The world is constantly changing. It is a multiplex of interconnected, fluid systems. Technology advances. Values and institutions evolve. Fixed ideologies shift.
Faced with this reality, a more dynamic design approach is needed.
informal is an opportunistic methodology that seizes a local moment and makes something of it. Ignoring preconceptions, the informal approach keeps one guessing. Ideas become an intense exploration of the immediate.
Laura Bathke (M Arch II 2017) was awarded the UTSOA's Mike and Maxine K.
Asher Intebi explored his interest in film photography whilst pursuing his Bachelor of Architecture (B Arch 2017), taking advantage of the School of Architecture's Darkroom managed by the Visual Resources Collection. Asher states that his "...interest in film photography stemmed from several factors: a rebellion against the limitless nature of digital photography, a desire to reconnect to an heirloom film camera passed down to me, and an interest in exploring the various amenities of the School of Architecture.
The Design Futures Public Interest Design (PID) Student Leadership Forum is a five-day, interdisciplinary forum bringing together student leaders from across the country with practitioner- and university-faculty who represent some of the most important thought leadership in this emerging sub-discipline.
Constructing landscapes involves the establishment of diverse plant communities over extensive surfaces, often on an accelerated time scale. This process requires an intimate understanding of how biophysical processes can be translated into repeatable propagation practices, whereby different plant species can be grown in a controlled setting, absent of the mutualistic relationships that foster germination in native habitats.
Join us to celebrate Texas CityLab's Pflugerville Projects!
Each year CityLab culminates in a spring Symposium: an opportunity to showcase the best student work from the past two semesters. This year's CityLab partner is the City of Pflugerville.
Texas Union - Eastwoods Room
Increasingly, scholars are investigating the history of black spaces of resistance, cultural reproduction, and self-preservation with most literature focusing on professional interventions in urban contexts. Less is little written about African American agency in contemporary, rural, built environments, especially planning and preservation of buildings in intentional communities.
