Jason Sorwell
Symposium
Participants
Claire Williams
Charles West
Marianna Trevino-Wright
Kristine Stiphany
Andrew Russel
Kristin Pipkin
Matt O'Toole
Wenxuan Gou
John Davis
Melissa Currie
Jim Blackburn
Fred Beach
Photos from the event of participants speaking and working with students.
Sub-themes
"How are landscapes influenced by how people think about them?"
"Can we think about experimentation as a way to direct or give options for how management may evolbe over time so the landscape is not stuck in one certian point of view?"
"How do we use the ever-growing data to calibrate management more intelligently?"
Purpose
"What is the role of management in terms of how we think about landscapes and implement them longer term and what is involved in that?"
Background
Photos of Jason teaching and working with students during their studio class.
Time at Texas Tech Univeristy
Studio calss
"How the downtown could be redeveloped to add more commercial, residential and retail."
"Lubbock's urban design masterplan is to create 50,000 households by 2040."
Spousal hire
"My partner teaches in the department of Architecture. As a part of her coming here, I joined her from University of Texas at Austin where I had been a professor with tenure for a number of years."
Favorite part about your job
"I don't know that I have one favorite part for say over another I think in terms of I do place a great deal of importance or a priority on educating students."
About Sorwell
"A registered architect, Sowell's research and teaching focus on the intersection among architecture, landscape architecture, and technology in urban regions, drawing upon interdisciplinary frameworks and digital tools to analyze how technology informs design, spatial experience, and landscape performance. His work has received national and international awards and been published or exhibited in a range of national and international venues, notably the Venice and Pan-American Biennales."
"At Texas Tech, Sowell will advance a research agenda regarding the design and management of urban landscapes in areas that are increasingly shifting toward a semi-arid climate, including the continuation of projects tied to prescribed fire, novel ecosystems, and resilient infrastructure."
"Prior to joining the Tech faculty, Sowell was an associate professor and director for the Graduate Program of Landscape Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. He previously taught at the Penn School of Design and the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design."
"Sowell received his Bachelor of Architecture, magna cum laude from the University of Tennessee's College of Architecture and Planning, and his Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He is a co-principal of SSAU, Stiphany Sowell Architecture + Urbanism, with Kristine Stiphany, PhD, AIA of Tech's College of Architecture. Their work encompasses built and speculative projects that range in scale from material experiments and buildings, to parks and regional landscapes."
Headshot of Jason
Time as an architect
Architecture to you
"From Jimmy Jackson who was a significant cultural historian of landscapes. Asserted that landscape is in essence Humanity taking upon themself the responsibility to accelerate biophysical prophecies and in doing that their intent is to set up the landscape to perform some type of social cultural benefit. But it also means that there is a need to care for that landscape and manage it in order to achieve the goals and objectives that the cultural and social outline"
