Flawn Academic Center, Academic center at University of Texas, Austin, United States.

Flawn Academic Center is a building at the University of Texas in Austin that provides study spaces, computer labs, and multimedia services across multiple floors. Students and faculty members find resources for learning and research work plus an art gallery.

The building opened in 1963 and 1964 and was groundbreaking because it contained the first open-stack undergraduate library at the university with direct access to shelves. Its opening marked a shift in how universities made their collections accessible to students.

The Leeds Gallery, on the fourth floor, holds a re-creation of the study of Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason, shown with his personal effects. Charles Umlauf's sculpture The Torchbearers stands at the front of the building, not inside the gallery.

The Flawn Academic Center sits on the University of Texas campus in Austin, with Charles Umlauf's sculpture The Torchbearers at the front of the building. Inside, the Leeds Gallery occupies the fourth floor, and the 2005 renovation added a multimedia studio, computer labs, a help desk and repair shop, and a café. The building has also served as a student voting site in some elections.

In 2005 the building underwent a major transformation, relocating 90,000 books to other libraries and introducing modern digital learning infrastructure. This change shows how academic buildings adapt to new forms of learning and how the focus shifted from printed books to digital resources.