Our Design Community
Dear Friends,
Here at the Rice School of Architecture, we are committed to educating architects and agile practitioners for a new, dynamic world. We achieve this through three intertwined ambitions: elevating architectural discourse, building community through architecture, and cultivating planetary engagement.
Our faculty, students, and alumni continue to test the boundaries of design by building projects, curating exhibitions, publishing research, and contributing to global conversations that reposition architecture as a cultural and civic catalyst. From Venice to Houston to Hangzhou, their work explores how material practices shape social life, how built form mediates ecological systems, and how collaborative inquiry can open new pathways for justice and resilience.
On campus, MD Anderson and Cannady Halls anchor these efforts, serving as both laboratories and forums that foster encounters among thinkers, makers, and the wider public. Through exhibitions, symposia, and studios, we invite you to join us in questioning conventions, sharing ideas, and imagining futures that honor the planet we share.
I warmly invite you—students, professionals, and neighbors alike—to participate in our vibrant public program. Attend our lectures, symposia, and Exhibitions at Rice to engage directly with the conversations shaping architecture today.
Whether you engage in person or through our digital platforms, I encourage you to participate in the dialogue that defines our school. Together, we will advance architecture as a shared endeavor —one that expands knowledge, strengthens communities, and fosters planetary stewardship.
Warmly,