GRASSES was the first of a series of curated collections at the Materials Lab showcasing diverse themes found within our 28,000+ samples. The exhibition, held in Fall 2019, showcased a wide range of material products derived from the Graminae family of flowering plants. Grasses are defined by their hollow stems which join at alternating, sheathing leaves, and flowers arranged in spikelets. Of more than 12,000 known species, common examples of grasses grown in high volumes around the world include bamboo, corn, rice, sorghum, and wheat.
On Friday, November 8, the Center for American Architecture and Design will host David Heymann and Phoebe Lickwar as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series, presenting a discussion entitled "Photographic and Mixed-Media Representation," to be moderated by John Blood.
Please join Architexas for a presentation on the firm, current work, culture and hiring practices on Thursday, November 7. The event will be held in the Career Services office in Sutton Hall 3.128 at 11:00am with lunch provided.
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This lecture will explore a genealogy of contained microcosms with the ambition to replicate the earth in its totality; a series of living experiments that forge a synthetic naturalism, where the laws of nature and metabolism are displaced from the domain of wilderness to the domain of cities and buildings. Beyond technical concerns, closed worlds distill architectural concerns related to habitation: first an integrated structure where humans, their physiology of ingestion and excretion, become combustion devices, tied to the system with umbilical cords; second, closed worlds
On Wednesday, November 6, Matt Satter, founding partner and COO of Drophouse Design joined us for our final lunch ‘n learn of the semester. Drophouse is a design/build/fabrication firm located here in Austin that was founded by Matt and his partner, Christian Klein, in 2012 after they met while teaching architecture in India. The name Drophouse comes from the idea of using “drop”—scrap material—to create places for living.
Please join Corgan for a presentation on the firm, current work, culture and hiring practices on Tuesday, October 29. The event will be held in the Career Services office in Sutton Hall 3.128 at 11:00am with lunch provided.
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On Wednesday, October 16th, Casey Boyter joined us for a Lunch ‘n Learn explaining her experience designing, building, and maintaining green roofs here in the Austin area, especially with regard to the materials that go into this process. Casey outlined some of the parameters that go into green roof design such as accessibility—can the roof be walked on, or not—and dormancy periods—does the roof actually need to stay green year round, or should its plants naturally go dormant during certain seasons?