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The Urban Future Lab goes Trinity

Posted on May 16, 2025May 16, 2025

House of Architecture Humanizing the Future: Making, Meaning, Matter This spring, the Urban Future Lab brought its experimental ethos to Trinity University teaching an advanced course in critical theory and …

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The Casita Project: A Social Contract Between UTSA and the Westside

Posted on April 21, 2022June 6, 2022

  Every relationship begins as a social contract. Whether as a friendship or a working dynamic, a social contract sets the foundation for underlying value systems and how a relationship …

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Latent Geographies

Posted on November 16, 2018October 24, 2022

According to the Census, every day officially more than 66 people begin a new life in San Antonio. It not only makes the seventh-largest city the nation’s fastest-growing currently but …

Posted in: Dialogue / Lingua Franca, Featured, Projects, Research
“New Forms for Citizenship: Redefining Extraordinary” as part of Form N-X00 series at the 2018 Venice Biennale US Pavilion

“New Forms for Citizenship: Redefining Extraordinary” as part of Form N-X00 series at the 2018 Venice Biennale US Pavilion

Posted on May 25, 2018October 8, 2018

In collaboration with renowned San Antonio artist Vincent Valdez, Dr. Antonio Petrov of the Urban Future Lab at UTSA College of Architecture, Construction and Planning participated in the 2018 Venice …

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New Geographies 5

Posted on January 6, 2018November 6, 2019

Petrov, Antonio. The Mediterranean. New Geographies Vol. 5, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. The Mediterranean: Worlds, Regions, Cities, and Architectures The central role of the Mediterranean in the development …

Posted in: Dialogue / Lingua Franca, Featured, Geographic, Publications, Research
Puro |ˈpo͝orō|

Puro |ˈpo͝orō|

Posted on February 21, 2017September 21, 2022

The statement San Antonio is “Puro” is possibly a provocation. A city the size of San Antonio with all itscultural layers is so much more than one term could describe, …

Posted in: Dialogue / Lingua Franca, Featured, Projects
“1000 Parks and a Line in the Sky: Broadway, Avenue of the Future” exhibited at ITC

“1000 Parks and a Line in the Sky: Broadway, Avenue of the Future” exhibited at ITC

Posted on October 21, 2016January 15, 2019

Hosted by the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures is “1000 Parks and a Line in the Sky: Broadway, Avenue of the Future.” The exhibition features a 50-foot-long model of Broadway, …

Posted in: Exhibitions, Featured, Research

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