2023 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference, Educating the Cosmopolitan Architect

Caring for a Drowned World

Teachers Proceedings

Author(s): Brittany Utting

This paper examines the methodology and design outcomesof a graduate studio taught at Rice Architecture in Spring 2021titled “Institute for New Ecologies.” Sited in the former suburbof Brownwood and adjacent to the Baytown ExxonMobilRefinery, the studio explored the relationship betweenextraction, toxicity, and land, imagining how architecture canparticipate in new agendas for environmental care.

Volume Editors
Massimo Santanicchia

ISBN
978-1-944214-44-9