University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture

The University of Texas at Austin
School of Architecture
TypePublic
Established1948
DeanHeather Woofter
Students663
Undergraduates316
Postgraduates347
Location
Austin
,
Texas

30°17′07″N 97°44′28″W / 30.285388°N 97.741184°W / 30.285388; -97.741184
Websitesoa.utexas.edu
Goldsmith Hall from the West Mall
Eden & Hal Box Courtyard in Goldsmith Hall
Goldsmith Hall from Inner Campus Drive
Sutton Hall from Inner Campus Drive
Sutton Hall, south side
Interior of the Architecture & Planning Library in Battle Hall
Architectural Robotics Lab located in Sutton Hall

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (UTSOA) is a college within The University of Texas at Austin, with its major facilities located on the main university campus in Austin, Texas, United States.

UTSOA has nearly 700 graduate and undergraduate students. There are approximately 65 full-time faculty and 35 adjunct and part-time faculty. The student/faculty ratio is 10:1.

The school has five faculty members that are Rome Fellows, including adjunct professor Coleman Coker, associate professors Hope Hasbruck, Mirka Benes, Nichole Wiedemann, and most recently, 2014 recipient Vincent C. Snyder.

The school is located within the historical core of the University of Texas at Austin campus. As part of the original 40 Acres, the college fully occupies Goldsmith Hall, Sutton Hall, and Battle Hall. In 2007, Battle Hall was listed as one of America's Top 150 Favorite Works of Architecture by The American Institute of Architects (AIA),.[1] UTSOA also occupies part of the West Mall Office Building.

Two of these buildings were designed by Cass Gilbert and another by Paul Philippe Cret. Cret is credited as the designer of the campus master plan for The University of Texas at Austin, and helped to build the Beaux-Arts-style Main Building tower. Cret collaborated with Herbert M. Greene (of Texas firm Greene, LaRoche, and Dahl) and UTSOA Class of 1921 alumnus Robert Leon White for several of his projects.[2]

UTSOA celebrated its centennial in 2010, with a keynote by UTSOA alumnus Craig Dykers of Snøhetta.[3]

  1. ^ Crossette, Amy. "Battle Hall at The University of Texas at Austin Selected As One of the Nation's Top 150 Architectural Works". The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  2. ^ "White, Robert Leon Historical Entry". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  3. ^ "UTSOA Centennial Keynote, Craig Dykers". UTSOA Vimeo Page. Retrieved 2016-09-07.