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Center for Neighborhood Technology discusses affordability, liveability and inclusivity in Austin's changing regional economy
PROTOTYPE seminar, Spring 2013
Assistant Professor Igor Siddiqui
The exhibited images highlight Austin's Congress Avenue, with full color streetscapes captured in the 1950s and 60s alongside scenes of Congress and its environs as they stand today. The exhibit's historical images are available from the Texas Architecture: A Visual History Website and the VRC's Online Image Collection. Contemporary images were composed by VRC staff members and developed and printed in the UTSOA Darkroom, a resource managed by the VRC and available to all currently enrolled UTSOA students.
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Inderdisciplinary talk on social equity, gentrification and design issues with Law Faculty, LBJ, Communication, and Public Health, among others..
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Sandra Rosenbloom, editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, discusses age, realization and complexities of needs in the pursuit of walkability.
Melanie Schopper is a local artist who utilzes slip casting to create functional ceramics. She has been the artist in residence at The Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems and is a co-founder of the all women's art group Handmade Austin Women. She worked as an assistant to porcelain artist Sunyong Chung of Ginko Studios, where she trained in a process of plaster mold making that has informed her current process. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BA in Art.
An exhibit of UTSoA faculty research was on display in the University Co-op Materials Lab during the Texas Architects Annual Convention held October 18-20, 2012 at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.
Participants: Danelle Briscoe, Kory Bieg, Cisco Gomes, Matt Fajkus, Igor Siddiqui
Curator: Sydney Manister
More images from the VRC
The images in this exhibition were contributed to the Visual Resources Collection by Community and Regional Planning Ph.D. student Kristine Stiphany.
Work by UTSoA students was featured in the inaugural WEST Austin Studio Tour in Spring 2012. Though the tour took place May 19-20, the UTSoA work remained on exhibit throughout the summer in the Materials Lab. The selected students' projects demonstrate intelligent, sophisticated material exploration.
Featured Work:
Construction 5, Associate Professor Elizabeth Danze
Hector Garcia-Castrillo, Julie Huynh, Judson Garwood, Rebekah Broadfoot, Daniel Morrison, Brian Anderson
Environmental Controls 1, Adjunct Professor Adam Pyrek