As technology continues to alter the way architecture is thought of and implemented, the education process has also shifted. To get a peek behind the curtain, we sat down with Michael L. Garrison, Professor and Cass Gilbert Teaching Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Michael talks about how teaching architecture has changed over time, about preparing students for the 21st century, his involvement with the University of Texas at Austin Solar Decathlon Houses, and about what we have to look forward to in this industry.

“You might think of your house and you have maybe a thermostat, or maybe two thermostats, [but] think about [how] in the near future you may have two thousand thermostats," Garrison said. "And so, with that kind of information [being] relatively cheap, your house can be able to be made in such a way that it in can have a different temperature in each particular room or actually be able to follow you as you move through the house and change the temperature as you move through it.”