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CoursesAdvanced Architectural Design Studio: Alley Flat Initiative (ARC 560R, ARC 696)
"The Alley Flat Initiative works to advance three goals--design innovation, environmental sustainability, and affordability. In the format of a design/build studio, students will be working closely with each other, the s... MoreCoursesAdvanced Architectural Design: Austin Studio (ARC 560R, ARC 696)
The UT Austin Campus Real Estate Office has been tasked with management of the development of 109 acres at MOPAC and Braker known as the Pickle Research Center West Tract or the MCC Tract. Their initial inclination is th... MoreCoursesAdvanced Design: Renewable Energy Innovation Lab (ARC 560R, ARC 696)
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is a nationally recognized leader in buildings research combining renewable energy with innovative technologies to significantly reduce energy consumption in buildings. Bas... MoreCoursesAdvanced Design: Sustainability Innovations Studio - Green Monsters (ARC 560R, ARC 696)
Sustainability Innovations is a studio sequence focused on achieving sustainable design solutions through a comprehensive, technologically progressive and a research oriented approach. MoreCoursesAdvanced Studio in Sustainable Design (ARC 696)
MoreCoursesAgenda 21: Sustainable Urbanism (ARC 386M)
This course will examine factors affecting the changing status of the 21st century city and the tactics used to mediate the effects of rapid urbanization by leaders in the environmental design professions. Key words: Lan... More
Faculty & StaffAlford, Elizabeth
Elizabeth has taught design studios at UTSOA for six years, as well as a seminar on construction systems for houses. She is currently at work on a book titled "Site::Offsite; Architecture and the Factory-Built House," fo... MoreFaculty & StaffAlmy, Dean
Applied Research in Sustainable Urbanism. Dallas Urban Laboratory MoreCoursesBuilding Codes and the Environment (ARC 386M)
This course will be offered infrequently. Building and technological codes, too often ignored in design education, are the principal means by which societies attempt to shape the built environment. This seminar is histo... MoreCoursesBuilding Integrated Photovoltaic (ARC 386M; ARC 350R)
The goal is to develop a typology for building-integrated PV systems and to study the technical and economical potential of the integration of PV components in the building fabric of the campus of UT Austin. A real-scale... MoreCoursesBuilding-Integrated Photovoltaics (ARC 386M)
The seminar will focus on the options for the integration of PV systems in buildings. The integration of electricity-producing components in the building skin is a complex matter, as architectural aspects as well as t... MoreCoursesClimate Change and Cultural Theory (ARC 386M)
Application of theories from philosophy, political ecology, science and technology studies, discourse theory, anthropology, and sociology in order to sketch approaches to climate change beyond the divisions of nature and... MoreCoursesEconomy/Value/Quality of Life (URB 352; ARC 350R)
In this course, each student is asked to consider the evolution and existence of both 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' worldviews/value systems/reality systems/systems of evaluation and how each create situations where f... MoreCoursesEmerging Technologies (ARE 377K; ARC 350R)
London is home to many of the world's most innovative and influential Architecture and Engineering firms. This course takes students behind-the-scenes to learn about the latest design technologies of world-class building... MoreCoursesEnergy Modeling and Design Process (ARC 350R; ARC 386M)
MoreCoursesEnergy Optimization in Building Design (ARC 350R; ARC 386M)
This course will introduce the student to whole-building energy simulation and energy optimization techniques using computer simulation, including the hourly simulation of dynamic thermal envelope loads, shading analysis... MoreCoursesEnergy Optimization in Building Design (ARC 386M; ARC 350R )
This course will introduce the student to whole-building energy simulation and energy optimization techniques using computer simulation, including the hourly simulation of dynamic thermal envelope loads, shading analysis... MoreCoursesFoundations of Sustainable Design Seminar (ARC 350R; ARC 386M)
MoreCoursesGarden City to New Community (ARC 386M; ARC 350R; LAR 388; CRP 386)
This graduate seminar examines the search to establish new communities. It looks at the ideals, theories, and principles that people have held in the belief that a designed community is preferable to random incremental g... MoreCoursesHousing America (URB 352; ARC 350R; ARC 386M)
Issues concerning the built environment and urban infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and the public policy framework designed to manage the challenges presented by these issues. Issues facing residents of U.S.... MoreCoursesHousing, Landscape, and Urbanism (ARC 386M; LAR 388)
MoreCoursesInformality: The Global Housing Challenge (ARC 350R; ARC 386M)
Approximately 2 billion people of the world's population live in substandard housing; 1 billion of these people reside in urban slums (UN Habitat). In the US alone about 40 million people live below the poverty line (Uo... MoreCoursesIntegrated Sustainable Design Studio (ARC 696)
MoreCoursesIntelligent Building Skins (ARC 350R, ARC 386M)
In this course, students will explore the functional, assembly, and detailing criteria that are considered when developing concepts for the building envelope. The semester will begin with a series of exercises to gain a ... MoreCoursesLight and Sustainable Design (ARC 350R; ARC 386M)
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Research & InitiativesPecan Street Smart Grid Demonstration Project
UT faculty and students are providing research support for the DOE sponsored smart grid demonstration that was awarded to the Pecan Street Project ($10 million over five years). In the smart grid demonstration project at... MoreCoursesResearch Seminar: Sustainable Preservation (ARC 386M, CRP 381)
This seminar seeks to explore the evolving state of knowledge at the intersection of preservation and sustainability; to chart the gaps, contradictions and uncertainties, and then to formulate ways of resolving them. It ... MoreResearch & InitiativesSmart Building Initiative
Tools are now available that offer real-time data for people who want to learn how their personal choices impact energy consumption at the room level. In a year-long project, the Smart Building Initiative marries this te... MoreCoursesSociety, Nature, and Technology (ARC 386M)
Architects have tended to tell the history of their discipline as either the succession of styles or as the succession of theories. In both these views of architectural history, technological choices are understood to be... MoreCoursesSolar Geometry and Energy Flow in Buildings (ARC 350R, ARC 386M)
This course seeks to provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of how buildings interact with their energetic environment, i.e. the natural energy that flows around and through them. MoreCoursesSpecial Topics in Skin Design (ARC 386M)
MoreCoursesThe Modern American City (GRG 337; GRG 396T; URB 352 1; ARC 350R 1)
Issues concerning the built environment and urban infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and the public policy framework designed to manage the challenges presented by these issues. Issues facing residents of U.S.... MoreCoursesTopics in Architectural Theory: Sustainable Architecture (ARC 350R; ARC 386M)
This class proposes to establish a goal of investigating applied research green building systems that could be utilized as resource conservation strategies for the greening of the main campus at the University of Texas a... MoreCoursesTopics In Sustainable Development (ARC 386C; CRP 383; MAN 385; LAW 379M; P A 388K)
This course is a trans-disciplinary graduate level seminar designed to critically explore the theory and practice of sustainable development from a variety of perspectives. The class is cross-listed in business, architec... MoreCoursesUrban Design Practice (URB 352 3; ARC 350R 3)
Issues concerning the built environment and urban infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and the public policy framework designed to manage the challenges presented by these issues. Issues facing residents of U.S.... MoreCoursesUrban Landscape and Place-Making (ARC 386M; LAR 386M; CRP 386M)
This seminar explores ways to make better urban places both as a means to serve a city’s inhabitants, and also as a catalyst to urban regeneration. City leaders are increasingly realizing that the urban landscape of ... MoreResearch & InitiativesUT Solar Decathlon
The Solar Decathlon is a university competition in which engineering and architectural teams from participating schools design, construct, transport and erect completely sustainable solar homes and display them on the Na... MoreCoursesVertical Design Studio (ARC 393, ARC 394)
The course introduces students to an expanding understanding of the use of materials and methods of green building and their application to details. A major dimension of the project will be to integrate the design of tec... MoreCoursesVertical Studio: Middle Class Sustainability? Sea Ranch (ARC 393)
By “middle class sustainability” I mean a set of living habits that are consistent with both contemporary middle class social values and the environmental conditions and forces found in the place where those habi... MoreCoursesVertical Studio: PARA_SITES (ARC 393)
The redevelopment and re-vitalization of the downtowns of our cities play an important role in the promotion of more sustainable living habits. In an effort to increase urban density, infill construction, additions, and ... MoreCoursesVertical Studio: Sustainability and Desire (ARC 393)
It may be that construction and program - that is, technology and desire - chicken and egg endlessly in architectural design, but the argument could be made that, when it comes to actually committing to building, desire ... MoreCoursesVertical Studio: Sustainable Form (ARC 391)
Through a series of projects, lectures and readings this semester's studio work will concern itself with the purposeful inquiry of sustainability and form. Two different intentions of/for making form will be examined. Th... MoreCourses