Fall 2024 public program

The Rice School of Architecture is pleased to announce its fall 2024 public program—a lineup of exhibitions, lectures, and symposia designed to provoke thoughtful discourse and inspire new thinking about architecture. “At the Rice School of Architecture, we see architecture not just as the creation of buildings but as a profound act of cultural engagement,” said Dean Igor Marjanović, “The dialogue we foster through these events is essential to advancing our collective understanding of architecture’s relationship to a changing world.” 

Our school promotes a culture of dialogue and exchange through formal and informal programs. From climate change to the global technosphere, from form-making to city-building, we engage a wide array of topics and scales that draw on architecture’s intellectual and representational potential to create shared planetary futures.

Exhibition: Big, Hot, and Sticky
August 23, 6pm, Architecture Center Houston
Maggie Tsang and Dalia Munenzon 

Esther Choi: “Double Negatives”
September 4, 6pm

David Wiseman: “The Art of Judaica”
September 23, 2024, 12pm

Civic Forum: Glenbrook Valley—Preservation for Whom? 
September 28, 1pm
Shantel Blakely, orchestrator, and Amna Ansari, moderator

Sebastian Adamo: “Re: Inventory”
October 2, 6pm

Sean Canty: “Making Rooms(s) and Other Stories”
October 9, 6pm

Farshid Moussavi: “Building Cultural Commons”
October 16, 6pm

Symposium: Monuments
October 18
Co-organized with the Moody Center for the Arts and Rice University Department of Art History. 

Symposium: Altered Origins
October 24-26
Tania Tovar Torres, organizer

Exhibition: The Sixth Sphere
October 28, 2024, 6pm (opening), William T. Cannady Hall
Brittany Utting, curator

Zoe Leonard and Tim Johnson: “Al rio / To the River: A Conversation”
October 30, 6pm

Joshua Jih Pan: Rice Architecture Alumni Award Lecture
November 1, 12pm

Richard Anderson: “Internationality is an Asset of Our Epoch”
November 4, 12pm

Charette: Houston Reimagined
November 9, 2024
8:30am, at Architecture Center Houson 
Co-organized with AIA Houston
 

Launch: PLAT 13–Alchemy
November 11, 2024, 6pm

Houston Design Research Grant: Nathan Friedman, Alice Bian and Stuti Mehta
November 13, 12pm

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We invite the public to these programs, which are free and open to all. Unless otherwise noted, they will be held in Farish Gallery, MD Anderson Hall, Rice University. For more information, please visit arch.rice.edu/events. Please visit our home page to sign up to receive periodic emails about the school’s public programs.

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The Rice School of Architecture is an international center of design research, experimentation and debate that engages and reconstructs our world in the most imaginative and holistic ways. We educate the next generation of architects to stand at the forefront of our discipline and to embody the dual role of public intellectual and agile practitioner as they design for a world in flux.