University of Hawaii School of Architecture Alumni Association (UHSAAA)

Our UHSAAA golf team brewing up ideas for our upcoming tournament. We’re excited and can’t wait to share the news with the you all soon!

UHSA*3 would also like to promote AIA Honolulu (American Institute of Architects, Honolulu Chapter) & Hawaiʻi Public Radio Friday's showing of Alice Street Film at the UH SOA for Architecture Month!

Coming up next is HIFF43 featuring SKIN OF GLASS, an architectural documentary/biography (synopsis below) followed by a conversation with the director, Denise Zmekhol. There will be two screenings at Kahala Theatres, 10/19 @ 6pm and 10/21 @ 3:30pm (additional screenings on the neighbor islands can be found at Hawai‘i International Film Festival hiff.org). Feel free to contact us for discounted tickets at [email protected].

SYNOPSIS: A poetic and personal exploration of displacement, inequality and loss, SKIN OF GLASS follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol on a journey tracing the parallels between the collapse of her family and the abandonment of her father’s architectural masterpiece, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo now occupied by hundreds of homeless families. Zmekhol wrestles with the legacy of her Syrian immigrant father, their loving but complicated relationship, and the after effects of Brazil’s decades under military rule. In the wake of a shocking tragedy, she connects with the new residents of her father’s building, seeking to understand how São Paulo’s most vulnerable found shelter within a modernist icon from Brazil’s golden age of architecture. Delicately interweaving the personal and political, SKIN OF GLASS is a profound and moving reflection of the country’s evolution through eras of darkness, transformation, and rebirth. This film is presented as part of the New American Perspectives program in partnership with the Vilcek Foundation. Director Denise Zmekhol will be in attendance for a special post-screening conversation.

UHSA*3 congratulates all of the scholarship recipients for the 2023-24 academic year and wish them all the best! We especially want to congratulate our undergraduate recipient, Tryphena Hsu and graduate recipient Maleah Reynolds for demonstrating design and academic excellence, as well as outstanding community engagement. Cheers!

ANNOUNCING OUR 30TH ANNUAL UHSAAA SCHOLARSHIP GOLF TOURNAMENT!!

When: August 4, 2023
Where: Hawaii Prince Golf Club

Register by July 21st at www.uhsaaa.org

October is Architecture month and some of our alumni had the chance to talk to students at Waipahu High School about our industry.

Welcome back to all the students at the UH SoA. Come celebrate and talk story with us on Monday, Aug. 29th with free pizza.

Come join us as & presents an amazing presentation by Landscape Architecture and Urban Design professor, Judith Stilgenbauer. Save the date for July 21st at 12PM at the AIA Honolulu Center for Architecture! AIA/ CES credits to be provided.

Our 29th Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament offers a variety of sponsorships! Swipe through for each sponsorship types or visit our website at www.uhsaaa.org

Congratulations to all UHSoA class of 2022 graduates and welcome to our alumni association! We are 30 years strong and continuing to build connections with current and past graduates of the architecture program of University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.