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Rice University School of Architecture
critic: Neyran TURAN.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

MacAulay BROWN: Soviet Filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein, established the role of montage in film as a technique used to generate a concept or idea that exists outside of the presented images. . . .

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Soo Sunny Park’’s installation Unwoven Light animates Rice Gallery’’s expansive space, transforming it into a shimmering world of light, shadow, and brilliant color. Suspended from the walls and ceiling, thirty-seven individually sculpted units are arranged as a graceful, twisting flow of abstract form. Entering the gallery there is no set path to follow. Instead, we are invited to meander slowly as one might stroll along a river’s edge, stopping to admire the glints of light that dance on the water’s surface.

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Jorge Otero-Pailos is an architect, historian and theorist specialized in experimental forms of preservation. His research and work rethinks preservation as a powerful countercultural practice that creates alternative futures for our world heritage. He is the Founder and Editor of the journal Future Anterior, the first American peer-reviewed scholarly journal to be devoted to the history theory and criticism of historic preservation.

Jorge Otero-Pailos, “
Architectures Under Erasure”
Thursday, 11/15
5.30 pm / Farish Gallery
Anderson Hall
Rice University SOA
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX

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Rem Koolhaas founded OMA in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. He graduated from the Architectural Association in London and in 1978 published Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. In 1995, his book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA in “a novel about architecture.” He heads the work of both OMA and AMO, the research branch of OMA, operating in areas beyond the realm of architecture such as media, politics, renewable energy and fashion.

Rem Koolhaas
Rice Centennial Short Talks/Lecture
Wednesday, 10/10
8.00 pm / Tudor Fieldhouse
Thursday, 10/11
10.00 am / Tudor Fieldhouse
Rice University SOA
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX

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Jeffrey Schnapp, Director, metaLAB, Harvard University, “Teaching (Design) Thinking” On the occasion of the joint Centennial of Rice University and the Rice School of Architecture as well as RDA’s 40th anniversary, the Fall 2012 RDA lecture series will address the future of architectural education and its potential impact on design practice and the built environment. Lectures will be held on consecutive Wednesdays in September and October.

Jeffrey Schnapp, 
”Teaching (Design) Thinking”
Wednesday, 09/26
6.00 pm / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet St.
Houston, Texas 77005

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Frank Barkow of the Berlin firm Barkow Leibinger Architects lectures Thursday, September 20, at Rive University SOA.

Frank Barkow, “Bricoleur/Bricolage”
Thursday, 09/20
4.00 pm / Farish Gallery
Anderson Hall
Rice University SOA
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX

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Alfredo Brillembourg founded Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) in 1993 in Caracas, Venezuela. Starting in 2007, Brillembourg has been a guest professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, where he co-founded the Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory (S.L.U.M. Lab) with Hubert Klumpner.

Alfredo Brillembourg, “
Last Round: Urban Ecology”
Wednesday, 09/19
7.00 pm / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet St.
Houston, Texas 77005

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Michael Speaks, Ph.D., is Dean of the College of Design and Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. His essays and exhibitions in the 1990s were among the first to introduce a new generation of Dutch architects and planners to a broader audience in the U.S. Speaks has also played an important role in recent debates about city branding and alternative models of city planning, authoring a number of essays and advisory studies as well as overseeing scenario studies commissioned by city and regional governments in the Netherlands.

Michael Speaks, “
Design Education and the Entrepreneurial Turn”
Wednesday, 09/05
6.00 pm / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet St.
Houston, Texas 77005