires with Halloween jack-o’-lanterns.
Please join BIG for a virtual presentation on the firm, current work and hiring practices on October 15. The event will be held at 11:00am CST on Zoom for students (link to be emailed out and shared in the newsletter). The event will also be livestreamed to the Texas Architecture YouTube Channel.
Working across scale and traditional boundaries, JAJA strives to create architecture, landscape, and urban planning from a holistic perspective. We aim to make each intervention a distinct, yet natural part of its environment, to create a dialogue between the project and the inherent qualities of the location. We believe that projects with strong roots in their physical environment create greater experiences and added value, not only to the project but also to the surrounding community.
Career Services is excited to announce that we will be hosting a Portfolio Workshop on Tuesday, October 13 from 5:30-7:15pm on Zoom!
We only know their given names, but Mack, Adam, and Ned gave shape to Austin. They were among the enslaved Blacks who, in 1839, cleared the land and erected the first buildings to realize Edwin Waller’s plan for the capital city of the Republic of Texas. Black members of the building trades continued to shape the city after Emancipation. Their presence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries can be glimpsed in construction photographs of landmarks including the Capitol and the buildings of the The University of Texas at Austin.
Apocalypse comes from the Greek word that meant "revelation" or "unveiling." The pandemic and the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor among others laid bare a landscape of injustice and oppression that have long been in existence. Addressing systems of harm will never be easy, but it is necessary work. For too long, design has often been complicit in that harm. This talk will explore what it means to wrestle with that and explore what it could mean to negotiate issues of race and space in service of healing.
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This two-part virtual workshop explored hempcrete, a low-carbon building material that utilizes rapidly renewable hemp. Part 1 began with a virtual presentation led by Henry Valles, an Austin-based, NAR Green Certified realtor and co-founder of the Hemp Industries Association, Texas Chapter, and the US Hemp Building Association. Valles spearheaded efforts to build a tiny hempcrete house at Community First!
Downstream, a sophisticated outdoor laboratory automatically analyzes the chemistry of the river every 30 minutes. Upstream, micro-architectures suspended under trees collect rain containing Sulphur. These are just a few of the devices that constitute a Critical Zone Observatory, a landscape fully equipped with scientific instruments that record nature's variations to understand environmental disturbances caused by human activities.
Please join Principal, Claire Hempel, of Design Workshop for a virtual presentation on the firm, current work and hiring practices on September 24. The event will be held at 11:00am on Zoom for students (link to be emailed out and shared in the newsletter). The event will also be livestreamed to the Texas Architecture YouTube Channel.