Spring 2024 public program

The Rice University School of Architecture is pleased to announce its 2024 spring public program. Our school embraces collective conversation not only in our studios, seminars, and reviews, but also in our hallways, galleries, and maker spaces. This dialogue permeates everything we do, including our public programs. The topics we explore this semester are varied–from material and formal experimentation to access and disability–and we lean into this exchange of voices and perspectives to better understand each other, our field, and the world around us.

Panel: Interpreting Architecture–Platforms for the School and City
Moderated by Shantel Blakely, Rice Architecture
Panelists: Francisco Díaz, Reto Geiser, Tania Tovar Torres, Erick Velazquez
January 13, 2024, 1pm

Giancarlo Mazzanti
El Equipo Mazzanti
January 17, 2024, 6pm

Bess Williamson
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
January 22, 2024, 6pm

Amale Andraos
WORKac/Columbia University
January 24, 2024, 6pm

Dafi Kühne
Poster artist and letterpress printer
February 7, 2024, 6pm

Artists-in-Dialogue: Rina Banerjee with Georgina Baronian and Igor Marjanović
An interdisciplinary discussion with the Moody Center for the Arts’ Artist-in-Residence
Rice University
February 13, 2024, 6pm, Moody Center for the Arts

2024 Spotlight Award Lecture
Wtanya Chanvitan and Takahiro Kume
Bangkok Tokyo Architecture
February 21, 2024, 6pm

Symposium: ReWriting Urban Design
Cosponsored with the Rice University Office of Research. Organized by Scott Colman, Rice Architecture
Participants: Tom Avermaete, Françoise Fromonot, Reto Geiser, Janina Gosseye, Albert Pope, Robin Schuldenfrei, Charles Waldheim
February 27, 2024, 2–7pm CET
Paris, France

Mae-ling Lokko    
Yale University 
March 4, 2024, 6pm

Ambrish Arora
Studio Lotus
Llewelyn-Davies Sahni Innovative Practice Lecture
April 3, 2024, 6pm

All programs are free and open to the public. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in Farish Gallery, MD Anderson Hall, Rice University. Dates and times are subject to change; please consult our calendar of events.

Each lecture will be submitted for AIA/CES approval. Rice Architecture is an AIA/CES registered provider of quality educational programs.

These public programs are supported by the Betty R. and George F. Pierce Jr., FAIA, Fund; the William B. Coleman Jr. Colloquium Fund for Architecture; the Wm. W. Caudill Lecture Series Fund; and the Rice Design Alliance Endowed Fund. The Bess Williamson lecture is supported by an Analyzing Diversity Course Development grant awarded by BRIDGE (Building Research on Inequality and Diversity to Grow Equity) at Rice University. The Llewelyn-Davies Sahni Fund supports the Llewelyn-Davies Sahni Innovative Practice Lecture.

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