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Houston Design Research Grant (HDRG) is a grant from Rice University School of Architecture (funded by The Mitsui U.S.A. Foundation) that Awards and Grants | Rice School of Architecture Houston Design Research Grant With its vast, complex, and diverse territory, Ho.
Awards and Grants | Rice School of Architecture Houston Design Research Grant With its vast, complex, and diverse territory, Houston faces many of the environmental, architectural, and urban issues now affecting cities worldwide. The Houston Design Research Grant (HDRG) aims to promote quality design research for Houston-specific urban conditions that can also inform urban discourses and debates more broadly.
Eligible applicants include U. S. university students and faculty are eligible to apply.
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Awards and Grants | Rice School of Architecture Houston Design Research Grant With its vast, complex, and diverse territory, Houston faces many of the environmental, architectural, and urban issues now affecting cities worldwide. The Houston Design Research Grant (HDRG) aims to promote quality design research for Houston-specific urban conditions that can also inform urban discourses and debates more broadly.
The grant is open to U.S. university students and faculty looking to work on research projects that contribute to the improvement of Houston’s urban environments and urban life for all its citizens. Winning proposals in both categories (faculty and student) should demonstrate the potential to catalyze a Houston-based design project that is relevant both locally and globally.
The Rice University School of Architecture administers the grants which have been made possible thanks to a generous gift from The Mitsui U.S.A. Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.)
, Inc. (“Mitsui USA”).
Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting The Transgressive Kitchen: Collectivity and Food in Houston The SRO Model in Houston: Adaptation, Transformation, Revitalization ICONS – Quilting / Mapping the Third Ward CIRCUS - Interactive Chair Installation Lobby Urbanism: Converging Downtown’s Interior and Exterior Streets Stephen Fox and Michelangelo Sabatino Howard Barnstone Architect: Publication & Online Digital Access Accommodation in Houston: Beer, Burgers and Barbacoa Documentation and Analysis of Prison Architecture In and Around Houston Charles Tapley and Chula Ross Sanchez Rafael Longoria and Susan Rogers Houston Hope: Strategies for Change No More White Space – Undeveloped Space of Northside Village Education Through Form: The Schools and Homes of Donald Bartheme Critical Making as Foundation Pedagogy Nonya Grenader and Danny Marc Samuels ROW: Trajectories through the Shotgun House Houston’s Disappearing Art Deco Carless Garages, Careless Spaces, and Everything In Between Tables in Deserts and Swamps: How Food Education Can Help Solve the Root of Rood Insecurity Edward Liew, Shree Kale, and Anna Fritz Yigit Ergecen and Irmak Erman Eruz Potential of Small Living in the Inner Loop Single Family Home Shaping the 'Rurban' Landscape Andrew Daley, Jason Fleming, and Peter Muessig Peter Stone and Kelly Barlow Robert Hadley and Samuel Jacobson Darren Preacely and Sharon Adams Documenting Decaying Dreams Engulfed by Industry: Rethinking the Industrial-Residential Interface Jessica Lauren Barnett, Rafael Morales, Maria Gabriela Oran, and Allison Parrott Mad to be Saved: Finding Purpose for the Residual Space of Highway Intersection LaFayette Childs II and Marianne Do An Unhurried Tour of Houston’s Alternative Market Places Grow Local: Plotting a New Urban-Rural Interface in Houston Exposing the Fifth: Alternatives for Houston’s Lost Elevation Jean Daly, Katherine Dankberg, and Benjamin Regnier Houston: (Green) Space City Architecture as Liberator: Houston’s Historic African-American Church Architecture The New Look: Modern Architecture in Houston The Spotlight Award was founded in 2009 under the leadership of Lonnie Hoogeboom with John J.
Casbarian, Carlos Jiménez, and Rafael Longoria. Every year, the Spotlight Award committee, formed by architects, academics, and design practitioners, convenes to consider local, national, and international architects within the first 15 years of their professional practice who have demonstrated design excellence and curiosity through their body of work. The Spotlight Award is by invitation only.
The 2024 Spotlight Award was awarded to Bangkok Tokyo Architecture, an architectural studio founded by Wtanya Chanvitan and Takahiro Kume in 2017. They are fascinated by open-ended structures and the assembly of ordinary elements — blurring the lines between ordinary and exceptional. Their practice explores resilient forms of living, seeking ways to liberate architecture and find models of sustainability.
Troy Schaum, associate professor at the Rice University School of Architecture, said of Bangkok Tokyo Architecture’s work, “ Wtanya and Takahiro are reformulating elemental logics of structure and form in surprising and inventive ways. In every project, they are ceaselessly asking if the architecture can do more.
” Assistant Professor Georgina Baronian commented, "The unabashed pragmatism displayed in the work of Bangkok Tokyo Architecture belies its subtle sophistication, displaying a reverence for the everyday while achieving an architecture of enchantment. Modest yet magical, the recent projects of this young firm speak to larger questions of our present moment — of maintenance, tradition, economy, and adaptation."
2024 Spotlight Award lecture House K, 2023, Bangkok, Thailand. Photo by Soopakorn Srisakul. Spotlight Award Recipients Anssi Lassila, OOPEAA, 2017 Cadaval & Solá-Morales, 2016 Tarik Oualalou and Linna Choi, Oualalou+ Choi, 2015 Georgeen Theodore, Interboro Partners, 2013 Pezo von Ellrichshausen, 2012 Grace La and James Dallman, LA DALLMAN, 2011 Antón García-Abril, Ensamble Studio, 2009
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: U. S. university students and faculty are eligible to apply. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Houston Design Research Grant (HDRG) is funded by Rice University School of Architecture (funded by The Mitsui U.S.A. Foundation). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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