Stephen Fox
Adjunct Lecturer, School of Architecture, Rice University

Stephen Fox is an architectural historian and a Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas, Fox is a graduate of Rice University (Bachelor of Arts, 1973; Bachelor of Architecture, 1975). Since 1987 he has been a lecturer at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture of the University of Houston; since 1990 he has been an adjunct lecturer at the School of Architecture of Rice University. His specialty is architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth century, especially the architecture of Texas and Houston.

Fox is the author of Rice University: An Architectural Tour, in Princeton Architectural Press’s The Campus Guide series (2001) . He has written the Houston Architectural Guide (revised and expanded second edition, 1999) and, with Ellen Beasley, the Galveston Architecture Guidebook (1996). He is part of a team of contributors working on the first volume of The Buildings of Texas, to be published by the University of Delaware Press as part of the Society of Architectural Historians’ Buildings of the United States series. He was also a contributor to World Architecture 1900-2000: A Critical Mosaic: Canada and the United States, (2000), part of a world-wide survey of twentieth-century architecture published by the China Architecture and Building Press and Springer-Verlag. Forthcoming this year is a book on the twentieth-century Houston architect John F. Staub (to be published by Texas A&M University Press) and essays about facets of Houston architecture in books to be published by the Rothko Chapel, the Menil Collection, and the Rienzi collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

In addition to teaching, writing, and lecturing, Fox assists different non-profit organizations in Houston in organizing architecture study tours. For the Rice Design Alliance, he has participated in architectural tours of Charleston, South Carolina, and Phoenix, Arizona, (2006); Seattle, Washington, and Mexico DF, Mexico, (2005); Boston, Massachusetts, and Miami, Florida (2004); Chicago, Illinois, and the Texas-Mexican border (2003); Los Angeles, California (2002), and Savannah, Georgia (2000).