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2017 Rice Design Alliance Spotlight Prize goes to OOPEAA

2017-05-31T14:12:00-04:00

The ninth annual Spotlight Prize has been awarded to the Finnish firm OOPEAA. The award, given by the Rice Design Alliance—a non-profit program connected to Rice's School of Architecture—celebrates the work of emerging architects from the U.S. and abroad. Eligible candidates must be within the first 15 years of professional practice as the prize intends to highlight the work of exceptionally gifted architects at an early stage in their architectural careers. Previous winners have included Sou Fujimoto, Anton Garcia Abril, and LA Dallman among others.

Periscope Tower. Image Courtesy of Rice Design Alliance.

This year's recipient, Anssi Lassila, founded OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture in 2004, and gained international recognition for his Kärsämäki Shingle Church. He is known for combining sculptural forms with traditional materials and innovative techniques, which in Finland, often means working with wood, a material Lassila has extensive knowledge of. He has won numerous aw...

Get Lectured: Rice University, Spring '15

2015-01-13T14:59:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter-Spring 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session! Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Our next poster features the Rice University School of Architecture's "Contemporary" Lecture Series for Spring '15.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Note each event's time and location. Lectures are free and open to the public.

Jan 15-16
Thesis Final Reviews

Jan 21
7:00pm at MFAH (6:00 Reception)
RSA/RDA LECTURE SERIES: PLUG-INS
Markus Bader / Co-founder, raumlabor - Berlin, Germany

Jan 28
7:00pm at MFAH (6:00 Reception)
RSA/RDA LECTURE SERIES: PLUG-INS
James Casebere / Artist - New York

Feb 2
5:30pm at Anderson Hall
Elia Zenghelis / Architect & Educator, Athens, Greece; Cullinan Workshop V...

Get Lectured: Rice Design Alliance, Spring '14

2014-01-27T14:15:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2014

Archinect's Get Lectured is up and running again for the Winter/Spring '14 term! As a refresher from our Fall 2013 guide, every week we'll feature a school's lecture series--and their snazzy posters--for the current season. Be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Our next poster comes from the Rice School of Architecture/Rice Design Alliance. RSA/RDA is inviting RDA members and the public to their "On Immediacy" Lecture Series, curated by Rice SoA Assistant Professor Jesús Vassallo.

More details on the series: "These international firms — from Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, and Mexico — play with form, color, material, and process, producing work that defies easy description and collapses distinctions between art and architecture, representation and construction, and drawing and building."

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to...

Rice Design Alliance’s "Additionally" tour highlights modern updates of 8 historic houses in Houston

2014-01-08T12:46:00-05:00

If you're in the Houston, Texas area and want to "add in" some well-in-advance weekend plans, Rice Design Alliance from Rice University will be hosting their 38th Annual Architectural Tour "Additionally" on March 29-30, 2014.

RDA is inviting its members and their guests for a weekend to visit eight historic houses originally built between 1885 to 1964 throughout Houston. Within the past 12 years, local architecture firms individually crafted modernized additions that complement each house's historic nature.

Check out some of the tour's destinations:

216 Avondale (1906); Addition: 2012, m+a architecture

707 Sabine (1885); Additions: 2000, Gary Eades; 2009, Janusz Design

3503 Audobon (1920); Addition: 2011, Interloop–Architecture

5503 Sturbridge; Additions: 1960, Marshall S. MacDougal; 2008, Dillon Kyle Architecture

For more info on the tour, head over to Bustler.

Images courtesy of Rice Design Alliance.

Get Lectured: Rice School of Architecture Fall '13

2013-09-09T13:22:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2013

Here on Archinect we just launched "Get Lectured", where we'll feature a school's lecture series--along with their snazzy posters--for the current season. Check back regularly to stay up-to-date and mark your calendars for any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

We'll be starting out with Archinect's Most Followed Schools profiles. Let's begin the week with "Re: Architecture [NSFW]", the upcoming special lecture series from the Rice Design Alliance (RDA) and the Rice School of Architecture (RSA).

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

According to the series' curator RSA assistant professor Troy Schaum, the theme of "Re: Architecture [NSFW]" will feature young architecture firms "that are building in unique ways, not easily categorized, and are refusing to play it safe."

All lectures will be held at 7:00 pm in Brown Aud...