Stefan Behnisch is the founding Partner of Behnisch Architekten. He is a world-renowned advocate and educator of sustainable building design, and has lectured at conferences all over the world. Behnisch’s goal—to connect the forces of human life and the natural environment—fuels the design of every commission his firm receives. Since founding Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner in 1989 (now known as Behnisch Architekten), Stefan has directed the design of dynamic, award-winning buildings that promote sustainability within the built environment.
On Friday, February 28, the Center for American Architecture and Design hosted Michael Benedikt as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series. He presented "Beyond Adjacency."
FRIDAY LUNCH FORUM
Goodwill Resource Center
Tour Guide: Catherine Luna, Commodities Manager
On Friday, February 21, the Center for American Architecture and Design hosted John Asher and Mark Simmons of the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series. They presented "Bringing Nature Home: Incorporating Ecosystem Science into Urban Design."
FRIDAY LUNCH FORUM
Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope founded Design 99 in 2007 to investigate new models of contemporary art and architectural practice. Initially occupying a retail storefront space, the design studio situated itself in the public realm offering over-the-counter design consultations and $99 house call specials. Now working from their homebase in Detroit, projects deal primarily with overlooked spaces, underutilized resources, and seemingly negative conditions inverted to become positive assets.
Students in Senior Lecturer Fran Gale’s Lab Methods course explored the 19th century Heidemann - Barrera Ranch Complex, located 30 miles northwest of San Antonio in the Texas Hill Country near Boerne, Texas.
On Friday, February 14, the Center for American Architecture and Design hosted Charles Di Piazza as part of the Friday Lunch Forum series. He presented "Contemporary Architecture in the French Riviera."
FRIDAY LUNCH FORUM
George Galster earned his Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. with undergraduate degrees from Wittenberg and Case Western Reserve. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles, primarily on the topics of metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation, neighborhood dynamics, residential reinvestment, community lending and insurance patterns, neighborhood effects and social mixing, and urban poverty.
We visited three laboratories at the Engineering Teaching Center at The University of Texas at Austin that employ additive manufacturing: the Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication, the Product, Process, and Materials Design Lab, and the ReNeu Robotics Lab.
Engineering Teaching Center, UT Austin main campus
Tour guides: Dr. Deshpande, Dr. Bourrell, Dr. Fish, and Dr. Seepersad