Fall 2023 public program

We embrace wholeheartedly the global responsibilities placed upon our field, using diverse lived experiences and rigorous research methodologies to collectively take stock of our discipline. Rice Architecture aims to foster such spirited and intentional discourse—a discourse directed at the reconstruction not only of a single school or its curriculum, but that of the entire planet.

MESO-COSM Gallery talk and exhibition
Daniel Jacobs, University of Houston, Brittany Utting, Rice Architecture
Mashburn Gallery, University of Houston
Houston, Texas 
September 18, 2023, 6pm

Chris Leong
Leong Leong
September 27, 2023, 6pm

Faculty book talk: Scott Colman
Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City
October 18, 2023, 6pm

Civic Forum: Houston Rezoned—TIRZ and the City
Moderated by Troy Schaum, Rice Architecture
MATCH, Houston, Texas
October 21, 2023, 1pm

Giancarlo Mazzanti
El Equipo Mazzanti
October 23, 6pm

Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga
Barozzi Veiga
October 30, 2023, 6pm

Faculty lecture: Stephen Fox
November 3, 2023, 12pm

Tiantian Xu
DnA_Design and Architecture
November 8, 2023, 6pm

Symposium: Garden Ecologies—Environmental Transformation and Care
Organized by: Isaac Stein, Dept.; Maggie Tsang, Rice Architecture/Dept., and Randy Twaddle, John Fairey Garden 

November 10, 2023, 1–4pm
Farish Gallery

November 11, 2023, 9:30–3:30pm
John Fairey Garden, Hempstead, Texas

Launch: Cite 104, The Architecture and Design Review of Houston
Basket Books & Art, Houston, Texas 
November 15, 2023, 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. For more information, visit arch.rice.edu/events. Subscribe to the Rice Architecture YouTube channel to view public program content.

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; and the Wm. W. Caudill Lecture Series Fund. 

*MESO-COSM is sponsored by the Hines Scholar as Design/Design as Scholar (HdSd) Program of the Undergraduate Architecture Program at the Hines College of Architecture and Design, University of Houston. The exhibition is also funded by the Diluvial Houston Initiative, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-supported project, and Rice Architecture.

**Garden Ecologies is supported by the John Fairey Garden, the Rice Center for Environmental Studies, and a Rice Office for Research Subvention Grant.

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