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A person experiencing homelessness lacks shelter in its most basic form, but solving homelessness takes much more than buildings, and our contemporary moment reveals few problems that design, on its own, can resolve. According to the 2018 State of Homelessness in America report by the US Council of Economic Advisers, over half a million people in the US are homeless, with that number steadily increasing over the past three years—people living every day without this most basic form of protection that we as designers of our built environments provide.(1) In our own city of Austin, Texas, a 2021 report by the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) found that there are 3,160 Austinites experiencing homelessness, with more than 2,200 living without any shelter. (2)

"On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism" is an online conference organized by Professor Wilfried Wang taking place October 9-10 and October 16-17, 2021.

Should architectural criticism be enlightening? Should it help in the creation of a better built environment? Is there a factual basis to it? Does it have a duty to present evidence in the evaluation of a building? Or should it take on what architects say about their designs?

Join The University of Texas School of Architecture with Anne Holtrop, of Studio Anne Holtrop, Amsterdam, for a lecture on “Site, Matter, Gesture” live-streamed on the Texas Architecture YouTube channel.

Join The University of Texas School of Architecture with Michael Kimmelman, of the New York Times, New York, for a lecture on “Rewriting Architecture” live-streamed on the Texas Architecture YouTube channel.

Join The University of Texas School of Architecture and Coren Sharples of SHoP Architects, New York, for an in-person lecture on “Material Practice” at Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall and live streamed on the Texas Architecture YouTube channel.

Join The University of Texas School of Architecture with Louis Schulz, of Assemble, London, for a lecture on “House of Annetta: Facilitating Grassroots Action” live-streamed on the Texas Architecture YouTube channel.

Join The University of Texas School of Architecture with Lucy McRae for a lecture on “Story As Future Survival” live-streamed on the Texas Architecture YouTube channel.

Join The University of Texas School of Architecture with Chris Precht, of Precht, Salzburg, for a lecture on “Wandering & Wondering” live-streamed on the Texas Architecture YouTube channel.

Join The University of Texas School of Architecture with Teresa Gali-Izard, of Arquitectura Agronomia, Barcelona, for a lecture on “CONNECTING DOTS: Circular Metabolism and Regenerative Practices for the Twenty-First Century” live-streamed on the Texas Architecture YouTube channel.