There Is Always a Design Emergency:
Just like there are many ways to be a designer, there are also many ways to be an activist designer. From the Mexico/U.S. border to the streets of Cairo; from an intensive care unit to a video game screen; and from objects to global infrastructures, designers are highlighting their presence and their important role in shaping social and political progress.
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Please join us Wednesday, March 3rd at 5:00 pm for a lecture by Rosalyne Shieh and Troy Schaum of SCHAUM/SHIEH Architects
Lecture Title: Restoration Marfa
Rosalyne Shieh and Troy Schaum
SCHAUM/SHIEH Architects
This workshop explored the wide range of architectural possibilities of bamboo. Used all over the world, largely in tropical and subtropical climates, bamboo is a fast growing, sturdy, sustainable, and beautiful option for construction.
Please join Asakura Robinson featuring Principal, Katie Coyne, Senior Designer, Claire Eddlemen-Heath, and Senior Planner, Brianna Frey, for a virtual presentation on the firm, current work and hiring practices on March 2. 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.
Nature Strikes Back. A new design ethos for the climate responsive city:
Flemming Rafn, Co-founder and partner of Danish architecture studio THIRD NATURE, will introduce his office’s major works. His key concepts are driven by the notion that a coherent and optimized design creates the most powerful impact and sustainable solutions for the city as a whole, but also adds to the sensitivity to individual spaces, places and the people. A sensitivity that invites the users to a more informed, joyful and sustainable everyday life.
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Please join Career Services for a Mock Interview Workshop in preparation of this year's 2021 Career Fair via Zoom. Employers from the following firms will be assisting with this year's mock interviews: Boka Powell, Britt Design Group, Gensler, STG, DLR Group, McKinney York, GFF, Michael Hsu Office of Architecture, Perkins+Will, and Studio Outside. See below a schedule.
On-Site Off-Site:
On-Site Off-Site, proposes an immersion into the processes of conception and realization of the firm’s works. Topics as diverse as the construction of the landscape or the prefabrication of the house are addressed, revealing how technologies are at times appropriated, at times invented, and at all times creatively utilized at the service of architecture.
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Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell co-founded Grafton Architects in 1978 having graduated from University College Dublin in 1974. They are Fellows of the RIAI, International Honorary Fellows of the RIBA and elected members of Aosdána, the eminent Irish Art organisation.