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    100 Years of Rice: Contemporary Responses to Tradition
    (Rice Design Alliance, 2011) Cottle, Mark; Khan, Sabir
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    1500 Louisiana Street: Building a 21st-Century Skyline
    (Rice Design Alliance, 2002) Stern, William F.
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    1998 Rice Design Alliance Gala
    (Rice Design Alliance, 1999)
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    2 More Competitions Houston & Laredo
    (Rice Design Alliance, 1997) Fox, Stephen
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    2007 RDA Gala
    (Rice Design Alliance, 2008)
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    2008 RDA Gala
    (Rice Design Alliance, 2008)
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    2018 RDA Gala: Public
    (Rice Design Alliance, 2018)
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    2020 Houston Design Research Grant
    (Rice Design Alliance, 2020-2021)
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    2020 Spotlight Award: fala atelier
    (Rice Design Alliance, 2020-2021)
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    2021–22 Travel Programs: Santa Fe and Palm Springs
    (Rice Design Alliance, 2022)
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    2022 Houston Design Research Grant
    (Rice Design Alliance, 2022)
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    2022 Spotlight Award—AD—WO
    (Rice Design Alliance, 2022)
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    35 Years of One Shell Plaza
    (Rice Design Alliance, 2006) Stern, William F.; Spieler, Christof
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    37+
    (2015-04-21) Trotty, William M; Schaum, Troy; Wittenberg, Gordon; Colman, Scott
    Walls are edges between two distinct entities; urban forms that attempt to express neutrality as infrastructure while firmly rejecting interaction between opposing constituencies. Walls are usually contiguous lines; establishing absolute boundaries and absolute limits. Belfast, Northern Ireland is no stranger to walls. Over 100 currently exist in the city as peace-keeping mechanisms separating Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods. These highly visible urban forms create parallel communities with parallel services; producing redundant infrastructures and multiplying territorial subjectivities. The City of Belfast wants all the Interface Walls removed by 2020, but the citizens want them to stay. Of the 100 walls, it is estimated that 37 will remain. As Belfast struggles to create a new marketable image for world of a city moving forward, the interface walls spread out across the city remain a marker of its conflicted past. But there may be hope for reclaiming the city, and in turn, pushing Belfast into a more transnational urban landscape. Unlike the Berlin Wall, the walls in Belfast are non-contiguous boundaries between communities; navigating the city means commuting around and through the walls on a daily basis. The Interface Walls in Belfast do not act as literal walls dividing the city, but as symbolic walls. And as a symbol, the meaning and function of the walls can change. 37+ proposes creating this shift in the symbolic nature of the Interface Walls in Belfast by introducing more walls; a network of 221 insertions in the walls that house schools, clinics, pubs, and parks. These new lengths of Interface Walls create a datum in the city that redefines the symbol of the Interface Wall as a divisive edge; exacerbating the multiplication of infrastructures and subjects to a positive effect through serial deployment of shape, materiality, and program. This new urban identity for Belfast acknowledges and rejects the contentious territoriality extant in the city, converting urban forms dedicated to separating communities into attractors for the city that negotiate contentious space.
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    37,000 Woodlanders Can't Be Wrong
    (Rice Design Alliance, 1994) Wood, Peter
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    4 Installations: Sol LeWitt at Rice
    (Rice Design Alliance, 1997) Stern, William F.
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    5,000 Voters Can't be Wrong: How Zoning Came to Houston
    (Rice Design Alliance, 1991) Curtis, Tom
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    6 rms hou vu
    (Rice Design Alliance, 2005) Scardino, Barrie
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    66 ° N
    (2007) Hofstede, Nicholas Anton; Lee, Clover
    '66°N' is the design for a large-scale ecotourism hotel that takes advantage of dynamic and shifting environmental conditions of Greenland to visually and physically register the changes in the fragile arctic environment. Located on the Western coast of Greenland near one of the largest potential sources of direct sea-level rise, the Ilulissat Ice-Fjord, the design explores the intersection of two global trends: the effects of global climate change and the increase in popularity of ecotourism in the arctic. The techniques of building in an extreme and remote environment to provide infrastructure for ecotourist activities result in a permanent structure that is subjected to the continuously shifting site conditions of water and landscape. The relationship between rigid and responsive forms is used as an architectural register to these conditions that change the patterns and use of the hotel over time.