Platform is the annual magazine of The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. It serves as a platform for the school to investigate the intersections of its research, practice, and pedagogical approaches with a broader audience.
This issue is edited by Associate Professor Matt Fajkus and features research and teaching that advances more sustainable buildings, landscapes, communities, and cities. Each article considers how faculty and students innovatively navigate the complex and fertile middle ground of dichotomies in our fields to reach results and conclusions. These contributions about planning and design through relationships, rather than of objects, not only connect to core tenets of sustainability, they provide a basis to show how the School of Architecture cuts across professional areas expertise, expands disciplinary perspectives, and contributes to fundamental discourse about the built environment through its research methods, critical practices, and teaching.
