2025: Weather Presenters
Interior Provocations
The University of Texas at Austin
School of Architecture
Symposium: November 7, 2025 9am-6pm CST
Paula Lupkin | University of North Texas
Rebekah Radtke | University of Kentucky
William Mangold | Drexel University
Alice Friedman | Wellesley College
Kevin Moor | Auburn University
Jennifer Pindyck | Auburn University
Steven Chodoriwsky | University of Utah
Hannah Dewhirst | University of Kentucky
Rana Abudayyeh | University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Stefan Di Leo | Pratt Institute
Aniel Guxholli | American University in Paris
Mili Kyropoulou | University of Houston
Alberto Martinez Garcia | Yale University
Viola Ago | Toronto Metropolitan University
Keynote Lecture
Philippe Rahm | Philippe Rahm Architectes, Paris, France
“The Anthropocene Style / Toward a Climatic Design”
Keynote speaker Philippe Rahm is a Paris-based Swiss architect, whose internationally acclaimed work in the context of sustainability spans from physiological to meteorological realms. His practice, Philippe Rahm Architectes, has completed numerous projects, including the Taichung Central Park in Taiwan, inaugurated in 2020, and has taken part in numerous biennials, including those in Venice (2025), Tbilisi (2024), Madrid (2024), Chicago (2023) and Tallinn (2022). Rahm is the author of the books Histoire naturelle de l'architecture, Climatic Architecture and The Anthropocene Style. In 2025, he co-curated the Île-de-France and Saint-Étienne biennials. He is a knight of the Monaco Order of Cultural Merit and has been awarded the Silver Medal of the French Academy of Architecture.
The symposium is organized by UT Austin School of Architecture faculty Ria Bravo, Tara Dudley, Nera Feliz, Allison Gaskins, Clay Odom, and Igor Siddiqui (symposium chair), in collaboration with Pratt Institute faculty Anca Lasc, Deborah Schneiderman, Keena Suh, and Karyn Zieve.
This event will be live streamed from https://www.youtube.com/@TexasArchitecture
Image credit: Yu-Hsuan Hsieh (BSID '24).
