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On April 26, Pecan Street Project announced that it has acquired a site and will soon begin construction of a smart grid interoperability research facility. Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will lead the programming and technical specification development for the facility, which will be located in Austin’s Mueller community. Supported by a large demonstration grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Pecan Street Project is a “smart grid” initiative led by a team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the Environmental Defense Fund to develop and test an integrated clean energy smart grid in Austin. Construction is scheduled to begin in September 2011 and active operations to commence in March 2012. Pecan Street Project has contracted with Austin-based custom homebuilder The Muskin Company to construct the Home Research Lab. The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Assistant Professors Ulrich Dangel, Matt Fajkus, and Tamie Glass have developed a schematic design for the architecture and interiors of the project in collaboration with Department of Architectural and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Atila Novoselac. Austin-based Michael Hsu Office of Architecture will serve as the architect of record. Over the next five years, this Pecan Street Project team will deploy and test a smart grid infrastructure in 1,000 residences and 75 businesses in the new Mueller mixed-use urban village in central Austin.

Dean Fritz Steiner contributed a chapter, “Plan with Nature: The Legacy of Ian McHarg,” to the new book, http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/1893_Regional-Planning-in-America: Practice and Prospect, edited by Ethan Seltzer and Armando Carbonell, published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Assistant Professor Igor Siddiqui’s work is featured in the exhibit “Elemental” at the Ogden Museum in New Orleans. The exhibit, organized by AIA New Orleans as a part of the AIA National Convention, focuses on digital fabrication and includes works by Greg Lynn, http://www.iwamotoscott.com/, IwamotoScott, Elena Manferdini, Florencia Pita, and others.

Siddiqui’s essay, “Surface Fatigue,” is published in the upcoming book, Soft Shells: Porous and Deployable Architectural Screens, by Sophia Vyzoviti (Amsterdam: BIS Publishers).

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Dr. Nancy Kwallek, Director of the UTSoA Interiors program will host the “Textiles Symposium Weaving the Past and the Present,” at the Univeristy of Texas at Austin.

On September 24, Assistant Professor Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla opened his exhibition “El arte de la cantería Mixteca” (Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry) in the Museum of Arts and Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Dr. Mark Simmons, lecturer at the School of Architecture and research scientist at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, has received a 2013 Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in the Professional category for his project, “The Lawn is Dead – Long Live the Lawn.”

Assistant Professor Junfeng Jiao—with research assistant at Ball State, Max Dillivan—has just published an article titled “Transit Desert: The Gap between Demand and Supply” in the Journal of Public Transportation, October 2013, Vol. 16.3.

Assistant Professor Dr. Petra Leidl led the Harrington Symposium at the University of Texas at Austin on October 1-4, “EnergyXchange: Munich and Austin: Regional Centers of Sustainable Innovation”.

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The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture will honor the life and work of Associate Dean Kent Butler at a memorial symposium on October 1 at the UTSOA. Dr. Butler, a long-time faculty member, died during a hiking trip in Yosemite National Park in May.

The Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) is a proud co-sponsor of the 2011 UT Campus Sustainability Symposium September 23, 2011, led by the President’s Sustainability Steering Committee, with support from UT’s Office of Sustainability, the Center for Sustainable Development, the Campus Environmental Center, the Environmental Science Institute, and the UT Energy Institute.

Dean Fritz Steiner will moderate the panel discussion, “How Green is My City?,” at the, http://www.texastribune.org/festival/home/,Texas Tribune Festival, which will take place on September 24 and 25 in Austin.

On Wednesday, November 3, Houston Tomorrow Distinguished Speaker Series luncheon, Dean Fritz Steiner will discuss his latest book, Design for a Vulnerable Planet, and his ideas for a sustainable future based on new regionalism-a theory of design which holds that structure and landscape should be inspired by the surrounding ecosystem. Steiner frequently works with local, state, and federal agencies on diverse environmental plans and designs. He is a member of the Steering Committee of America 2050 and is current president of the Hill Country Conservancy and board member of Envision Central Texas.

Pollen Architecture & Design’s Balcones House will be featured on the 2011 American Institute of Architects <http://www.aiaaustin.org/firm_project/balcones-house>Austin Homes Tour, October 1 and 2. Lecturers Elizabeth Alford and Dason Whitsett [B.Arch. ’95, M.S.S.D. ’05] are principals of Pollen Architecture (with Michael Young).

Associate Dean Kevin Alter was a featured speaker at the American Institute of Architects Arkansas 2011 State Convention in Hot Springs, on September 17, where he presented selected work from his firm, <http://alterstudio.net/>alterstudio architects, llp.

Assistant Professor Fernando Lara recently published two articles. “Incomplete Utopias: Embedded Inequalities in Brazilian Modern Architecture,” appeared in the June 2011 edition of the Architectural Research Quarterly, published by Cambridge University Press. The article, “New (Sub)Urbanism and Old Inequalities in Brazilian Gated Communities,” was published in the August 2011 edition of the Journal of Urban Design, published by Taylor & Francis Group.
Senior Lecturer Joyce Rosner‘s work in the exhibition, “SLICE: Connections and Deviations,” will be displayed at the Kreft Center Gallery, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan, from October 25 to December 4.. A central theme in Rosner’s  work is the idea of an iterative collection. Through the interplay of hand and material, narrative tension is developed between the subject and its recorded evidence.

Dr. Steven Moore, Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor of Architecture and Planning; Dr. David Adelman, Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair in Law; and Dr. Barbara Brown Wilson, director of the UT Austin Center for Sustainable Development, have been awarded a National Science Foundation Workshop Grant to host “Sequencing and Targeting Climate Change Policy for Architecture: An Interdisciplinary and International Approach.”

On September 27, Dr. Nancy Kwallek, Gene Edward Mikesa Endowed Chair in Interior Design and Director of the Interior Design Program, presented a lecture on color palettes from the 1950s, in conjunction with Mika Tajima’s exhibition, “The Architect’s Garden,” at the UT Austin Visual Arts Center. Dr. Kwallek used Herman Miller and Knoll as examples to discuss the impact of color on our senses.

Wilfried Wang, O’Neil Ford Centennial Professor in Architecture, led the Quito Travel Studio with 13 students to Ecuador. Besides seeing the impressive work of José Maria Saez Vaquero and Adrian Moreno, both visiting professors at the School of Architecture this semester, the group met José Miguel Mantilla and the office of El Borde: David Barragan and Pascual Gangotena. The students visited a number of outstanding pieces of contemporary architecture, as well as museums with Pre-Columbian art. While in Ecuador, Wang presented a lecture on “Changing Paradigms: The Challenge of Sustainability to Architecture” at the Universidad Católica de Santiago Guayaquil and a lecture on “Judging Architecture” at the Universidad de Guayaquil.

Adjunct Associate Professor Barbara Hoidn was an invited participant in the Jane Jacobs Revisited: A Bellagio Conference” at the Rockefeller Foundation at Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, which took place from September 29 to October 3, 2011.

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