Presenting the work of an independent study conducted by Britin Bostick and Frank Ordia in the Fall 2015 semester, under the supervision of Jacob Wegman. This study aims to accomplish a better understanding of how the use of technology can assist to inform historic preservation policy and to create a platform for a balanced approach to historic preservation and economic development.
Arthur W. Andersson, FAIA is the Design Director of Andersson-Wise Architects. He has practiced architecture over three decades throughout the United States in Kansas City, New Orleans and Austin. Arthur studied architecture at the University of Kansas and at the University of London, England graduating with a Bachelor of Environmental Design in 1979. He joined the offices of Howard Needles Tammen Bergendoff (HNTB) in Kansas City, Missouri where he was the principal designer for several major projects.
This workshop will be a two-hour hands-on tutorial for students who are interested in learning how to make prints from black-and-white film negatives in the UTSOA's Darkroom. Students will learn how to use an enlarger to expose their negatives onto resin-coated paper. Correct exposure and developing times will be covered as well as proper print washing and drying techniques. Negatives can be provided if needed.
Tutorials are open to all SOA faculty, students and staff. Class size is limited to 6 for each session.
On Friday, October 23, the Center for American Architecture and Design will host Robert Young as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series. He will be presenting "Civics and Technics: Sir Patrick Geddes' Theory of Planning and Design."
The forum will begin promptly at noon in Battle Hall 101, and will also be broadcast live at: soa.utexas.edu/libraries-centers/center-american-architecture-design/events
If you would like a lunch, you should plan to arrive no later than 11:40 a.m. The meals are first-come, first-served. We hope to see you there!
Hosted by the Architecture and Planning Library and the Alexander Architectural Archive.
The personal residence of renowned architect, author and award-winning architectural educator Charles W. Moore is the focus of the third installment of the Alexander Architectural Archive’s “To Better Know a Building” series.
The Charles Moore House at Orinda, California, was designed by Moore for himself and built in 1961. With its small footprint, the building was viewed as a quintessential expression of third bay region residential architecture.
Celebrating the merging of the Resource Recovery Center and the Household Hazardous Waste Facility, the City of Austin proclaimed the newly designated Austin Reuse Day (October 19th annually) by reopening the new combined facility with the general public. The event was kicked off with speeches by Bob Gedert, the Director of Austin Resource Recovery, and District 2 Council Member Delia Garza dedicating the new facility.
Guys on the Street: Formality, Order, and Security Among
Motorbike Taxi Drivers in Ho Chi Minh City
Craig Scott received his Master of Architecture degree with Distinction from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University. He has worked as Project Architect at Brian Healy Architects and RoTo Architects, and Architectural Designer at Morphosis and Glass Associates. Currently Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts in San Francisco., he has taught previously in the architecture programs at Harvard University, Syracuse University, Southern California Institute of Architecture, the University of Michigan and Yale University.
Purism, constructivism, rationalism, or functionalism — these are terms seeking to give a name to various aspects of the notable phenomenon that literally obsessed the European architectural scene in the 1920s. One of the main art centers where the new approach to architecture was developing had, since the beginning, been Prague. Functionalism was not just passively accepted here but further evolved practically and theoretically.