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.
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.
Laura Bathke (M Arch II 2017) was awarded the UTSOA's Mike and Maxine K.
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.