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Cite 104, considers the legacy of Rice Design Alliance with interviews of some of the founding members and early contributors to Cite. Guest edited by Reto Geiser, Cite 104 examines Houston in its glory and its folly. Essays highlight proposed projects never built, the establishment of the Johnson Space Center, the Houston punk rock scene in the 1980s, the problem of housing, and more. New photography as well as art by Houston-area artists round out the issue.

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This issue of Cite concerns the subject of arrivals–of people, projects, and materials. It celebrates the activity that shapes our experience of the city, generally, and our city, specifically. As we globally emerge from more than a year in pandemic distancing—a tumultuous moment for national politics, on top of ongoing issues of racial justice—it feels appropriate to take new stock of the state of who we are as Houstonians, Texans, Americans, and global citizens.

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Cite 102 asks, “What does it mean to be of one’s own time?” The issue has two editorial centers. The first is “Being Contemporary,” in which guest editors Ajay Manthripragada and Piergianna Mazzocca, both previous Wortham Fellows at Rice Architecture who have advanced to other academic positions, consider of whom and of what they are contemporaries. The second center is a series of articles that extend the notion of “the contemporary” to current events and efforts in Houston.

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