Technology, Sustainability, and Cultural Identity, 2006

“Technology as a Source of Beauty”

Project: Austin Convention Center, Concrete House, Seton Medical Center Expansion
Written by Larry Speck

In the spring of 2003 I was invited to co-teach an interdisciplinary course on “beauty” in the honors liberal arts program at University of Texas at Austin. Because I view architecture very much as an interdisciplinary field – part art, part engineering, part business, part philosophy, part sociology, part political policy, etc. – I treasure [...]