This workshop served as a companion to the LIVING Wall: Collaboration + Fabrication exhibition at the Mebane Gallery. Michelle Bright (MLA '13) led a presentation and workshop on the planning and planting of the Living Wall to make it a successful vertical habitat. Bright is an environmental designer at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and was a collaborator on the Living Wall.
Please join Rottet Studio founder and principal, Lauren Rottet (FAIA & FIIDA), for a presentation on the firm's work, culture, and hiring practices on Thursday, September 15 at 11:30am. The event will be held in Goldsmith Hall 2.308.
Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis courtesy of Rottet Studio.
Sponsored by UTSOA Career Services and Ampersand.
“MICROTOPIA is a documentary about micro dwellings, downsizing, and living off the grid.”
Sculptor A.C. Rogers kicks off the Materials Lab's 2016-17 exhibition series with Soft Ground, which explores the poetic potential of objects. Rogers proposes a world that privileges the tacit, the inarticulate, or meaning which exists before language. Rogers' process is "rooted in the boundary between hand and material."
Soft Ground was recently covered in The Daily Texan. Read it here.
On Friday, September 9, the Center for American Architecture and Design hosted Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla 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.
Junfeng Jiao is an Assistant Professor in the Community and Regional Planning Program and Co-director of the Urban Information Lab in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD in Urban Design and Planning from the University of Washington and three Masters in Transportation Engineering, Geographic Information System (GIS), and Architecture from the University of Washington, University of Twente and Wuhan University, respectively.
In December 2015—with support provided by the UTSOA Travel Scholarship program—Vishal Joshi (MSHP 2016) travelled to Nepal, and neighboring Bhutan, to assist with documentation and rebuilding efforts following the devastating Gorkha earthquake that struck Nepal in April 2015. The images on exhibit are a small subset of the nearly 2,100 photographs he took during his eighteen-day research trip and represent a portion of his image donation received by the school’s Visual Resources Collection.
A portion of this exhibition is on view in Battle Hall, on the ground floor adjacent CAAD.
In May 2016, the Living Wall project was installed along the façade of Goldsmith Hall, home to UT Austin’s School of Architecture. An investigation of the role of ecology in architecture, the 20 x 25 foot structure is comprised of a patent-pending honeycomb design and native flora specially selected to attract local fauna.
Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza is a tenured professor at the Madrid School of Architecture, ETSAM, where he has taught for more than forty years. He has also taught at the ETH in Zurich, the EPFL in Lausanne, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Kansas State University, the CUA University in Washington, and most recently, at the L’Ecole d’Architecture in Tournai, Belgique.