{"id":324246,"date":"2026-06-05T15:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324246\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:40:06","slug":"two-architecture-professors-celebrate-50-years-of-teaching-at-ut-ut-austin-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324246\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Architecture Professors Celebrate 50 Years of Teaching at UT &#8211; UT Austin News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although The University of Texas at Austin began offering professional degrees in architecture in 1910, it wasn\u2019t until 1951 that the school became an autonomous institution. Since then, more than 5,000 undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture have been conferred. For the past 50 years, two professors have had a major hand in preparing future architects at UT: Larry Speck and Michael Garrison.<\/p>\n<p>Watch below to learn more about each professor in a video series from the School of Architecture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soa.utexas.edu\/faculty\/larry-speck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Speck<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve spent any time in Austin, you\u2019ve most likely interacted with Larry Speck\u2019s work. Some of his biggest projects include both phases of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Dell Medical School and the Capitol Mall. Speck\u2019s influence isn\u2019t just visible in the buildings across Austin, but also in the people who spent time in his classes. During his 50 years at UT, he has taught over 35,000 students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Speck\u2019s 50-year teaching career, which included nine years as dean of the School of Architecture. Speck is currently the W.L. Moody, Jr. Centennial Professor in Architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although The University of Texas at Austin began offering professional degrees in architecture in 1910, it wasn\u2019t until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,23466,133,1086,447,163,13178,23469,25719,2459],"class_list":["post-324246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-impact","tag-austin-news","tag-campus","tag-community","tag-education","tag-faculty","tag-school-of-architecture","tag-statewide-impact","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}