Please join Kate Singleton, executive director for Preservation Austin, on Thursday, September 28 at 5pm in Goldsmith Hall 2.308 for a presentation entitled, "Show Me the Money - Preserving Our Heritage Using Historic Tax Credits." The talk will provide an overview of the federal and state historic tax credits available to offset expenses in the preservation and rehabilitation of historic properties. Learn the basics about these resources that can help revitalize communities in Texas and beyond.
On Friday, September 22, the Center for American Architecture and Design will host Fernando Lara as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series.
Roughly every other Friday during the fall and spring semesters, the Center hosts the Friday Lunch Forum Series. The aim of the series is for faculty, staff, and students to meet in an informal atmosphere to debate topics and to share ideas about history, practice, theory, and new directions for architecture. Recordings of each forum will be posted as they become available.
Come view the Lighting Studio, which is available for model photography and other work documentation, such as studio process work or portfolio images. The Open House will help familiarize you with the Lighting Studio space and making a reservation to use it.
Coffee and donuts will be served!
Kathleen Conti, a doctoral student at UT, spent three months researching and conducting fieldwork at Virginia's Berkeley Planation at the James River, once home to a signer of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Harrison V and President William Henry Harrison as well the birthplace of bourbon.
Many of the materials we encounter in daily life are experienced on a temporary basis - we use them once or twice, and then they're gone. Materials such as packaging foam, bubble wrap, shrink wrap, plastic cutlery, take-out cartons, and paper cups - though lumped together as disposables, have widely varying life cycles. Depending on their material composition, products can decompose over time or remain for hundreds of years.
INVITED SPEAKERS + GROW YOUR OWN MUSHROOM BLOCK
On Friday, September 8, the Center for American Architecture and Design will host Eva Schone as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series.
Roughly every other Friday during the fall and spring semesters, the Center hosts the Friday Lunch Forum Series. The aim of the series is for faculty, staff, and students to meet in an informal atmosphere to debate topics and to share ideas about history, practice, theory, and new directions for architecture. Recordings of each forum will be posted as they become available.
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.