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Montrose is one of the most diverse and interesting neighborhoods in Houston with some of the city’s best architecture including spectacular mansions, charming bungalows, the campus of the University of St. Thomas, Rothko Chapel, and the Menil Collection. ArCH tour guides will present an overview of the architectural and social history of the area and offer guests a look inside of the Fondren Mansion (now La Colombe d’Or), Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Chapel of St. Basil, Rothko Chapel, Cy Twombly Gallery, and the Menil Collection. On this 2-hour walking tour you will get a flavor of this special district and be encouraged to widen your path after the tour is over.
Meets outside the Menil Collection Bookstore across from Bistro Menil. Street and lot parking available.
Lecture by Jim Blackburn, Professor in the Practice in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rice University.
This lecture will focus on the challenges and opportunities that lie before Houston, a key city in the global response to changing weather patterns, emerging economies and changing consumer preferences and needs. The future of Houston as a serious competitor in the global marketplace lies in many of the choices that will be made in the next few years. Are we ready to take our place as a truly world-class city, showing the way for the world, or will we be left behind?
Presented by Urban Harvest in conjunction with the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
This month we have the honor of hosting Jim Blackburn, who will be discussing the Texas Coastal Exchange, a system developed at the Severe Storm Prevention, Education and Evacuation from Disaster (“SSPEEDâ€) Center at Rice University, for buying and selling ecological services such as carbon sequestration, water supply enhancement, flood mitigation and fish and wildlife enhancement. Restoration of coastal and inland prairies is a key driver of Texas Coastal Exchange, and this restoration along with certain grazing techniques could revolutionize conservation thinking as well as the farm and ranch economy and the oil and gas industry.
Jim Blackburn is an environmental lawyer and Professor in the Practice in Environmental Law in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rice University. At Rice, Blackburn is a Faculty Scholar at the Baker Institute, co-director of the SSPEED Center and directs the undergraduate minor in Energy and Water Sustainability. Texas A&M Press published Blackburn’s Book of Texas Bays in 2004 and his new book, A Texan Plan for the Texas Coast, was published in 2017 by Texas A&M Press. Blackburn has also co-authored a book of poems and paintings with artist Isabelle Scurry Chapman titled Birds: A Book of Verse and Vision.  Blackburn still maintains his private law firm, Blackburn Carter, and also owns a planning firm called Sustainable Planning and Design that is working on coastal Louisiana land loss issues including restoration.
For more information, visit houstonprairie.org.
Streams, bayous, rivers, estuaries and the Gulf of Mexico form an intricate network of waterways that are linked by their hydrology, water quality, and biology. Dr. George Guillen will explain the hydrology and ecology of the waterways of southeast Texas—and how humans have altered the delicate balance of freshwater inflow, nutrients, and sediments that maintain the amazing diversity of life within these systems. Measures to conserve and restore these resources and ecological services that most people take for granted will also be discussed. Dr. George Guillen is executive director of the Environmental Institute of Houston at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
Members $12, Tickets $18
For more information, visit store.hmns.org.
Photo provided by the University of Houston – Clear Lake.
Houston Audubon Nature Photography Association (HANPA) is an informal photo club for Houston Audubon members. Meetings are held September through May on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM in the Edith L. Moore Sanctuary headquarters library.
Schedule
January 10, 2018: Learning from the Masters of Bird Photography: Making Great Images before Digital with Dr. Laszlo Perlaky
February 7, 2018: Hummingbird Photography in the Digital Age with Sonny Manley
March 7, 2018: Program TBA
April 4, 2018: Program TBA
May 2, 2018: Program TBA
Rick Joy, Principal at Rick Joy Architects, joins us for a lecture at 5:30pm in Farish Gallery.
Rick Joy, FAIA, Int. FRIBA, is Principal of Rick Joy Architects, a 31 person architecture and planning firm established in 1993 in Tucson, Arizona. From the beginning, each of RJA’s works has been exhibited and published extensively and have won numerous awards. Joy received the 2002 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture and in 2004 won the prestigious National Design Award from the Smithsonian Institute/Cooper-Hewitt Museum. He periodically serves as a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rice, U of A and M.I.T. and he lectures extensively on the firm’s work throughout the world.
RJA has realized architectural works throughout North America with extensive experience with lifestyle based projects from numerous single family residences to an ultra-lux resort and large scale master-plans. The office has several active residential commissions in San Francisco, New York City, Turks and Caicos, Malibu, Long Island. RJA is currently completing the prestigious commission of the new Train Station and Campus Gateway Buildings to Princeton University, a luxury resort hotel with private compounds in Mexico, an apartment building in Mexico City and a new luxury boutique hotel in Austin Texas.
For more information, visit arch.rice.edu or aiahouston.org.
Portraying the practice of Spanish Architecture Abroad is a complex task. EXPORT is not a comprehensive catalog of architectural works, nor is it a list of designed buildings in faraway places, because this would not do justice to what it means to be an architect in a globalized society, a place of “arrivals and departuresâ€.
EXPORT does not strive to provide an exhaustive look at all the parties involved, but a glimpse for visitors to construct relations, connect ideas, and gain insight into the field, in order to understand that architecture is more than erecting buildings, but the creation of products that construct our world.
EXPORT approaches the subject from an open, pluralistic and unprejudiced perspective. Organizing the contents in six possible ways to practice architecture today, and complemented by the intervention of external agents, the exhibition offers a richer and original view of Spanish Architecture abroad.
Architecture Center Houston and AIA Houston are sponsoring partners of this exhibit.
For more information, please call 713-743-2400 or visit www.arch.uh.edu.
Gardens are gateways for instilling a sense of wonder and stewardship in children about the natural world. Time outdoors creates memories that last a lifetime. And, designing an interactive and engaging garden where children can play and learn doesn’t mean losing style and elegance–innovative family gardens can be well-designed for the whole family. This illustrated workshop looks at key elements of flow, color, planting, refuge, seating, games, and wildlife. It also considers concepts of child development, design adaptability and creating opportunities for children to explore their senses, take risks and keep safe.
Landscape historian and garden designer, Kathryn Aalto is an American writer, designer, historian and lecturer living in Exeter, England. For the past twenty-five years, her focus has been on places where nature and culture intersect, teaching the literature of nature and place, designing gardens, and writing about the natural world. Following the presentation, Aalto will sign copies of her NY Times Bestseller “The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood.”
Members $12, Tickets $18
For more information, visit store.hmns.org.
Photo provided by kathrynaalto.com.
The Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality presents a Gray/Wawro Lecture in Gender, Health, and Well-being– “Politics at the Intersection: Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice.” Bridget Burns, co-director of the Women’s Environment and Development Organization, will give the free, public lecture at Rice University on Mar. 22, 2018. The event will begin with a reception at 5:30 pm, followed by the lecture at 6:30 pm. Registration is required.
For more information, visit events.rice.edu.
Portraying the practice of Spanish Architecture Abroad is a complex task. EXPORT is not a comprehensive catalog of architectural works, nor is it a list of designed buildings in faraway places, because this would not do justice to what it means to be an architect in a globalized society, a place of “arrivals and departuresâ€.
EXPORT does not strive to provide an exhaustive look at all the parties involved, but a glimpse for visitors to construct relations, connect ideas, and gain insight into the field, in order to understand that architecture is more than erecting buildings, but the creation of products that construct our world.
EXPORT approaches the subject from an open, pluralistic and unprejudiced perspective. Organizing the contents in six possible ways to practice architecture today, and complemented by the intervention of external agents, the exhibition offers a richer and original view of Spanish Architecture abroad.
Architecture Center Houston and AIA Houston are sponsoring partners of this exhibit.
For more information, please call 713-743-2400 or visit www.arch.uh.edu.