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.
The 5th Biennial Meeting on Construction History will take place at The University of Texas at Austin from May 26 - 29, 2016. Construction Historians and independent scholars will share research and establish a discussion within the frame of Knowledge Exchange and Building Technology Transfer. Presentations will be given which depict the spectrum of scenarios, building solutions, industry, and cultural transformations that are the result of those exchanges and transferences in the Americas.
Dr. Nishtha Mehta is an alumni of the UT-CRP doctorate program. She is currently working as an Analyst in the South Asia Sustainable Development Unit at the World Bank. Her work examines access to water supply and sanitation services in South Asian countries.
Texas CityLab Symposium - this Friday!
Join us to celebrate CityLab’s Leander Projects and take a look at what’s ahead in 2016-2017.
Friday, April 29, 2016 from 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Main Jury Room, GOL 2.110
Tacos and coffee provided.
Event is free but please RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/citylab-symposium-tickets-24563205208
The Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, established in 1975, is a non-profit education and research center that specializes in life cycle planning and design. Headed by Pliny Fisk III and Gail Vittori, The Center pursues projects that emphasize regional contexts as bases for responsible resource use relative to materials, energy, water, waste, food, and meaningful employment.