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Professor Elizabeth Danze, FAIA, has been selected to join The University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers, the System’s highest honor for educators. Tamie Glass, Interior Design program director and associate professor, has been recognized and will receive the 2018 American Society of Interior Designers/ASID Nancy Vincent McClelland Merit Award. The Center for American Architecture and Design recently released CENTER 21: The Secret Life of Buildings. Edited by Michael Benedikt and Kory Bieg, the publication features essays by Graham Harman, Patrik Schumacher, and alumnus Craig Dykers [BArch ’85], among others. The Constant Springs Residence by Alterstudio Architecture, firm of professor Kevin Alter and partners Ernesto Cragnolino [BArch/ BArch Engineering ’97] and Tim Whitehill [BArch ’02], is featured on the cover of Dwell magazine. Professors Simon Atkinson and Larry Speck participated in Think Tank events with METROPOLIS editor-in-chief Susan Szenasy Descendant House by Matt Fajkus Architecture, firm of associate professor Matt Fajkus, was featured on the April AIA Austin Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) tour. Dr. Sarah Lopez, assistant professor, participated in Tatiana Bilbao‘s US-Mexico “Two Sides of the Border: Redefining the Region” studio series at Columbia University and Cooper Union, where she also gave a talk based on her book, The Remittance Landscape. The work of associate dean Juan Miró’s firm, Miró Rivera Architects, has received international media attention in the Mexican news magazine EntreMuros. Dr. Sandra Rosenbloom, professor of Community and Regional Planning, was one of three experts funded by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to provide testimony to the new Massachusetts Commission on the Future of Transportation. Dr. Danilo Udovicki, associate professor, was invited to present a paper in Athens for the annual International Conference of History and Archeology. Dean Michelle Addington served on the 2018 AIA COTE Top Ten Buildings award jury in Washington, DC. Sid W. Richardson Centennial Professor Kevin Alter‘s firm, Alterstudio Architecture, LLP., won a Residential Architect Design Award from Architect Magazine for their South 5th Street Residence. Coleman Coker, Fellow of the Ruth Carter Stevenson Chair in the Art of Architecture, presented a lecture at the Tulane University School of Architecture’s Small Center in February, where he discussed UTSOA’s Gulf Coast DesignLab. Assistant Professor Junfeng Jiao was is featured in an interview by Wired UK on Uber, the London bus system, and Transportation Network Company’s (TNC) impact on transit deserts. Edna Ledesma, Emerging Scholar Fellow in Race and Gender in the US Built Environment, was recently elected as the chair of the Latinos and Planning Division (LAP) of the American Planning Association (APA).  Assistant Professor Katherine Lieberknecht served on a Reddit AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) panel with the Planet Texas 2050 team at this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference. Assistant Professor Gian-Claudia Sciara‘s multi-disciplinary research for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has been recognized by the California Association of Environmental Professionals as its 2018 Outstanding Environmental Resource Document. Associate Professor Allan W. Shearer, Director of the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture, participated in “Design & Environment: An Intensive, Interdisciplinary, and Output-Oriented Workshop” held at University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.

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Michelle Addington has been chosen to be the new dean of the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture. She is the first woman to be appointed to the role, a program that was founded in 1910.

Professor Christopher Long received the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Distinguished Professor Award for 2016-2017. 

Professor Anthony Alofsin has been named an American Institute of Architects (AIA) Fellow.

Metropolis Magazine spotlighted UTSOA’s commitment to diversity in the article, “Diversity Champions: 8 Schools that Aren’t Just Paying Lip Service to Diversity.

Associate Professor Larry Doll’s house in Marfa, Texas, has been featured in the book Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert by Helen Thompson.

Associate Professor Matt Fajkus and his practice, Matt Fajkus Architecture, was included in Architectural Record’s online “Featured Houses” section, which highlights three residential projects each month.

Assistant Professor Junfeng Jiao and Professor Ming Zhang served as advisors and judges for the UT Austin edition of the Net Impact and Toyota Next Generation Mobility Challenge.

Fernando Lara‘s timely op-ed, Use architecture to make our southern border an economic driver, was featured by the Dallas Morning News, McAllen Monitor, and San Angelo Standard-Times.

Mark Macek designed curved, Walnut wood podiums that were featured prominently during Super Bowl LI Opening Night and the Super Bowl post-game show.

Associate Dean Juan Miro‘s practice, Miro Rivera Architects, was spotlighted by The Architect’s Newspaper as a “shining star” of Austin’s lively architecture scene.

Distinguished Professor Larry Speck, FAIA, will present a Learn by Design session at SXSWedu (March 6-9) alongside Sue Cox, MD, Executive Vice Dean at the Dell Medical School.

The Texas Landscape Project, a new book by David Todd and Jonathan Ogren, received a very positive review in the February issue of Landscape Architect Magazine. 

Associate Professor Nichole Wiedemann has been elected National ACSA Secretary/Treasurer.  

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Associate Professor Dr. Ming Zhang and Associate Professor Vincent Snyder have been promoted to the rank of full professor.

Professor Coleman Coker received an award from the Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund in Galveston to support his summer Gulf Coast DesignLab project, which will partner with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to design and build an environmental education pavilion in Galveston Island State Park. Associate Professor Uli Dangel’s new book, Turning Point in Timber Construction, was published by Birkhäuser Basel.  Associate Professor Matt Fajkus was interviewed for two stories by Modern Austin. Together with other architects and designers in Austin, including Michael Hsu [BArch ’93] and Professor Kevin Alter, Fajkus expressed his opinions regarding “an Austin vernacular.”  Matt Fajkus Architecture’s [Bracketed Space] House received local and international media attention. Featured on Arch Daily and Dezeen, this Austin contemporary house was recognized for design that “embraces rolling terrain.” The MF Architecture design team consisted of Matt Fajkus and David Birt, and the project was managed by Jayson Kabala and UTSOA alumnus Travis Cook [MArch ’12].  UTSOA’s Center for American Architecture and Design released Centerline 11: Critical Mass, edited by Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Programs Francisco Gomes and featuring the work of Ensemble Studio, Harquitectes, and Perraudin Architects. The Centerline series is edited by Kevin Alter. Associate Professor Fernando Lara developed a partnership with the Romano Guerra editorial house to publish bilingual books (English/Portuguese or English/Spanish) on the architecture of Latin America. The first two books of the series, “Latin America:Thoughts,” are now available as e-books and in print: Architecture and Nature by Abilio Guerra and Ode to the Void by Carlos Teixeira..

The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded a five-year, multimillion dollar grant to the School of Architecture and its consortium partners to fund a transportation center that will aim to enhance mobility in megaregions.   The School of Architecture will receive $1.4 million for the 2016-17 fiscal year, with subsequent awards through 2020. The grant is one of 32 that will be awarded to lead consortia under the DOT’s University Transportation Centers Program. Dr. Ming Zhang, Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning and faculty researcher in the Center for Transportation Research at UT Austin, will oversee the Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions, or CM-2 consortium. The CM-2 consortium, which UT Austin will lead, includes researchers from Louisiana State University, Texas Southern University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Sinclair Black, FAIA, received the Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Honor of Llewellyn W. Pitts, FAIA, during the Texas Society of Architects 77th Annual Convention and Design Expo in San Antonio. Kory Bieg recently completed a temporary public art installation for the Waller Creek Conservancy’s 2016 Creek Show. Bieg also chaired the 2016 TxA Emerging Design + Technology conference for the Texas Society of Architects Convention and Design Expo.  Interim Dean, Elizabeth Danze, FAIA, was featured in the November issue of Austin Woman Magazine. In the interview, Danze discusses her motivations for teaching. Danze also served as a keynote speaker during the Psychology of Architecture Conference December 4 and 5 on the UT Austin campus.  Matt Fajkus Architecture, has received an international commendation at the 2016 Blueprint Awards ceremony in London. Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla has been racking up prestigious awards for his book, Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry/El arte de la cantería mixteca. The Pan-American Biennale, which recently took place in Quito, Ecuador, honored him with the International Award on Theory, History, and Critique of Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape for best publication. Miró Rivera Architects, firm of Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, Juan Miró, was named the 2016 Texas Architecture Firm of the Year by the Texas Society of Architects.  Allan W. Shearer and former School of Architecture Dean Fritz Steiner have co-edited a special issue of the journal _Landscape and Urban Planning_ on the emerging practice of geodesign. Dr. Danilo Udovicki-Selb contributed chapters to three books, including “Between the Retour à l’Ordre and the Neue-Sachlichkeit: Jacques Gréber and the 1937 Paris World Fair” in ”EXPOSIÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS – ENTRE O JARDIM E A PAISAGEM URBANA. Do Palácio De Cristal Do Porto (1865) À Exposição De Paris (1937); “L’Exposition de 1937 n’aura pas lieu: The Invention of the Paris International Expo and the Soviet and German Pavilions,” inArchitecture of Great Expositions (London: ASHGATE), 2015; and “Between ‘Proletarian Vanguard’ and Establishment: Boris Iofan’s Two ‘World Pavilions,’” in Measuring Against the West: A History of Russian Exposition and Festival Architecture (Rutledge: Abingdon-on-Thames), 2016. UTSOA’s Center for American Architecture and Design has released two new Centerline volumes edited by UTSOA faculty: Unsettling Agenda, edited by Professor Wilfried Wang; and Critical Mass, edited by Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Francisco Gomes.

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UT AUSTIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ANNOUNCES FALL 2016
LECTURES & EXHIBITIONS SERIES
New Season Features Alberto Campo Baeza, Craig Dykers, and Exhibitions on Félix Candela, the U.S. Incarceration System, and More…

AUSTIN, TX—The School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin announces its Fall 2016 Lectures and Exhibitions Series. Featuring an international line-up of speakers, including Alberto Campo Baeza of Spain, Marc Barani of France, and Juan Igancio del Cueto of Mexico, the series will cover issues pertinent to the fields of architecture, design, and sustainability, with insights from leading practitioners in those areas.

Highlights include a talk entitled Intellectual Enjoyment by Alberto Campo Baeza; a lecture by celebrated architect and UT School of Architecture alum Craig Dykers; a discussion of Watershed Architectures and Opportunistic Ecologies by Brook Muller; a lecture by Margaret Griffin, who will serve as the school’s Eugene McDermott Centennial visiting Professor this fall; an investigation of 0 Km Architecture—a practice that uses local materials, techniques, and labor to minimize one’s carbon footprint while promoting the local economy—by Camilla Mileto & Fernando Vegas; and lectures exploring digital technology by Marc Fornes, Branko Kolarevic and Vera Parlac. Matthew Crawford, author of The World Beyond Your Head, will give a special lecture as part of The Secret Life of Buildings symposium, a collaboration with the school’s Center for American Architecture and Design.

Exhibitions slated for the fall include: Living Wall: Collaboration + Fabrication, a behind-the-scenes look at the five-year research project that resulted in the school’s innovative green wall installed on the UT Austin campus; States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories, an investigation of the history of incarceration in the United States—from the Angola slave plantation-turned-prison in Louisiana, to the legacies of the Dakota Wars for Native American incarceration in Minnesota; and Candela’s Shells, an exhibition celebrating the reinforced concrete shells of Spanish-Mexican architect Félix Candela, organized by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

All lectures and exhibitions are free and open to the public.

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Lectures
Lectures begin at 5 pm.

Monday, August 29
Alberto Campo Baeza
Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza, Madrid
Jessen Auditorium

Monday, September 19
Caroline Bruzelius
Duke University
Goldsmith Hall 3.120  

Monday, September 26
Branko Kolarevic & Vera Parlac
University of Calgary
Goldsmith Hall 3.120

Wednesday, October 5
Marc Fornes
THEVERYMANY, New York
Goldsmith Hall 3.120

Monday, October 17
Craig Dykers
Snøhetta, Oslo
Jessen Auditorium

Wednesday, October 19
Matthew Crawford
Author, The World Beyond Your Head
Co-sponsored by the Center for American Architecture and Design
Jessen Auditorium

Monday, October 24
Marc Barani    
Atelier Marc Barani, Nice          
Goldsmith Hall 3.120

Monday, October 31
Juan Ignacio del Cueto 
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Goldsmith Hall 3.120

Friday, November 4
Camilla Mileto & Fernando Vegas
Mileto & Vegas Arquitectos, Valencia
Goldsmith Hall 3.120

Wednesday, November 9
Margaret Griffin
Griffin Enright Architects, Los Angeles
Eugene McDermott Centennial Visiting Professor
The University of Texas at Austin
Goldsmith Hall 3.120

Wednesday, November 16
Brook Muller  
University of Oregon
Goldsmith Hall 3.120

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Exhibitions
Exhibitions are held in Mebane Gallery in Goldsmith Hall, and are open Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Living Wall: Collaboration + Fabrication   
Curated by Danelle Briscoe, The University of Texas at Austin
Wednesday, August 31 – Friday, September 23
Opening reception on Wednesday, August 31 at 5:00 pm

In May 2016, the Living Wall project was installed along the façade of Goldsmith Hall, home to UT Austin’s School of Architecture. An investigation of the role of ecology in architecture, the 20 x 25 foot structure is comprised of a patent-pending honeycomb design and native flora specially selected to attract local fauna. Five years in the making, the project tests the limits of what’s possible with green walls through ongoing research and data analysis. Living Wall: Collaboration + Fabrication charts the progression of the project’s cross disciplinary collaboration and multiple fabrication efforts that assisted in its development and research. The exhibition is curated by Associate Professor Danelle Briscoe, one of the lead Project Investigators since its inception in 2010. The Living Wall is a collaboration with the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. 

States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories
A project of the Humanities Action Lab
Wednesday, October 5 – Friday, October 21
Opening reception on Monday, October 10 at 5:00 pm 

A traveling exhibition created by a national community of over 500 people in 20 cities, States of Incarceration investigates mass incarceration and immigrant detention in the United States, and encourages viewers to consider the implications of our country’s current system. With research contributions from university students— including several from the University of Texas at Austin— the exhibition features: interviews with formerly incarcerated people, corrections officers, and policy advocates_ images capturing the evolution of crime and punishment in different contexts_ and data demonstrating the explosive growth of incarceration and its impact on American society. States of Incarceration also includes a web platform, statesofincarceration.org and a podcast series. In a section of the presentation entitled Spatial Stories of Migration and Detention, students from UT’s School of Architecture mapped the physical locations, architectural forms, and building history of detention centers in Texas (and the stories of those who had been held in them) to create visual narratives of the migration journeys and experiences of detainees from the state. The exhibition is organized by the Humanities Action Lab, a collaboration of 20 universities led by The New School in New York, and including The University of Texas at Austin. 

Candela’s Shells
Curated by Juan Ignacio del Cueto 
Monday, October 31 – Monday, November 28
Opening reception on Monday, October 31 immediately following the lecture

Felix Candela (Madrid, 1910- North Carolina, 1997) reached worldwide fame with his concrete laminar structures, also known as ‘shells’, which he built in Mexico between the 1950s and 1960s, using a European construction technology that reached the peak of its development in Mexican soil. He created new pathways for this specific construction technology by using the hyperbolic paraboloid, and taking advantage of the structural and expressive advantages of this geometric form to create works that left an indelible mark on architecture of the 20th century. Candela’s Shells features stereolithographic models and 3D animations (all produced by School of Architecture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), as well as reproductions of the original drawings and photographs of Candela’s most important works, from the Cosmic Rays Pavillion (Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, 1951) to the Sports Palace (Mexico City, 1968).

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MEDIA CONTACT:
Kathleen Brady Stimpert, 512.471.0154, kathleenstimpert@utexas.edu
 

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UT Austin School of Architecture Hosts The Secret Life of Buildings Symposium, October 19 -22
Symposium Explores Speculative Realism, Object Oriented Ontology, and other theories                        

AUSTIN, TX— August 9, 2016—The School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin will host The Secret Life of Buildings, October 19-22, 2016. Organized by the Center for American Architecture and Design, the four-day symposium investigates Speculative Realism, Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), and similar emerging theories that imagine that buildings and the things in and around them not only promote human life, but have lives of their own, separate from our experience of them. Held on the UT campus, the event marks the first time the leaders of this exciting new realm of critical thought will gather to consider the topic of architecture.
 
What happens within a building when we are not there? How does a building relate to the objects within it? How does it relate to other buildings around it? If buildings are actors, what networks are they acting in? What do they keep to themselves, apart from all contact? These are just a few of the questions that the symposium seeks to address. Attendees will also investigate what implications, if any, these theories have for architects and designers of the built environment.  
 
On his website, Ian Bogost, philosopher, author, game designer, and one of the panelists at the symposium, defines OOO as the branch of philosophy that..
 
…puts things at the center…In contemporary thought, things are usually taken either as the aggregation of ever smaller bits (scientific naturalism) or as constructions of human behavior and society (social relativism). OOO steers a path between the two, drawing attention to things at all scales (from atoms to alpacas, bits to blinis), and pondering their nature and relations with one another as much with ourselves.
 
Speakers include philosopher Graham Harman of the American University in Cairo and Sci-Arc and founder of Object Oriented Ontology; architect and theorist Albena Yaneva of the University of Manchester; architect and theorist Jorge Otero-Pailos of Columbia University; and UT Austin architect and theorist Michael Benedikt. Other prominent thinkers and practitioners participating include Levi Bryant, Timothy Morton, Craig Dykers, Winka Dubbeldam, Ian Bogost, Leslie Van Duzer, Matthew B. Crawford, and UT faculty co-organizer Kory Bieg.
 
The symposium will be accompanied by an exhibition, Objects. Comprised of the top fifteen entries of an international design competition, the presentation will feature works that examine the ideas of Object Oriented Ontology and Speculative Realism through the design of singular, tangible things: “objects.” These will be installed in and around UT’s Goldsmith Hall at the School of Architecture.
 
Inquiries about the symposium may be directed to Leora Visotzky at the University of Texas at Austin, at leora@austin.utexas.edu. All events are free and open to the public until full. The Objects exhibition is on view October 17 – 31, 2016.

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Drawings, images, and models from Kory Bieg and Clay Odom’s Lumifoil, the winning work of the FIU College of Architecture + The Arts Emerging Architects Competition, will be exhibited at the FIU College of Architecture + The Arts, Miami Beach Urban Studios from June to September of 2016. The project is designed as an intervention into the rooftop event space of Bernard Tschumi’s “Red Generator” building at the FIU College of Architecture + The Arts. It was engineered by ARUP and is currently scheduled for installation in December 2016.

Kevin Alter’s professional practice, alterstudio architecture, has been recognized recently with awards and in several publications. The studio received two AIA Austin: 2016 Design Awards, one for their South 3rd Street Residence, and the other for their Cuernavaca residence.

This summer, after fifteen years of dedicated service to The University of Texas at Austin, Dean Fritz Steiner will be leaving the School of Architecture to serve as dean of PennDesign at the University of Pennsylvania, his alma mater. Elizabeth Danze, UTSOA professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, will serve as interim dean for the school effective July 1.

Gabriel Díaz Montemayor gave a lecture entitled, “Service Studios: Public Space and Academia,” at the VII International Congress on Architecture and Design organized by the Marista University of Merida in the state of Yucatan, Mexico. Montemayor also presented a paper, “Hybrid Ecological and Sustainable Mobility Networks for Northern Mexico,” at the 46th Urban Affairs Association Conference held in San Diego. 

Allan Shearer, Co-Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, authored “Abduction to Argument: A Framework of Design Thinking,” for the current issue of Landscape Journal._ 

Professor Wilfried Wang guest-edited two consecutive issues of the Japanese architectural journal A+U, on the work of Sigurd Lewerentz. Wang also co-curated, with Adjunct Associate Professor Barbara Hoidn, the upcoming exhibition,DEMO:POLIS–The Right to Public Space, at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

 

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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENT TEAM WINS HUD 2016 INNOVATION IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPETITION

AUSTIN, TX—April 25, 2016— A team of graduate students from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture has won the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) third annual Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition. The team was one of the four finalist teams to develop a plan to redevelop a public housing project, Monteria Village, in Santa Barbara, California. 

Students Sarah Simpson, Brett Clark, Megan Recher, Brianna Garner Frey, and Tatum Lau presented their final project on April 19 at HUD headquarters in Washington, DC, and took home the win, beating teams from the University of Kansas, Harvard University, and the University of Maryland at College Park.

“It’s amazing to watch our next generation create a plan for the future of affordable housing in a way that helps low-income families become self-sufficient,” said Katherine O’Regan, HUD’s Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research. “As we celebrate the third year of this competition, our hope is to continue this creative and forward thinking when it comes to affordable housing.”

HUD and the Santa Barbara Housing Authority challenged the teams to consider the complex challenges associated with rehabbing the current structure or demolishing it and creating new construction. Participants had to consider design, community development, and financing elements in order to provide an all-encompassing plan and solution that would allow the housing authority to meet its goal of offering safe and sustainable affordable housing. Students also needed to understand the needs of the intended residents, the zoning restrictions, and leveraging opportunities.

The UT School of Architecture team will receive a $20,000 award for their first-place win. The competition jurors praised the team members for their sophisticated site plan that connects homes and social space. The team also received very high marks for their water conservation plans and their plans to include an education center which will provide school and job training to address the needs of the community.

The UTSOA team was advised by professors Elizabeth Mueller, Jake Wegmann, Dean Almy, and Simon Atkinson.  

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This summer, after fifteen years of dedicated service to The University of Texas at Austin, Dean Fritz Steiner will be leaving the School of Architecture to serve as dean of PennDesign at the University of Pennsylvania, his alma mater. Elizabeth Danze, UTSOA professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, will serve as interim dean for the school effective July 1. 

Assistant Professors Kory Bieg and Clay Odom won the FIU Emerging Architect’s Initiative to design a rooftop canopy for the Bernard Tschumi designed FIU School of Architecture building.__ Kory Bieg also won the Field Constructs Design Competition for his project Hybroot, which was installed in the Circle Acres Nature Preserve in Austin last fall.__

Matt Fajkus, Assistant Professor and principal architect of Matt Fajkus Architecture, has been invited to speak at the Façade Tectonic: Forum San Antonio on April 7th. _

Assistant Professor Petra Liedl served as editor of the recently-published, bilingual (English and German) book, EnergyXChange: Munich and Austin As Regional Centers for Sustainable Innovation, and organized a symposium of the same name as part of her Donald Harrington Faculty Fellowship in 2012- 2013.__

Gabriel Díaz Montemayor gave a lecture entitled, “Service Studios: Public Space and Academia,” at the VII International Congress on Architecture and Design organized by the Marista University of Merida in the state of Yucatan, Mexico. Montemayor also presented a paper, “Hybrid Ecological and Sustainable Mobility Networks for Northern Mexico,” at the 46th Urban Affairs Association Conference held in San Diego 

_Steven Moore, Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Design, recently delivered the keynote address at the Annual Doctor of Design, DDes Symposium at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Allan Shearer, Co-Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, authored “Abduction to Argument: A Framework of Design Thinking,” for the current issue of Landscape Journal.__

Professor Wilfried Wang guest-edited two consecutive issues of the Japanese architectural journal A+U, on the work of Sigurd Lewerentz. Wang also co-curated, with Adjunct Associate Professor Barbara Hoidn, the upcoming exhibition,DEMO:POLIS–The Right to Public Space, at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

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On November 6, Professor Juan Miró, FAIA, accepted the 2015 Edward Romieniec Award for Outstanding Educational Contributions from the Texas Society of Architects. This award was presented to him during the First General Session at the 76th Annual TSA Convention and Design Expo in DallasThe TSA award is the second educational award Professor Miró has been honored with this year; he received the University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award this spring.Additionally, Miró Rivera Architects’ (MRA) Chinmaya project graced the cover of Texas Architect‘s September/October 2015 Design Awards issue. The Hindu temple and educational building are the first phase of the mission’s new campus in North Austin.

Austin-born advertising and graphic design firm, GSD&M, stopped by the Field Constructs Design Competition (FCDC), which featured emerging designers, architects, landscape architects and artists from all over Austin and beyond. This artistic collaboration inspires cutting-edge innovation through installations that intertwine with the natural and cultural aspects of Austin.FCDC co-founders Catherine Gavin and Associate Professor Igor Siddiqui, as well as Assistant Professor Kory Bieg, who designed a featured piece in the competition, spoke to GSD&M about the innovative and collaborative spirit of Austin. 

Associate Professor Danilo Udovi_ki-Selb‘s recent and upcoming scholarly activities include:

  • Edited O’ Neil Ford Monograph 6: Narkomfin: Moisej J. Ginzburg, Ignatij Milinis, jointed published (fall 2015) by the School of Architecture, Center for American Architecture and Design, __usev State Museum of Architecture, and the O’Neil Ford Chair in Architecture.
  • Authored the lead chapter, “L’Exposition de 1937 n’aura pas lieu: The Invention of the Paris International Expo and the Soviet and German Pavilions,” In Architecture of Great Expositions 1937–1959, London: Ashgate, 2015. Editors Vladimir Paperny, Alexander Otenberg, and Rika Devos.
  • Chapter in edited Festrieft book in memoriam of Russian / Soviet architecture historian S.O. Khan-Magomedov, Moscow 2015.
  • As official critic/correspondent of the Giornale dell’Architettura, Torino, published report in its special issue, “Architecture Beyond the Image,” an article on architect David Adjaye‘s Sugar Hill affordable housing development in Manhattan, and a retrospective about Post-Modernism on the occasion of Michael Grave‘s passing.
  • Presented a paper at this year’s annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians in Chicago, April 2015, “Reinventing the ‘City of Light’ at the 1937 Paris World Fair.”
  • Published an essay, “Reinventing Paris: The Competitions for the 1937 Paris International Exposition,” in the Journal of Architectural Historians
  • Presented a paper, “Kaganovich’s Grupirovka: The Lenin Library Competition and the Invention of the VOPRA,” at the annual conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
  • With Alla Vronskaya will lead a panel on “Reassessing the Historiography of Socialist Architecture”, annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Pasadena, 2016.
  • Invited presentation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on “Filippo Brunelleschi: Between European Renascence and Florentine Renaissance.”

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On November 6, Professor Juan Miró, FAIA, accepted the 2015 Edward Romieniec Award for Outstanding Educational Contributions from the Texas Society of Architects. Additionally, Miró Rivera Architects’ (MRA) Chinmaya project graced the cover of Texas Architect‘s September/October 2015 Design Awards issue. The Hindu temple and educational building are the first phase of the mission’s new campus in North Austin.

Associate Professor Danilo Udovi_ki-Selb‘s recent and upcoming scholarly activities include:

  • Edited O’ Neil Ford Monograph 6: Narkomfin: Moisej J. Ginzburg, Ignatij Milinis, jointed published (fall 2015) by the School of Architecture, Center for American Architecture and Design, __usev State Museum of Architecture, and the O’Neil Ford Chair in Architecture.
  • Authored the lead chapter, “L’Exposition de 1937 n’aura pas lieu: The Invention of the Paris International Expo and the Soviet and German Pavilions,” In Architecture of Great Expositions 1937–1959, London: Ashgate, 2015. Editors Vladimir Paperny, Alexander Otenberg, and Rika Devos.

Students from The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) took fourth place overall in the 2015 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition in Irvine, California, for their project, the NexusHaus. Over 75 students from seven disciplines were involved on the NexusHaus. School of Architecture instructors Michael Garrison, Petra Liedl, and Adam Pyrek supervised the students throughout the two-year project, with support from Michael Webber of UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, as well as TUM’s Werner Lang.

For the Badlands National Park Studio’s midterm review last week, six National Parks Service (NPS) staff came to Austin, from the park and from two NPS regional offices. Other NPS personnel observed and commented online. In September, 13 students (from five countries and six UTSOA graduate degree programs) traveled to the park for nine days of intensive fieldwork and interviews. Studio instructors Michael Holleran and Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla accompanied them, as well as six staff members from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s Ecological Design Group.

Michael Benedikt, Larry Doll, Michael Garrison, and Larry Speck — on their 40th anniversary of teaching and service to the School of Architecture celebrated with a  school-wide Conversation and 4×40 Fiesta

Associate Professor Fernando Lara’s 2015 publication, Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology and Utopia, was named a runner-up at the Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards ceremony, held November 2, in Austin, Texas.

Danze Blood Architects [Elizabeth Danze, FAIA, and John Blood, AIA] received a 2015 Texas Society of Architects (TxA) Studio Award for their Saints Peter and Paul Chapel.

Assistant Professor Danelle Briscoe‘s book, Beyond BIM: Architecture Information Modeling, was just published by Routledge.

The award-winning residential designs of Alterstudio Architects LLP are showcased in “6 Houses,” an exhibit running through January 19, 2016, in Texas A&M University’s Wright Gallery.

Alterstudio principal, Professor Kevin Alter, presented a lecture at the exhibit opening on October 26. In addition to garnering numerous awards including the Housing Award from the American Institute of Architects and Design Excellence awards from the American Society of Interior Design and the International Interior Design Association, the homes featured in the exhibit also drew praise from essayists in the book, 6 Houses, which features designs Alter created with firm partners Ernesto Cragnolino [B.Arch. ’97, BSAE ’97, BA Plan II ’97] and Tim Whitehill [B.Arch. ’02].

Assistant Professor Robert Young‘s article, “The Oregon Way: Planning a Sustainable Economy in the American West,” was published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER).

Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry/ El arte de la cantería mixteca by Assistant Professor Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla was awarded with a medal for the best published work at the Architecture Biennale of Mexico City 2015.

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