Rice Design Alliance Award Submission to the American Institute of Architects for Collaborative Achievement in Research, Dissemination, and Education

14 October 2011 On October 14, 2011, the Rice Design Alliance submitted an award submission to the American Institute of Architects for “Collaborative Achievement in Research, Dissemination, and Education.” Along with our organization’s “Biography,” a “Statement of Contributions,” and 15-pages of “Exhibits,” the RDA submission was nominated by Raymond Brochstein, FAIA with five support letters from John Kaliski, AIA, Nonya Grenader, FAIA, David Lake, FAIA, Jay Baker, FAIA, and Edward M. Baum, FAIA. Captured on the following page are a few quotes from these AIA colleagues and RDA supporters.

SUBMISSION COMMITTEE Barbara Amelio, Kimberly Hickson, Lonnie Hoogeboom, Craig Minor, Suzy Minor, Danny Samuels, Carrie Glassman Shoemake

STAFF Kathryn Fosdick, Raj Mankad, Katie Plocheck, Linda Sylvan “The Rice Design Alliance has been at the forefront of thinking about the future of the built environment and how cities and buildings must be sustainable. RDA has a regional reach beyond Houston, including Austin, Corpus Christi, Galveston and my town, San Antonio.

RDA’s audience is not limited to design professionals. It is inclusive, open, and inviting. I have friends who are developers, lawyers, teachers, and artists who routinely attend their events because of the inspirational, informative content. RDA’s commitment to excellence and their success in expanding the audience elucidates how good design benefits all of us and the natural realm. “The Rice Design Alliance was conceived by David Crane who was Dean of the Rice University School of Architecture in 1972. Crane was searching RDA has been at this for 39 years. Their longevity is a testament to its for a way to connect with alumnae and non-architects in the community to relevance and exuberance and its broad community support. RDA is the promote the school and more importantly to bring awareness and knowledge MVP of Design Matters in our state! RDA has shaped how we think about of architecture to the broader society. design … how we build a home, a community, a city.” Now nearly forty years later RDA has become the preeminent organization of - David C. Lake, FAIA its type, its format has widely influenced others thoughout the country. “Hermann Park is arguably the most significant civic space in Houston. The RDA has educated Houstonians about architects and architecture collaborative approach taken by RDA to improve Hermann Park is to witness through lectures and tours, instigated and nurtured some landmark urban the spark behind what has become the city’s most successful Public/Private improvement projects and made public and private decision makers aware Partnership devoted to improving our public realm. that good design matters!” RDA initiated a design completion that led to built improvements. The Friends - Raymond D. Brochstein, FAIA of Hermann Park raised the funds necessary to build the winning entry. “Cite Magazine, one of the many programs that RDA was generating in the While today the renovation of Hermann Park enjoys an excellent reputation, 1980s, created a unique opportunity to collaborate with like-minded people that reputation exists because RDA took the first steps with the collabor- and shape matters of design and the city. ative spirit necessary to achieve meaningful and lasting change. This would After three decades of continuous publication, I am now one of hundreds of not have been possible without the open hand routinely extended to the architects, educators, writers, and everyday citizens, who through Cite realize community by RDA to improve our public realm.” an uncanny sense of Houston.” - Jay Baker, FAIA - John Kaliski, AIA “Rice Design Alliance was instrumental in helping us create a similar civic “Since its founding in 1972, the Rice Design Alliance has provided a stimu- group here – the Dallas Architectural Forum. lating flow of information and support between Houston’s architectural community and the larger audience of our diverse city. Recent outreach A word about the Rice Design Alliance and schools. The members of the projects highlight RDA’s continuing commitment to enriching not on the NAAB Accreditation Team, of which I was a member, found RDA to be an Houston community, but also programs that engage participants far beyond immense asset to both the Rice School of Architecture and the College of Texas in broad issues of design. Architecture at the University of Houston, offering so much that neither could offer alone. The lectures, study tours, exhibitions, and competitions open At various scales of outreach, the Rice Design Alliance has enabled doors, bring new people to architecture, and help link the schools to the innovative designs to be realized. Their programs enrich the design discourse community. The excellent journal Cite gives a respected platform for faculty, of students, architects, and the larger community.” alumni, and friends of the universities.”

- Nonya Grenader, FAIA - Edward M. Baum, FAIA tecture and evolving Houston neigh- Spotlight: The Rice Design Alliance borhoods. The tours are themed Prize was instituted in 2009 with the around a particular architect, a style, purpose of recognizing emerging an emerging trend, or specific neigh- architects early in their professional borhoods. careers. The prize carries a $1,500 cash award and the opportunity to Guests on RDA City Study Tours lecture at The Museum of Fine Arts, travel throughout the United States Houston. and the world to experience archi- BIOGRAPHY OF THE In fall 1972 the Rice Design Alliance EDUCATION is the cornerstone tecture through local guides, private RICE DESIGN ALLIANCE (RDA) was organized by a small upon which RDA was forged. RDA receptions, and behind-the-scene group of academicians, Rice School holds two lecture series annually. tours. RDA members have visited of Architecture alumni, and civic- RDA civic forums are a vehicle for Paris, Buenos Aires, Helsinki, San minded citizens under the leadership examining issues that affect Housto- Francisco, Chicago, and Marfa, of the Dean of the Rice School of nians and the city. These discussions Texas, to name a few destinations. Architecture, David Crane, FAIA. allow the public to gather information Since its founding nearly 40 years about current issues and to join the ago, RDA has grown to 2,000 dialogue with experts. members, which include those in IMPACT is demonstrated by the the A/E/C communities as well as RDA’s quarterly magazine, Cite: far-reaching commitment of RDA to those who have a personal interest The Architecture + Design Review of implement physical improvements in in architecture and urban planning. Houston, started publication in 1982 Houston and the surrounding region. As a non-profit organization driven and is the only consistent voice of RDA’s first national design compe- The mission of the Rice by volunteers, RDA has emerged architectural criticism in Houston. A tition was held in 1985 for a master Design Alliance is the as the preeminent public forum in related blog, offcite.org, addresses plan for downtown’s Sesquicentennial advancement of archi- Houston for critique, discourse, and current issues with more editorial The Annual RDA Gala and Award for Park, now completed. Until then, a tecture, urban design, and programming of design and the built voices. Ephemeral City: Cite Looks at Design Excellence was launched competition for a major civic project the built environment in environment. Since 1973, RDA has Houston (2003, University of Texas in 1987 to raise funds to support was unprecedented in Houston. The the Houston region through sponsored over 327 lectures, 74 Press) is a collection of 25 critical RDA programs and to recognize 99K House Competition in 2008 drew educational programs, panel discussions and symposiums, essays on the late modern city that individuals and institutions that have 182 entries from around the world the publication of Cite: 47 architecture tours, 21 exhibi- originally appeared in Cite. made exceptional contributions to for the design of an economical and The Architecture + Design tions, 12 grant competitions, 9 film architecture and design in Houston. energy-efficient 1,400 SF single- Review of Houston, and series, four national design competi- This popular event draws more than family house in Houston’s historic active programs to initiate tions and has published 86 issues of 1,000 guests each year. Fifth Ward. The winning design was ENGAGEMENT with design profes- physical improvements. a quarterly design review, 65 guide built and then sold to a qualifying sionals and civic-minded citizens rdAGENTS, RDA’s young professional low-income family. pamphlets, 12 catalogs, and one leads to the ability to affect change group, is a network of individuals monograph. by mobilizing people toward a invested in the future of Houston. The Initiatives for Houston grants program is designed for students Our activities fall within three areas: common goal. RDA brings people Each August the rdAGENTS host an all-day design charrette where and faculty of the regional schools of Education, Engagement, and Impact. together for idea exchange, social- izing, and hands-on involvement. architects and designers propose architecture and urban planning. To solutions to community issues such date, RDA has awarded more than Conducted annually since 1975, RDA as activating the bayous or recycling $112,000 in grants to support faculty architecture tours present local archi- and waste disposal. and student research.

BIOGRAPHY RDA is managed by its Board 2011-2012 RDA Officers 1997 of Directors, which consists of Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Cite 36, Cite 34. 50 elected members from the President, David E. Harvey, Jr. President and CEO of Harvey Builders community as well as student and 1995 faculty representatives from Rice President-Elect, Lonnie Hoogeboom, AIA Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, Nomination, Cite magazine. and University of Houston schools of Director of Planning & Design, Central Houston Inc. & the Houston Downtown Management District architecture. RDA Board members 1993 are elected to three-year terms and Past President, Kimberly Hickson, FAIA The Texas Award for Historical Preservation, Cite. SC Education PA Leader, Gensler may serve on the Board for up to The Presidio of La Bahia Award, Cite. Our Core Values six continuous years before rotating Vice President, Doug Combes off. Recently the RDA Board tackled Senior Vice President, JE Dunn The Art Directors Club of Houston, Cite. Stimulating several administrative priorities, Secretary, Sandra Lynch We provide programs, publications, Vice President, PageSoutherlandPage Architects Greater Houston Preservation Alliance including reviewing and revising Awards Good Brick Award, To RDA in recognition of and online media to stimulate its by-laws, establishing a set of Treasurer, Edwin C. Friedrichs outstanding contributions to the cause of historic discussion about the built Core Values that are integrated in Senior Principal & President 2010 preservation. environment and its effect on the Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Cite 77. all RDA programs and business Infrastructure Division, Walter P Moore quality of life in the city. By providing The City of Houston Clean Houston Award, activities, initiating a long range plan, Over 50% of RDA Board members are archi- 2009 Honorable Mention in recognition of the personal educational opportunities, RDA increasing RDA’s visibility in the tects, most of whom are AIA Houston members. Citizens Environmental Coalition commitment and achievements in the Heart of the affects learning, discovery, and 2009 Sustainable Planning Award Winner, Park Design Competition. community through partnerships with There is some overlap on the respective boards; innovation. and through these shared board members, both AIA Houston and RDA for The 99K House Competition. like-minded organizations, improving organizations work to complement each others’ 1991 2006 Respectful RDA’s presence on the internet by programming. Most important to the success of Texas Society of Architects Citation of Honor, We value and invite the expression Greater Houston Preservation Alliance Cite. redesigning and updating the RDA the Rice Design Alliance is the two schools of Good Brick Award, For “Modern Mode,” shared with of differing opinions, treating each website (ricedesignalliance.org), and architecture in Houston, whose faculty and student Houston Mod. 1990 other with courtesy and respect posting an archive of past issues of participation is crucial. AIA Houston Citation of Honor, Cite. at all times. We appreciate and 2005 Cite magazine (citemag.org). AIA Houston Presidential Citation acknowledge the time, talent, and Texas Architects RDA Staff 2nd Annual Graphic Competition, Winner, contributions of our members, RDA occupies offices in the Rice Texas Society of Architects Citation of Honor “Giving Shelter,” a poster designed by Herman volunteers, and staff. School of Architecture building, and Executive Director, Linda Sylvan Dyal, FAIA of Fuller, Dyal & Stamper for RDA Dean Sarah Whiting, Assoc. AIA Citizens Environmental Coalition Synergy Award, lecture. Inclusive Associate Director, Membership, Mary Swift For the RDA Civic Forum “People, Planet & Prosperity.” We embrace diverse people, provides a subsidy to the Executive Associate Director, Programs, Kathryn Fosdick 1989 2004 professions, and points of view. Director’s salary. The Board raises Cite Editor, Raj Mankad AIA Houston Presidential Citation funds for additional salaries, Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Cite 59. To RDA Program Committee, “for the creative Transparent Marketing/Communications Specialist, planning and production of the Saarinen Legacy programs, and Cite. Primary support Katie Plocheck 2002 We require integrity and honesty Lecture Series, an education gift to the city of for RDA comes from the annual gala Accounting Assistant, Cathy Bauer Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Cite 50. Houston.” in all that we do. We strive to be and from corporate and individual trustworthy and hold ourselves Office Assistant, Raquel Puccio 2001 memberships, open to the public 1988 accountable to our members and to Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Cite 46, Excalibur of Excellence Award, to Cite. at contribution levels from $15 to Cite 47. one another. $1,500, and from grants awarded by 1987 1999 Excellent Print Regional Design Award, Cite 19. public funding agencies and private Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Cite 42. We seek excellence in programs, foundations, including the Houston 1979 governance, communications, and American Planning Association Arts Alliance, the Susan Vaughan Texas Society of Architects Special Award, events. Foundation, the Texas Commission for Regional Awards for the Highest Honor in Journalism, Cite 45. “For establishing a broad spectrum of public programs which have succeeded in enlightening Fun the Arts, and the National Endowment . RDA’s current budget is 1998 the Houston community concerning art, archi- We will not forget to have fun in for the Arts tecture, and environmental design.” just over one million dollars. Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Cite 39; everything we do. Cite 38, Cite 37.

BIOGRAPHY and design. Each year more than 99K House Competition for an Wortham Theatre Center into the 1,000 RDA members and supporters affordable, sustainable house for life of downtown Houston. It also gather at the RDA Gala to honor a Houston that attracted 182 entries marked the beginning of a strong person or institution with the RDA from 29 states and 16 countries. and sustained movement of the Award for Design Excellence. An stewardship of Houston’s bayous. important aspect of this gathering is the opportunity to network with all In 1992 RDA partnered with the those in the A/E/C communities as City of Houston Parks and Recreation well as with clients. This year RDA will Department and the newly formed STATEMENT OF Rice Design Alliance programs and honor The Woodlands Development Friends of Hermann Park to organize CONTRIBUTIONS activities have given Houston archi- Company for honoring the vision that a competition to propose improve- tecture professionals many oppor- George Mitchell had for the new town ments to a stretch of neglected land tunities for learning and networking. almost 50 years ago. that represented “The Heart of the Since its founding in 1972. RDA Park.” A winner was selected out of has presented to the Houston RDA has benefited from a longtime 117 entries. Laurie Olin, FASLA of public leading designers and archi- collaboration with AIA Houston and The winning design was built on Hanna/Olin Partnership in Phila- tects, including Frank Gehry, FAIA, the Architecture Center Houston a donated lot in Houston’s Fifth delphia developed a master plan Cesar Pelli, FAIA, Helmut Jahn, Foundation (ArCH). RDA sends Ward and serves as a prototype for for the 445-acre urban park from FAIA, Steven Holl, FAIA, and Rem announcements of its programs to affordable house design. RDA, AIA 1993-1995. During the past 15 Koolhaas, FAIA before they became AIA Houston members, and since Houston, and the ArCH Foundation years and under the auspices of the international superstars; and Richard 2002 RDA has offered CEU credits presented an exhibition of 66 non-profitHermann Park Conser- Meier, FAIA, Aldo Rossi, FAIA, Robert for attendance at its programs. selected designs from the compe- vancy, the park’s master plan has Venturi, FAIA, Rafael Moneo, Hon. Collaborative programs with RDA tition and published a catalogue. The been implemented with great success AIA, Renzo Piano, FAIA, and Glenn and AIA Houston include several organizations were recognized by the and accolade, including numerous Murcutt, Hon. AIA before they were exhibitions held at the ArCH Citizens’ Environmental Coalition with awards. For the past twenty years as honored with the Pritzker Prize. RDA Foundation, as well as two Fresh a Sustainable Planning Award for The the outgrowth of the RDA compe- lectures are held at The Museum Perspective presentations (similar 99K House Competition. tition, this long-term and far-reaching of Fine Arts, Houston in its Brown to a Pecha Kucha). RDA has also project has been at the civic core of Auditorium, designed by Mies van partnered with Lawndale Art Center RDA has organized with collabor- Houston’s vision for public space. der Rohe, FAIA. Several years ago, and The Menil Collection to stage ative partners three other national RDA added a pre-lecture reception exhibitions of architecture and competitions, two of which have On a somewhat smaller scale, the held in the museum lobby, which architectural photography. resulted in large civic improvements. design charettes sponsored by RDA’s gives the audience the opportunity to In 1985 RDA partnered with the young professional group, rdAGENTS, socialize with one another and with Barrie Scardino, Hon. AIA, AIA Buffalo Bayou Task Force and Central also bring lasting improvements to the speaker. Houston Executive Director from Houston Civic Improvement, Inc. to public spaces and provide opportu- 2004 to 2010, a former President of propose a national design compe- nities for collaboration. In 2007 RDA RDA’s membership extends beyond the Rice Design Alliance, and former tition for a downtown park on Buffalo partnered with the Memorial Park the architecture profession to Managing Editor of Cite magazine, Bayou to commemorate Houston’s Conservancy to ask for proposals for include engineers, contractors, was co-editor with William F. Stern, 150th anniversary of its founding in a bridge to connect two segments developers, landscape architects, FAIA, and Bruce Webb, AIA of 1836. This was the first competition of Memorial Park. The Conservancy interior designers, graphic designers, Ephemeral City: Cite Looks at Houston for a civic project in Houston, and Board was so impressed with the furniture and art dealers, and those (2003, University of Texas Press). In it attracted 119 entries. The multi- winning entry that it raised the capital who are not practitioners but who 2008, RDA, AIA Houston, and the phased Sesquicentennial Park has to build the bridge, which opened in have a lifelong interest in architecture ArCH Foundation co-sponsored the successfully tied the bayou and the December 2009. Many charrettes

STATEMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS have explored place-making, faculty, who regularly participate including those organized with the on RDA’s Editorial and Program Buffalo Bayou Partnership and the Committees. RDA’s programs Willow Waterhole Conservancy. augment the educational oppor- tunities provided in the classroom RDA is a founding member of the by exposing students to work by Association of Architecture Organi- national and international architects, zations (AAO). The inclusion of the by providing funding opportunities Community Partners Rice Design Alliance into a group for research and by offering oppor- that includes much older organiza- tunities to engage with the public Many organizations contribute to Houston’s rich Houston Tomorrow cultural tapestry. RDA has proudly partnered with tions such the Chicago Architecture in civic projects. Not so long ago, Houston Wilderness Foundation, the Architectural League several organizations to provide complementary Katy Prairie Conservancy an RDA presentation by architect programming and social events. By working of New York, the Boston Society of Keep Houston Beautiful Tom Phifer, FAIA resulted in a collaboratively, we are all able to achieve more. Architects, and the National Building commission by Rice University for Below is a list of some of our partnering groups Land Assemblage Redevelopment Authority Museum is a testament to RDA’s the Brochstein Pavilion, an award- working together to improve Houston’s built Lawndale Art Center national reputation for excellence. winning community space for the environment. Main Street Coalition The RDA Executive Director repre- university as well as a meeting Memorial Park Conservancy American Institute of Architects, Houston Chapter sents RDA on the AAO Board, and ground for Rice’s neighbors. The Menil Collection staff members have participated in AIGA | the professional association for design Montrose Boulevard Conservancy the annual AAO conference where American Society of Landscape Architects Mothers for Clean Air best practices of architecture organi- Architecture Center Houston Foundation The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston zations are shared. AIA Houston/ Association of Architecture Organizations The Park People ArCH Foundation is also an AAO James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Prairie View A&M University Bayou Preservation Association member and participates in its activ- Project Row Houses Bike Houston ities as well. AAO was organized to Rice School of Architecture Blueprint Houston help mentor those who are interested Rice University Buffalo Bayou Partnership in starting an architecture group, as Scenic Houston Brays Bayou Association Rice Design Alliance was a model St. Thomas University The RDA publication Cite: The Archi- Central Houston Civic Improvement and mentor for the Dallas Archi- Texas Society of Architects tecture + Design Review of Houston is Citizens’ Environmental Coalition Texas Southern University tecture Forum when volunteers began perhaps RDA’s most visible program. Citizens’ Transportation Coalition Trees for Houston organizing it in the early 1990s. The Continuously published since 1982, City of Houston Tulane University two organizations have collaborated Cite is among the few sources for City of Houston Parks and Recreation Department University of California at Berkeley on several programs, including the thoughtful, well-researched analysis Dallas Architecture Forum University of Houston College of Architecture Fall 2011 lecture series, “Chinese on architecture, design, and infra- Engineers Without Borders University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Architecture,” that also includes structure. It is produced with such Friends of Mandell Park University of North Carolina at Charlotte co-sponsorship from the University care that readers save their copies for Greater Houston Preservation Alliance University of Texas at Arlington of Texas at Austin School of Archi- years. Each issue has a run of 5,000 Green Office Challenge Houston University of Texas at Austin tecture. RDA received a grant from and the magazine is distributed The Heritage Society U.S. Green Building Council the National Endowment for the Arts nationally by Ingram Periodicals. Hermann Park Conservancy Urban Harvest to help support this program. Through its many programs and Houston Advanced Research Center Urban Land Institute publications, the Rice Design Alliance Houston Archeological and Historical Commission We CAN Recycle Rice and UH architecture professors brings together the design community Houston-Galveston Area Council West 11th Street Park and students serve on the RDA with scholars, civic-minded citizens Houston Mod Willow Waterhole Conservancy Board. RDA benefits greatly from and other non-profit partners to affect Houston Parks Board Workshop Houston the expertise and knowledge of the change to make a better Houston.

STATEMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS Since 1982, the Rice Design Alliance housing and commerce, and recent Cite 78 Spring-Summer 2009 Cite 70 Spring 2007 has published Cite: The Architecture architectural works, of course, form Other Texas Cities Houses + Design Review of Houston, now part of the continuing discourse. But Editor: Mankad Managing Editor: Shields Guest Editor: Longoria, AIA / Sabatino Guest Editor: Longoria, AIA / Taylor, FAIA 86 issues and still going strong. In a the diversity of interests also results city that has a vivid and constantly in such extraordinary issues as Cite 77 Winter 2009 Cite 69 Winter 2006 changing built environment, but has Texas Places, aerial photographs of Memory East End Editor: Mankad Managing Editor: Shields generally lacked any public design Houston by Alex MacLean, in-depth Guest Editor: Mod / Spieler Guest Editor: Moore, FAIA voice, Cite has been a reliable forum looks at Mexico and The Valley, the Cite 76 Winter 2008 Cite 68 Fall 2006 PUBLICATIONS / MEDIA for the presentation and discussion Hurricane Issue (before Katrina), and Hurricane Ike Texas Prisons of design ideas relevant to the fabrication in Houston. Editor: Mankad Managing Editor: Shields Houston community. Issues Guest Editor: Moore, FAIA / Rogers Guest Editor: Colbert, AIA / Webb, AIA Cite happens only because of the Cite 75 Fall 2008 Cite 86 Summer 2011 enormous efforts and close collabo- Culture Planning Houston Style Editor: Mankad Cite ration of committed volunteers, staff, Editor: Mankad Guest Editor: Colbert, AIA / Webb, AIA and professionals. They exemplify Guest Editor: Howe / Longoria, AIA the idea of a creative alliance that Cite 74 Spring-Summer 2008 Cite 85 Spring 2011 Sacred Space brings together Rice and University ADA +20 Editor: Eakin of Houston faculty and students, Editor: Mankad Guest Editor: Fox / Herbert architects, writers, graphic designers, Guest Editor: Mandell / Rogers Cite 73 Winter 2008 photographers, and all other shades Cite 84 Winter 2011 University Plans of the design spectrum. Ideas for Fabrication Editor: Eakin issues and features are solicited Editor: Mankad Guest Editor: Samuels, FAIA / Stern, FAIA Guest Editor: Solis from all sources, then discussed and Cite 72 Fall 2007 honed within the volunteer Editorial Cite 83 Fall 2010 Sprawl v. Density Committee. The Editor, with help from Houston Houses and Townhouses Editor: Eakin Cite 67 Summer 2006 Editor: Mankad Politics and Design guest editors, is charged with trans- Guest Editor: Spieler Guest Editor: Koush Managing Editor: Shields lating these ideas into publishable Guest Editor: Herbert form, and to commission the writers, Cite 82 Summer 2010 Houston Sites of Counterculture photographers, and graphic designers Cite 66 Spring 2006 Editor: Mankad Inside Stories who will execute each part. Former Guest Editor: Sabatino / Webb, AIA Managing Editor: Shields Editors have gone on to become Guest Editor: Doody / Killian Cite 81 Spring 2010 noted writers, executive directors Emptiness Cite 65 Winter 2005 for the Rice Design Alliance and Editor: Mankad Shopping and Civic Space AIA Houston, and an editorial board Guest Editor: Samuels, FAIA Managing Editor: Simon member and the culture columnist Guest Editor: Taylor, FAIA / Webb, AIA Cite 80 Winter 2009 for the Houston Chronicle. Houstopia Cite 64 Summer 2005 Editor: Mankad Houston Ecology Through this process, an extraordi- Guest Editor: Springer, AIA Managing Editor: Simon narily wide range of issues relevant Cite 71 Summer 2007 Guest Editor: Longoria, AIA / Taylor, FAIA Cite 79 Fall 2009 The Hurricane Issue to the Houston community is put The Hidden Machine (Infrastructure) Editor: Eakin Cite 63 Spring 2005 forward and explored in detail. Editor: Mankad Guest Editor: Blackburn / Colbert, AIA Housing: High-Rises and Apartments Topics such as planning and zoning, Guest Editor: Colbert, AIA / Spieler Managing Editor: Simon density and sprawl, infrastructure and Grenader, FAIA / Scardino, Hon. AIA mobility, preservation and demolition,

EXHIBITS Cite 62 Fall 2004 Cite 50 Spring 2001 Cite 42 Summer-Fall 1998 Cite 34 Spring 1996 Disposable City Hidden Houston Shadow Planning Culture Zones Managing Editor: Simon Managing Editor: Shields Managing Editor: Shields Managing Editor: Scardino, Hon. AIA / Sieber Guest Editor: Moore, FAIA / Samuels, FAIA / Spieler Guest Editor: Doody Guest Editor: Taylor, FAIA Guest Editor: Turner / Webb, AIA

Cite 61 Summer 2004 Cite 49 Fall 2000 Cite 41 Spring 1998 Cite 33 Fall 1995 - Winter 1996 Trees for Houston Urban Fabric Bryan / College Station Housing Houston Managing Editor: Simon Managing Editor: Shields Managing Editor: Scardino, Hon. AIA Managing Editor: Sieber Guest Editor: Albert, AIA / Doody / Taylor, FAIA Guest Editor: Samuels, FAIA Guest Editor: Moore, FAIA / Fox Guest Editor: Fox / Stern, FAIA

Cite 60 Spring 2004 Cite 40 Winter 1997-1998 Cite 32 Fall 1994-Winter 1995 Big Ticket Urbanism Postwar Houston No Zoning: Planning Houston Style Managing Editor: Gray Managing Editor: Scardino, Hon. AIA Editor: Sylvan Guest Editor: Stern, FAIA / Webb, AIA Guest Editor: Stern, FAIA Guest Editor: Stern, FAIA / Webb, AIA

Cite 59 Winter 2004 Cite 31 Winter-Spring 1994 METRO Outer Spaces Managing Editor: Gray Managing Editor: Sylvan Guest Editor: Longoria, AIA / Moore, FAIA / Spieler Guest Editor: Turner / Webb, AIA

Cite 58 Summer 2003 Cite 30 Spring-Summer 1993 Moveable Feast On the Border: Texas / Tamaulipas Managing Editor: Gray Managing Editor: Sylvan Guest Editor: Albert, AIA / Herbert / Krumweide Guest Editor: Fox / Longoria, AIA

Cite 57 Spring 2003 Cite 29 Fall 1992 Winter 1993 Speedzone Five New Houses Managing Editor: Gray Managing Editor: Sylvan Guest Editor: Doody / Fox / Grenader, FAIA Cite 48 Summer 2000 Guest Editor: Stern, FAIA / Webb, AIA Overview: Houston Photographs of Cite 56 Winter 2003 Alex MacLean Cite 28 Spring 1992 Infrastructure Connections Managing Editor: Shields West Loop Story Managing Editor: Gray Guest Editor: Stern, FAIA Managing Editor: Sylvan Guest Editor: Spieler / Webb, AIA Guest Editor: Turner Cite 47 Spring 2000 Cite 39 Fall 1997 Cite 55 Fall 2002 Moneo’s Museum of Fine Arts Texas Places Cite 27 Fall 1991 Bayous Managing Editor: Shields Managing Editor: Scardino, Hon. AIA The Zoning Issue Managing Editor: Gray Guest Editor: Fox / Scardino, Hon. AIA Guest Editor: Grenader, FAIA / Webb, AIA Managing Editor: Sylvan Guest Editor: Samuels, FAIA / Stern, FAIA / Webb, AIA Guest Editor: Stern, FAIA / Webb, AIA Cite 46 Fall 1999-Winter 2000 Cite 38 Summer 1997 Cite 54 Summer 2002 Houston 1900 / 2000 Architecture and Learning Cite 26 Spring 1991 House Managing Editor: Shields Managing Editor: Scardino, Hon. AIA The Fourth Ward Managing Editor: Gray Guest Editor: Moore, FAIA Guest Editor: Turner Managing Editor: Sylvan Guest Editor: Grenader, FAIA Guest Editor: Morris / Fox Cite 45 Summer 1999 Cite 37 Spring 1997 Cite 53 Spring 2002 Main Street Pleasure-Grounds Cite 25 Fall 1990 Planning Managing Editor: Shields Managing Editor: Scardino, Hon. AIA Public Art Managing Editor: Gray Editor: Sylvan Guest Editor: Stern, FAIA Cite 44 Spring 1999 Cite 36 Winter 1996 Guest Editor: Stern, FAIA / Webb, AIA Deconstructing the Rice Hotel / Follow the Money: Public and Cite 52 Fall 2001 Shulman Interview Private Spending Cite 24 Spring 1990 Monterrey, Mexico Managing Editor: Shields Managing Editor: Scardino, Hon. AIA Astrodome Turns 25 Managing Editor: Gray Guest Editor: Grenader, FAIA / Webb, AIA Guest Editor: Moore, FAIA Managing Editor: Sylvan Guest Editor: Longoria, AIA Guest Editor: Turner Cite 43 Winter 1999 Cite 35 Fall 1996 Cite 51 Summer 2001 Spiritual Spaces Campus: Idea and Reality Inside the Box: Adaptive Reuse Managing Editor: Shields Managing Editor: Scardino, Hon. AIA Managing Editor: Shields Guest Editor: Herbert Guest Editor: Taylor, FAIA EXHIBITS Cite 23 Fall 1989 Cite 11 Fall 1985 Cite Awards The Store Planning in Houston: Is There a Future? Managing Editor: Sylvan Managing Editor: Sylvan 2010 1995 Guest Editor: Turner Guest Editor: Ochsner, FAIA Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design: Third Place for Design, Cite 77. Nomination for Cite magazine, Cite 22 Spring-Summer 1989 Cite 10 Summer 1985 For magazine layout for Cite 36 and Texas Medical Center Outside the Loop 2004 Second Place for Cite 34; Managing Editor: Sylvan Managing Editor: Sylvan Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, First Place in magazine feature writing to Guest Editor: Turner Guest Editor: Kaliski, AIA For Design, Cite 59. David Theis for “Fifth Ward,” Cite 34, and Second Place to Ann Siebor for “Shrine of the Black Cite 21 Fall 1988 Cite 9 Spring 1985 2002 Madonna,” Cite 36. Texas Courthouses Recent Housing / Parks Primer Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards for publications in 2001, Managing Editor: Sylvan Managing Editor: Sylvan 1993 First Place for magazine writing, Steven Strom, Guest Editor: Turner Guest Editor: O’Brien The Texas Historical Commission “The Houston That Never Was” (Cite 50). Texas Award for Historical Preservation, Cite 20 Spring-Summer 1988 Cite 8 Winter 1984 First Place for magazine layout to Minor Design Group. To Cite for recognizing the border region as “one of Interview - Tom Wolfe Fourth Ward Overview the most fragile yet historically significant areas 2001 of our state.” Managing Editor: Sylvan Managing Editor: Sylvan Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Guest Editor: Stern, FAIA / Webb, AIA Guest Editor: Kaliski, AIA First & Second Place for magazine articles in Cite 46, Fall 1999-Winter 2000, by, respectively, Barrie Cite 19 Winter 1987 Cite 7 Fall 1984 Scardino, Hon. AIA, “H2ouston,” and Steven Strom, Downtown Houston in the ’50s “Lost Houston.” Managing Editor: Sylvan Managing Editor: Sylvan First Place, layout / magazines, to Cheryl Beckett / Guest Editor: Appel, FAIA Guest Editor: Hewitt, AIA Craig Minor, Hon. AIA, Minor Design Group, for Cite 47, Spring 2000. Cite 18 Fall 1987 Cite 6 Spring-Summer 1984 Public Spaces The Skyscraper in Houston: 1999 Managing Editor: Sylvan Impact of Tall Building Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Managing Editor: Sylvan First & Second Place for magazine layout for Cite; Cite 17 Spring 1987 Guest Editor: Kaliski, AIA First Place in magazine news for David Dillon, Gehry / Botta / Moore “Dialogue in Marfa: Art and Architecture at the The Presidio of La Bahia Award, Managing Editor: Sylvan Cite 5 Winter 1984 Chinati Foundation,” Cite 42. Third Place, by the Sons of the Republic of Texas Guest Editor: Waldman The Development Ordinance for outstanding contribution in the field of the and Its Discontents American Planning Association Regional Awards Spanish Colonial period of Texas history. This is the Cite 16 Winter 1986 Managing Editor: Sylvan for the Highest Honor in Journalism, first time in the 26-year history of the award that a The Houston Bungalow Guest Editor: Fox For John Kaliski’s, AIA feature article, “The Main periodical has been recognized, Cite. Managing Editor: Sylvan Idea: A Competition for Remaking Main Street,” Guest Editor: Stern, FAIA Cite 4 Fall 1983 Cite 45. The Art Directors Club of Houston, Historic Preservation in Bronze Medal, to Cite graphic designer, 1998 Cite 15 Fall 1986 Downtown Houston Craig Minor, Hon. AIA, Minor Design Group. Parks Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Managing Editor: Barna 1991 Managing Editor: Sylvan First Place for magazine layout for Cite 39; Guest Editor: Fox Texas Society of Archives Citation of Honor, Guest Editor: Turner First Place in magazine news to Barrie Scardino, Hon. AIA, for “Waterworld,” Cite 37, To Cite “for its contributions to the improvement of Cite 3 Spring 1983 Second Place in magazine news to Drexel Turner for the built environment in Texas.” Cite 14 Summer 1986 Regional Mobility / Venturi / Hermann Park “Houston, We Have a Problem,” Cite 38. Stories / Photographs / Reviews Managing Editor: Barna 1990 Managing Editor: Sylvan Guest Editor: Fox 1997 American Institute of Architects, Houston Guest Editor: Glassman Houston Press Club Lone Star Awards, Chapter, Citation of Honor to Cite. Cite 2 November 19, 1982 First Place. Cite 13 Spring 1986 Main Street 1988 Viva San Antonio! Managing Editor: Barna The Public Relations Society of America Houston Managing Editor: Sylvan Chapter Excalibur of Excellence Award, To Cite. Guest Editor: Young Cite 1 August 1982 Piano / Pelli / Virtual Zoning 1987 Cite 12 Winter 1985-1986 Managing Editor: Barna Print Regional Design Award, Theories / Ideas / Schools To Cite for its Winter 1987 cover design. Managing Editor: Sylvan Guest Editor: Webb, AIA

EXHIBITS Ephemeral City Web Presence

After 20 years of publishing Cite, Two websites have recently been realizing that a valuable and unique brought on-line that extend Cite’s historical view of Houston had reach and audience in different ways. emerged, the Rice Design Alliance commissioned three former editors The Rice Design Alliance and the to compile the best articles into book Cite Editorial Committee launched form. The result was Ephemeral City: offcite.org in December 2008 to , 25 essays that complement the magazine. offcite Cite Looks at Houston offcite.org provide a thoughtful examination of features the authoritative and the late modern city. thoughtful voices found in the print magazine and seeks to bring Barrie Scardino, Hon. AIA, Houston additional writers to the discussion. Executive Director from 2004 to The blog features reviews, 2010, a former president of the architectural news roundups, photo Rice Design Alliance, and former essay outtakes, podcasts, and more. Managing Editor of Cite magazine, If bulldozers threaten a historic was co-editor with William F. Stern, building, if a new transit plan is FAIA, and Bruce Webb, AIA. announced, the blog aims to provide a forum for reflection, analysis, and citemag.org “… [Ephemeral City] … stays true action. to the central purpose of Cite, which is to exert influence by filling the citemag.org, in addition to providing void in architectural criticism and a look at recent issues, also contains commentary in the local press …. a searchable archive of most past Wittingly or not, this volume also issues. serves another function, and that is to provide a well-referenced archive of cases and commentary of value to scholars of the contemporary American city ….” from the Foreword by Peter Rowe

EXHIBITS PROGRAMS Shortly after the founding of the organizations, including the ArCH Winter 1999 The Elusive City: Photographs Cinemarchitecture Rice Design Alliance in 1972, the Foundation and the MFAH Film of Houston by Paul Hester, Hon. AIA first RDA exhibition was presented Department. For Houston, these Spring 1997 Houston Works Public Viewings at Rice University in the School exhibitions and film series, in their Summer 1996 On Your Mark: of Architecture. Ever since that respective timelines and by different Design Competition Entries premiere and as opportunities are media, filled a void in communi- Summer 1994 Best Laid Plans: presented or as champions advance cating the value of good design. Buildings & Projects by Houston a cause, RDA has curated an array Architects & Designers of architecture-related exhibitions Exhibitions Winter 1992 Heart of the Park: and gallery shows. Fall 2008 99K House Competition: 66 Top Entries Design Competition Entries A most noteworthy achievement Fall 1985 New Public Architecture: Recent Projects by Fumihiko Maki, Hon. FAIA & is the “Snapshot” exhibition, Arata Isozaki, Hon. FAIA co-sponsored with Lawndale Art Center and held on a triennial basis Winter 1983 Proposals for Hermann Park Fall 2011 Virtuoso: from 1997 to 2007, including four Winter 1982 Marcel Breuer: Pablo Ferro and the Art of Film Title Design archival catalogs produced by Furniture & Interiors Fall 1998 Cinemarchitecture VIII: local graphic designers. Co-hosted Fall 1981 Houston Architecture Since 1945 Architecture on Screen, First International with The Menil Collection, a 2001 Spring 1981 Houses for Sale Film Festival exhibition of Alex Maclean’s Spring 1980 The Architecture of Alvar Aalto Winter 1997 Cinemarchitecture VII: stunning aerial photography drew American Cities large museum crowds for all to Winter 1979 Civic Art in Houston Since 1900 Spring 2007 Snapshot: Fall 1996 Cinemarchitecture VI: Winter 1979 The Architecture of Gunnar Asplund see Houston “From Above.” As Current Houston Design on View American Dreams the brainchild of Richard Ingersoll, Winter 1977 Women in American Architecture Spring 2004 Snapshot: Spring 1994 Cinemarchitecture V: then a faculty member at Rice Current Houston Design on View Fall 1977 Cram, Goodhue, Ferguson and The Virtual City School of Architecture, an annual Winter 2001 From Above: the Rice Institute Master Plan film series was presented at the Winter 1991 Cinemarchitecture IV: Photographs of Houston by Alex S. MacLean Spring 1975 Architectural Association of London: Common Places Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 125th Anniversary Exhibition (MFAH). These programs demon- Spring 2001 Snapshot: Winter 1990 Cinemarchitecture III: Current Houston Design on View Fall 1973 Dallas: Urban Design Initiatives strate RDA’s ambition to reach Displacements a broader design audience with Winter 1989 Cinemarchitecture II: varied program offerings. In retro- Passionate Spaces, The Fictional Use of Real Buildings in Cinema spect, these previous RDA catalytic efforts are now managed by allied Winter 1988 “Cinemarchitecture” The First Annual Winter Film Series

EXHIBITS 2008 The Splendid Houses of John F. Staub, FAIA 1996 Loft Horizon 2007 Southampton (Neighborhood) 1995 Modern Landmarks 2006 Houses on the Bayou 1994 Tin Houses (Neighborhood) 2006 Design / Build: Practicum & Praxis 1993 Grand New Houses 2005 Modern Mode: Architecture at Mid-Century 1992 Spanish-Mediterranean Houses (Hosted with Houston MOD) 1991 Tiel Way (Neighborhood) 2005 Art Deco Rail Tour 1990 Birdsall P. Briscoe, AIA PROGRAMS RDA offers curated local, national, 2004 Six Houses One Neighborhood 1984 Executive Suites and international Architecture Tours. 2003 Transitions: Two Museum Neighborhoods 1983 Shadowlawn (Neighborhood) The tour participants are exposed to Architecture Tours 2002 Working @ Home 1982 Courtland Place (Neighborhood) a variety of exceptional architecture Houston that enhances their understanding 2001 House & Garden 1981 In a Grand Manner of design and the built environment. 2000 All Around the Town Houses 1980 Hidden Places Nothing compares to the experience 1999 Rice & UH Architecture Faculty Home Tour of visiting and seeing buildings to 1999 After Mies: Modern Houses absorb the impact of exceptional 1988 Howard Barnstone, FAIA architecture. The annual local Archi- 1998 If They Build It, They Will Learn: Barnstone, who taught architecture at the Design / Build Studios tecture Tour focuses on a variety of University of Houston, was one of topics ranging from neighborhoods 1998 Modern Homecraft: The Houses of Houston’s premier modernist architects. to a period or style, a single architect, Katharine B. & Harry L. Mott, or a common feature. For 33 years 1998 Houston’s Cradle of Culture & Environs: RDA tours have informed the local Three Architectural Walking Tours in the Museum District community of the impact and the importance of Houston’s architecture. Tour 1: Shadyside and Rice University Generally the two-day tour attracts Tour 2: The Museums, Bissonnet, 1,200 people. Broadacres, and Turner Addition Tour 3: Main Street, Southmore Addition, Houses of Import 2011 and Hermann Park 1979 Houston Homes by John F. Staub, FAIA 2010 Southgate: An Urban Oasis (Neigborhood) The tour presented an overview of Staub’s career, the scales at which he 2009 Freight Rail Tour (Hosted with Citizens’ worked, and the neighborhoods in which his Transportation Coalition) designs were built. 1978 Hidden Places 1977 City Houses: The Urban Landscape 1976 Ship Channel 1987 Broadacres (Neighborhood) This 1920s neighborhood features 1975 Woodlands New Town exceptional public landscapes and 1974 Armand Bayou Park boulevards that were planned by architect William Ward Watkin, FAIA. The houses were designed by Houston’s foremost architects 2009 Small Houses x 9 of the period. Nine homes under 2,000 square feet were 1997 Rancheros Deluxe featured, including the winning entry for 1986 Braeswood (Neighborhood) This tour celebrated the California Ranch the 99K House Competition and the House as it reached its seventy-year mark. 1985 Inside Story Rice University Solar Decathlon House.

EXHIBITS PROGRAMS In 2000 RDA launched its City Study 2011 Dallas Architecture and Art Fair Tour 2006 Charleston City Tour Tours program nationally and in 2006 Phoenix City Tour 2005 expanded it to include inter- Architecture Tours national cities. Architects, architec- City Studies tural historians, and end-users guide RDA travelers to buildings and places that enrich the city’s fabric and are often restricted to the public. RDA 2009 New York City Tour offers one international and one 2010 Madrid and Barcelona City Tour The newly opened High Line park, the national tour per year. Students and Carlos Jimenez, Spanish architect and award-winning Alice Tully Hall, and Hearst Tower were among the many sites toured. professors from the local architecture RDA Spotlight Award winner Antón García- Abril, and historian Luis Fernández- Trips to Philip Johnson’s estate in schools, architects, contractors, Galiano led the tour to see internationally New Canaan and the Dia:Beacon got designers, and people who admire celebrated architecture in Madrid and travelers out of the city. architecture come together during Barcelona. 2009 Marfa and the Trans-Pecos City Tour these tours with a common desire to explore and learn. The RDA tours encourage the continuation of archi- tectural dialogue and understanding. 2005 Seattle City Tour This tour included historic and modern landmarks, including OMA / Rem Koolhaas’ Seattle Public Library, Frank Gehry’s Experience Music Project, and Steven Holl’s St. Ignatius Chapel. 2008 Berlin City Tour 2005 Mexico City Tour Travelers to Berlin saw architectural 2004 Boston City Tour landmarks such as Potsdamer Platz with buildings by Renzo Piano, Rafael 2003 Texas-Tamaulipas Border City Tour Moneo, and Helmut Jahn; Brandenburg 2002 Los Angeles City Tour Gate; Reichstag by Foster+Partners; the Netherlands Embassy by OMA / Rem 2001 Pittsburgh City Tour 2011 Helsinki City Tour 2010 Marfa Refried City Tour Koolhaas; and the fabulous ’50s 2000 Savannah City Tour Carlos Jimenez, Professor, Rice School A reprise of the 2009 trip to Marfa. architecture by Aalto, Niemeyer, Le of Architecture, and fellow Pritzker Prize “Refried” included trips to El Paso, Corbusier, and Gropius. juror Juhani Pallasmaa guided this tour. Presidio, and Big Bend National Park. Sights included Steven Holl’s Kiasma Prominent works by Texas architects were 2008 San Francisco City Tour Museum of Contemporary Art, Alvar the focus, including projects by Carlos 2007 Buenos Aires City Tour Aalto’s Finlandia Hall and Villa Mairea, Jimenez, Victor Lundy, Lake | Flato 2006 Paris City Tour and Erik Bryggman’s Resurrection Chapel. Architects, and Ford, Powell & Carson.

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JANUARY Spring 2006 21 Wednesday Mayor League: Reconsidering the American City

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Co-Chair,  Designer as Author Program and Co-Founder,  in Design Criticism Programs, Mark Robbins, Maurice Cox, Joe Riley, Bill White, School of Visual Arts, New York BOOKSIGNING IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING LECTURE. John Norquist JANUARY

e Rice Design Alliance Presents its 2009 Spring Lecture Series Wednesday ANDY ALTMAN Fall 2005 Founder, Exposing Graphic Design Why Not Associates, London Graphic design as a discipline and practice embraces Art Houses: New Directions in Museum + a wide range of cognitive, experiential, and aesthetic skills including typography, identity, branding, print design, FEBRUARY interaction/experience, information, and sustainability. This lecture series will feature iconic, graphic innovators. 04 Exhibition Design WEDNESDAY

ELLEN LUPTON All lectures will be held at : p.m. Victoria Newhouse, Brad Cloepfil, AIA, Tony Fretton,  ­€‚ƒ‚­„ e Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Director, Graphic Design  Program, ‹‹ Bissonnet (Enter via the Main Street door) Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore BOOKSIGNING IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING LECTURE. Lyn Rice, AIA, David Adjaye, FAIA

FEBRUARY PROGRAMS Since the organization’s founding, Fall 2011 11 Chinese Architecture WEDNESDAY the Rice Design Alliance has offered MICHAEL ROCK Partner, Thomas Campanella, Pei Zhu, Wang Shu, 2×4, New York to the Houston community nearly 75 Lecture Series Qingyun Ma, AIA BuiltTHE RICE DESIGN ALLIANCE PRESENTS ITS 2005in SPRING LECTURE SERIES lecture series with over 325 presen- Co-sponsored with Dallas Architecture Forum Spring 2009 tations by world-renowned designers and the University of Texas at Austin, School Transparency: Exposing Graphic Design and critics. Each series focuses on of Architecture Steven Heller, Andy Altman, Ellen Lupton, Brazil Michael Rock a particular design theme or disci- Spring 2011 pline. The Fall and Spring Lectures New Orleans: 5 Years After Fall 2008 are synchronized with the academic Douglas Brinkley, Scott Bernhard, AIA, Engineering Architecture calendars to promote attendance of Ray Manning, FAIA, Alejandra Lillo Gregg Pasquarelli, AIA, Michelle Addington, Aran Chadwick & Neil Thomas, Hanif Kara students and faculty from the local Fall 2010 universities. Particularly with the A Material World Spring 2008 international series, RDA collabo- Blaine Brownell, Gail Peter Borden, AIA, 30N 60S: Latin American Architecture Revisited Francisco Liernur, Alejandro Aravena, rates with related organizations or George Beylerian, John Fernandez Spring 2005 Rafael Iglesia, Daniel Bonilla, Teddy Cruz, AIA universities to “share the costs and Built in Brazil Lauro Cavalcanti, Marcio Kogan, FAIA, Ciro Pirondi, benefits” of our invited speakers. Fall 2007 Thiago Bernardes We seek corporate sponsorship Design Activism: Agents of Change Roberta Feldman, Bryan Bell, AIA, Randy Hester, for each series, particularly from Fall 2004 John Peterson, AIA, Cameron Sinclair the local architecture-engineering- Berlin: Architektur, Politik, und Kultur construction communities. Since Dietrich Neumann, Janet Ward, Eric Mumford, AIA, The Rice Design Alliance presents its 2007 Spring Lecture Series Ulf Meyer 2002, the Rice Design Alliance has M T TM DESIGN been an AIA Registered Provider for I MAINSTREAM C K E

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EXHIBITSe s M u s e m t i c k e s g a u r n t e d l e c t u r N o A l 7 1 3 - 4 8 6 T h e The Rice Design Alliance presents its 2007 Spring Lecture Series F o r M T TM DESIGN I MAINSTREAM C K E

T GOES MAINSTREAM Wednesday, February 7 Byron Merritt Creative Director, Consumer Experience, Nike Global Brand Design Formerly Practice Leader, IDEO, San Francisco Fall 2003 Spring 2001 Fall 1993 Different By Design: Modern Architecture & Green Spring: Towards an Ecological New Works South: Recent Architecture of the Community Architecture Southern Region Michael Sorkin, Keith L. Eggener, David Dillon, Ken Yeang, Hon. FAIA, Fruto Vivas, David Lake, FAIA & Ted Flato, FAIA, Scott Merrill, Ned Cramer Thomas Spiegelhalter, Pliny Fisk AIA, Merrill Elam, AIA, Samuel Mockbee, FAIA, Gary M. Cunningham, FAIA Fall 2000 The Freeway in America Spring 1993 Karal Ann Marling, Robert Fishman, Jonathan The Idea in Design Gifford, Edward Dimendberg, Bruce Seely Dianne H. Pilgrim, Truman Pollard, Robert Brunner, Stephen Doyle, AIA, Ralph Caplan Spring 2000 Looking South: Recent Architecture from Latin Spring 1997 Fall 1992 America Northern Lights: New Architecture from Canada Contemporary Spanish Architecture Miquel Klotz, Cecilia Rangel, Mariano Clusellas, Phyllis Lambert, Brian MacKay-Lyons, Hon. FAIA, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, Elias Torres Tur, Ana Luiza Nobre John Patkau, Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA, Jose Luis Mateo, Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra, Peter Cardew Rafael Moneo, Hon. FAIA Fall 1999 Co-sponsored with the University of Texas at Speculations on the Future, Fall 1996 Arlington, School of Architecture Christian Thomsen, Daniel Libeskind, AIA, American Dreams Jean-Louis Cohen, M. Christine Boyer Robert Fishman, Margaret Crawford, Spring 1992 Spring 2003 Donald Albrecht, Bruce Webb, AIA Hispanic Traditions in American Architecture Swiss Made Spring 1999 Lonn Taylor, John Ferguson, AIA, Karen J. Weitze, Annette Gigon & Mike Guyer, Kurt W. Forster, Portugal: Four Architects Spring 1996 Jim Steely, Stephanos Polyzoides, Thomas S. Hines Livio Vacchini & Silvia Gmur, Marianne Burkhalter Robert Levit, Joao Luis Carrilho da Graca, Making It Jose & Nuno Mateus, Eduardo Souto de Moura Tom F. Peters, Guy Nordenson, A.T. Seymour III, Fall 1991 Fall 2002 David Leatherbarrow, Henry Petroski Inside Design: A Look Into Interior Design Today Town & Country: Inventing the American City Stanley Abercrombie, Robert Bray & Michael William Cronon, Charles E. Beveridge, Hon. ASLA, Fall 1995 Schaible, Alison Sky, Davis Allen Chris Wilson, Karen Kingsley The Public Landscape Marc Treib, Diana Balmori, Catherine Brown, Spring 1991 Spring 2002 James van Sweden, FASLA, Robert Irwin, AIA Silent Shadows: Japanese Contemporary Dutch Surge: New Design from the Netherlands Architecture & the City Joep Van Lieshout, Marcel Wanders, Caroline Bos, Spring 1995 Botond Bognar, Itsuko Hasegawa, Hon. FAIA, Bart Lootsma Still Modern Toyo Ito, Hon. FAIA, Hiromi Fujii, Hajime Yatsuka Glenn Murcutt, Hon. FAIA, Mark Mack, AIA, Co-sponsored with University of Illinois at Fall 2001 Enrique Norten, Hon. FAIA, Markuu Komonen, Urbana-Champaign, School of Architecture; Open City: Shaping the American Metropolis Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA University of North Carolina at Charlotte, College Alex Marshall, Walter Hood, John Kaliski, AIA, Fall 1998 of Architecture; University of California at Berkeley, Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA Changing Focus: Photographers View Place Fall 1994 College of Environmental Design. Eugenia Parry, John Szarkowski, Julius Shulman, The Classical Idea Tim Hursley, Alex MacLean David Van Zanten, Katherine Howe, Alexander Fall 1990 Tzonis, Christopher Monkhouse Wonderworks Spring 1998 Reverend James Parks Morton, Mark Alden Branch, Furniture, Fashion & Design Spring 1994 William H. Jordy, Karal Ann Marling, David Nixon Massimo Vignelli, Carl Magnusson, Gaetano Pesce, Virtual City Ann Coleman Deyan Sudjic, Bruce Sterling, Howard Rheingold, Spring 1990 Bruce Tomb & John Randolph, Sanford Kwinter Giving Shelter: Housing and Public Policy Fall 1997 David Dunster, David Handlin, Barry Zigas The American City in the 20th Century Kenneth T. Jackson, Robert Bruegmann, Kevin Starr, Nicolas N. Patricios

EXHIBITS Fall 1989 Fall 1983 Spring 1981 The Saarinen Legacy Wish You Were Here: Currents: Interiors for the ‘80s Peter C. Papademetriou, AIA, Kevin Roche, FAIA, The Architecture of America’s Great Resorts Suzanne Stephens, Dian Boone, Mario Buatta, Gunnar Birkerts, FAIA, John & Marilyn Neuhart, Steven Izenour, John Margolies, AIA, Sally B. Richard Meier, FAIA, Susana Torre, AIA Paul Kennon, FAIA, Cesar Pelli, FAIA Woodbridge, Christina Orr-Cahall, David Gebhard, John Pastier Fall 1980 Spring 1989 British Architecture Since 1600 Station to Station: Mass Transit & the Urban Spring 1983 John Harris, AIA, Charles Saumarez Smith, Environment Design & Communication Joseph Rykwert, Joseph Mordaunt Crook, Donald J. Olsen, AIA, Kenneth Jackson, Saul Bass, Ivan Chermayeff, Colin Forbes, Richard Gavin Samp, Kenneth Frampton, Assoc. AIA Spring 1977 Peter C. Papademetriou, AIA Haas, Stanley Tigerman, FAIA, James Wines A New Wave of European Architecture Mario Gandelsonas, FAIA, Rem Koolhaas, FAIA, Robert Krier, Leon Krier, Elia Zenghelis, Fall 1987 Fall 1982 Massimo Scolari Architecture & the Built Environment Classical Architecture in the South: in Outer Space Transformation of an Ideal Syd Mead, Larry Bell, Assoc. AIA, Gerald Carr, Eugene George, FAIA, James Patrick, Thomas Hines, Fall 1976 Yvonne Clearwater, Chris Purner, Wendell Mendell, Samuel Wilson Jr., FAIA, Frederick Doveton Nichols, American Architectural Heritage: Harrison Schmitt, Guillermo Trotti, AIA, Andrew Batey The Second Century James O’Gorman, Esther McCoy, Ludwig Glaeser, James Oberg, Brian O’Leary Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA, Romaldo Giurgola, FAIA, Spring 1982 Rosemarie Haag Bletter Spring 1987 Landscape Architecture in Urban America On Edge: Recent California Architecture Elizabeth Barlow, Grady Clay, M. Paul Friedberg, Spring 1980 Spring 1976 Reyner Banham, Frank O. Gehry, FAIA, Dan Kiley, FASLA, Ian L. McHarg, FASLA, Inside/Outside: The Architecture of Interiors Eric Owen Moss, FAIA, Michael Rotondi, FAIA Robert L. Zion J. Stewart Johnson, Michael Graves, FAIA, Exterior Spaces: Issues Colin Rowe, Antonio de Souza Santos, Massimo Vignelli, Frank O. Gehry, FAIA, Theodore Monacelli, M. Paul Friedberg, Spring 1986 Charles Gwathmey, FAIA, Emilio Ambasz, Hon. FAIA Emilio Ambasz, Hon. AIA The City: Memory & Invention Kurt Forster, Mark Girouard, Alex Krieger, FAIA, Winter 1979 Spring 1975 Spiro Kostof, Eduard Sekler, David Van Zanten Urban Design: A New Civic Art Edmund Bacon, FAIA, Paul Goldberger, Hon. AIA, Modern Architecture: An Introduction Colin Rowe, J.B. Jackson, Philip Johnson, FAIA, Fall 1985 O. Jack Mitchell, FAIA, Peter C. Papademetriou, AIA, Paul Goldberger, Hon. AIA, Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA, Making Rooms Thomas S. Hines, Allan B. Jacobs Peter Blake, FAIA, Jacqueline Robertson, FAIA, Joseph Paul D’Urso, Steven Holl, FAIA, Thomas Susanne Stephens, Peter Papademetriou, AIA Moser, Peter Thornton, Sarah Tomerlin Lee Fall 1979 The House in America Spring 1985 Robert Judson Clark, Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA, Gardens Robert Venturi, FAIA, William H. Pierson, Richard Ellen Samuels, David Coffin, Deborah Nevins, Guy Wilson, Hon. AIA, William Jordy F. Hamilton Hazlehurst, Maggie Keswick Winter 1981 The Menil Collection Spring 1979 Fall 1984 Tom Barker, AIA, Renzo Piano, FAIA, and Peter Rice The Interior Landscape Architects Speak for Themselves Emilio Ambasz, Hon. AIA, Joseph D’Urso, Frank Welch, FAIA, Hugh Newell Jacobsen, FAIA, Fall 1981 Martin Filler, Charles Jencks, John Saladino, Barbara Littenberg, Daniel Solomon, FAIA Tall Buildings Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA Paul Goldberger, Hon. AIA, Helmut Jahn, FAIA, Spring 1984 Fazlur Khan, Henry N. Cobb, FAIA, Spring 1978 The American Cityscape: Cesar Pelli, FAIA, Anthony Lumsden, FAIA Great American Neighborhoods New Directions in Civic Art Reynar Banham, Norris Kelly Smith, Brendan Gill, Stanton Eckstut, FAIA, Barbara Rose, Sally Woodbridge, Charles Moore, FAIA, Hugh Hardy, FAIA, Philip Seib, R. Allen Eskew, FAIA Howard Barnstone, FAIA

EXHIBITS PROGRAMS Since 1978, the Rice Design Alliance Houston Talks 1987 The Moody Gardens, Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe has hosted speakers in an ever- 1987 Recent Works, Mario Botta, Hon. FAIA 2002 On Affordable Housing, Henry Cisneros evolving format of keynote lectures. 1986 Recent Works, Aldo Rossi, Hon. FAIA

Keynote Lectures RICE DESIGN ALLIANCE PRESENTS THE FIRST ANNUAL 2001 Accountability vs. Responsibility, The recently established “Spotlight” SPOTLIGHT : Antón García-Abril WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 2009 1985 New Public Architecture, THE RDA PRIZE AND LECTURE Peter Eisenman, FAIA opens the academic year with a Fall Fumihiko Maki, Hon. FAIA 2000 Houston Talks, Zaha Hadid, FAIA lecture; this program recognizes 1985 The Laguna Gloria Art Museum, 1999 Houston Talks, Michael Graves, FAIA emerging architects. The counterpoint Robert Venturi, FAIA 1999 Houston Talks, Wolf Prix, AIA Spring lecture features well-estab- 1983 Architectural Vantage Points, Jack Hedrich 1998 Future Systems: 300 Slides, Jan Kaplicky lished architects and designers and is Spotlight: The RDA Prize 1982 Marcel Breuer: Furniture & Interiors, 1997 Houston Talks, Peter Cook, AIA Christopher Wilk dedicated to the memory of Houston 2011 Grace La & James Dallman, AIA 1997 Houston Talks, William Bruder, AIA 1980 Building for Best Products, Arthur Drexler designer Sally Walsh; this endowed 2010 Sou Fujimoto program is a collaboration of RDA 1997 Houston Talks, David Chipperfield, FAIA 1979 The Architecture of Sixteenth Century Italy, 2009 Antón García-Abril Colin Rowe and the ArCH Foundation. In support 1996 Intuition & Process, Enric Miralles Phifer_card_hor.qxd 3/1/05 2:42 PM Page 1 of the Schools of Architecture at Rice 1978 The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, The Rice Design Alliance Wednesday 6 April The Houston Architecture Foundation 7pm and the American Institute of Architects/Houston Brown Auditorium Allan Greenberg, AIA University and University of Houston, present The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston One-of-a-Kind Lectures PRINCIPAL, THOMAS PHIFER AND PARTNERS 1973 Recent Work, Robert Venturi, FAIA & RDA has presented “Houston Talks,” Recent Work Denise Scott Brown with special guests hand-selected 2006 Buildings & Landscapes, by the respective deans. Historically David Lake, FAIA & Ted Flato, FAIA and as the professional or academic 2002 Transportation & the Architecture of Place, Alex Marshall opportunities arise, RDA offers

Taghkanic Residence Taghkanic, New York , “one-of-a-kind” lectures on a variety 1999 Downtown’s New Tower: Enron Cesar Pelli, FAIA of local, national, and international Sally Walsh Lectures 1997 Recent Work, Andrée Putman design topics. 1997 Recreating the Ranch, Amy Aronson 2011 Shifting Positions, Petra Blaisse 1996 Art in the Public Space, Robert Irwin, AIA 2010 Making MUSAC, Luis Mansilla & Emilio Tuñon 1993 Guillermo Kahlo: The Architectural Heritage of Colonial Mexico, Carla Stellweg 2008 Recent Works, Thom Mayne, FAIA 1991 The Architect & the American 2006 Recent Works, Annabelle Selldorf Country House, Mark Hewitt, AIA 2005 Recent Works, Thomas Phifer, FAIA 1991 Berlin, The Politics of Order: 1773-1989, 2004 Material Evidence, Toshiko Mori, FAIA Alan Balfour, Assoc. AIA 2003 Matter, Todd Williams, FAIA, Billie Tsien, AIA 1989 The Memory Palace Papers, 2002 Works and Humanitarian Activities, Charles Moore, FAIA Shigeru Ban, Hon. FAIA 1989 Le Corbusier: The Artist in the Architect, 2001 Recent Works, Neil Frankel, FAIA Christopher Green, AIA 2000 Recent Works, Margo Grant Walsh 1988 From Arcadia to the Cactus, Peter Cook, AIA

EXHIBITS Civic Forums & Fireside Chats 1995 Defending Houston’s Streets 1978 City Houses: The Urban Landscape 1995 Changing Lanes: Community Values & 1977 City Houses: Options for Urban Living 2011 Water: Challenges Facing the Houston Advocacy in Freeway Design 1977 Architecture: The Women in the Profession Region (2 Forums) 1995 In the Public Realm: 1976 Drilling in Memorial Park: 2011 Lessons Learned from Katrina, Rita and Ike Planning Without Zoning Ecology & Public Interest 2009 Post Hurricane Ike Planning (3 Forums) 1995 Modern Preservation: Back to the Future 1975 City Options: Planning in the South Main / 2009 Small Houses x 9 1994 The Housing Crisis: Medical Center Activity Center (in conjunction with architecture tour) How Will Houston Respond? 1975 Environment: The 75th Texas Legislature ECO-Logic: PROGRAMS Since the inception of the Rice 2007 EcoCities (2 Forums) 1994 1975 A Past Worth Using: Creating for a Sustainable Community Design Alliance, annual programming 2007 Rail On Architectural Preservations 1993 Dean Speak has included single or serial panel 2006 The Public Realm: Slices of Life (3 Forums) 1974 Houston’s Bayous: Panel Discussions 1993 Heart of the Park: One Year Later Recycling an Urban Resource discussions related to Houston- 2005 Prospects for Sustainability (3 Forums) 1993 Architecture in the Cause of the 1974 Mass Transit: Who Pays? specific issues such as architecture, People, Planet & Prosperity Environment Futures for Houston urban planning, infrastructure, 2004 Earth, Fire, & Wind (3 Forums) 1974 1992 City Slickers: Reinventing the Center City environment, education, policy, or 2003 The Greening of Houston (3 Forums) 1973 Developing Houston: 1991 Houston Zones Land Use Conflicts & Policies advocacy – to list but a few topics 2002 Access, Mobility, & Place (2 Forums) 1991 Learning form the ‘80’s, 2002 Constructing a Vision (3 Forums) from nearly 100 panel discussions Lessons for the ‘90’s during four decades. These Civic 2001 The Sky’s the Limit 1990 The Future of the Street Forums are moderated conversa- 2000 Making Main Street Happen: Houston Style 1989 Fireside Chat: Ray Bailey, FAIA, tions with local leadership from 2000 Trail of TIRZ Robert Griffin, AIA & Tony Harbour numerous disciplines, representing 1999 Art, Architecture & Infrastructure: 1989 Trans-Positions: Metro Does Houston a demographic and occupational Collective Vision 1988 The Museum: Art & Architecture cross-section of more than 400 1999 Water, Water, Everywhere 1987 From Inner Space to Outer Space Houstonians. RDA also organizes 1999 Chapter 42, Planning the Inner City, 1986 Building Houston in the 1990s occasional symposia with regional or Density, Setbacks & Open Space 1986 Fireside Chat: Alan Hirschfield, AIA 1998 If They Build It, They Will Learn: national experts offering their “take” Charles Tapley, FAIA & Paul Kennon, FAIA Symposia Design / Build Studios in Houston on Houston. When a hot topic flares 1985 City Government & Houston’s Built in Houston, RDA is one of the first Environment: Infrastructure, Land Use 2000 The Freeway in America organizations to take charge. & Planning Tim Davis, Steven Izenour, AIA, Michael 1985 Houston Master Plan: Mezzano, Peter Hales, Margaret Crawford, A Step in Which Direction? Diana Ketcham 1985 Fourth Ward Redevelopment: 1995 Modern Preservation: Back to the Future Not Whether but How? Ellen Beasley, Richard Longstreth, Diane Wray, Rafael Longoria, AIA 1985 Fireside Chat: Taft Architects 1992 City Slickers: Reinventing the Center City 1984 Public Sector Leadership in Houston Land Jerry E. Abramson, J.E. “Bud” Clark, Development: Where Are We Headed & Barbara Crewes, William F. Stern, FAIA 1998 Re: RAIL How Do We Get There? 1990 Everyone’s Backyard: 1990s 1997 Shadow Planning: Community 1983 Houston: Options Advocacy Taking Charge Housing Solutions 1982 Speaking a New Classicism 1997 Towards a New Cultural Landscape Richard Barron, AIA, Julie Eizenberg, AIA, 1980 A Convention Center for Houston Bernard Frieden, AIA, Paul Grogan, 1996 The City as a Cultural Place 1980 Civic Art in America: The Politics and Robert Stein 1996 Re: Making It, Houston Industries Plaza: Aesthetics of the Urban Landscape True Stories by the Architect, the Engineer, 1980 Our Environment in the ‘80s and the Builder 1995 Making Landscape Architecture

EXHIBITS The Initiatives for Houston Grant nize a nonprofit organization called 2011 Susan Rogers, Faculty UH 2006 Donna Kacmar, FAIA, Faculty UH Program has been an active part “Houston MOD.” The organization is Thick Infrastructure $5,000 Accommodation in Houston: Beer, Burgers and Barbacoa $3,000 of the educational outreach for dedicated to promoting knowledge 2011 Stephen Fox & Michelangelo Sabatino, RDA. With 12 years of winners and and appreciation of modern archi- Faculty Rice and UH 2006 Thomas Colbert, AIA, Faculty UH Howard Barnstone Architect over $112,000 dollars funded, the tecture and design in Houston and Documentation and Analysis of Prison Publication & Online Digital Access $2,500 Architecture In and Around Houston $5,000 program has benefited students and Texas. Houston Mod advocates for faculty in the community. The focus the preservation of this cultural legacy 2011 Peter Stone & Kelly Barlow, 2005 Charles Tapley, FAIA & Chula Ross Students Rice Emergency Core $2,500 Sanchez, Assoc. AIA, Faculty UH, for submissions is on Houston’s built and seeks support from its members Green Roof $4,500 INITIATIVES FOR HOUSTON environment - its history, present and the general public in achieving 2010 Ross Weinert, Faculty Prairie View A&M Enhancing Infrastructure: Highways and 2005 Rafael Longoria, AIA & Susan Rogers, condition, and future development. this goal. Energy $2,500 Faculty UH Houston Hope: Strategies for Research and design proposals are 2010 Melissa McDonnell, Student Rice Change $3,500 evaluated for the potential of making Urban Aeries $2,500 2005 Heath West, Student UH a contribution to our understanding of 2010 Robert Hadley & Samuel Jacobson, Deploying Exurbia $2,000 the city and region. Students UH and Rice 2004 Marcus Miller Farr, AIA, Student Rice “The program provides Make Houston Colorful? $2,500 Houston: (Green) Space City $5,000 students and faculty an 2010 Jorge Galvan, Student UH extraordinary opportunity 2004 William Charles Truitt, Faculty UH Scavenge $2,500 No More White Space – Undeveloped Space to explore … a chance to 2009 Darren Preacely & Sharon Adams, of Northside Village $5,000 do an in-depth study of the Students Texas Southern University 2003 Philip Lee, Assoc. AIA, Student Rice complexities in the real The Extra-Small House (2001) An RDA Documenting Decaying Dreams $5,000 Wet Life $5,000 world …” grant helped fund the first project by 2009 Tracy Catherine Bremer, Student Rice 2003 Crystal Granger, Student UH — Jean Krchnak, the Rice Building Workshop (RBW), Engulfed by Industry: Rethinking the Architecture as Liberator: Houston’s Historic RDA Board Member, Industrial-Residential Interface $2,350 the Extra Small (XS) House. The African-American Church Architecture Curator, Visual Resources, 500-square-foot house was built for 2009 Jessica Lauren Barnett, Rafael Morales, $5,000 University of Houston $25,000 to demonstrate innovative Maria Gabriela Oran, & Allison Parrott, 2002 Taryn Kinney, AIA, Student Rice Students UH Mad to be Saved: Finding College of Architecture GREEN ROOF (2005) A new green roof design and construction techniques. HIRes (Residual Highway) $5,000 Purpose for the Residual Space of Highway was planned for the Burdette Kee- The aid of the grant helped the stu- Intersection $3,000 2002 Keith Krumweide, Faculty Rice land, Jr. Design Center and a critical dents build a prototype for affordable Education Through Form: The Schools and 2008 Benson Gillespie, Student Rice part was missing – data collection housing in our community. Currently Homes of Donald Bartheme $2,500 Sections Through a City $4,543 equipment. The grant funded the the RBW is working on the design of a 2008 Lysle Oliveros, Student Rice 2002 Patrick Peters, Faculty UH equipment and plants that provided café for The Menil Collection. Houston Needs a Mountain $5,000 Critical Making as Foundation Pedagogy a hands-on laboratory for research $2,500 and design for students in varying Houston’s Disappearing Art Deco 2007 LaFayette Childs II & Marianne Do, Students UH An Unhurried Tour of Houston’s 2001 Rice Building Workshop (Nonya Grenader, disciplines. The data gathered was (2000) An Initiative for Houston grant Alternative Market Places $3,292 FAIA, & Danny Samuels, FAIA), helpful in creating a successful funded a study and tour brochure of Faculty Rice, The Extra-Small House $5,000 2007 Jonathan LaRocca, Assoc. AIA, green roof. Art Deco and streamlined modern Student Rice 2001 David Brown, Faculty, Rice buildings along the 7.5-mile light Grow Local: Plotting a New Urban-Rural ROW: Trajectories through the Shotgun The New Look: Modern Architecture rail line. Now in its second printing, Interface in Houston $3,415 House $1,500 in Houston (2001) An RDA Initiatives the tour brochure is available at the 2007 Heather Rowell, Student Rice 2001 Ben Koush, AIA, Student Rice grant funded a student to study and Visitor’s Center in City Hall and is a Exposing the Fifth: Alternatives for The New Look: Modern Architecture in Houston $1,000 document mid-century architecture resource for tourists. The map is a Houston’s Lost Elevation $3,000 throughout the region. The grant and self-guided tour, but occasionally the 2006 Jean Daly, Katherine Dankberg, & 2000 Celeste Williams, AIA, Faculty UH the work inspired the author to orga- AIA or the RDA offer guided tours. Benjamin Regnier, Students Rice Houston’s Disappearing Art Deco $5,000 Urban Ecology of Houston $2,000

EXHIBITS rdAGENTS CHARRETTE The annual design charrette is revenue, and showcase creativity. The charrette event itself attracted 2011 Charrette Shop: intended to attract young profes- The results were presented several many of the key stakeholders, Planning for the Future of Workshop Houston sionals, practitioners, and archi- times to the neighboring community interested parties, and top design 2010 Awakening Willow Waterhole: tecture faculty and students. The for their input and buy-in. firms. With no money to build the 279 Acre Opportunity projects are announced but the project, it was unclear at the start 2009 Seawall Ecosystem: Focusing on problem is kept secret until the day if the project was going to be real. The Galveston Seawall, Post-Ike of the charrette. The idea is to create Taking a design cue from the park 2008 Stirring up Buffalo Bayou: an outlet for collaborative teams to itself, the award-winning entry Adding Interest and Focus to Houston’s explore a regional challenge. The proposed a living bridge that would Buffalo Bayou Park System outcome is inspiring and in some be consumed by landscape over 2007 Bridging the Park: cases has left a lasting impact on time. Memorial Park Conservancy To Unite the North and South Parts the city, as the winning designs have raised the funds to build the bridge of Memorial Park become a reality. and it was dedicated in 2009. 2006 Talking Trash: Mobile Recycling Unit 2005 PLAN c.b.d.: Rethinking the Central Business District 2004 URBAN LEGENDS 2003 HOUSeTOwN Launching the Energy-Wise Dwelling for Houston 2002 Charrette Home: A Homeless Shelter in Midtown Memorial Park: The Living Bridge Astrodome: The Old New Thing ASTRODOME: The Old New Thing Willow Waterhole Greenway August 2007 August 2001 2001 August 2010 The largest public park in Houston The 8th Wonder of the World, the The Willow Waterhole Greenway is is divided by a six-lane boulevard, Houston Astrodome has had a a 279-acre, flood-reduction project so a much needed foot and bike questionable future since the football that features storm-water detention connection was being considered. team moved to Reliant Park. The lakes. With a plan to become an The RDA collaborated with Memorial first RDA charrette focused on reuse even bigger public space, the Park Conservancy and the City of of the dome. Some of the innovative charrette focused on three tracks: Houston Parks and Recreation and creative ideas from the charrette Master Planning, Architecture, Department to explore potential are still being considered today by and Graphic Design. Participants solutions for the problem. The project preservationists and development were encouraged to create designs was to design a bridge spanning interests. that increase public outreach and Memorial Drive to create a natural awareness, create opportunity for connection for those using the park.

EXHIBITS charge was to design a plaque to be A Design Competition for used at various designated historical Sesquicentennial Park sites around Houston. The graphic September 1985 – April 1986 design firm ofDouglas/Gallagher of To commemorate the 150th Houston was selected. birthday of Houston and Texas, this competition for a downtown park Heart of the Park Competition along Buffalo Bayou was the result August 1 – November 13, 1992 of Mayor Kathy Whitmire’s charge COMPETITIONS At various times throughout the Ward. The broad goals included Co-sponsored by RDA, the City for Houstonians to reclaim the city’s history of the Rice Design Alliance, raising awareness of green building of Houston Parks and Recreation primary waterway as a natural and there have been opportunities for strategies for affordable housing and Department, and the Friends of civic amenity. In collaboration with collaborations with Houston-area proposing innovative design solutions Hermann Park, this competition to Central Houston Civic Improvement organizations for design competi- appropriate for the Gulf Coast region. design the city’s primary public and the mayor’s Buffalo Bayou Task tions. These events have resulted in 184 firms participated in the first park was initiated by Jay Baker, Force, the identified site for this significant physical improvements round of submissions, which were FAIA, then president of RDA. The competition was the area surrounding for Houston and established RDA reviewed by a distinguished national winning entry, a joint venture by Wortham Center, then under as the preeminent facilitator for jury. Five finalists were invited to Melton Henry / Maurice Robinson construction. According to historians, design competitions. Operating at a develop their initial concepts as Architects Inc. with Peter Brown, this was the first such design variety of scales – from a sustainably construction documents subject to AIA Architects / Planners plus Scott competition for a public space in focused house to a commemorative cost and constructability analysis. Slaney and Steve Harding, was Houston. 119 firms participated in the selected by a national jury from 117 marker to urban parks – the compe- The winning entry, by Hybrid / ORA open-call first round of submissions; entries. Following the competition, tition programs sponsored by RDA of Seattle, Washington was built by five finalists advanced to Stage 2. Laurie Olin, FASLA of have produced phenomenal results D.E. Harvey Builders, Inc. on land Hanna/Olin The winning entry was Team HOU, and placed Houston on a world-stage donated by the City of Houston. Partnership in Philadelphia developed a virtually unknown trio of young as a city of design innovation. The competition culminated in a a master plan for the 445-acre Houston architects. An outgrowth of 170-page catalog and a travelling urban park from 1993-1995. During this competition was the formation 99K House Competition exhibition of 66 high-ranking entries. the past 15 years and under the of the non-profitBuffalo Bayou October 2007 – June 2009 At The 99K House was featured in the auspices of the non-profitHermann Partnership, which manages and the suggestion of Nonya Grenader, RDA 2009 architecture tour, Small Park Conservancy, the park’s maintains a ten-mile stretch of the FAIA, 2008 RDA President and Houses x 9. master plan has been implemented bayou. In the nearly 25 years since faculty member at the Rice School with great success and accolade, the competition and upon completion of Architecture, an international On Your Mark: A Design Competition including awards from Urban Land of the multi-phased project, competition “to create an innovative for a Houston Historical Marker Institute (2010), American Society Sesquicentennial Park remains the design for a small house that is April 1 – June 6, 1996 At the of Landscape Architects (2005), crown jewel of Buffalo Bayou. affordable, sustainable, and energy behest of Barrie Scardino, Hon. the Cultural Landscape Foundation efficient” epitomizes the far-reaching AIA, Past-President of RDA and (2005), and AIA Houston (2000). The effect and broad outreach of RDA. the Greater Houston Preservation Conservancy’s goal is to complete From the outset, the competition Alliance, and past Executive Director the master plan by 2014, Hermann was a joint venture with RDA, AIA of AIA Houston, this competition was Park’s centennial. For the past twenty Houston and the ArCH Foundation. a co-sponsored program by RDA, years as the outgrowth of the RDA The program called for a single- the Greater Houston Preservation competition, this long-term and family house of 1,400 square Alliance, and the City of Houston far-reaching project has been at the feet to be designed and built for through the Houston Archeological civic core of Houston’s vision for $99,000 or less in Houston’s Fifth and Historical Commission. The public space.

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