Join us to celebrate the launch of PLAT 14, the latest issue of the Rice School of Architecture’s student-edited journal, which this year investigates the theme of resolution in architecture.
As fields become increasingly interdisciplinary, their boundaries dissolve and overlap. The limits of one begin to inscribe another. Architecture, as a discipline, now emerges through such overlaps, where the borders between practices soften yet still assert form. PLAT 14 asks: in these blurred territories, what shapes does architecture take?
The issue approaches resolution as both a conceptual and a material question — a firm decision, the act of solving a problem, or the state between clarity and ambiguity. Architecture negotiates between the precision of drawings and the ineffable essence of built space. As architectural objects shift between mediums — from physical models and technical drawings to Instagram posts, renders, photographs, and presentation boards — how do these translations reshape not only the image of architecture, but also the architecture of the image?
PLAT 14 gathers voices, projects, and provocations that address these questions, presenting design as the methodology through which the form of resolution emerges. In doing so, it invites architects, designers, and the public to consider how clarity and obscurity, precision and approximation, coexist in the production of our built environment.
This event is free and open to the public.
PLAT is edited by students of Rice Architecture and made possible by the generous financial support of
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The Rice School of Architecture
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The Graham Foundation
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The Center for Architecture
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Fondren Library and the Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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Barbara Amelio
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Dr. Elizabeth Strauch & Mr. Lonnie Hoogeboo
This program is made possible through the generous support of the Betty R. and George F. Pierce Jr., FAIA, Fund; the William B. Coleman Jr. Colloquium Fund for Architecture; and the Wm. W. Caudill Lecture Series Fund.