Eric Höweler, AIA, LEED AP (b. Cali, Colombia) is an architect and educator, founding principal of Höweler + Yoon Architecure and Assistant Professor in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Masters of Architecture from Cornell University and completed his high school education at the International School Bangkok.
On Friday, April 8, the Center for American Architecture and Design hosted Juan Miro 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.
Gina Ford, ASLA is a landscape architect, principal, and chair of Sasaki's Urban Studio. The Urban Studio is an energized and interdisciplinary group of practitioners solely dedicated to the improvement of quality of life in cities through rigorous planning, exceptional design, and strong community partnerships.
This one-hour workshop will help participants develop a personal toolkit for field documentation. The ability to efficiently and effectively catalog photographs taken in the field allows them to be a valuable and rich tool for personal reference or for others. Participants will have the opportunity to see images from sample field sketchbooks, review a checklist of compact items to aid in documentation and get tips on taking field notes for large numbers of digital images.
Train Architects, founded in 1990, practices in Charlottesville, Virginia, where history meets the progressive.
Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, is a practicing architect in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and serves as the E. Fay Jones Distinguished Professor in Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. He served as Department Head from 2009 – 2015. He was named among the “30 Most Admired Educators” by DesignIntelligence in 2015.
Spectrum Lighting represents a comprehensive list of quality lighting manufacturers and lighting controls. The agency’s team of well-trained lighting professionals assist students as they develop innovative solutions for lighting applications related to their studio projects.
This technical oriented studio is focused on the design of a network of coworking spaces for the Austin Music Hub in collaboration with the City of Austin’s Public Works and Economic Development Department’s Music & Entertainment Division.
Laura Grenard, M.Arch '12, led a hands-on workshop on the art of felting, which converts loose wool fibers into a non-woven textile through simple mechanical processes. We had a great time learning to wet felt by hand with wool roving and batts supplied by Living Felt in Austin. The workshop included a presentation by Laura on the origins of felt and its applications in architecture and art. Heather Sutherland talked a bit about her ongoing research with Claudia Rodriguez on natural dyes at the Materials Lab.