Learn about the natural building technique of rammed earth through a hands-on workshop at the School of Architecture Materials Lab. Participants will produce a compressed earth brick from soil and water using human power and basic tools.
Targeted audience: All ages (limit 20 per session)
Session 1-2:00 p.m. to 12:40 p.m.
Session 2-2:00 p.m. to 2:40 p.m.
Join Preservation Austin and the Student Historic Preservation Association at UT Austin for "The Secret Language of Houses," a special lecture by legendary architectural historian, preservationist, and activist Virginia Savage McAlester, Honorary AIA.
What is the role of architects in upgrading informal settlements in a time of environmental change and rapid, unplanned urbanization?
This workshop is a hands-on tutorial for students who are interested in learning how to make prints from black-and-white film negatives in the UTSOA's Darkroom. Students will learn how to use an enlarger to expose their negatives onto resin-coated paper. Correct exposure and developing times will be covered as well as proper print washing and drying techniques. Negatives can be provided if needed. This workshop will be conducted by VRC Staff Member Matthew Van Hoorn.
This workshop will be a hands-on tutorial for students who are interested in learning to process their own 35mm or medium format (120mm) black-and-white film in the UTSOA's Darkroom. Students will learn techniques to load the film onto reels and develop film with black-and-white chemistry. Various film speeds and developing times will be covered. Students will learn how to wash and dry film and the proper techniques to preserve negatives.
Please bring at least one pre-shot roll of black-and-white film (make sure your film does not say C-41 anywhere on the canister.)
Are the days of paper maps gone? Do you have one? Or have we become so reliant on the Global Positioning System (GPS) to tell us where we are, where we're going, and when we'll get there that a failure would bring us to a standstill? This presentation will discuss the vulnerabilities, risks, and options related to GPS.
In summer 2017, Texas Architecture Travel Award recipient Patrick Klimaszewski traveled to Georgia—the small country in the Caucasus below Russia, above Turkey and between Asia and Europe—to study how Georgian towns and cities reflect a complicated past in their built environments. The photographs in this exhibition aim to highlight the juxtapositions and remnants manifest during political uncertainty by capturing the contrast of object and landscape.
Here's your chance to dive into the unique aspects of paper with Steph Rue, an artist who works primarily with handmade paper and books. Participants will learn about the history, technique, and application of Korean papermaking.
Participants will also create felted paper using the joomchi method, paper cord using the jiseung method, and learn how to make paper thread for weaving cloth using a Japanese method called shifu.