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City Architecture
2020–2026 · teachingRequired lecture for every fourth-year B.Arch student, UT Austin, since 2020
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- 2020–2026
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- teaching
- credit
- Daniel Koehler, The University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture; Writing Flag course.
- program
- Large City Architecture
- where
- The University of Texas at Austin · City Architecture, core course, fourth-year B.Arch · Annually since 2020
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- 020
City Architecture examines the city through the lens of architectural practice and borrows from engineering, politics, economics, sociology, planning and environmental studies. As a Writing Flag course it makes writing the medium of research: students work independently and in teams on real urban questions, produce a design research report that accumulates all assignments into one coherent study of an urban design approach and its policies, and present at a Pecha Kucha event that ends in a peer-reviewed award. Since 2025 a custom language model fine-tuned on 500 urban design texts supports their research, paired with assignments that make the model’s limits part of the lesson. A yearly updated course reader, structured notes, a partnership with the writing centre complement tis course.
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