Michael Malone, AIA
Jen Wong understands
materials; she is director of the University Co-op Materials Lab at UT Austin. She is a first-time contributor to TA. Read her article on Pollen Architecture’s studio in East Austin on page 56.
Philip Hendren, AIA
Inga Saffron is
the architecture critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. She spent the 2011–12 academic year as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Read her critique of the Kimbell Art Museum’s Renzo Piano Pavilion on page 42.
Joe Self, AIA reports
that even though his architectural practice is brisk, he’s had the chance to produce three wall-sized commissioned paintings in the last year. Writing for TA exercises his mind, and he’s enjoying teaching an architectural graphics class at UTA. Read his article about designing for art on page 38.
graduated from MIT and then made his way to Texas, where he met his wife Linda — a match made in heaven — and settled in Old West Austin. Read Philip’s story about Louis Kahn’s visit to his home on page 33.
Donna Kacmar, FAIA
teaches design studio and is founder and director of the Materials Research Collaborative (MRC) at UH. She is currently working on a book about small houses to be published by Routledge. Read her article on the MRC on page 13.
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enjoyed the fact that the 2013 Texas Architects Convention offered an insider tour of the Kimbell Art Museum’s Renzo Piano Pavilion. He is pictured with longtime associates Audrey Maxwell, AIA, and Paul Pascarelli, AIA. Read his thoughts about Kahn’s original landscape at the Kimbell on page 30.
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