In the summer of 2018, the San Antonio International Airport invited Dr. Antonio Petrov, Founder of the Urban Future Lab in the UTSA College of Architecture, Construction and Planning, to …
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UTSA research lab dissects economic tale of two South Side communities
UTSA Urban Future Lab is collaborating with the Southside First Economic Development Council to assess some of the challenges in the Mission San Jose and Quintana Road communities. Dr. Antonio …
New lab researching San Antonio’s key urban questions
A new research lab at UTSA is addressing transportation, infrastructure planning and other key urban issues of San Antonio. Called the Urban Future Lab, it’s led by assistant professor of …
San Antonio Skyride Project
San Antonio Skyride Project Our vision is to bring back the historic Brackenridge Park Skyride but as a bolder and bigger connection between the airport and downtown. The big idea …
On the Edge of Future: The Missions
A proposal envisioning a future for the UNESCO World Heritage site, San Antonio and adjacent communities. Texas gained its first UNESCO World Heritage site in 2015 when the historic early …
Weltbauen: Territory and the Architectural Imaginary
“The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world.“1 Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche In the nineteenth century, the …
A Close Reading: Architecture of Revolution
The “Architecture of Revolution” of the Krushevo Monument is a close reading of a time, equilibrium, a space, reality, utopia, powers, and systems. It’s a close reading of hope, courage, …
New Sacred Geographies: Mapping the Relationships Between Worship and the Environment
We human beings are geographical beings transforming the earth and making it into a home, and that transformed world affects who we are. Our geographical nature shapes our world and …
A Sacred Geography of the Collective Self
Characterized by cultural sensibilities and social visions that formed the “mass consciousness of the modern world,”1 the sixties were synonymous with the expansion of existing realities in almost every aspect …