Architecture

Members of the Rice Architecture community gather for the school's annual awards. Photo by Shawna Forney

Rice Architecture bestows virtual awards

May 7, 2020

Rice Architecture goes virtual for its annual awards ceremony.

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Opera in the Heights double bill offers modern twists from Rice composers

February 17, 2020

A new leader emerges, and his ridiculous behavior only makes his followers more fanatically devoted to him. A climate change activist gives a TED talk warning of the grim fate awaiting the world, but no one believes her.  

Architecture Lecture Series art

Housing, ‘pliability’ topics of spring architecture events

January 31, 2020

Housing and discussions of “pliability” are among the topics of this semester’s Rice Architecture Lecture Series

A transportation hub with high-rises and multiuse structures, all surrounded by fire-retarding vineyards, is one vision for the future of Santa Rosa, California, as envisioned by Rice architecture student Vivian Schwab. Her graduate thesis was prompted by fires that have devastated the community in recent years and the need for strategies to protect against future disasters as a result of global warming. (Credit: Illustration by Vivian Schwab)

Fear of wildfires inspires forward-thinking communities

January 22, 2020

A Rice architecture student is thinking hard about the problem humans have with fire and how future dwellers at risk could consolidate resources for their own protection while retaining a sense of community.

Rice University Interim Provost Seiichi Matsuda, center, and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Director Abhay Karandikar, right, hold the memorandum of understanding signed today at Kanpur to collaborate on research in the development of energy solutions, materials and sustainable technologies. Behind Matsuda is Reginald DesRoches, dean of Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering, who will become provost in July. (Credit: Courtesy of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)

Rice, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur sign memorandum

January 9, 2020

Rice University and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on investing resources and research in the development of energy solutions, materials and sustainable technologies.