ZEROW HOUSE

By Jessica Stark
What do you get when you combine Rice student innovation; a commission to build a zero-energy home; and Project Row Houses, a neighborhood-based art and cultural organization that seeks to develop housing for low-to-moderate-income residents of Houston’s Third Ward? The ZEROW HOUSE, of course.

Concrete Evidence

By Mike Williams
Sometimes there’s no hard and fast rule for concrete construction. Just ask Brantley Highfill and Zhan Chen, two graduate students in the Rice School of Architecture, and recent runners-up in the building element division of the international student design competition Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World.

Rocky Road
By Mike Williams
There are a lot of interesting rocks along the road from Marrakech to Casablanca, and a coterie of Rice students and their professors had a good look at a lot of them during the summer break.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
By Mike Williams
Graduate student Lizette Leon Rodriguez had never been on a boat for more than a couple of hours before embarking on the voyage of a lifetime.