The Rice Design Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of architecture, urban design, and the built environment in the Houston region.
Join the Rice School of Architecture for the lastest in their Insider Trading Lecture Series:
“Ecologies of Excess” with Eva Franch, Wortham Fellow, Rice School of Architecture
Date: March 31, 2010
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall
Admission: Free
Join us for the latest installment of the Rice School of Architecture’s Insider Trading lecture series:
“MASShape” with Troy Schaum, Wortham Fellow, Rice School of Architecture
Date: March 17, 2010
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall, Rice University
Admission: Free
Join the Rice School of Architecture for a lecture by architect Ana Tostoes, DOCOMOMO, Barcelona.
Date: March 24
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall, Rice University
Admission: Free
Join the Rice School of Architecture for their latest installment of their What’s the Matter With Architecture spring lecture series:
“Gesamtkunstwha–?” with Juliet Koss, Professor and Chair of Art History, Scripps College, Claremont, California.
Date: March 15
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall, Rice University
Admission: Free
Join the Rice School of Architecture for the latest installment of their What’s the Matter With Architecture? spring lecture series:
“Immediate Gratification” with Neil Denari, architect and principal, Neil M. Denari Architects, Los Angeles.
Date: April 5, 2010
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall, Rice University
Admission: Free
Join the Rice School of Architecture for the latest installment of their Insider Trading lecture series:
“Megaform: Symptoms, Histories, Projections” with
Neyran Turan, Assistant Professor, Rice School of Architecture.
Date: April 9, 2010
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall, Rice University
Admission: Free
Join us for the last installment of the Rice School of Architecture’s spring lecture series What’s the Matter With Architecture?:
“Less-ity, More-ism” with R.E. Somol
Director, UIC School of Architecture, Chicago
Date: April 12
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall, Rice University
Admission: Free
Join us for the latest in the Rice School of Architecture’s Insider Trading lecture series:
“Fluidity” with Nana Last, Associate Professor in Practice, Rice School of Architecture
Date: March 10
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Farish Gallery, Anderson Hall, Rice University
Admission: Free
RDA, in collaboration with the Rice School of Architecture, the AIA Houston Chapter, and the Architecture Center Houston Foundation, welcome Luis Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón to present the annual Sally Walsh lecture on April 7, 2010, titled Making MUSAC.
Sally Walsh Lecture: Making MUSAC
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Brown Auditorium, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1001 Bissonnet.
The lecture is dedicated to the memory of distinguished Houston interior designer Sally Walsh, who is widely credited with bringing modern design to Houston. The lecture honors Walsh’s groundbreaking foray into modern design by bringing the freshest new design minds to Houston. This year’s lecturers are the namesakes of Spanish architecture firm Mansilla and Tuñón.
Mansilla and Tuñón may be best known in architectural circles for the MUSAC, the Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla and León (above), which was the recipient of the 2007 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. MUSAC has become a landmark for the city of León, and an emblem of the new 21st century Spanish architecture. The firm also won the public competitions to build the C.I.C.C.M. New Convention Palace in Madrid, as well as the Museo de las Colecciones Reales (Spanish Royal Collections Museum), also in Madrid.
Emilio Tuñón and Luis Mansilla are professors in the architectural design department of the Architecture School of Madrid, and have been visiting professors at several prestigious universities. Their long list of accolades includes the AD Architectural Digest Award, FAD award, Saloni Award, VIA award, Spanish Architecture Award, and the COACV Award. The pair recently completed a stint as curators for the X Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, and caught the attention of the Wall Street Journal in this feature article.
“Luis and Emilio’s Sally Walsh lecture provides the ideal intersection between the RDA and the RSA (Rice School of Architecture). It ties into the RSA’s spring lecture series, entitled “What’s the Matter with Architecture,” for they are absolutely committed to putting architecture front and center as a way of engaging contemporary cultural issues. Seamlessly joining theory and practice, academia and the profession, their office produces some of the most engaging and exciting projects being built today,” said Sarah Whiting, dean of the Rice University School of Architecture.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 6 pm the evening of the lecture. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early.
Additional parking is available until 7 pm for $3 in the museum garage located at the corner of Binz and Fannin Streets.
RDA will gladly make special accommodations for anyone needing assistance to attend the lecture. Please contact RDA directly. A minimum of two week’s notice is appreciated. Call RDA at 713-348-4876.
This lecture is supported by an endowed fund of the Houston Architecture Foundation and coordinated by the Rice Design Alliance.
The Rice Design Alliance is an AIA/CES Registered Provider of quality educational programs. For each lecture, attendees will earn one Learning Unit, which will be reported to CES Records on the member’s behalf. Registration at the lecture is required. Non-AIA members may request a Certificate of Completion to fulfill state MCE requirements.
On Saturday and Sunday, March 20-21, from 1:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m., RDA members and their guests will have the opportunity to visit eight houses in Houston’s Southgate neighborhood on RDA’s 34th annual architecture tour, Southgate: An Urban Oasis.
Southgate is located inside Loop 610 and is bounded by University Boulevard to the north, Travis to the east, W. Holcombe to the south, and Greenbriar to the west. The neighborhood is adjacent to Rice University and the Texas Medical Center, two Houston institutions that are expanding substantially. Southgate is undergoing considerable change, yet it has retained its close-knit community feeling. Architects and designers working in the neighborhood have been successful integrating their designs into the older fabric and staying within the neighborhood’s strict deed restrictions. The community is thriving, leveraging the same attributes the subdivision had when first developed: location close to big employment centers, excellent schools, transportation via bus and now light rail, and nearby shopping.
Houses on the self-guided tour include (*tickets can be purchased at Houses #1, 4, and 8):
*1. 2239 University Boulevard (Strasser/Ragni Architects with Emily Sing, 2008) TICKETS SOLD HERE!
2. 2045 University Boulevard (Collaborative Design Works, preliminary design with Openshop Studio, 2005)
3. 2056 Dryden Road (M. R. Van Valkenbergh, designer, 1942; rehabilitation, 1998)
*4. 2102 Addison Road (Dixon & Ellis, 1938; rehabilitation: Rogers LaBarthe Architects, 2009) TICKETS SOLD HERE!
5. 1925 Addison Road (1938; rehabilitation: Z-K Building Design, 2006)
6. 2145 Southgate Boulevard (Charles B. Thomsen, Architect, 1965; rehabilitation: Kelie Mayfield, 2008)
7. 2201 Southgate Boulevard (Dillon Kyle Architecture, 2006)
*8. 2206 Sheridan (Brave/Architecture, 2004) TICKETS SOLD HERE!
* Tickets will be available at ONLY these 3 locations on the tour! Please plan your tour accordingly.
The tour is open only to RDA members and their guests. RDA memberships can be purchased in advance at the RDA office, or on the tour and include one complimentary tour ticket at the Student ($15) or Individual level ($45) or two complimentary tickets at the Household level ($75) and above. Click here to see our membership benefits.
Tickets may be purchased online by clicking here or at the designated three tour locations or in advance by mailing a check made payable to the Rice Design Alliance and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:
Rice University
Rice Design Alliance – MS 51
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, Texas 77251-1892
For further information, please call 713-348-4876.
The Rice Design Alliance is an AIA/CES Registered Provider of educational programs. For this tour, attendees will earn two Learning Units. Learning Units will be reported to CES Records on the member’s behalf. Registration at one house on the tour is required. Non-AIA members may pick up a Certificate of Completion to fulfill state MCE requirements.
This tour is made possible by support from A & E – The Graphics Complex; Barton Construction; W. S. Bellows Construction Corporation; Berger Iron Works, Inc.; CenterPoint Energy, Inc.; JE Dunn Construction; FKP Architects; Fisk Electric Company; Fretz Construction Company; D. E. Harvey Builders; Haynes Whaley Associates, Inc.; Linbeck Group; McCoy Workplace Solutions; The OFIS; PSTC, Inc.; Satterfield & Pontikes Construction, Inc.; Smith Seckman Reid, Inc.; SpawMaxwell Company; TDIndustries, Inc.; Tellepsen; Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Tudor; the Corporate Members of the Rice Design Alliance; the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance; the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
