Students in Judy Birdsong’s fall 2011 Vertical Studio photographed the images displayed in the Visual Resources Collection’s (VRC) spring-summer 2012 exhibit. Students designed and constructed their own pinhole cameras, and using either film negatives or silver-gelatin print paper, took photographs that they developed and printed in the School of Architecture Darkroom, a facility managed by the VRC.
The Center for American Architecture and Design, the College of Fine Arts and the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music held the Music in Architecture – Architecture in Music Symposium on the University of Texas at Austin campus in October 2011.
Over two decades, Professor Wilfried Wang took thousands of slides with the robust single lens reflex camera (Leica SL2 either with the Zeiss Biogon 21mm wide angle lens or with the Vario-Elmar 14-50mm lens). Over the past few years, Professor Wang has been systematically donating his collection to the School of Architecture (SoA) Visual Resources Collection (VRC). The VRC has in turn been digitizing and cataloging the slides so that digital versions are available to SoA faculty and students to support teaching and research.
Michael Gatto is co-founder and Executive Director of the Austin Community Design and Development Center (ACDDC), a non-profit whose mission is to improve the quality of life for all by providing sustainable design, planning, and development services to low and moderate income individuals, families, and neighborhoods. The Alley Flat Initiative marks one of ACDDC’s important affordable housing developments, designed in collaboration with the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development and the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development. Michael earned a B.S.
The studies in this exhibition were taken from two exercises in which students were asked to explore physical representations of surface, to test model-making techniques, systematic sectioning and manipulation of landform as the starting point of design.
Dr. David Campt is a nationally renowned facilitator with specialties in cultural competence and large-scale civic engagement. He has designed and facilitated multi-state dialogue campaigns, created civic engagement events that included several thousand people, and has provided consultation on cultural competence challenges. His clients have included the White House, large corporations, big-city mayors, universities, the military, and national and international organizations. David received his doctorate in city planning from UC Berkeley in 1997.
Exhibit of Fabrications Produced by A. Zahner Company
Terry E. Mitchell is a passionate housing developer. At different stages of his career, he has embraced suburban housing, low-impact development, neo-traditional town planning, urban infill, and vertical mixed-use high-rise development. His company, Momark Development L.L.C., is involved in the planning and development of various residential and mixed-use real estate developments involving approximately 6,500 residential units and related mixed-uses. Projects include The Austonian, Plum Creek, Chestnut Commons, Edgewick, Gabardine, Macmora Cottages and The Sanctuary Lofts.
This city forum will explore physical, infrastructural and political challenges facing Asian and American cities in the context of increasing densification, with specific examples drawn from China, Taiwan and the Austin Metropolitan Area.