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Get Lectured: Texas Tech University, Spring '24

2024-02-18T08:00:00-05:00

Texas Tech University’s Huckabee College of Architecture has shared lecture details for the Spring term related to its 2023–24 Publicness programming for our Get Lectured preview of different events in store this semester.

The school shares: “Publicness refers to the power of architecture and design to shape our built environment for the benefit of society at large. It celebrates conditions of interaction, adaptability, collaboration, spontaneity, and openness.”

HKS Venues Design Director and Principal Lance Evans began the semester on January 29 with an overview of his work at the firm, including his role as the Lead Architect of SoFi Stadium. Evans was followed on February 12 by a discussion with Brooklyn's op.AL. The series will continue on February 26 with AN.ONYMOUS founding principal Iman Ansari. Finally, civil rights attorney Emily Hunt Turner will close the semester with a presentation on her work surrounding mass incarceration with the Minneapolis-based nonprofit All Squar...

Dora Epstein Jones, former A+D Museum Director, joins UT Austin School of Architecture faculty

2023-08-14T11:37:00-04:00

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture has announced Dora Epstein Jones will be joining its faculty in the fall as one of five new appointments.

Previously, Jones served as former faculty at Texas Tech University at Huckabee College of Architecture in Lubbock and will be coming to campus as the school’s newest Professor of Practice. She had previously been employed as the executive director of Los Angeles’ A+D Architecture and Design Museum prior to her tenure at Texas Tech, where she was instrumental in steering the development of a new research praxis for faculty that “forge[d] stronger interdisciplinary collaboration between architecture, philosophy, and history.”

Beyond her academic career, which began in 2002 at SCI-Arc, Epstein has also previously served as a principal of the Los Angeles-based studio Jones, Partners: Architecture, and holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism from UCLA in addition to her M.A. in Urban Planning, which she a...

Urs Peter “Upe” Flueckiger is the new Dean of Texas Tech's College of Architecture

2022-06-13T15:52:00-04:00

Texas Tech University has appointed a familiar name in the culmination of a new dean to lead its 95-year-old College of Architecture. Urs Peter "Upe" Flueckiger is the new dean of the school, continuing in the role he stepped into in an interim capacity starting in the fall of last year. Flueckiger will take office effective on July 1st.

Hailing from Switzerland, Flueckiger has made a name for himself in academia beginning with his tenure as a lecturer at Texas Tech's College of Architecture in 1998. Since then, Flueckiger's academic work with both undergrad and graduate students has garnered multiple teaching awards from the school. He has also seen the successful publications of titles on conceptual artist Donald Judd and sustainability traditions within the cabin typology.

After earning a certificate in construction design in Switzerland he received a Masters of Architecture degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Flueckiger has also operated his own pra...

Dan Hart officially takes over as the 98th AIA President

2021-12-13T15:43:00-05:00

Important news today for one of America’s oldest architectural organizations as the American Institute of Architects has announced the formal inauguration of Dan Hart, FAIA as the organization’s 98th president.

Hart comes from a particularly strong background of leadership, holding previous positions as a longtime member of the AIA’s Board of Directors in addition to serving as the 2011 president of the Texas Society of Architects. As a board member, Hart was responsible for organizing the AIA’s official COVID-19 business task force (which he co-chaired) and was also chair of the Public Outreach and Board Knowledge Committees in addition to serving as the moderator for the AIA’s Strategic Council in 2016.

Hart has practiced architecture since completing his bachelor’s studies in engineering at Texas Tech University in 1990, becoming a principal at the multidisciplinary firm Parkhill the next year, where he focused on projects in the higher education sector based out of the firm’s Au...

New ACSA President Robert Alexander González pushes for DEI in higher education and shares the importance of community colleges

2021-07-02T14:05:00-04:00

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) has announced architect and academic Robert Alexander González as its 2021-2022 President. Not a stranger to the ACSA, González has been involved in the organization's leadership since 2019, serving as the second vice president and vice president in 2020. Now in this new role, he shares, "It's an exciting time to step into the presidency, with access to such a large membership that is continually growing."

University of New Mexico campus building courtesy of University of New Mexico, School of Architecture + Planning

Currently serving as the Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico, González's leadership experience within architectural academia is expansive. Prior to his leadership at the University of New Mexico, he's served as the Director of the Architecture Program at Texas Tech University and the TTU El Paso Regional Site. Beyond his experience in academic program management, rec...

Get Lectured: Texas Tech, Fall '19

2019-10-28T14:30:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2019

With a new school year already here, it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

For their Fall lecture series, the Texas Tech College of Architecture will feature architects, theorists, scholars, and educators who “explore and create a discourse that ranges from the built environment, creative and innovative scholarship, and current issues taking place in our society in a range of different scales.”

Upcoming speakers include Maria Hurtado de Mendoza, Tatiana Bilbao, Thom Mayne, and Ila Berman. The “Public Programming” experimental screening series features Brendan Shea and Noémie Despland-Lichtert...

Dora Epstein Jones appointed as chair at Texas Tech College of Architecture

2019-05-15T12:01:00-04:00

Architecture educator, theorist, and scholar Dora Epstein Jones has officially been appointed as Chair of Architecture at the Texas Tech University College of Architecture, the school announced today. Succeeding current architecture chair Upe Flueckiger, Epstein Jones will begin in her new position on July 1.

Epstein Jones will also join the school as a faculty member to conduct scholarly research that “increases the knowledge and the operations of thought paradigms” and will create new processes that forge stronger interdisciplinary collaboration between architecture, philosophy, and history.

“A lot of relevant issues come together here [at TTU CoA], issues of cultural diversity, geographic and environmental issues, and of course, how we will design the built environment into the future. I'm excited to be here, to continue my practices in a research-oriented university, and to furthering essential discourses with my colleagues and beyond,” Epstein Jones said in a statement.

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Jim Williamson named Dean of Texas Tech College of Architecture

2016-05-13T13:06:00-04:00

Jim Williamson, an associate professor of architecture at Cornell University, has been named the new Dean of the Texas Tech University College of Architecture. Williamson will assume his new position on Aug.1. Williamson, who earned his bachelor’s degree in architecture design at Texas Tech, has been at Cornell since 2001.