Dr. Oswald Jenewein

Dr. Oswald Jenewein is an architectural and urban designer, researcher, and teacher in the field of Ecological Design and Urban Sustainability. His cross-disciplinary projects focus on co-creating climate resilience in the built environment as transscalar processes and include participatory dialogues in developing smart and connected cities.

Oswald is an Associate Professor of Architecture & Urbanism at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Arlington. He founded and directs FUELED - the Future Environments Lab for Ecological Design at UT Arlington – a design and research lab focusing on topics of climate resilience architecture and urban design. Furthermore, Oswald oversees international initiatives in his role as International Studies Coordinator, fostering academic partnerships and global relations. Oswald is also a Visiting Lecturer of Architecture at the Institute of Design, Department of Spatial Design at the University of Innsbruck, and served as a reviewer at the Technical University of Delft, University of Tallinn, Texas A&M University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and as HKS Top Projects Juror. Oswald is a certified fellow at the American Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) and was a 2022 Piper Professor Nominee and AIA Dallas Nominee for the Texas Society of Architects’s Award for Outstanding Educational Contributions in Honor of Edward Romieniec, FAIA.

Oswald has won several research grants over the past few years, exceeding $2.7 million in funding. He is the co-chair of the Smart Coast Initiative, which focuses on climate adaptation of vulnerable communities and cities along the Texas Coast, and received a Smart & Connected Communities Grant from the National Science Foundation.

Recent publications include “Co-Creating Climate Adaptation Pathways in Coastal Cities: A Practical Guide for Engaged Scholars and Urban Designers” and “Post-Oil Environments. Developing a Typological Approach to Climate Adaptation of Architecture and the City.” Oswald’s work was exhibited internationally. Most recently, he contributed the project “A Conflict of Settlement: Oil vs. Water” to the 2021 European Culture Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy and "Spatial Regimes in Coastal Landscapes of Oil" at the Architecture Center of Tyrol in Innsbruck, Austria. Oswald received his doctoral and professional degrees in Architecture from the University of Innsbruck, Austria.