News from RSA Alumni and Friends

OFFICE 52 wins national design competition for Carnegie Mellon University’s new Nano Bio Energy Technologies Building

Portland based OFFICE 52, led by principals and RSA alums Isaac Campbell (B. Arch. '91) and Michelle LaFoe (B. Arch. '91), has been selected from among 17 teams overall, and from among 4 finalists, in a national competition to design Carnegie Mellon University’s new Nano Bio Energy Technologies Building. The firm’s winning design occupies a complex infill site at the heart of the CMU campus. The new 78,000 SF building will provide essential collaborative research facilities for Nano Science, Materials Characterization, Biomedical Engineering and Energy research. The project team includes Stantec, Arup, Jacobs and Davis Langdon.

Gifts from alumni and friends have lasting impact on RSA 

We are excited to announce two gifts to the RSA that will have a significant impact on the school as a whole. Laura Roach is an interior designer with her own firm: LRI Interiors & Small Luxuries. Ms. Roach's father, Richard T. Roach (B.S. '51), was a Rice Mechanical Engineering graduate who worked for most of his professional career on ships. Ms. Roach directed a gift to the school which will be used for improvements to our own building interiors - namely, the improvement of lighting and window treatments, and the addition of card key swipes at all entrances to make our building more secure.

Mel Hildebrandt (B.S. Architecture '55), Vice Chairman of Linbeck Construction, along with Linbeck, has provided the school with five years of generous funding for our Totalization studios, enabling us to build on this year’s initial experiment so as to ensure the success of this collaborative studio effort. With this funding, we will be able to continue the New York trip over fall break as well as increase the time for consultant visits to Houston.

Our thanks to Laura Roach, Mel Hildebrandt, and all who have made such a tremendous difference through their generous support of the RSA.

Julio Salcedo / Scalar Architecture publishes monograph

Julio Salcedo (B.A. 1992), along with his office Scalar Architecture, has published the Monograph Generic Specific Continuum (Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2011).

House DE by David Clovers featured on ArchDaily 

House DE, a project by the Hong Kong office DavidClovers (Founded by former RSA faculty Clover Lee and David Erdman), was featured last month on ArchDaily. The project team included RSA Alumni Rathi Subramanian (B. Arch. ’11) and Yvette Herrera (M. Arch. ’10). Please view the feature here.

RSA Alum Artist in Residence at University of Houston

Eric Leshinsky (M. Arch. ‘06) is a 2011 Artist in Residence at the University of Houston's Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. Through the residency, he is co-developing Shrimp Boat Projects, a multi-faceted artist initiative designed to better understand the cultural identity of Houston through a renewed interest in the city's connection to Galveston Bay and the natural landscape of the region. For more information, please visit www.shrimpboatprojects.org.

Ed Roberts Campus by Leddy Maytum Stacy featured in Metropolis Magazine

The March 15 issue of Metropolis features the Ed Roberts Campus, in Berkeley, CA as well as a profile of the office Leddy Maytum Stacy of which Richard Stacy (B. Arch. ’79) is a founding partner. Please read the feature here.

Thumb wins I.D. Magazine Award for Ring Roads poster

The graphic design office Thumb, founded by Jessica Young (M. Arch. ’02) and Luke Bulman (M. Arch. ’98) received a Design Distinction Award in the Graphics category of the 2010 I.D. Magazine Design Review for their Ring Roads of the World poster, commissioned by the Rice School of Architecture in 2009.

RSA alum is project mentor on award-winning design for Governor’s Island

Rob Rogers (B. Arch. ’83) is the Project Mentor for Burble Bup, the winning project of the City of Dreams Pavilion Competition for Governor’s Island in New York. For more information on the project, please click here.

RSA alum to be honored by Association of Rice Alumni

MAY 14, 2011

Robert Taylor (B. Arch. ’75) and his wife Amy Dunn Taylor were awarded the Meritorious Service Award for 2011 and will be honored at the Alumni Laureates Dinner on May 14.

Alumni and friends to be honored at 2011 AIA Convention, New Orleans

MAY 2011

Gail Peter Borden (B. Arch. ’98) is the 2011 recipient of the AIA Young Architect Award, which he will receive at the AIA national conference this May. Borden is a founding partner of Borden Partnership and Assistant Professor at the school of architecture at USC Los Angeles.

David Calkins (B. Arch. ’81), Christine Bruckner (B. Arch. ’90), Elizabeth del Monte (M. Arch. ’82), and Roksan Okan-Vick (M. Arch. ’80) have been elected to the AIA College of Fellows. Calkins is a principal at Gensler’s Houston office; del Monte, at The Beck Group in Dallas. Okan-Vick is the director of the Houston Parks Board.

RSA Preceptor Weiss/Manfredi won an AIA Honor Award for their project at Barnard College in New York - the Diana Center, a mixed-use building that has quickly become a hub for Barnard’s intellectual, cultural and social life.

JOIN THE RSA

at our AIA Convention reception for alumni and friends:

Thursday, 12 May 2011
Arnaud's Restaurant

Please RSVP to diania@rice.edu or 713-348-4864

Charles Renfro, lead architect on DS+R Creative Arts Center Project at Brown University interviewed in L.A. Times

APRIL 3, 2011

Charles Renfro (B. Arch. ’87), partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York, was the lead architect on a project for a new creative arts center at Brown University, which was recently reviewed by the L.A. Times. Read the review, including commentary by Renfro, here.

Georgeen Theodore and Partners at Interboro winners of the MoMA/P.S.1 2011 Young Architects Program

Brooklyn-based urban design and planning firm Interboro, of which RSA alum Georgeen Theodore (B. Arch. ’92) is a founding partner, won the 2011 Young Architects Program with their project Holding Pattern.The Young Architects Program awards emerging architects the opportunity to design an installation in what is widely recognized as New York’s liveliest summer party space, the outdoor plaza of MoMA/P.S. 1 in Queens. The firm has also been selected this year as one of the eight firms participating in the Emerging Voices series at the Architectural League.

RSA alumni honored by local AIA chapter

Natalye Appel (B. Arch. '82) won an AIA Honor Award for her firm's renovation of the Oak Forest Library, and Scott Ziegler (M. Arch. '76) was honored for the restoration of St. Mary's Catholic Church done by his firm, Ziegler Cooper Architects. James M. Evans (B. Arch. '95) also received an Honor Award for his residential project 'Hyde Park Double.'

Catie Newell, RSA alum, awarded Architectural League Young Architects Prize

Catie Newell (M. Arch. ’07) was a recipient of the 2011 Architectural League Young Architects Prize for Young Architects and Designers. The prize was established to recognize specific works of high quality and to encourage the exchange of ideas among young people who might otherwise not have a forum. Her project 'Salvaged Landscapes' was exhibited in the Architectural League Prize Show at Parsons/The New School for Design).

RSA alumni honored by Greater Houston Preservation Society

FEB 4. 2011

Congratulations to RSA Alumni Michael Morrow (M.Arch., 2000),Taryn Kinney (B.A. 2000, B.Arch., 2002), and William D. Kendall (M. Arch. ’70, principal, Kendall/Heaton), all of whom were awarded Good Brick Awards by the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance. Kinney & Morrow were honored for the renovation of their historic house (1876) in Old Sixth Ward. Kendall/Heaton received the AIA Twenty-five Year Award for their RepublicBank Center [now Bank of America Center], completed in 1983 in collaboration with Johnson/Burgee Architects. The Greater Houston Preservation Alliance presented the 2011 Good Brick Awards during the Cornerstone Dinner on Friday, February 4.

Mark Wright awarded fellowship at MacDowell Colony

FALL 2010

Mark Wright (B.A. '80, B. Arch. '82) was honored with a MacDowell Colony fellowship in the autumn of 2010. During a four-week residency he analyzed, modeled, and wrote about Robert Venturi's unbuilt house for Tuxedo Park, NY (1987-1991). The house represents Venturi's most direct confrontation with the legacy of H. H. Richardson, and so this study builds in part on previous research that led to publication of "H. H. Richardson's House for Reverend Browne, Rediscovered" in the March 2009 issue of JSAH, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

RDA membership complementary for recent grads

A note to all 2010 RSA Grads and students about to graduate-- The Rice Design Alliance congratulates you on your success and would like to extend a complimentary Individual Membership to you. To activate your membership, please contact RDA Associate Director of Membership, Mary Swift, at mswift@rice.edu or 713-348-5670. If you are not a 2010 grad but are interested in RDA membership, please contact Mary as well.

Email us at rsa-public@rice.edu to share your news. We look forward to hearing from you!