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News and updates from The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture's Graduate Program in Urban Design.

Kotchakorn Voraakhom addresses the UT Austin School of Architecture Graduates

Kotchakorn Voraakhom Urges Graduates to Become the “Compassion Generation”

May 12, 2025

A student presenting work during final reviews with a large architecture model in the foreground.

Spring 2025 Final Review Guest Critics

April 21, 2025

Students holding certificates

UT Students Win 1st Place in APA Planning and Design Competition

April 3, 2025

Jaguar Lens exhibition on display in the Mebane Gallery

Jaguar Lens: Weaving Multispecies Landscapes across the Americas

March 25, 2025

Attendees at a conference

A report from the Intersections Research Conference, where architects and scholars explored issues around housing and policy

February 27, 2025

UTSOA Lectures and Exhibitions Spring 2025 poster

Spring 2025 Public Programming

January 17, 2025

Meet Visiting Faculty Daniel Escotto

December 3, 2024

Student presenting final work to reviewers

Fall 2024 Visiting Reviewers

November 25, 2024

Students walking to Battle Hall

Accepting Applications for Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning

October 18, 2024

Sinclair Black speaking in front of a crowd in the Goldsmith Courtyard

Professor Emeritus Sinclair Black Receives 2024 Vision Award

July 10, 2024

Graphic with a large yellow x in the middle, with a jaguar and a map on top of it

Graham Foundation Awards Funding for “Jaguar Lens” Exhibition

June 5, 2024

Sutton Hall ceiling mosaic

2023-2024 Design Excellence Winners

May 21, 2024

Faculty wearing regalia on stage at commencement

Congratulations to the Class of 2024

May 13, 2024

Students presenting during final reviews.

Spring 2024 Visiting Reviewers

April 16, 2024

Overhead rendering of The Stitch proposal and site in downtown Seattle

Multidisciplinary Team Advances to ULI Competition Finals

February 22, 2024

Three images in a grid, two individual headshots and a photo of two people.

Spring 2024 Visiting Faculty

February 8, 2024

Alum Profile: Tatum Lau

November 20, 2023

"Muslin-draped bathing houses float at the foot of gardens, and the limpid little stream is in high favor as a refuge during the heated term." Frank H. Taylor, "A Journey through Texas," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, October 1879.

Water in Cities

November 20, 2023

A stronghold against urbanization. Correlation of the Jaguar Corridor with the dataset of the “Three global conditions for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use” (2020). Credit: Juana Salcedo

Mapping the Jaguar Corridor: A Radiography of Urbanization

November 20, 2023

Meet Liang Wang, Assistant Professor of Urban Design

November 16, 2023

Radical Middle Grounds event poster featuring the words "Radical Middle Grounds" in green laid on top of a green aerial rendering of a cluster of housing units

Symposium Explores Transformative Potential of Medium-Density Housing

October 11, 2023

Rendering of a supertall skyscraper seen in the forefront of the image along the waterfront of Lady Bird Lake

Austin supertalls "not really dealing with the problems" of the city

October 6, 2023

Q&A with Assistant Professor Martin Hättasch

September 28, 2023

UNAM Campus

Exploring the Architecture of the Americas at FILUNI 2023

August 21, 2023

Four black and white new faculty headshots in a row

New and Visiting Faculty Join UTSOA

August 10, 2023

Dean Almy

Q&A with Professor Dean Almy

March 31, 2023

Meet Juana Salcedo, Assistant Professor of Practice

February 22, 2023

A row of students seen interacting with employers at 2023 Career Fair

What Starts Here: Highlights from Career Fair

February 10, 2023

The Stack

UT Austin team wins the 2022 ULI Gerald Hines Student Competition with an urban development plan for Oakland

April 15, 2022

Student team giving the "Hook 'em Horns" hand signal

Students Win National Urban Design Competition

April 11, 2022

The Stack Site Plan

Student Team Advances to ULI Competition Finals

February 23, 2022

Aerial view of a Houston residential neighborhood

My Home is Here – Harris County’s Housing Needs Assessment and 10-Year Strategy

October 19, 2021

Seven people sit around an oval conference table in front of a projector screen, on which you can see a man in headphones speaking on a Zoom call

Q&A with 2021 Design Futures Forum Student Participants

July 26, 2021

Sepia toned image of a building façade in North Korea

MSUD Alumna Publishes “A 21st-Century Socialist Country” Based on Her Master’s Thesis

March 19, 2021

Multiple copies of PLATFORM 2020-21 laid out artfully atop a concrete bench on UT Austin's campus

2020–2021 Issue of PLATFORM Explores the Role of Urban Design in Addressing Complex, Twenty-First Century Challenges

December 7, 2020

Aerial map of the students site in Menard, Texas

Student Team Wins Second Place in First Annual IC2 Student Challenge

April 16, 2020

Two students seen from behind watching the KUKA robotic arm in action

Four UTSOA Degree Programs Now STEM Designated

April 10, 2020

Los Tres Enlaces project image

Two Student Teams Awarded ULI Hines Competition Honorable Mention

April 7, 2020

Visiting Landscape Architecture Professor: Gina Ford

April 1, 2020

Climate of Urban Design Event Poster

The Graduate Program in Urban Design Hosts RUDC's The Climate of Urban Design Symposium, February 28

February 6, 2020

Cincinnati United team: Caroline Tate (Leader, MArch), Nian Chen (MSUD), Yang Yang (CRP) , Andrew Jacobs (MBA), John Mark Devlin (CRP UD)

Interdisciplinary Student Teams Present Urban Design Solutions for Cincinnati in National ULI Hines Competition Finals

March 19, 2019

Major Gift from Professor Emeritus Sinclair Black Will Position School as Leader in Urban Design

March 13, 2019

Frameworks for Placemaking: Alternative Futures for the Austin Convention District

Convention Center Space-making and Downtown Place-Making: The Physical and Economic Planning Implications of Alternative Convention Center Scenarios

March 1, 2019

Magdalena Novoa

Magdalena Novoa, Student

March 1, 2019

Mayors and CSD team meet at tables in board room overlooking downtown Austin

CSD Helps Mayors Understand Role in Urban Design and Community Building

January 8, 2019

Dr. Khaled Alawadi standing next to orange wall

Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Khaled Alawadi

June 18, 2018

Cogburn Competition First Place Team, Students Pose with Certificates

Students Address Urban Design Challenge in Cogburn Family Foundation ULI Hines Competition

March 12, 2018

Austin South Shore Waterfront Redesign Proposal. Courtesy Texas Urban Futures Lab.

Shaping Our City: Urban Design Students and Faculty Contribute to Nationally Acclaimed South Central Waterfront Project in Austin

November 22, 2017

Sinclair Black and Dick Clark

Alumni Leaders Transform School of Architecture and City of Austin

November 22, 2017

Edna Ledesma and Miriam Solis

UTSOA Hires Experts on Race and Gender in the Built Environment

August 8, 2017

Street lateral, Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, c. 1900

Landscape Afterlife of the Urban Ditch: GIS Investigation of Persistent Infrastructure

May 3, 2017

Rooted Work Presented in ULI Hines Competition

Students Win National ULI Hines Urban Design Competition

April 10, 2017

Museo di Castelvecchio.

Museo di Castelvecchio: Photographs by Sean O'Brien

February 16, 2017

UTSOA Establishes New Initiative on Race, Gender, and the Built Environment

September 2, 2016

Miro Rivera Vertical House

Black and Miró Named 2016 Honor Award Recipients

August 26, 2016

IAH 2016 Team Handshake

UTSOA Team Wins HUD Affordable Housing Competition

April 22, 2016

2016 ULI Hines Student Competition Honorable Mention

UTSOA Team Receives Honorable Mention in ULI Hines Competition

March 7, 2016

2016 HUD IAH Competition

UTSOA Team Finalists in 2016 HUD Competition

February 19, 2016