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UT Austin's Architecture & Planning Library to be named for Texas' first Black architect
The University of Texas at Austin's Architecture & Planning Library will soon have a new name honoring a pioneer in the architecture world. John Chase, a Black student, enrolled in UT's School of ...
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UT Austin names architecture and planning school library after John Chase, the U.S. South’s first licensed African American architect
He was also the first Black member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and the first Black graduate from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. To recognize Chase and his ...
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UT renames architecture library after school’s, state’s first Black architect
UT has officially renamed the Battle Hall library after John Chase, the University’s first Black architecture student, according to a Jan. 23 news release published on his 100th birthday. The library ...