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Rice Architecture and Rice Design Alliance are well represented with this week’s announcement of the shortlist for the Houston Endowment Headquarters International Design Competition, which includes Associate Professor Troy Schaum of SCHAUM/SHIEH Architects; Rice Architecture alumnus Kevin Daly (M.Arch. ’85) of Kevin Daly Architects; and Rice Design Alliance President-Elect Doug Childers, principal and director of commercial, Houston, at HKS. 

Shepley Bulfinch, a national architecture firm known for design excellence and innovation, recently announced that Jesús Vassallo, Gus Wortham Assistant Professor of Architecture, received the Shepley Bulfinch Award during an awards ceremony at Rice Architecture on April 29, 2019. Vassallo was selected for the award for his project “Tall Timber."

Assistant Professor Andrew Colopy and Professor in the Practice Danny Samuels, co-directors of Rice Architecture Construct, received $50,000 in funding as part of the Rice University Energy and Environment Initiative.

Rice Architecture's student-produced PLAT Journal has earned honorable mention from the Center for Architecture as part of the 2019 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals. 

Professor Carlos Jiménez is featured in the Spring 2019 issue of Rice Magazine. Carlos talks about his blue studio, teaching, and serving on the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury.

John Casbarian, dean emeritus and the Harry K. and Albert K. Smith Professor of Architecture, has been appointed interim dean of Rice Architecture as of June 1.

This week’s episode of Tête-à-Tête features a conversation between Aaron Betsky and Lars Lerup following Lars’ farewell lecture Building the Unfinished: An Intellectual Autobiography of a Life in Design.

Rice Architecture and the Rice Design Alliance (RDA) mourn the loss of Scott Reagan Miller (M.Arch. ‘93) and RDA members Marc Tellepsen and Mark Scioneaux, who died Monday, April 22, along with three other Houstonians, when their small plane crashed while approaching Kerrville Municipal Airport. The Rice community extends its profound condolences to their families.  

Congratulations to Rice Architecture students Will Letchinger and Jonathan Wilkinson, who were recently named as recipients of the 2019 AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition for their project,  Après le Déluge, from John Casbarian and Nicholas Gilliland’s Fall 2018 Paris Totalization studio.