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Michelle Addington discusses her new deanship at UT Austin and the educational opportunities arising from the political hotbed that is Texas

2017-03-28T11:44:00-04:00

This coming July, the University of Texas at Austin will be getting a new dean of the School of Architecture. Michelle Addington, who has spent the last eleven years teaching at Yale, will be leaving her post as the Hines Professor of Sustainable Design and taking over for Elizabeth Danze, who has been serving as interim dean at UT Austin since July 2016.

Deborah Berke shares her vision as incoming dean at the Yale School of Architecture

2016-09-14T12:01:00-04:00

As of this July, Deborah Berke took over the deanship at the Yale School of Architecture, succeeding Robert A.M. Stern after his nearly twenty years in the position. Having taught at Yale herself for almost thirty years, Berke is no stranger to its academic culture, and has expansive plans now that she’s assumed the historic title of the School’s first female dean.

Urban Slot Machine: A conversation with Keller Easterling

2006-08-02T09:30:00-04:00

You would be hard-pressed to find someone in architecture today with the kind of versatility that Keller Easterling exhibits. Her ability to navigate in waters as diverse as theater, urbanism, technology, theory, comedy, globalization, literature and capitalism have made her an essential figure in decoding the contemporary condition. Additionally Easterling writes (and speaks) with a highly developed customized vocabulary that serves her choreography of such seemingly unrelated topics. From protocol to spatial products to cocktails to errors , she has devised a way to occupy both literary space (theater) and physical space (architecture / city). Language as a fly tower with layers and layers of malleable phyllo-like backdrops.