The cameras and photographs on display represent work produced in the fall of 2010 by fifth semester architecture students in Judy Birdsong's topic-based design studio organized around the theme oflight and time in architecture. As a means of introducing students to fundamental principles of light, students constructed a pinhole camera, essentially a simple box with a single small aperture that employs the same optical principles as the camera obscura.
This exhibit shows the thesis project of Becca Miller, a Costume Technology Masters of Fine Arts student in the School of Theater and Dance. Exploring the possible interface between 3D computer technology and costume technology, Digital Craft: Handmade Craft Meets Digital Design combines seasoned millinery techniques with modern methods of object construction and design presenting practical and useful ways of moving between the virtual and physical world.
Women are actively leading the way, across borders, for human rights, labor rights, and fair trade.
Come listen to representatives of Jolom Maya'etik (Chiapas), the Committee of Border Workers (Coahuila), and Austin So Close to the Border (Austin) share their stories, struggles, and strategies for activism across borders.
Using a variety of performance considerations, material efficiency, and production benefits, Briscoe fabricated limestone panels. The design of the apertures' transitions from closed to open are based on the following thermal and physical parameters: drainage for condensation, solar optimization, and a maximum 45-degree angle-axis of the water technology. Parameters within the information model database facilitate a dimensionally-controlled iterative process.
Curators
Danelle Briscoe, Sydney Mainster
n urban planning, many of the measures that we use to characterize the successes and shortfalls in the making of physical designs, social programs and urban spaces have a direct and significant relation to density. For some people and in many contexts, increasing density is clearly a goal—it increases vibrancy, economy, and more. For others, the desire is to limit density—to reduce the adverse impacts of overcrowding, contagion, and pollution. These and other notions are often debated, but all too often not thoroughly understood, as they are inherently complex.
Supported by a large demonstration grant from the US Department of Energy, the Pecan Street Project is a Smart Grid initiative led by a team of researchers from the University of Texas, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Environmental Defense Fund to develop and test an integrated clean energy smart grid in Austin. The Pecan Street Project is also actively supported by Austin Energy, the nation’s largest seller of green power and the first utility to create a green building code (which became the basis for the LEED rating system).
Visual Resources Collection, Sutton Hall 3.128 and Battle Hall, ground floor hallway
Exhibit Opening:
Thursday, October 18, 2010 from 3-5 pm
Visual Resources Collection, Sutton 3.128
Interdigitation looks at the relationship between digital production and handwork. The exhibit is a semester-long material by-product investigating a simple laser-cut component made from a full sheet of matte board and assembled by hand. In the past, I have constructed a series of lamps using a similar component system; and this semester, I developed a systematic investigation of the component varying its size, shape, swivel, placement, and connection.
Computation, as a systems logic has gained a level of accessibility to designers in recent years offering them a generative model for iterative and data driven design processes. Recursive Assemblies explores this logic through the creation of design analysis and solution models locating intention and execution at the level of protocols rather than as instances. These digital assemblies utilize a parametric framework to incorporate computation into the design process, designing and testing parametric generative models.