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Named for former U.S. Secretary of Energy Charles Duncan 47 and his wife Anne, Duncan College was built concurrently with McMurtry College as a critical part of Rices Vision for the Second Century, expanding the undergraduate population by 30%. margin-bottom: 1.5rem; The building houses the Department of Earth Science. color: #fff; University Architect George Ristow said the potential to activate outdoor plaza and working art spaces is particularly exciting, especially in dialogue with the Moody Center for the Arts directly next door. The Physics Building was later renamed to Herzstein Hall. Established with a generous donation from the eponymous Marian and Speros Martel Foundation, Marian and Speros P. Martel College became Rices ninth residential college. Architects Cesar Pelli and Associates designed Robert R. Herring Hall to house the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Administration. } padding: 25px 25px 0px; /* New Table */ font-family: MalloryBook,sans-serif; } .article__body ul a::after { The Central Dining Hall was one of the four original buildings on campus, all of which were designed and constructed by Cram, Goodhue, & Ferguson of Boston, Massachusetts. font-size: 1rem; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; padding: 1em; .article--story .article__body ol, .article--story .article__body ul {font-family: 'MalloryBook';} .alert p a:hover { The project scope included the design and construction of a LEED-certified 3,800 sqft two-story house, including an attached garage. .article--story .article__title {font-size: 1.75rem !important;} Program Co-Director. background: #0A509E; */ * aria-label has no advantage, it won't be read inside a table vertical-align: top; Rice University is a member of the US Green Building Council (USGBC) and is committed to building long-lasting, resource-efficient facilities. } } .article--news .article__title, .article--related .article__title, .h3, h3 {font-size: 2.25rem;} vertical-align: text-top; Summer 2023 Rice Architecture Summer Immersion Program* Rice Architecture Summer Immersion is offered as a 13-day/12-night residential program for current (2022-2023 school year) 10th and 11th grade students who are age 16 or older from targeted schools in the Greater Houston area. table th, .ckeditor-accordion-container > dl dt > a { padding: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-underline-offset: 1.5px; form.webform-submission-form .description { text-decoration: underline dotted #034ea1 0.1em; height: 100%; Named for its generous donors and 1956 Rice alumni Burton and Deedee McMurtry, McMurtry College was built concurrently with Duncan College as a critical part of Rices Vision for the Second Century, expanding the undergraduate population by 30%. display: block; } .pager { Located south of Wiess College at Entrance 4, the South Plant powers the ten-story BioSciences Research Collaborative at University and Main. .page-body__content { .page-body__content h5 {font-size: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: .5rem; font-family: 'MalloryBold'; color: #00205B; font-style: normal;} color: #222; } text-transform: none; background-color: #00205B; margin-bottom: .625em; display: inline-block; font-style: italic; } Connected by a loggia to the Rice Memorial Center, the building houses the Student Activities Office, Center for Civic Leadership, Office of Academic Advising, the Rice Bookstore, and Coffeehouse. line-height: 1.25; z-index: -1; font-size: 1.25em; background-color: #A5C151; } Minimum of at least: 1 Hour of Cultural Competency, and. table.blueTable tfoot .links { Funded by a generous gift from Ella Cochrum Fondren and family, Rice built Fondren Library, named to honor Walter W. Fondren. } background-color: #ffffff; /* --- Views: Exposed Form --- */ The University Architect communicates regularly with the Rice senior administration and the Buildings and Grounds Committee to facilitate site selection, project definition, Board of Trustees funding approvals, and design consultant selection. padding: 10px 20px; Designed by architects Lloyd, Morgan & Jones, the Allen Business Center honors Rice donor and governor Herbert Allen and his wife Helen Allen. left: 0; transition: all .3s; background-color: rgba(224, 226, 230, 0.3); padding: 2px 8px; table td::before { padding: .625em; Designed by Hopkins Architects and Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company, McMurtry College is LEED Gold-Certified. It is designed with the potential for additional expansion as we seek to grow the departments achievements and recognition under its new chair, Bruce Hainley.. } .page-body__content ol a { margin: 0 0 .5em 0; table.blueTable tfoot .links a{ padding: 20px 15px 20px 50px; padding-top: 0; Anderson Biological Laboratory, designed by George Pierce and Abel B. A sculpture by William McVey '27, the best-known artist alumnus of Rice at the time, completed the project. -webkit-column-count: 1; border-bottom: 0; } var elements = document.getElementsByClassName('ckeditor-accordion-toggler'); .button-d7:hover:before { In 2006, Rice set a goal that all new buildings would be certified as part of the USGBC's LEED program for new construction. .article--story h4.article__title { .article .date {color: #44474F;} padding: 0; top: 40%;} .article--story h1.article__title {font-size: 2.5rem; line-height: 3rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;} Now housing the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, the facility contains a 125-seat screening auditorium. .dropdown-content { With inspiration from the original campus buildings by Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson and William Ward Watkin, James A. III Baker Hall was designed by architect Thomas Beeby. John Staub was a student of Ralph Adams Cram, the design architect for the original Rice campus buildings. Designed by architect Michael Graves, the new four-floor wing of Brown was dubbed the The Quads for the buildings suite-style rooms. Cambridge Seven Associates and RWS Architects designed the three-story George R. Brown Hall with Earl Wall Associates of San Diego as laboratory design consultants. font-size: 1.5rem; With its high vaulted ceiling, engraved oak beams, and Elizabethan design, the building now serves as a common meeting space and dining area for Baker College. font-size: 1.25rem !important; The concrete grating that surrounds the third, fourth, and fifth floors is a design feature intended to make Lovett riot-proof in reaction to the student riots of the late 1960s. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892 |, 713-348-0000 | Privacy Policy | Web Accessibility | Campus Carry, features a 2,400 sqft recreation pool bedecked with a row of palm trees, a 50-meter competition pool, two indoor and two outdoor basketball courts, an indoor soccer and hockey arena, four racquetball courts, two squash courts, a 9,000 sqft weight and cardio workout room and four multipurpose rooms for group fitness and dance classes. .page-body__content ul li{ font-size: 1.2rem;} .menu--quick .menu__item {color: #fff;} M.D. } } } table { British philosopher-architect John Outram, known for his provocative use of interior and exterior decoration, has filled the space with rich symbology such as the ceiling mural "The Birth of Consciousness," the manifestation of a river valley plan and a hidden temple. Wiess Hall carried the name "North Hall" until its dedication in March 1950. } Architects Staub & Rather designed the building, in consultation with Architecture School Chairman William Ward Watkin. The Rice Village Apartments are located one block west of Rice University on Shakespeare St. between Morningside Dr. and Kirby Dr. text-align: left !important; font-size: 1.125rem; .hero__title h1, .hero__title .h1 { margin: .5em; width: 100%; Blanche Harding Sewall '17 provided funds for Sewall Hall as a memorial to her late husband Cleveland Sewall. border: none; table.blueTable { .pv-3 { color: white; .article__body h3 {font-size: 2.25rem; margin-bottom: .75rem; font-family: CopernicusMedium,serif; color: #00205B;} } margin-left:0; Each room at Wiess opened directly to an exterior walkway that wrapped around the entire building. .article .article__body p a:hover {color: #697E2F; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: #697E2F; text-decoration-thickness: .1em; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 1.5px;} Sarofim Hall will not only bring these programs together for the first time, but also facilitate experimentation and collaboration between disciplines through the use of open, transparent, indoor/outdoor and public-facing space.. } text-transform: uppercase; The Rice University campus is in southwest central Houston at 6100 Main St. Rice is located across Main Street from the Texas Medical Center and is convenient to Reliant Park, downtown, the Museum District, the Rice Village and Hermann Park, which includes the Houston Zoo, an 18-hole golf course and the Houston Museum of Natural Science. text-transform: uppercase; Hamman Hall, funded by a gift from Mary Josephine Milby Hamman in memory of her husband George Hamman, was designed by George Pierce and Abel B. 116 Humanities Building. .article .article__share a.icon-share {display: none;} } Due to statutory changes this year, beginning in 2023, there will be new educational . } Joseph A. Campana, Jr. In response to the expanding undergraduate enrollment, a new housing wing New Section was built for Hanszen College. Houston architect Charles R. Tapley and his associate Dean A. Johns designed the 28,000 sqft building. .panel .overlay__content h2 { height: 100%; min-height: 350px; .article__body ol a { The striking design for Sarofim Hall frees the steel frame from its skin, transforming a hermetic building into an extroverted mini-campus, welcoming students, faculty and the general public into its protected exterior spaces to engage with the arts at Rice. .article__body h2 {font-size: 2.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: CopernicusMedium,serif; color: #0A509E;} .article__body li { Buildings. Interactive Campus Map LEARN MORE Google Maps LEARN MORE Printable Maps Learn More .footer__logo .image-responsive{width: 50%;} The plant features many sustainable attributes including condensate harvesting, a green roof, and photovoltaic arrays. div.title--tall {padding: 30px 5% 40px;} } Rice Architecture is centrally located on the universitys academic quad in a building that reflects our ethos of collaborative exchange: each space looks onto other spaces as well as out to our beautiful campus, dominated by majestic live oaks. The house now serves as the Rice University president's residence. .overlay__content--center { left: 0px; left: 0; color: #FFFFFF; Before this, in 2014, the firm also designed a 600-seat opera house at the site. Holistic Campus Experience MGA&D's 50-year Master Plan for Rice University's 254-acre campus preserves the holistic undergraduate experience for which the school is renowned while planning for sustainable growth in the student/faculty population and research programs. The new four-floor wing contains numerous doubles and suites, the renovated Baker Kitchen, a new computer room, the coordinator's office, and a community kitchen. background-color: #44474F; .pager__item a { DS+R's impressive international portfolio includes New York City's High Line, the Shed, an expansion to the Museum of Modern Art and the renovation of . overflow: hidden; Designed by George Pierce and Abel B. After the Wiess House on Sunset Boulevard was renovated in the early 2000s, current President David Leebron and his family moved there, and the OConnor House became the home to the Center for Career Development (CCD) and the Office of Alumni Affairs. color: #fff; text-align: left !important; Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892 |, 713-348-0000 | Privacy Policy | Web Accessibility | Campus Carry, Administrative Center for Sustainability and Energy Management. border-bottom: 1px solid #303B61; The building reflects the style of architecture popular in Texas in the 1950s. .menu--article, .tc-2 { } GET TO RICE PARKING CAMPUS SHUTTLE WELCOME CENTER Plan Your Visit Our 300-acre, tree-lined campus features more than 70 major buildings with architectural elements that are uniquely Rice. display: inline-block; DS+Rs vision for Sarofim Hall also incorporates a glass-lined pedestrian ArtStreet that bisects the four-story structure and acts as a new entrance to the university, welcoming the public to witness whats happening inside the new space. color: #034ea1; Rice University School of Architecture. text-align: right; /* Hero */ Rather Jr. is the first Rice architecture alumnus to design a building for the Rice campus. display: inline-block; This four-story building, "Central," was built in between the North and South wings of Jones College, connecting original buildings at every level except the ground floor. .page-body__content h2 {font-size: 2.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-family: CopernicusMedium,serif; color: #0A509E;} @media (max-width: 48em) { font-family: CopernicusMedium,serif; @media screen and (max-width: 600px) { display: inline; font-size: 20px; bottom: 0; text-transform: none; table tbody tr:nth-of-type(even) { margin-top: 1.5em; div.title .menu--list {padding: 0 20px 0px 20px;} The original Brown Commons, next to the Brown College Tower, now serves as the Rice University Health Center. With the building being at the outward-facing perimeter and at an entrance into campus that has evolved into one of the most active and dynamic access points it will undoubtedly have a different kind of visibility beyond the hedges that will be leveraged as a new and unique gateway to the Rice arts corridor, said Ristow. h5, .h5 {font-size: 1.125em; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: .5em; padding-top: .75em;} The South Servery complex contains the Wiess College Commons, the Hanszen College Commons, and South servery surmounted by a large public terrace overlooking the nearby playing fields. The new Engineering and Sciences Building will be located on the site of Abercrombie Engineering Laboratory on the east side of the historic Engineering Quadrangle. color: #1a1d67; table.blueTable td, table.blueTable th { The Rice Media Center was built as temporary housing for the Institute for the Arts and to provide interim space for the art and art history departments painting studios while Sewall Hall was under construction. The building was renamed to Huff House after alumnus Peter Huff '59 and wife Nancy Larson Huff made a generous gift to fund additional renovations in 2010. background: #f3f3f3; The steel trusses are accentuated below the backdrop of a wood-paneled ceiling. .page-body__content p a:hover {font-size: 1.125rem; color: #697E2F; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 2px #697E2F solid;} Houston architects Lloyd, Morgan, & Jones designed the building to match the style of the original Cram & Ferguson buildings in the academic quad. Fondren Library and Academic Building Facilities Liaison. } margin: 1em 5px 0px !important; } width: 100%; align-items: center; padding-bottom: 0px; color: #a4c055; } .button-d8:after { It seeks to fulfill this mission by cultivating a diverse community of learning and discovery that . margin-right: 1em; The Power House is now called the Central Plant and still provides power to a majority of the campus. color: #FFFFFF; When Rice adopted the residential college system in 1957, East Hall became the old wing of Baker College, Rices first founded residential college. With the development of the residential college system at Rice, the 1916 building known as West Hall became the Old Section of Hanszen College, Rices third residential college. 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