Rice Design Alliance (RDA) Fall 2015 Lecture Series: Seriously Cute – Jimenez Lai

The Rice School of Architecture and Rice Design Alliance presents the Rice Design Alliance (RDA) Fall 2015 Lecture Series: Seriously Cute.

Cute architecture? How could architecture — the embodiment of order, permanence, and bigness — be cute?

Then again, read any post or tweet about the influence of technology; the common refrain is that the world is getting smaller, faster, and more complicated. Design and construction are impacted; but new tools alone are no assurance of innovation. For that, architecture must find relevance in a world changed by technology.

Curated by Andrew Colopy, Assistant Professor, The Rice School of Architecture, this series presents three scholars and practitioners who are challenging our most basic assumptions about architecture:

Monday, September 14
Farshid Moussavi
Professor in Practice, Harvard University GSD
Principal, Farshid Moussavi Architecture?
Author, The Function of Style

Wednesday, October 14
Mark Linder
Associate Professor, Syracuse University
Author, Nothing Less Than Literal: Architecture after Minimalism and IMAGES? Precisely! (forthcoming)

Wednesday, October 21
Jimenez Lai
Lecturer, UCLA
Leader, Bureau Spectacular
Author, Citizens of No Place

All lectures will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the Brown Auditorium in the Caroline Wiess Law Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A pre-lecture reception will begin at 6 p.m.