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A professional organization of individual craft studios based in Austin, Texas.  The purpose of AArC is to promote awareness of hand-crafted architectural detailing and to express the unfolding and unique spirit of Austin through its built environment.  We seek to create a renaissance in Austin's public spaces and building trades by collaborating with architects, planners, civic groups, general contractors, and interior designers.

The goal of AArC is to see human scale architectural craft discussed at the earliest possible stage of the building process, so that our ideas are integral to, and supportive of, the entire design concept.  Our main tools are dialogue, co-operation, and collaboration.  We participate in the public discussion of art by serving as speakers at conferences, demonstrating our work at arts festivals, and launching our own gallery exhibitions.

As Austin's leading artisans, we have organized to serve as a design and material resource for public, commercial, and private spaces.

AArC originated in March 1993 as an affiliation of artisans participating in the design and construction of the new Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.  With our assistance, the project architects and the Airport Task Force developed performance specifications, design concepts, and budget ranges for public art in the new facility.  Several AArC members installed their work in the airport, an indication of our integral presence in the process.  But the main success of these early efforts was proving the effectiveness of gathering a team of professional artisans to present a unified front to architects and designers.  The artisans' team officially adopted the name AArC in March of 1995.