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New Inversions: Re-thinking the Habitat for Humanity House“Inverting the roof truss was the ‘aha’ moment for us,” says Yoni Pressman about a house design selected by Habitat for Humanity and built by Rice University volunteers to celebrate the school’s centennial anniversary. Whereas Habitat’s houses tend toward traditional gable and hip roofs, the design by Pressman and his fellow Rice School of Architecture [...] |
10.02.12 | Architecture Reviews |
The Silent Stakeholders: Where Students Fit into an Entrepreneurial EducationHouseboat to Energy Efficient Residences (HBEER) model shown 2010 at the University of Kentucky Colley Hodges of Kirksey Architecture responds to the opening talk of the RSA/RDA Fall 2012 lecture series. Please let us know your thoughts. If you missed it, watch it on YouTube. The next talk features Alfredo Brillembourg, who shared a Golden [...] |
09.13.12 | Architecture Reviews |
Antena Books / Libros Antena at Project Row HousesInterior of Antena Books / Libros Antena, photos by Allyn West unless noted Antena Books / Libros Antena is John Pluecker’s installation open now at Project Row Houses through June 24. Inside, unfinished bookshelves teeter against the walls, where multilingual titles, translations, and experimental writing from small presses in the U.S. and Latin America are [...] |
06.19.12 | Art & Culture Reviews |
Can Lake Flato Architects Deliver on the Prefabricated House?Lake Flato’s Porch House. Photographs courtesy Lake Flato, lakeflatoporchhouse.com The fact that architects have been fascinated with prefabrication is no secret. Over the past 90 years, such luminaries as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Yona Friedman, Team X, and Jean Prouvé engaged in the dialogue. Modernists found it to work in their system of the [...] |
11.08.11 | Architecture Environment |
Carlos Jiménez on Tempos of Time and Future OutcomesColumbia Street House, Carlos Jiménez Design Studio, all images from Paul Hester, Hester + Hardaway Photographers In the second installment of the “Spotlight on the Rice School of Architecture,” faculty member Carlos Jiménez took up the central theme “The Future of Design” by interrogating that notion, the future, and considering the value of related concepts [...] |
09.28.11 | Architecture |
Sharpstown Back to the FutureSpectators watch as the rotation of a house in Sharpstown is completed. It is 11 a.m. on a Thursday in Sharpstown, Houston. Roughly forty spectators sit obediently on metal benches provided by Cherry House Moving Company — a mix of Rice University students, architects, “just in for the day” New York art scenesters and garden-variety [...] |
11.19.10 | Environment Preservation |
Cite 83: HousesCite 83 cover illustration by Joseph Phillips The Fall issue of Cite (83) is now in the mail and at the Brazos Bookstore, CAMH, MFAH, Issues, Domy, River Oaks Bookstore, and other stores. Below guest editor Ben Koush shares a letter about this special issue and its Table of Contents. As the title of an [...] |
10.20.10 | Architecture Reviews |
Southgate: An Urban Oasis2145 Southgage, Charles B. Thomsen (architect, 1965) / Kellie Mayfield (architect, 2008) [Photograph by Eric Hester] Rice Design Alliance presents its 2010 Architecture Tour, “Southgate: An Urban Oasis,” this coming Saturday and Sunday, March 20-21, 2010, 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. The tour is open only to RDA members and guests. You can join and buy [...] |
03.16.10 | Architecture Reviews |
The Stars are Big and Bright—Deep in the Heart of TexasKimbell Museum of Art [Photo Serge Ambrose] In the May 2009 Cite (78), Stephen Fox wrote a commentary on “astute Texan clients [who] have engaged the services of out-of-state star architects to produce buildings that set new design standards in Texas cities.” In the process of writing “The Stars are Big and Bright—Deep in the [...] |
08.10.09 | Architecture Preservation |
Small Houses X9: A Tour for the TimesInterior from the Cordell House by Robertson Design and Numen Development [All photographs by Paul Hester] For some, living small is a virtue. Consciences are burdened by their carbon foot prints, a small house means less resources used. For others, living small is a necessity. A job is lost, the household income shrunk, and the [...] |
03.23.09 | Architecture Reviews |
