modernhouston. calendar SEPTEMBER 2011

sept.
03

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First Saturday Arts Market
Exercise * Eat Right * Buy Art!
11am - 8pm

Open all year on the 1st Saturday of each month!
Free Admission
Rain or Shine!'

First Saturday Arts Market
548 W. 19th St on the Wind Water Gallery Parking lot.
www.FirstSaturdayArtsMarket.com

sept.
07

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Milwaukee Firm LA DALLMAN Honored With
Rice Design Alliance’s Spotlight Award
RDA’s third annual Spotlight Award is being given to partners Grace La
and James Dallman of the firm, LA DALLMAN. The international award,
which recognizes exceptionally gifted architects in the early phase of
their professional careers, carries a cash prize and invitation to lecture
at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. LA DALLMAN is the first United States
practice to receive the prize, which was previously awarded to
acclaimed architects Antón García-Abril of Spain and
Sou Fujimoto of Japan.

The public is invited to hear LA DALLMAN lecture on September 7, 2011
at The MFA,H.

TIME: 7:00 p.m. (pre-lecture wine reception begins at 6 p.m.)

PLACE: Brown Auditorium, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
1001 Bissonnet. Additional parking is available until 7 pm for $6 in
the museum garage located at the corner of Binz and Fannin Streets.

TICKETS: This event is free for RDA Members and students presenting
identification. Tickets for non-members are $25, but those who join RDA
that evening will receive a free ticket. Tickets are required for entry and will be
distributed on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 6 p.m. the evening of
the lecture. Seating is limited; attendees are encouraged to arrive early.

www.ricedesignalliance.org.

sep.
21

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ARCHITECTURE CENTER HOUSTON
and HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
AUTHORS IN ARCHITECTURE
David Theis and Lisa Gray
PRESENT
Literary Houston
6pm

Where: Clayton Library
(5300 Caroline Street, Houston Texas, 77002)

Join us early at 5:30 for a brief tour and discussion with Ernesto Maldonado,
AIA, of Glassman Shoemake Maldonado Architects. Mr. Maldonado will talk
about his firm’s recent award winning renovation and addition to this
historically significant building. Authors in Architecture will start immediately
following this special architectural tour.

How much: Free!
Literary Houston

Literary Houston is an anthology of writing about Houston and Houstonians, edited
by David Theis. Its sections include Memoir and Biography, Visitors, The City Itself,
Events, Poetry, and Fiction. A good deal of Houston history is included, dating
back to the days of Cabeza de Vaca, and continuing through the Battle of San
Jacinto, and up to Enron and Hurricane Katrina. Local writers such as Lisa Gray
and Robb Walsh are included, along with writers with national and international
reputations, including Larry McMurtry, Norman Mailer, Ada Louise Huxtable, and
Simone de Beauvoir.

sep.
17

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sep.
28

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Taming the Concrete Dragon:
Innovative Chinese Architects to
Speak in Houston

Thomas CAMPANELLA
Associate Professor of Urban Planning,
University of North Carolina
7pm

The Rice Design Alliance is pleased to announce its fall lecture series, “Chinese
Architecture: 中国建筑,” and a special issue of Cite that will explore the impact of the
thirty-year building explosion in China.

“The lecture series will be a great opportunity to see design being done in China in
the context of tremendous growth,” says RDA board member and Chinese
Architecture steering committee member Camilo Parra. A grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts is supporting this unprecedented exchange of designers and
scholars.

The destruction of China’s vernacular buildings and courtyard-style houses has
garnered widespread criticism. Some Chinese architects, however, are now creating
projects that engage traditional styles and preservation in innovative ways.

Houston also has experienced tremendous booms with further growth projected for
the next 25 years to a population of 8.8 million. Like many Chinese cities, Houston has
an industrial base and is planned through infrastructure, unconventional regulations,
and public-private partnerships rather than traditional zoning methods. The Houston
community can learn from China’s recent attempts to accommodate new buildings
within the existing fabric of its global cities.

RDA’s quarterly publication, Cite, is joining the transnational conversation as well.
“We are sending Christof Spieler, one of Houston’s brightest minds, to China,” says Raj
Mankad, editor of Cite. Spieler, an award-winning engineer, Rice School of
Architecture lecturer, and METRO Board Member, will write on-the-ground reports
from places similar to ones in Houston.

The lecture series will feature a U.S. scholar and three successful Chinese architects
who have reacted to China’s growth in three of its most important cities: Beijing,
Shanghai, and Hangzhou. RDA members and the public are invited to hear the
following speakers during the series:

www.ricedesignalliance.org.

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