Rice Design Alliance kicks off its annual spring lecture series on Wednesday, February 3 at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston with architect José Castillo of arquitectura 911sc. This year’s topic is Mexico City Surging: DF Architecture, and includes a lineup of young architects and urban planners helping to shape the burgeoning Mexico City landscape with Javier Sanchez of JSa on Feb. 10, Derek Dellekamp on Feb. 17 and Frida Escobedo on Feb. 24! All lectures will be held at 7 pm in Brown Auditorium. Tickets are $10, or $35 for the whole series.