August 11 - November 23, 2020
Rice Architecture Fall 2020 Lecture Series
Race, Social Justice, and Allyship
August 26 – November 11, 2020
Noon Talks and Evening Lectures via Zoom
Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Rice Architecture Fall 2020 Lectures are part of an initiative to acknowledge, understand, and act on systemic racism in the built environment. Invited designers, scholars, and activists will speak on the relationship between race, architecture, and, by extension, related questions of social equity, environmental justice, and gender parity. The aim of the lecture series is to foreground these issues in the school’s curriculum while more broadly fostering solidarity and action in architecture.
All lectures are free and open to the public. Please be sure to register online for each lecture to receive the link to join. For more information on all lectures and to register to attend, visit arch.rice.edu/latest/events and ricedesignalliance.org.
Mikki Hebl
Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Professor of Psychological Sciences and Management, Rice University
Noon Talk: How Individuals and Organizations can Reduce Racism
Wednesday, August 26, 12:00 p.m.
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Anzilla Gilmore
Assistant Director for Project Management and Engineering, Rice University. Guest Speakers: Nicola Springer (M.Arch. ’97), Executive Vice President and Director of pK-12 Projects, Kirksey Architecture; Florence Tang (M.Arch. ’09), Project Manager, Design and Engineering, Houston Zoo; Laura Vargas, Project Director, EYP Architecture & Engineering
Noon Talk: Architecture: It is what it is, but it does not have to be
Wednesday, September 2, 12:00 p.m.
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Ilze Wolff & Heinrich Wolff
Principals, Wolff Architects, South Africa
About Paying Attention
Wednesday, September 9, 12:00 p.m.
(please note time, to accommodate different time-zones)
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Jesús Vassallo
Associate Professor, Rice Architecture
Noon Talk: Affordable Housing Lab
Wednesday, September 16, 12:00 p.m.
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Ana María León
Assistant Professor, History of Art, University of Michigan
You Are Standing On Occupied Land
Wednesday, September 23, 6:00 p.m.
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Stephen Fox
Lecturer, Rice Architecture; Lecturer, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, University of Houston; and Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas
Noon Talk: Asking What It All Means
Wednesday, September 30, 12:00 p.m.
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Kadambari Baxi
Professor of Professional Practice in Architecture, Barnard College, Columbia University
Activism: Climate, Labor, Memorial
Wednesday, October 7, 6:00 p.m.
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Nonya Grenader
Professor in the Practice, Rice Architecture; Principal, Nonya Grenader Architects
Noon Talk: Collaborations
Wednesday, October 14, 12:00 p.m.
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Michael Stone-Richards
Professor and Director of Critical Theory, College for Creative Studies; Editor, Detroit Research
Negation and Disavowal in Spatial Politics
Wednesday, October 21, 6:00 p.m.
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PLAT Roundtable
Panelists: Walter Benn Michaels, Professor of English, University of Illinois Chicago; Savia Palate, Ph.D. candidate, Cambridge University; Megan Panzano, Assistant Professor and Program Director of Undergraduate Architecture Studies, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and Design Director, studioPM. Moderators: PLAT editors Sebastián López Cardozo (M.Arch. ‘22) and Mai Okimoto (M.Arch. ’22)
Re-Committing Architecture
Wednesday, October 28, 6:00 p.m.
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Thomas J. Sugrue
Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History; Director of The Cities Collaborative at NYU; and Director of the Metropolitan Studies Program, New York University
Less Separate, Still Unequal: Cities, Suburbs, and the Unfinished Struggle for Racial Justice
Wednesday, November 4, 6:00 p.m.
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A House of One’s Own
A State of Houston Housing
Rice Design Alliance Civic Forum 2020
Wednesday, November 11, 6:00 p.m.
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Artist talk: August 26, 2020 | 12–1 pm
Mikki Hebl: How Individuals and Organizations can Reduce Racism. See event description for registration.
Artist talk: September 2, 2020 | 12–1 pm
Anzilla Gilmore: Architecture: It is what it is, but it does not have to be. See event description for registration.
Artist talk: September 9, 2020 | 12–1 pm
Ilze Wolff & Heinrich Wolff: About Paying Attention. See event description for registration.
Artist talk: September 16, 2020 | 12–1 pm
Jesús Vassallo: Affordable Housing Lab. See event description for registration.
Artist talk: September 23, 2020 | 6–7 pm
Ana María León: You Are Standing On Occupied Land. See event description for registration.
Artist talk: September 30, 2020 | 12–1 pm
Stephen Fox: Asking What It All Means. See event description for registration.
Artist talk: October 19, 2020 | 6–7 pm
Kadambari Baxi: Activism: Climate, Labor, Memorial. See event description for registration.
Artist talk: October 14, 2020 | 12–1 pm
Nonya Grenader: Collaborations. See event description for registration.
Artist talk: October 21, 2020 | 6–7 pm
Michael Stone-Richards: Negation and Disavowal in Spatial Politics. See event description for registration.
Artist talk: October 28, 2020 | 6–7 pm
PLAT Roundtable. See event description for registration.
Artist talk: November 4, 2020 | 6–7 pm
Thomas J. Sugrue: Less Separate, Still Unequal: Cities, Suburbs, and the Unfinished Struggle for Racial Justice. See event description for registration.
Artist talk: November 11, 2020 | 6–7 pm
A House of One’s Own: A State of Houston Housing. See event description for registration.
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