Mass Timber

Rice Design Alliance and Rice Architecture Fall 2016 Lecture Series

Sep. 28 to Oct. 26, 2016

Climate change seems destined to skew the economics of building toward wood. Given its unique ability to store and sequester carbon out of the atmosphere, wood stands to become as prominent a building material in the next century as concrete was in the last.

What would happen to the way architects design with wood were we to think of it in these terms? How might this impact our buildings and cities?

The Rice School School of Architecture and the Rice Design Alliance present Mass Timber, the Fall 2016 Lecture Series. Curated by Albert Pope, Gus Sessions Wortham Professor at the Rice School of Architecture, the series brings together a small group of practitioners who pursue these questions and will assess where we are today and present opportunities for further technical and design innovation with wood:

Wednesday, September 28
Yasmin Vobis & Aaron Forrest
Founding Principals, Ultramoderne
Providence, Rhode Island
Reception Sponsors: FKP and Brochsteins

Wednesday, October 5
Benton Johnson
Associate & Engineer, Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Chicago, Illinois
Reception Sponsor: DLR Group

Wednesday, October 26
Andrew Waugh
Founding Principal, Waugh Thistleton Architects
London, England
Reception Sponsor: Perkins+Will

The RSA/RDA Lecture Series is supported by 4b Technology Group; Cardno Haynes Whaley; D.E. Harvey Builders; Hines; Louisa Stude Sarofim; and Walter P Moore. With sponsorship support from Anslow Bryant Construction; ARC Document Solutions; AGC Houston; W.S. Bellows Construction Corporation; The Office of James Burnett; D|G Studios; Jacobs; Fellert North America; Gensler; Heitkamp Swift Architects; McCarthy Building Companies; MechoSystems; Morris Architects; Page; Perkins+Will; STG Design; Phoebe and Bobby Tudor; and Wylie Consulting Engineers.