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Past Event
Architecture
Wednesday, September 2
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Rice Architecture Noon Talk: Anzilla Gilmore

About the Event

Anzilla Gilmore, assistant director for project management and engineering, Rice University, presents the Noon Talk “Architecture: It is what it is, but it does not have to be” at 12:00 p.m. via Zoom as part of the Rice Architecture Fall 2020 Lecture Series. She will be joined by guest speakers Nicola Springer (M.Arch. ’97), executive vice president and director of pK-12 projects, Kirksey Architecture, Florence Tang (M.Arch. ’09), project manager, Design and Engineering, Houston Zoo, and Laura Vargas, project director, EYP Architecture & Engineering.



The panel will discuss the racial reckoning architecture must have to acknowledge its internal struggle with the culture of discrimination it perpetuates. They will review personal experiences and strategies that can be used to advance the profession.

Rice Architecture Fall 2020 Lectures are part of an initiative to acknowledge, understand, and act on systemic racism in the built environment. Invited designers, scholars, and activists will speak on the relationship between race, architecture, and, by extension, related questions of social equity, environmental justice, and gender parity. The aim of the lecture series is to foreground these issues in the school’s curriculum while more broadly fostering solidarity and action in architecture.

Gilmore’s talk “Architecture: It is what it is, but it does not have to be” is free and open to the public. Please be sure to register online to receive the link to join. For more information on all lectures and to register to attend, visit arch.rice.edu/latest/events and ricedesignalliance.org.



This lecture series is made possible through the generous support of the Betty R. and George F. Pierce Jr., FAIA, Fund and the William B. Coleman, Jr. Colloquium Fund for Architecture.

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United States