UT Austin's Architecture & Planning Library to be named for Texas' first Black architect
John Chase was the first Black person to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin's School of Architecture and to become a licensed architect in the South.
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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 ...