2024-05-02T20:49:09-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149967743/ut-austin-s-architecture-school-begins-new-initiative-focused-on-race-gender-and-the-american-built-environment Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-09-09T18:06:00-04:00 >2019-12-04T18:05:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/59/590yls5vjtgef10m.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The effort aims to facilitate diversity among design and planning professionals and students, and foster innovation in teaching and research on race, gender and inequality in American cities. Partially funded by the university&rsquo;s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, the initiative will ensure that the School of Architecture is on the leading edge of scholarship and practice regarding these important issues.</p></em><br /><br /><p>More on race and gender in architecture:</p> <ul><li><a title="Gentrification and the Persistence of Poor Minority Neighborhoods" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/106016117/gentrification-and-the-persistence-of-poor-minority-neighborhoods" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gentrification and the Persistence of Poor Minority Neighborhoods</a></li><li><a title="A profession almost as white as the walls." href="http://archinect.com/news/article/85972778/a-profession-almost-as-white-as-the-walls" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A profession almost as white as the walls.</a></li><li><a title="Separate and unequal: The neighborhood gap for Blacks, Hispanics and Asians in metropolitan America" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/15546446/separate-and-unequal-the-neighborhood-gap-for-blacks-hispanics-and-asians-in-metropolitan-america" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Separate and unequal: The neighborhood gap for Blacks, Hispanics and Asians in metropolitan America</a></li><li><a title="More women joined the profession in 2015 than ever before" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149952119/more-women-joined-the-profession-in-2015-than-ever-before" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More women joined the profession in 2015 than ever before</a></li><li><a title="Why Zaha Hadid's gender and ethnicity mattered so much" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149938434/why-zaha-hadid-s-gender-and-ethnicity-mattered-so-much" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why Zaha Hadid's gender and ethnicity mattered so much</a></li></ul> https://archinect.com/news/article/118272300/textscape-depicts-the-evolution-of-printing-in-3d-printed-documents Justine Testado 2015-01-13T14:00:00-05:00 >2015-01-14T20:51:33-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/lc/lcbuu9ucsgwak7kp.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>"Textscape" by interdisciplinary artist and University of Hawaii at Manoa educator <a href="http://hongtaozhou.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hongtao Zhou</a> is a visually engaging work of 3D text documents that nods to one of the Four Great Inventions of Ancient China: printing. The letter-sized documents examine how the role of printing has shifted from duplicating text to producing objects, thanks to the rise of 3D printing.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/o7/o76g9n0uhs990nlq.jpg"><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/x7/x70phbhktqzm04jl.jpg"></p><p>Reflecting Zhou's background in furniture design, sculptural installation, and architecture, the documents are 3D depictions of their respective subject matters, such as cities or landscapes.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/49/49xes0wl2upu0is3.jpg"><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/7p/7p6pjtve4steabcl.jpg"></p><p>Zhou&nbsp;&mdash; and a group of participating artists consisting of Tyler Francisco, Rhealyn Dalere and Chin Fang Chen from the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Architecture&nbsp;&mdash; created additional Textscapes "written" in braille, different languages, calligraphies, and number systems with the intention to turn the pastime of reading into an interactive process and into works of art that can be widely appreciated.</p>