RDA News & Notes
Category: Symposium
Fall 2000 Lecture Series: The Freeway in America
The Rice Design Alliance, in conjunction with the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture of the University of Houston, presented its Fall 2000 Lecture Series, The Freeway in America , on Wednesdays from September 13-October 14, 2000.
Giving Shelter: Housing and Public Policy
Spring 1990 Lecture Series
This lecture series and symposium reviewed the history of social housing in Europe and the United States, evaluated the current public policy, and assembled leading architects, developers and policy-makers to discuss innovative approaches to housing.
Station to Station: Mass Transit and the Urban Environment
Spring 1989 Lecture Series
As Houston refined a regional mobility plan, the RDA organized a program that explored the history of transportation and urban development locally and internationally. A concluding symposium discussed the transit experiences in other US cities, their implications for Houston, and the dangers and opportunities of this massive undertaking.
The Museum: Art and Architecture Symposium
Pontus Hulten, Hans Hollein, Arata Isozaki, Charles Moore, John Walsh, Reyner Bahnam, Stanislaus Von Moos
The Role of the Press/Criticism in Architecture Symposium
Peter Blake, David Dillon, Diane Ghirardo, Joseph Giovannini, Ann Holmes, Pamela Lewis, Peter C. Papademetriou, Suzanne Stephens
Civic Art in America: The Politics and Aesthetics of the Urban Landscape
Paul Boyer, John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Charles Moore
