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t B E R L I N S T U D Y T O U R : 9 9 K C O M P E T I T I O N W I N N E R S : C A L L F O R S U B M I S S I O N S : N E W E D I T O R ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE i The Museum of Fine Arts, , Brown Auditorium RDA BERLIN STUDY TOUR tor of the project, and Haynes Whaley has donated c

. 7 p.m. Sunny skies greeted RDA members each day during its engineering expertise. 713.348.4876 or rda.rice.edu their May visit to Berlin, Germany. Architectural Groundbreaking is to take place this . 8 GREGG PASQUARELLI, PRINCIPAL, SHOP critic Ulf Meyer, author of Bauhaus: 1919-1933, and Once constructed, the winning house will be sold or New York

0 Wednesday, September 10 art historian Rolf Achilles of the School of the Art auctioned to a low-income family through the Institute of Chicago guided the group, which was Tejano Community Center.

R MICHELLE ADDINGTON, PROFESSOR, also accompanied by tour director Lynn Kelly and As part of the mission to broaden the public’s YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE New Haven RDA executive director Linda Sylvan. awareness of the built environment and the positive E Wednesday, September 17 Architectural highlights included tours of roles that architecture and design can have in the ARAN CHADWICK AND NEIL THOMAS, Potsdamer Platz and Sony Center by Renzo Piano community, RDA and AIA, Houston will be hold- M PRINCIPALS, ATELIER ONE and Helmut Jahn, Hans Scharoun’s Berlin ing an exhibition of 66 designs selected by the jury. It London Wednesday, September 24 Philharmonic, the Dutch Embassy by OMA/Rem will be held at the Architecture Center of Houston,

M Koolhaas, the Berlin Jewish Museum by Daniel 315 Capitol, from September 3 to October 30. HANIF KARA, PRINCIPAL, ADAMS KARA TAYLOR London Libeskind, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews Various opportunities will be available for local U Wednesday, October 1 of Europe by Peter Eisenman. In Dessau the builders and Community Development

S group visited the Bauhaus and the Bauhaus Corporations to meet the architects and designers UH COA FALL LECTURE SERIES Master’s Houses by Walter Gropius. A trip to who participated. R Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Potsdam included a visit to 3 p.m. Charlottenhof Palace by Karl

A 713.743.2400 or arch.uh.edu Friedrich Schinkel and Erich EUNSOOK KWON, PROFESSOR, Mendelsohn’s Einstein Tower.

D UH INDUSTRIAL DESIGN DEPARTMENT Special events included lunch Design Pedagogies Tuesday, September 2 at Foster+Partners rooftop

N cafe at the Reichstag and a JEFFERY SCHNAPP, PROFESSOR, STANFORD UNIVERSITY concert in Schinkel’s E Palo Alto Schauspielhaus. The Face of the Modern Architect

L Wednesday, September 16 SEATTLE FIRM WINS 99K HOUSE MARTIN MELOSI, PROFESSOR, The winner of the 99K A UH HISTORY DEPARTMENT Energy Metropolis: Excerpts of An Environmental House Competition, spon- and the Gulf Coast LEFT: 99K competition winner Hybrid / ORA, Seattle, WA. C Tuesday, September 30 sored by the Rice Design Alliance, in collaboration RIGHT: RDA Berlin travelers. MARK MUECKENHEIM, PROFESSOR UH HISTORY DEPARTMENT with the American Institute Recent Work of Architects Houston, is the team of Hybrid/ORA The competition was supported, in part, by gener- Tuesday, October 7 from Seattle. The group includes Robert Humble, ous grants from Houston Endowment Inc., the BRETT SCHNIDER, GUY NORDENSON AND Joel Egan, Ben Spencer, Owen Richards, Tom National Endowment for the Arts, and the Houston ASSOCIATES, STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS LLP Translations: Structural Design of the Toledo Mulica, and Kate Cudney. Arts Alliance. For more information, please go to the Museum of Art Glass Pavilion and the New Museum “This design addresses both affordability and the competition website, the99khouse.com. of Contemporary Art Tuesday, October 14 environment through energy savings, and offers attractive opportunities for home ownership in the CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS STUDIO DROR New York City Fifth Ward,” said Bryan Bell, Founder and Cite welcomes the submission of article ideas, Recent Work Executive Director of Design Corps. Bell was detailed pitches, and written articles. Authors of Tuesday, November 10 one of five jurors for the competition. published pieces are paid for their work. Send sub- RSA FALL LECTURE SERIES “The design not only met the 99K budget, a criti- missions and questions to [email protected]. Anderson Hall cal criteria, but it allows for a range of specific users arch.rice.edu for schedule and times to personalize the space,” he added. CITE HAS A NEW EDITOR Announced in October of 2007, the competition In June, the RDA welcomed Raj Mankad as the new called for a single-family house with up to 1,400 Editor of Cite. After earning a bachelors from EXHIBITIONS square feet, including three bedrooms and one-and- Northwestern University, he soon began working in DESIGN COUNCIL 10TH ANNIVERSARY a-half to two bathrooms, to be built for $99,000 or publishing, including time with Penguin. Mankad August 23 - January 4 less. The competition challenged designers and grew up in Mobile, Alabama and returned to the S E

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston L L architects to design a sustainable, affordable house, Gulf Coast to attend the University of Houston I H C

99K HOUSE COMPETITION with special consideration given to affordability, Creative Writing Program. As a teacher at UH, he A F

September 3 - October 30 L longevity, energy savings benefits, and appropriate- worked with undergraduates to launch a website O Architecture Center of Houston, 315 Capitol R : T

ness for the hot, humid climate of Houston. The profiling sites in they knew inti- H G I

competition drew 182 entrants from 29 U.S. states mately. After completing his MFA, he served for R ; A R

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The City of Houston, through the Land Economics, an academic journal based at Rice R B e Y t i H

c Assemblage Redevelopment Authority (LARA) ini- University. His priorities for Cite include improving . Y 8 S 0

tiative, has donated a site for the house located at local and national exposure by helping build a E 0 T 2 R U R 4015 Jewel Street in Houston’s historic Fifth Ward, a dynamic online presence. Mankad welcomes your E O C M :

residential area east of downtown. D. E. Harvey comments, and may be reached at T M F U E S Builders has offered their services as general contrac- [email protected]. L