List of University of Texas at Austin buildings


This list of University of Texas at Austin buildings catalogs the currently existing structures on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. Buildings are categorized based on their current functions and characteristics.

Academic facilities

BuildingImageConstructedNotesReference
Art Building1962Located at the northeast corner of San Jacinto Blvd. and 23rd St., the building houses the Department of Art and Art History and the Visual Arts Center.
Battle Hall1911Originally the main library, now houses the Architecture and Planning Library, the Alexander Architectural Archive and the Center for American Architecture. National Register of Historic Places listed. Cass Gilbert architect.
Batts Hall1953"6 Pack" building
Belo Center for New Media2012Houses parts of the Moody College of Communication, including the facilities of KUT and KUTX
Benedict Hall1951Located on the South Mall of the University of Texas at Austin campus, the five-floor, 38,580 square foot building is located along 21st Street, near Littlefield Fountain. Built in 1951 and named after mathematics professor and university president H. Y. Benedict, the building was completed in 1952 and was originally home to the Department of Mathematics. It has also been used for the psychology department. It is also a "6 Pack" building, the first of the "6-Pack" buildings to be built.
Biological Laboratories1923Now houses Botany
Biomedical Engineering Building2008
Burdine Hall1970Urban legend says the layout of the building's windows was intended to resemble a computer punched card.
Calhoun Hall1955"6 Pack" building
College of Business Administration Building1962, consists of two units: a seven-story office structure and a six-story classroom building; houses McCombs School of Business; part of the George Kozmetsky Center for Business Education complex.
Connally Center2000Four story addition to Townes Hall that houses the Connally Center for the Administration of Justice, containing the Kraft W. Eidman Courtroom and the Texas Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution. 3D/International, Inc. Architect.
Peter T. Flawn Academic Center1960Student technology and collaboration facility. Also called the Main Building Annex, because of offices originally in the Main Building, but moved because of renovations.
Garrison Hall1926
Gates-Dell Complex2013Consists of two buildings: the north building and south building. They are connected by an atrium and a series of collaboration bridges.
Mary E. Gearing Hall1933Long known as the Home Economics Building
Gebauer Building1904Dorothy L. Gebauer Building, formerly the student services building
Goldsmith Hall1932Houses School of Architecture
Graduate School of Business1976Home to McCombs School of Business graduate programs; part of the George Kozmetsky Center for Business Education complex.
W. C. Hogg Building1933
Hogg Memorial Auditorium1932
Jesse H. Jones Hall1980Annex to Townes hall and the Tarlton Law library.
Jones Communication CenterHouses parts of the Moody College of Communication, including the facilities of KLRU
Liberal Arts Building2012Liberal Arts & ROTC
Mezes Hall1952"6 Pack" building
Moffett Molecular Biology Building1997
Neural and Molecular Science Building2005
Norman Hackerman Building2007Biology and Chemistry departments
Nursing School
Painter Hall1932Formerly the Physics Building
Parlin Hall1954"6 Pack" building
Perry–Castañeda Library1974-1977The main central library.
Homer Rainey Hall1956"6 Pack" building, formerly "Old Music" Hall, last of the "6-Pack" buildings to be built
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center1972Acquires and manages collections of significant cultural materials such as rare books, manuscripts, film and art.
Sid Richardson Hall1971Houses the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Barker Texas History Collections, Benson Latin American Collection, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Public Affairs Library, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service
George I. Sanchez Building1973Houses the University of Texas College of Education, the Office of Bilingual Education, the Center for Science and Mathematics Education, and the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts.
School of Social Work Building1933Old University Junior High School. National Register of Historic Places listed
Sutton Hall1917Cass Gilbert architect
University Teaching Center1981-1984Four-story general purpose classroom building; part of the George Kozmetsky Center for Business Education complex.
Townes Hall1953The third and current home of the University of Texas School of Law and Tarlton Law Library.
Waggener Hall1931Named after Leslie Waggener, first university president ad interim. Originally occupied by the school of business; now home to Department of Philosophy, Department of Classics, and Classics Library.
Welch Hall1929, 1958, & 1974Chemistry
West Mall Building1962Architecture, UTSOA Materials Lab
W.R. Woolrich Laboratories1958Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

Administrative buildings

Athletic and outdoor recreation facilities

Museums

Residential buildings

University family apartments

There are also three off-campus apartment complexes owned and operated by the university. They are Brackenridge Apartments, Colorado Apartments, and Gateway Apartments. The apartments are about from the main UT Austin campus. Eligible students include graduate students, undergraduate students who each have at least 30 credit hours and are in good academic standing, and married students with families.
Brackenridge Apartments is a part of the UT Austin Brackenridge tract, located along Lake Austin and Lady Bird Lake in western Austin. As of 2007 the units at Brackenridge Apartments do not have washers, dryers, and dishwashers. As of that year some units at Brackenridge do not have central air conditioning. As of that year the monthly rent for a three bedroom apartment was $715. The university provides shuttle buses to the UT Austin campus. At Brackenridge Apartments many neighbors know each other and area children interact with one another. Many residents originate from other countries. Brackenridge is away from Colorado Apartments.
Colorado Apartments has 510 units. The rent at Colorado, as of 2007, was half of the Austin apartment market rate. In 2007 540 students lived in the complex; about 70% come from outside of the United States. Of the spouses of the students, many are unable to work because their visas do not permit them to work.
The Colorado and Brackenridge units have painted concrete panel and brick exteriors, colored orange.
The Colorado Apartments area includes a gazebo, picnic tables, and a soccer field. A grocery store is located in proximity to the complex.
All three apartments are within the Austin Independent School District and are zoned to Mathews Elementary School, O. Henry Middle School, and Austin High School. Many children of the UT Austin students living at Brackenridge and Colorado attend Mathews Elementary. School buses come to Brackenridge to pick up students to go to Mathews. The school is considered by the area community to be high achieving. Mathews has a racially/ethnically diverse student body. The school offers Chinese language classes.

History of university family apartments

The Colorado Apartments opened in 1962.
In 1989 the City of Austin and UT Austin entered into an agreement, allowing UT Austin the option of redeveloping the parcels of land housing the university family apartments. The agreement specifies that the parcels may be redeveloped to house residential, retail, and/or other commercial properties. The agreement regarding the parcel with the Colorado Apartments went into effect in 1999. The agreement regarding Brackenridge Apartments was scheduled to go into effect in 2009.
In 2005 the University of Texas Board of Regents offered the parcels of land with the Colorado Apartments as a possible site for the location of the George W. Bush Presidential Library; ultimately Southern Methodist University received the library. As of the northern hemisphere spring semester of 2007, 268 students were on a waiting list to get into units at Brackenridge Apartments. In August of that year, over 500 students submitted an intention to move into the units. Around 2007 a task force recommended selling the tract including the Brackenridge Apartments and the Colorado Apartments to developers, who would replace the apartments with commercial property. The options presented by the task force were keeping the housing at the same location, moving the housing to a new location, and giving a housing subsidy to students to pay for the costs of housing at third party locations. The graduate student community states that they preferred keeping the apartments where they were and did not support the housing subsidy idea. The community of Mathews Elementary believed that if the UT student housing was removed, the community would lose the international student culture that comes with the children who live on the complex.
When asked by the Austin American-Statesman. about the details of the recommendations of the planners to redevelop Gateway Apartments to be a larger complex and replacing the functions of Brackenridge and Colorado apartments, William Powers Jr., the UT Austin president, said that the components of the new housing plan that would be essential for the students would include having "garden-style" apartment units instead of high-rise dormitory units, having facilities for children, and continued zoning to Mathews Elementary.

Other facilities