Rice Design Alliance and Rice Architecture Fall 2017 Lecture Series
The Pliable series features three internationally renowned practitioners who advocate for the immediacy of material investigations and fabrication in architecture, whether low-tech or high-tech, analog or digital. Through their research and design, all three offer up nimble responses to unforeseen material and fabrication challenges and opportunities. On the surface, these three designers are linked by their innovative work with textiles. Upon closer examination, they are reshaping contemporary practice in compelling, provocative ways through material-based research and with repercussions for all design fields.
Rice Architecture and Rice Design Alliance presents Pliable, the Fall 2017 Lecture Series. Curated by Dawn Finley, Associate Professor at Rice Architecture.
Wednesday, October 4
Jenny Sabin
Principal, Jenny Sabin Studio
Associate Professor, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Reception Sponsor: McCoy – Rockford, Inc.
Wednesday, October 11
Yeohlee Teng Founder
Fashion Designer, YEOHLEE
Parsons The New School
New York, New York
Reception Sponsor: Leslie Elkins Architecture
Wednesday, October 25
Sheila Kennedy, FAIA
Principal: Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd.
Professor of Architecture, MIT
Boston, Massachusetts
Reception Sponsors: Luceco/The Woodlands Development Company
All lectures begin at 7 p.m. in Match Box 4 at Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (MATCH) at 3400 Main Street. Pre-lecture reception begins at 6:15 p.m. at the MATCH breezeway.
The Rice Architecture and Rice Design Alliance Lecture Series is supported by Generation Park, Louisa Stude Sarofim, Cardno, D.E. Harvey Builders, Hines, Houston First Corporation, Rice Architecture, TDIndustries, and Walter P Moore. With sponsorship support from AGC, Houston; Allied Orion Group; Arup; ASA Dally, Inc.; Balfour Beatty Construction; W.S. Bellows Construction Company; The Brandt Companies, LLC; Brochsteins; The Office of James Burnett; Camden Property Trust; Debner + Co.; D|G Studios; DPR Construction; JE Dunn Construction; Leslie Elkins Architecture; FKP; Gensler; Gilbane Building Company; Griffin Partners; Heitkamp Swift Architects; HKS; Huitt-Zollars; Kendall/Heaton Associates; Kirksey Architecture; Marek Companies; McCoy-Rockford Inc.; O’Donnell/Snider Construction; Perkins + Will; PGAL; PhiloWilke Partnership; Stantec; STG Design; Phoebe and Bobby Tudor; Ziegler Cooper Architects, and by grants from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, and the Texas Commission for the Arts.
