Whose Chinese? Foreign Architects in China
As China has opened to the world, foreign architects have flocked to a booming building industry that shows no signs of stopping. Come hear how they have dealt with the challenges of building in this unique country, and in turn how their works have impacted the Chinese city. Ben Parker will be presenting work from his cross-disciplinary thesis in the Asian Studies and Architecture departments.
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Goldsmith Main Jury Room
Ground Floor, 2.110
Inga Marie Carmel is a former landscape architect turned weaver. She is the president of the Weavers & Spinners Society of Austin and spent an afternoon at the Materials Lab introducing students to the process of of converting raw natural fibers into cloth. Students learned about the differences between natural fibers and were able to try their hand at weaving on a Wolf Pup floor loom and two small cricket looms.
This workshop was a coordinated effort with Interior Design Construction 2, taught by Tamie Glass.
Andrés Gaviria graduated from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Through a grant from the Government of Canada, he conducted studies at the Master of Applied Science (M.Sc.A) Program in Conservation of the Built Environment at the University of Montreal. He developed his master’s thesis in Conservation of Military Architecture during a nine-month internship in the fortified abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, in France, under the supervision of the chief architect of the monument.
Constructivism on Film: A discussion on Dziga Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera as Grounded in the Theory of the Formal Method
Experimental film screening and discussion.
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The Visual Resources Collection is excited to announce a new introductory Digital-SLR photography workshop. This one-hour session will focus on familiarizing students new to DSLRs with the cameras available for check-out in the VRC, in addition to covering basic shooting techniques. An overview of shooting modes, lens selection, aperture, shutter speed and exposure will be given, along with instruction on how to best utilize these camera settings in situations particularly relevant to students, including studio project and site condition documentation.
By 2030, the U.S. will grow by nearly 50 million residents and undergo two dramatic demographic transitions: Baby Boomers moving out of the workforce while their children—the Millennials—move into housing and job markets, leading to growing demand for rental housing from the large, young, and diverse Millennial population and increasing attrition out of older owner-occupied homes. What challenges and opportunities do these transitions hold for cities?
Mexican Cities Inscribed on the World Heritage List, a Current Overview
The Historic City might be perceived as a complex and unpredictable phenomenon. The geographer, for example, always found virgin or rural areas but always stopped at the gates of the city; the historian meanwhile, has been concerned with restoring the livelihoods of different generations and describe the evolution of the material framework and conditions of their habitat, but in short, different specialists of urban phenomenon have never been able to fully reflect all dimensions.