David Heymann

David Heymann is an architect, photographer, and writer whose focus is the complex relationship of constructions and landscapes, particularly natural landscapes. His architectural work has been widely published and nationally recognized with design honors, including selection for Emerging Voices by the Architecture League of New York. Heymann is a contributing writer for Places journal. His essay “Landscape is Our Sex” received the 2012 Bradford Williams Medal. Heymann recently published a book of short stories, My Beautiful City Austin, about architects' complicity in destroying places; it was selected for The Guardian's list of best literature about Austin. For writing and photography he has been a resident scholar/artist at the American Academy in Rome, the Artic Circle Program, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Dora Maar House (through the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, and the Ucross Foundation. Heymann is the Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in Architecture at the University of Texas in Austin. He is a University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor, an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Teaching Professor, and has received numerous local, state, and national teaching awards. In 2014 he was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.