Rice Architecture Fall 2020 Lecture Series
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. Register here 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. Register here 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) Register here Jesús Vassallo Associate Professor, Rice Architecture Noon Talk: Affordable Housing Lab Wednesday, September 16, 12:00 p.m. Register here Ana María León Assistant Professor, History of Art, University of Michigan You Are Standing On Occupied Land Wednesday, September 23, 6:00 p.m. Register here 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. Register here Kadambari Baxi Professor of Professional Practice in Architecture, Barnard College, Columbia University Activism: Climate, Labor, Memorial Wednesday, October 7, 6:00 p.m. Register here Nonya Grenader Professor in the Practice, Rice Architecture; Principal, Nonya Grenader Architects Noon Talk: Collaborations Wednesday, October 14, 12:00 p.m. Register here 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. Register here 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. Register here 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. Register here A House of One’s Own A State of Houston Housing Rice Design Alliance Civic Forum 2020 Wednesday, November 11, 6:00 p.m. Register here
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 02, 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 09, 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 04, 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.
