Judgment focus of
October architecture symposium
RSA lecture series
kicks off this week with landscape architect

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF
REPORTS

Judgment will be the focus of an all-day symposium at the Rice School of Architecture Oct. 13, when an
international gathering of architects and academics will discuss the criteria
for making architectural decisions or judgments.

	MARKUS MIESSEN
	HAL FOSTER
	NEIL DENARI
	BEN VAN BERKEL

The event is free and open to the public and is part of the 2011-2012
Kennon Symposium Series.

Judgment, Part 1,
will take the form of back-to-back “conversations” at the RSA’s
Farish Gallery in Anderson Hall.

“There are no obvious criteria for making architectural decisions
today, either as a designer or as a critic,” said Sarah Whiting, RSA dean and the William Ward
Watkin Professor of Architecture. “There is no obvious, dominant style
or dominant paradigms. So we’re asking, How do we put the
criteria for choices in architecture on the table for everyone to discuss, and
can those criteria start to emerge from schools of architecture? They’re not
emerging from the profession.”

The first conversation, from 10 a.m. to noon, will feature Markus Miessen, an architect, writer
and professor for critical spatial practice at the St