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University Of Texas School Of Architecture

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (UTSOA) is a college within The University of Texas at Austin, with its major facilities located on the main university campus in Austin, Texas.

UTSOA's dean is Frederick R. Steiner, a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). Dean Steiner received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in city and regional planning and a Master of Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a Master of Community Planning and a B.S. in Design from the University of Cincinnati. Dean Steiner was also awarded an honorary M.Phil. in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic.

UTSOA has more than 700 graduate and undergraduate students. There are approximately 70 full-time faculty members. The student/faculty ratio is 11:1.

The school is located within the historical core of The University of Texas at Austin campus. As part of the 40 Acres, the college fully occupies Goldsmith Hall, Sutton Hall, and Battle Hall. In 2007, Battle Hall was listed as one of America’s Top 150 Favorite Works of Architecture by The American Institute of Architects (AIA), however, the building, according to the dean, "is suffering from the symptoms of old age and desperately needs rehabilitation." UTSOA also occupies part of the West Mall Office Building.

Two of these buildings were designed by Cass Gilbert and another by Paul Philippe Cret. Cret is credited as the designer of the campus master plan for The University of Texas at Austin, and helped to build the Beaux-Art-style Main Building tower. It is important to point out that Cret collaborated with Herbert M. Greene (of Texas firm Greene, LaRoche, and Dahl] and UTSOA Class of 1921 alumnus Robert Leon White for several of his projects.

UTSOA celebrated its centennial in 2010.

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