The inaugural exhibition at the Rice University School of Architecture’s new William T. Cannady Hall explores how architecture and design can participate in a more sustainable world.
An Oct. 28 opening and lecture event kicked off the exhibit titled “The Sixth Sphere,” curated by Brittany Utting, assistant professor of architecture. The exhibition provides an in-depth look at how the built environment operates at a planetary scale and imagines the effects design could have on our environment.
“This is the first exhibition in the new gallery space for the School of Architecture,” said Igor Marjanović, the William Ward Watkin Dean of the School of Architecture. “It looks at a concept of planetary care and engagement from the scale of a building, an individual, an object all the way to the city, the region and the planet at large.”
At the opening, Marjanović introduced the exhibition as a testament to architecture’s evolving responsibilities amid planetary crises.
“It includes a series of innovative drawings and animations by architects who are trying to reimagine a different kind of world and a more sustainable world by means of architectural design,” he said.