Larry Speck

Lawrence (Larry) Speck is the principal of Austin-based architecture and engineering firm, Page, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and holds the W. L. Moody Centennial Professorship in Architecture. He is a past president of the Texas Society of Architecture. He was dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin from 1992-2001 and served as Founding Director of the Center of American Architecture and Design from 1982-1990. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an undergraduate receiving two degrees, one in Art and Design from the School of Architecture and one in Management from the Sloan School of Management. He also received his Master of Architecture from M.I.T.

He is the author of over 50 publications focusing primarily on twentieth-century American architecture and urbanism. He has written 2 complete books, "Technology, Sustainability, and Cultural Identity" (2007) and "Landmarks of Texas Architecture" (1986) and edited and contributed chapters to several others. He also wrote and hosted the PBS documentary, "Building the American City: San Antonio". Speck joined the University of Texas at Austin faculty in 1975 and currently teaches an entry level undergraduate course, "Architecture and Society", a graduate seminar on "Theory and Practice", and Advanced Design. Some teaching awards include: UT Most Interesting Professor Award (2008), Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (2009), and Edward J. Rominiec Award, given by Texas Society of Architects to outstanding architectural educator (2005). Previously, he taught "Architectural Design Theory" and "Criticism of Architecture" at M.I.T.

Speck was lead designer for the Austin Convention Center completed in 1992, the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport completed in 1998 and Rough Creek Lodge completed in 1999, and contributed to the Town Lake Master Plan, which shapes development in downtown Austin. In 1999 Speck joined PageSoutherlandPage where he is now one of five principals. PageSoutherlandPage has offices in Houston, Denver, Dallas, Austin and Washington, D.C. Over the last 25 years his design work has won 42 national design awards, 23 state or regional design awards and 66 local design awards. Recent design awards include: AIA Houston Design Award For Architecture (2009), Society Of American Registered Architects Design Award (2009), Business Week/Architectural Record “Good Design Is Good Business” Award Of Excellence (2009), Dream Home Awards, Best Condominium/Loft (2009), and Brick In Architecture Gold Award (2009).

He has also served on advisory boards for two U.S. governmental agencies (U. S. State Department Overseas Building Operations and U. S. General Services Administration Design Excellence Program), two national environmental non-profits (Greenguard Environmental Institute and Air Quality Sciences) and five schools of architecture (M.I.T., University of Michigan, Tulane University, Louisiana State University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas).

Larry Speck lives in Austin, TX.

• Campus Services Building, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas
• East Avenue Mixed-Use Development, Austin, Texas
• U.S. Federal Courthouse, Alpine, Texas
• Chickasaw Health Center, Ada, Oklahoma
• Discovery Green Park, Houston, Texas
• The Grove Restaurant, Houston, Texas
• Kaminsky House, Dallas, Texas
• AMLI on Second Residential Tower, Austin, Texas
• Waterstone Condominiums, Lake Travis, Texas
• Herrmann House, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Christ Church Cathedral Expansion, Houston, Texas
• Prothro House, Dallas, Texas
• FBI Regional Headquarters, Houston, Texas
• Seton Medical Center Expansion, Austin, Texas
• Austin City Lofts
• Wabash Garage, Austin, Texas
• Driskill Children’s Clinic, McAllen, Texas
• Austin Convention Center Expansion
• Computer Science Corporation Offices, Austin, Texas
• Barbara Jordan Terminal, Austin Bergstrom International Airport
• Robert E. Johnson State Office Building, Austin, Texas
• The Terrace” Office Complex, Austin, Texas
• Rough Creek Lodge, Glen Rose, Texas
• Intermedics Orthopedics Corporate Headquarters, Austin, Texas
• Jones House, Austin, Texas
• House for a Single Woman, Austin, Texas
• Salado Town Hall, Salado, Texas
• Austin Convention Center
• Umlauf Sculpture Garden, Austin, Texas
• House on Sunny Slope, Austin, Texas
• Town Lake Comprehensive Plan, Austin, Texas
• Houston Street Transit Project, San Antonio, Texas
• Ross House, Lake Travis, Texas
• Salado Historic Town Plan
• Airy Mount, Burnet, Texas
• Tapp Ranch House, Wimberley, Texas
• Lemann-Browning House, Austin, Texas
• Lakeside House, Austin, Texas
• Lehman Library, Lake Travis, Texas
• The Tuscany Apartments, Austin, Texas
• Town Center (City Hall, Police/Fire Station, Recreation Center), Burnet, Texas
• The Bailey Estate (8 houses), Austin, Texas
• Matthews Ranch House, Burnet County, Texas
• Cable Library, West Lake Hills, Texas
• Proposed Housing for the Elderly, Fitchburg, Massachusetts