STUDENT AWARDS

The School of Architecture recognizes exceptional work by students in the design disciplines through semesterly and annual student awards processes.

DEAN'S DESIGN DISTINCTION

Dean’s Design Distinction recognizes cumulative excellence in design as an outcome from the Undergraduate Portfolio Review processes. With input from the semester’s Portfolio Review teams, each Portfolio Review studio instructor may nominate up to two students for Dean’s Design Distinction. The Program Directors for Architecture and Interior Design* then review and confirm Dean’s Design Distinction selections.
*Beginning in Spring 2021. 

DESIGN EXCELLENCE

Design Excellence is a collaborative process among the Program Directors for Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, and Student Affairs. Design Excellence winners are selected by a jury each academic year, and represent an exceptional level of accomplishment across our design disciplines and studio levels.

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    Good luck to our students this week on their final reviews and a big thank you to the visiting critics for joining us on campus! Read more about each traveling reviewer and their expertise and scholarship in the link in our bio. <br><br>Welcome to @utaustintx:
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    Good luck to our students this week on their final reviews and a big thank you to the visiting critics for joining us on campus! Read more about each traveling reviewer and their expertise and scholarship in the link in our bio.

    Welcome to @utaustintx:

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    From our studio to your table, wishing you a day full of gratitude and joy! 🍁 #ThankfulAtUT
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    From our studio to your table, wishing you a day full of gratitude and joy! 🍁 #ThankfulAtUT

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    We’re delighted to have Karel Klein (@karelnyla) as a visiting professor this fall semester, where she is teaching an advanced design studio, “The Atomic Uncanny: Estranging the Case Study House.”<br>
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    We’re delighted to have Karel Klein (@karelnyla) as a visiting professor this fall semester, where she is teaching an advanced design studio, “The Atomic Uncanny: Estranging the Case Study House.”

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    Application deadlines are quickly approaching for undergraduate and graduate programs!<br>&nbsp;<br>Join an interdisciplinary community of designers, planners, and scholars committed to creative exploration, ambitious scholarship, and critical practice.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;
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    Application deadlines are quickly approaching for undergraduate and graduate programs!
     
    Join an interdisciplinary community of designers, planners, and scholars committed to creative exploration, ambitious scholarship, and critical practice. 
     

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    Today, masters of architecture student Meghan Costello (@meghan_costello_), who is doing a professional residency in Japan with Shigeru Ban Architects (SBA), is taking over our Instagram stories from Tokyo to share what she’s been up to.<br>
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    Today, masters of architecture student Meghan Costello (@meghan_costello_), who is doing a professional residency in Japan with Shigeru Ban Architects (SBA), is taking over our Instagram stories from Tokyo to share what she’s been up to.

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    This fall, work by Associate Professor @phoebelickwar and landscape architecture students was displayed at the 2024 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) exhibition, “Nature of Hope.” <br>
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    This fall, work by Associate Professor @phoebelickwar and landscape architecture students was displayed at the 2024 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) exhibition, “Nature of Hope.”

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    “It Takes a Village: A Cooperative Housing Project Through Aggregation” by Olivia Bowness @olivia_bowness for Martin Hättasch’s Horizontal Studio // 2023-2024 Design Excellence winner<br>
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    “It Takes a Village: A Cooperative Housing Project Through Aggregation” by Olivia Bowness @olivia_bowness for Martin Hättasch’s Horizontal Studio // 2023-2024 Design Excellence winner

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    If you’re interested in environmental planning, green infrastructure planning, or water resources planning, meet Associate Professor Katherine Lieberknecht.<br>
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    If you’re interested in environmental planning, green infrastructure planning, or water resources planning, meet Associate Professor Katherine Lieberknecht.

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    In response to Austin’s density initiative and in consideration of the city’s rich natural resources,&nbsp; students in Danelle Briscoe’s (@danellebriscoe) “Other Nature” studio are proposing habitations for both human and non-human species to counter the effects of development that put fauna at risk.<br>
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    In response to Austin’s density initiative and in consideration of the city’s rich natural resources,  students in Danelle Briscoe’s (@danellebriscoe) “Other Nature” studio are proposing habitations for both human and non-human species to counter the effects of development that put fauna at risk.