Spring 2025 public programs

The Rice School of Architecture invites you to attend its spring 2025 public programs, a dynamic series of lectures, exhibitions, and symposia that reflect our commitment to advancing architectural discourse and engaging with the pressing questions of our time. From thought-provoking talks by renowned practitioners to groundbreaking exhibitions and interdisciplinary collaborations, this semester’s lineup promises to inspire and challenge. Join us to build community through architecture.

Launch: PLAT 13—Alchemy
January 27, 2025, 5pm

Annette Fierro
January 29, 2025, 12pm
“Agencies of the Visionary: Ecologies of Drawing” at William T. Cannady Hall, Faculty Atelier

Javier Agustín Rojas
January 31, 2025, 12pm
“On the Mechanical Reproduction of Forms”

Momoyo Kaijima
February 3, 2025, 5pm
“Architectural Behaviorology”, Llewelyn-Davies Sahni Innovative Practice Lecture

Exhibitions at Rice: The Sixth Sphere
February 7, 2025, 5pm
Curated by Brittany Utting. Closing reception and contributor panel.

Material Cultures
February 17, 2025, 7pm
2025 Spotlight Award
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Brown Auditorium

Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu
​February 19, 2025, 7pm
“Invisible City”, Cullinan Lecture at The River Oaks Theatre

Ludwig Godefroy
February 24, 2025, 5pm
“Concordance”

Exhibitions at Rice: (dis)assemblies
​February 28, 2025, 5pm
Opening reception. Curated by Tania Tovar Torres and Zhicheng Xu.

Salvador Macías, Magui Peredo, and Diego Quirarte
March 3, 2025, 5pm
“El papel de los proyectos” (The Paper of Projects)

Symposium: Fiber Futures
March 7, 2025, 1pm
Organized by Jesús Vassallo and Brett Schneider

Intergenerational conversation: ALNY x HOU
March 8, 2025, 5pm
Featuring alumni of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices and League Prize

Book talk: Albert Pope
March 12, 2025, 12pm
“Inverse Utopia” at William T. Cannady Hall, Faculty Atelier

Conference: Comics Sans Frontières
March 20–23, 2025
Organized by Chris Sperandio / Copresented with the Rice University Department of Art

Symposium: Art in Context—Art, Architecture, and the Middle Landscape
April 4-6, 2025
Organized by Troy Schaum
Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas

Vanessa Grossman
April 9, 2025, 12pm
“Design as Ontology: The Constructed Geographies of Paulo Mendes da Rocha”
William T. Cannady Hall, Faculty Atelier

Konstantin Grčić
“Man Machine: My Story About Human-Tech Creativity”
MATCH—Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
April 24, 2025, 1pm
“Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement”
Copresented with the Rice University Center for African and African American Studies and the Rice Department of Art History. Humanities Building, HUMA 119.

Lorenzo Ciccarelli
April 28, 2025, 12pm
“Renzo Piano, Dominique de Menil, and the Artifice of Intimacy” at William T. Cannady Hall, Faculty Atelier

All programs are free, open to the public, and qualify as AIA continuing education courses. Unless otherwise noted, programs are held in Farish Gallery, MD Anderson Hall, Rice University. Dates and times are subject to change; please consult our calendar of events at here.

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. PLAT is supported in part by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and by individual supporters. The Sixth Sphere is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Rice University Creative Ventures Fund, and a Rice Creative Works Grant. Fiber Futures is supported by the Rice University Sustainability Institute, the Rice University Creative Ventures Fund, and the Center for Environmental Studies. Comics Sans Frontières is supported by the Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication, Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Creative Ventures Fund, Department of Religious Studies, Fondren Fellows program, Humanities Research Center, Program in Jewish Studies, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice School of Architecture, and Scientia Institute. Art in Context: Art, Architecture, and the Middle Landscape is generously supported by Lori Chemla and Alexandre Chemla and Lee Cohn and Mike Cohn. 

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