On Tuesday November 2nd at 3:00pm, join Jesús Vassallo on Zoom for his next lecture titled, “Rice Affordable Housing Lab.”
At Rice University, Vassallo is the director of the Affordable Housing Laboratory, a unit providing research and development for community development corporations and other nonprofits in the affordable housing sector.
Jesús Vassallo is a Spanish architect and writer, and currently an associate professor at Rice University. His work focuses on the problem of realism in architecture through the production of design and scholarship. Vassallo studied architecture at Harvard GSD and Madrid ETSAM. Vassallo recently opened his own design practice in Houston, where he has focused on a series of projects that study the relationship between architectural form and urban space through a focus on housing.
Join the Zoom meeting. The Meeting ID is 925 1510 5420 and the passcode is 21272004.
This event is supported by the Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture.
For more information or to request accommodations, please contact Francesco Cianfarani – francesco.cianfarani@ou.edu.
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