Recent Work
Since 1995 Cecilia Puga has had her own practice in Santiago de Chile where she has undertaken designs projects at different scales such as family houses, social community housing, educational and industrial equipment, and urban design. In 2009 she was selected by Herzog & De Meuron as one among 100 architects throughout the world to design a Villa in Inner Mongolia in the context of the Ordos 100 project conducted by artist Ai Wei Wei.
Architectural Ornament, from Vitruvius to the Digital Age
Antoine Picon is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design . He has published numerous books and articles mostly dealing with the complementary histories of architecture and technology. Picon's 2010 Digital Culture in Architecture proposes a comprehensive interpretation of the changes brought by the computer to the design professions.
Guardian Industries
Corsicana, TX
The Visual Resources Collection will be offering group darkroom orientations throughout the semester; all UTSOA students are welcome to use the darkroom after first attending an orientation session. Orientation sessions are intended to familiarize students who have previous darkroom experience with the UTSOA Darkroom. The next orientation is onWednesday, March 4, 2015 from 11:00–11:30am. If you would like to attend the orientation on Wednesday, please register here.
Join the Community & Regional Planning Student Organization (CRPSO), Associate Dean Michael Oden, and UTSOA Career Services for a job hunting skills workshop on Tuesday, March 3 at noon in Goldsmith Hall 2.308. Then, on Friday, March 6, the UTSOA will host its annual CRP Career Day event beginning with an alumni panel at noon in Goldsmith Hall 2.110 and culminating with an employer meet + greet in the AT&T Conference Center from 3:30pm - 6pm.
Luis E. Carranza is Professor of Architecture and of Art and Architectural History at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He obtained his B.Arch. at the University of Southern California and his PhD in Architectural History and Theory from Harvard University.
On Friday, February 27, as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series the Center for American Architecture and Design hosted Fernando Lara, who presented "Streets Matter: Lessons in Recent Brazilian Urbanism." Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, the live streaming of the Forum was not recorded. However, Luis Carranza and Fernando Lara gave a related presentation on Monday, March 2nd, which has been linked here (right). Their recently published book Modern Architecture in Latin America is also linked here (right).
FRIDAY LUNCH FORUM
In Pushing On A String, performed February 26, 2015 in the courtyard of the Art Building, Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum orchestrated a series of performances between humans and materials. The performance was conceived as an exploratory work for the fostering of new narratives, developed from observations made in past installation works. These observations informed the diverse nature of the materials at play, chosen for their 'performative potential': papers, fabrics, rubbers, and foams.