Contact Information

• Contact Advisor
• School Directory
• Other Questions

ROADSHOTS, Nichole Wiedemann and Matthew Roberts, 2004-2005.

Nichole Wiedemann
The University of Texas at Austin
2008 John G. Williams Distinguished Professor
Lecture sponsored by Lewis Architects & Engineers

5:30 p.m., March 31
Shollmier Hall

In her teaching, research and practice, architect Nichole Wiedemann approaches the fundamental elements of architecture - program, site and material - as “places for continual investigation rather than simply givens in the architectural equation.” An associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, Wiedemann also maintains an independent practice with projects and buildings in Georgia, Florida, Texas and Tennessee. She is teaching at the University of Arkansas this spring as the 2008 John G. Williams Distinguished Professor.

In her research, Wiedemann focuses on traces of the past that endure in cities and landscapes. For example, in the traveling solo exhibition Re-Collecting Rome: A Diachronic Guide to the City, she explores the urban fabric of Rome, linking the history of events and the history of places. Following the devastation of New Orleans, she began a body of research with a colleague, Jason Sowell, which examined the role of infrastructure as a “resilient” medium that anticipates, rather than reacts to, flux in ecological, technological and economic systems. The project resulted in an exhibit entitled Resilient Foundations: The Gulf Coast After Katrina that was included in the 2006 Venice Biennale Architecture exhibition. An ongoing project with Judith Birdsong, Terrae Incognitae: A Cultural Cartography of Central Texas, examines the Camino Real trail of central Texas as evidence of the interplay between indigenous peoples and Spanish colonization.

In addition to the Venice Architecture Biennale, Widemann has exhibited her work at the Pan-American Biennale in Quito, Ecuador; The Rachofsky Museum and Arthouse in Dallas, Texas; and university galleries at Syracuse University, the University of Florida, the Rhode Island School of Design, Texas Tech University and the University of Arkansas. Her research and practice, independently and in collaboration, have been published in various venues including On Site Review: culture urbanism art architecture, Architectural Record and Progressive Architecture.

Wiedemann has received honors including the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship, Mike Hogg Urban Scholars Grant, Texas Excellence Teaching Award and UT School of Architecture Outstanding Scholarship Award. Previously, she taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Florida. Wiedemann received a Bachelor of Design with honors from the University of Florida and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University.