The commencement ceremony in the School of Architecture will be held in Hogg Memorial Auditorium (HMA) (https://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/hma.html) at 3:00 pm on Saturday, May 18, 2013. This ceremony includes graduate and undergraduate students from all school programs. An email invitation was issued to students on April 8.

Due to seating capacity in HMA, students will each be limited to six (6) tickets for the ceremony. The graduating student does not need a ticket. Beginning May 2, SOA will distribute six (6) tickets to each graduate participating in the ceremony. Tickets must be picked up by noon on Friday, May 17. Any unclaimed or returned tickets will be distributed before the ceremony at HMA on a first-come, first-served basis. Students may also coordinate with each other to get the number of tickets they need from those not requiring all six of their tickets.   

The auditorium is handicap accessible, and there is a drop-off point near the building. No parking is allowed at HMA, so please plan accordingly. Parking maps: http://www.utexas.edu/parking/maps/mapbeta.html. Several services are availabe to those attending the ceremony who may require specific accommodations based on a disability. If you or a guest are attending the ceremony and require special accommodations or have questions, please contact Shannon Harris, (512) 475-6015. While every effort will be made, the School of Architecture may be unable to meet last-minute requests.

A reception honoring graduates, their families, and friends will follow in the Texas Union Ballroom: http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/unb.html. All graduates are admitted without charge. Guests are $20 each, excluding children 12 and under. Please RSVP and remit payment online by May 3. http://utdirect.utexas.edu/txshop/list.WBX?component=0&application_name=ATSYMPOS&cat_seq_chosen=03&subcategory_seq_chosen=000.

A simultaneous webcast of the ceremony will not be available this year.

All degree candidates wear caps and gowns. You may purchase these items from the University Co-op. The School of Architecture stole color is lilac.

Beginning at 7 pm., please join Dean Steiner at the 130th Spring University-wide commencemt for the ceremony and fireworks celebration (http://events.utexas.edu/commencement/spring2013). To participate, degree candidates may pick up a ticket beginning Monday, May 6.

CURTAINS is a multi-site installation, exhibition, and publication event designed to explore the use of fabrics in contemporary art and architecture—not in the form of rigid tensile structures, nor in the form of cladding or upholstery, but in their more relaxed, natural forms: curtains associated with windows, yes, but also defining and activating spaces indoors and out, billowing overhead as canopies, catching and using wind like sails, creating shade, diffusing light, holding color in their folds, filtering views, absorbing sound, showing the wind, and making theater of the everyday.

The organizers will invite up to four artists/architects who choose a UT location to fabricate and install their proposals. A larger selection of the proposals received, considered solely on their artistic merits, will be published in the 19th volume of the award-winning book series CENTER: Architecture and Design in America as well as exhibited at the Mebane Gallery of Goldsmith Hall on the University of Texas campus entitled "Curtains." The launch of CENTER 19: Curtains and the opening of the Curtains exhibition, with a keynote address by the artist Christo and an address by Petra Blaisse, are scheduled for October 18, 2013.

CURTAINS is a multi-site installation, exhibition, and publication event designed to explore the use of fabrics in contemporary art and architecture—not in the form of rigid tensile structures, nor in the form of cladding or upholstery, but in their more relaxed, natural forms: curtains associated with windows, yes, but also defining and activating spaces indoors and out, billowing overhead as canopies, catching and using wind like sails, creating shade, diffusing light, holding color in their folds, filtering views, absorbing sound, showing the wind, and making theater of the everyday.

The organizers will invite up to four artists/architects who choose a UT location to fabricate and install their proposals. A larger selection of the proposals received, considered solely on their artistic merits, will be published in the 19th volume of the award-winning book series CENTER: Architecture and Design in America as well as exhibited at the Mebane Gallery of Goldsmith Hall on the University of Texas campus entitled "Curtains." The launch of CENTER 19: Curtains and the opening of the Curtains exhibition, with a keynote address by the artist Christo and an address by Petra Blaisse, are scheduled for October 18, 2013.