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April 2023
“100 Ways to Touch the Ground” exhibition opens at Omaha by Design.




March 2023
Zachary Tate Porter to open exhibition, “100 Ways to Touch the Ground,” at Omaha by Design.



June 2022
Zachary Tate Porter awarded a Juror Citation in the 48th Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition for his drawing, "How to Paint a Big Box.”



April 2022
Zachary Tate Porter presented the paper "Modeling Images / Imaging Models" at the 37th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student hosted by Ball State University




March 2022
Zachary Tate Porter included in the exhibition, “SoA: The First 50,” which features work by UNC Charlotte alumni that has addressed challenges and opportunities in architecture and related fields.” The exhibition is on view March - May 2022 in the Lambla Gallery at UNC Charlotte.





November 2021
Zachary Tate Porter presented his work and participated in a panel discussion on architectural representation hosted by the Weitzmann School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. The panel also included Elle Gerdeman, Stephanie Lin, Mustafa Faruki, and Nathan Hume (moderator).





September 2021
Zachary Tate Porter published the essay, “House on a Washtub-Sized Eminence: Ellis Parker Butler’s Critical Satire of Site-Specificity,” in the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE 75:2).





September 2021
Zachary Tate Porter participated in a panel discussion on “Architectural Illustration & Delineation,” hosted by the Architecture & Design Exchange in Dallas, Texas.





August 2021
Zachary Tate Porter awarded a Juror Citation in the 47th Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition for his drawing, "Three Rocks.”





May 2021
Zachary Tate Porter awarded an Arts & Humanities Enhancement Grant from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for his project, “Expanding the Canon: Architectural Conceptions of Ground Beyond the West.”





April 2021
Zachary Tate Porter presented the paper "Abstractions in Suburbia: The Pleasures of Quotidian Form" at the 36th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student hosted by Texas A & M University





April 2021
Zachary Tate Porter presented the paper "Slabs, Piles, and Rocks: A Genealogy of Groundforms (After the Digital)" at the 36th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student hosted by Texas A & M University





March 2021
Zachary Tate Porter presented the paper "Piles of Bits: Notes on the Virtual Grounds of Postdigital Practice" at the 109th Annual Meeting of the ACSA hosted by Washington University in St. Louis





March 2021
Zachary Tate Porter participated in a special focus panel discussion on “Speculative Practice in Pedagogy” at the 109th Annual Meeting of the ACSA hosted by Washington University in St. Louis





March 2021
Zachary Tate Porter presented the paper "Manual of Suburban Subversion" at the 109th Annual Meeting of the ACSA hosted by Washington University in St. Louis





March 2021
Zachary Tate Porter presented a lecture entitled "The Scale of Pixels" to students in the College of Design at NC State University





February 2021
Zachary Tate Porter moderated a paper session on "Domesticity" at the 2021 Film + Architecture Symposium hosted by Ball State University





December 2020
Zachary Tate Porter presented "Retooling the Classroom: Pedagogies of Making in the History/Theory Seminar" at the AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society) Teaching-Learning-Research conference hosted by the University of Manchester (Image Credit: Ashley Glesinger)





August 2020
Zachary Tate Porter awarded Layman Seed Grant from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for his on-going research project, "A Genealogy of Architectural Grounds" (Image Credit: Zachary Tate Porter & Caleb Laurence)





March 2020
Zachary Tate Porter presented "Groundforms: Architectural Constructions of Ground (After the Digital)" at Schools of Thought: Rethinking Design Pedagogy at the University of Oklahoma (Image Credit: Emily Tetschner)





September 2019 - January 2020
Topographic Survey of Two Sidewalk Holes included in the exhibition, "Drawing Attention: The Digital Culture of Contemporary Architectural Drawings," at the Roca London Gallery
Curated by Jeremy Ficca, Amy Kulper & Grace La
London, UK





March 2019
Topographic Survey of Two Sidewalk Holes included in the ACSA exhibition, "Drawing for the Design Imaginary," at the Carnegie Museum of Art (Photo: Jeremy Ficca)
Pittsburgh, PA





March 2019
Zachary Tate Porter presented "Erasures, Transgressions, and Demarcations" at the 107th ACSA Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA





December 2018
Ground Assembly (2018) included in the "Impermanent Collection” at the A + D Museum, Los Angeles, CA




November 2018
Zachary Tate Porter publishes essay, "Paradigms of Architectural Knowledge: What to do when Knowledge Becomes Data" in The Site Magazine Volume 39: "Foundations and Disruptions"





November 2018
Zachary Tate Porter to contribute to the A+D Museum’s “Impermanent Collection” exhibition





August 2018
Labors of Landscape by Zachary Tate Porter, Christina Novakov-Ritchey, and Mari Beltran included in "Establishing Shots: Visions of Los Angeles on Video" organized by Spatial Awareness Network
Los Angeles, CA





August 2018
Zachary Tate Porter contributes to LA Forum Newsletter edited by Rob Berry & Andrea Dietz





June 2018
Zachary Tate Porter appointed Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln





March 2018
Zachary Tate Porter presents paper, "Architecture ≠ Landscape: The Case Against Hybridization," at the 106th Annual ACSA Meeting
Denver, CO





January 2018
Archinect publishes interview with Zachary Tate Porter for their "Fellow Fellows" series





July 2017
Zachary Tate Porter publishes essay, "Pedagogy of the Present," in Archinect's Cross-Talk Series edited by Anthony Morey





July 2017
Zachary Tate Porter produces Jurisdiction: The Board Game





June 2017
Zachary Tate Porter included in "Architecture" exhibition at the A + D Museum curated by Anthony Morey & Ryan Tyler Martinez





May 2017
Zachary Tate Porter produces performance installation, "Labors of Landscape," with Christina Novakov-Ritchey & Mari Beltran





May 2017
Zachary Tate Porter to participate in ONS-LA’S "Last Call" Exhibition with Christina Novakov-Ritchey & Mari Beltran
Curated by Jennifer Bonner, Volkan Alkanoglu, & Kyle Miller
Los Angeles, CA





November 2016
Zachary Tate Porter delivers the 2016 Design of Theory Lecture at SCI-Arc, entitled “Cuts + Fills: Constructing a Discourse on Ground”
Los Angeles, California





November 2016
Zachary Tate Porter to lecture at SCI-Arc
SCI-Arc Design of Theory Lecture




August 2016
Zachary Tate Porter joins the architecture faculty at the University of Southern California





July 2016
Offramp launches Issue 11: "Ground" edited by Zachary Tate Porter
Spring/Summer 2016
SCI-Arc Online Journal





July 2016
Zachary Tate Porter interviews Tom Wiscombe for Offramp 11





July 2016
Zachary Tate Porter
publishes review of "Control" exhibition by M. Casey Rehm for SCI-Arc News





March 2016
Zachary Tate Porter
presents the paper,"Contested Terrain: Professional Jurisdiction as a Frame for Analyzing the Architecture/Landscape Divide,” at the 2016 ACSA Conference in Seattle





December 2015
Zachary Tate Porter
publishes an essay, entitled "Our Useless Past: A Historiographical Editorial,” in Offramp 10: "Useless"
SCI-Arc Online Journal





August 2015
Zachary Tate Porter
appointed as the 2015-2016 Design of Theory Fellow at SCI-Arc
Los Angeles, California





January 2014
Grace Cote reviews "Groundwork" exhibition by Zachary Tate Porter at MoNA Art Gallery
Charlotte, North Carolina





April 2013
Zachary Tate Porter presents a paper, entitled “The Buildings Got Up and Danced Through the City,” at CORD's "Tactical Bodies" conference hosted by UCLA





April 2013
Zachary Tate Porter
chairs the organizing committee for the inaugural doctoral symposium, "Translations from Knowledge to Building"
School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology





March 2013
Zachary Tate Porter
opens solo exhibition, Groundwork: Tracings, Excavations, and Burials, at Pease Gallery
Charlotte, NC





March 2013
Better Magazine
publishes "Burial Sites" by Zachary Tate Porter





March 2011
Zachary Tate Porter
presents the paper, “Architectural Fractures: Computation and Form in the Work of Le Corbusier and John Hejduk,” at the 99th Annual Meeting of ACSA 
Montreal, Quebec