Winka Dubbeldam is the founder and president of Archi-Tectonics and Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. She has lectured and taught at several other graduate programs in architecture including Columbia, Harvard, and Cornell. She served as juror at several design and AIA awards, and for the Prix de Rome and the Architecture Biennale in Bogota.
The Fall 2015 Materials Conservation: Field Methods course site-visited the on-going restoration and preservation project of the Arno Nowotny building on the University of Texas at Austin Campus.
The City Forum lecture for this week has been cancelled.
The Materials Lab hosted a second hands-on stone carving workshop at Kincannon studios, led by Joseph and Holly Young-Kincannon and their associate Aaron Payne. Joseph and Holly met onsite at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, in New York City, a project on which Joseph worked as a stone carver and Holly a project manager. The two moved to Austin in 1992 and opened an interdisciplinary studio that provides design, planning, preservation, and stone sculpting services.
Matthias Hollwich, SBA, is a registered, European architect who has established himself at the forefront of a new generation of ground and rule breaking international architects. Before co-founding HWKN, Matthias worked with Rem Koolhaas at OMA in Rotterdam, Eisenman Architects, and Diller+Scofidio. Matthias's view that the key to successful architecture lies in finding new and exciting ways to create dialogue and relationships between people and buildings is regularly communicated at events such as TED, PICNIC, and as visiting professor with the University of Pennsylvania.
Students in Fran Gale's Field Methods course recently visited the Littlefield Home, a 19th century residence located on the University of Texas campus. Constructed in 1893 for UT benefactor George Littlefield, this historic house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site visit provided an opportunity for the students to examine the variety of materials that were used to construct the LIttlefield Home.
An APT Texas Chapter, Austin Region Presentation
Join us as guest speaker Jack Pyburn FAIA of Lord Aeck Sargent discusses Architectural Precast Concrete in 20th Century Architecture.
When: September 15
Where: 816 Congress Ave. 3rd Floor, Longhorn Room
Sign in 11:30am / Introductions 11:45am / Presentation noon - 1pm