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Andrew Dobbs, Program Director for Texas Campaign for the Environment (TCE), will connect curbside composting to Austin’s Zero Waste, climate, community resiliency, equity and justice goals, while telling the story of how grassroots organizing and direct action secured the $20 million program.
Interested in preparing for the UTSOA Career Fair?
Career Fair prep sessions will be held every Friday at noon in Sutton Hall 2.110 (Green Chair Room) starting on January 27. Career Services reps will be on hand to answer questions and provide tips.
The Professional Residency Program [PRP] is a unique opportunity to expand a student's education through work experience in the architectural profession. In 2016, more than 40 students participated in the Professional Residency Program. The PRP Pecha Kucha public lecture (and reception) will feature short presentations from the these students providing insight into the their internship experiences as well as the firms themselves.
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Rapid economic growth and urbanization in China offer enormous field opportunities for students in planning, design, and related disciplines to learn from experiencing, participating, and engaging. This exhibition presents twelve years of student work and activities from the China Planning Workshop/China Studio, led by the Graduate Program in Community & Regional Planning in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. Each year, the Workshop/Studio selects a project with pressing local concern and broad professional interest.
In August 2015—with support from the school's Boone Powell Prize in Urban Design—Haley Fitzpatrick traveled to Iceland to "...study how tourism was affecting projected urbanization, cultural identity and resource capacity, specifically along the coastal settlements." The photographs featured in this exhibition represent a portion of her image donation received by the school's Visual Resources Collection.
On Friday, January 20, the Center for American Architecture and Design will host Gabriel Díaz Montemayor 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.
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