This workshop will be a two-hour hands-on tutorial for students who are interested in learning to process their own 35mm or medium format (120mm) black-and-white film in the UTSOA's Darkroom. Students will learn techniques to load the film onto reels and develop film with black-and-white chemistry. Various film speeds and developing times will be covered. Students will learn how to wash and dry film and the proper techniques to preserve negatives.
This week we will have 3 speakers talking about different aspects of UT Campus Sustainability and Planning:
The Visual Resources Collection will be offering an fun introductory workshop on the basics of shooting film using a Holga camera on Friday, February 19, 2016 from 10am–12pm.
The city, the domestic, the infrastructural and the natural have been seen as independent realms, and architecture as the science to keep them apart. It is time for a change. Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation explore what is the architecture that can succeed on ensambling them all. The talk will include projects like COSMO (MoMA PS1), ESCARAVOX, or House in Never Never Land.
Presented by Britin Bostick, MSCRP + MPAff, Class of 2016, and Frank Ordia, MSHP, Class of 2016.
Architectural Tile and Stone is a third-generation, family-owned, tile importer and slab fabricator in Austin. Get a background tour of their tile showroom and indoor slab yard, where they display their wide range of granite and marble slabs, and their fabrication facilities, which houses offices for in-house draftsmen, a 5-axis water jet cutter, a variety of stone saws and tools, and bridge crane with suction-based hoist for moving the heavy, fragile slabs.
Presented by Hannah Ahlblad.
On any day along South Congress, one might pass a line of people in front of a brick wall with no door. They are waiting to pose in front of the cursive words “I love you so much” painted in red on a mint green background that covers one exterior wall of Joe’s Coffee.
If the simple I love you so much mural can become such a significant landmark for Austin, then what effect do the socially-charged murals of Mexico City’s civic architecture have on local navigation and sense of identity today?