Lyn Rice

The College of Architecture’s spring 2009 lecture series continues March 25 with Lyn Rice of New York City. The lecture is at 6 p.m. in the Aula Canaria Theatre in the Buena Vista Building at the downtown UTSA campus. The lecture is open to the public and there is no charge to attend.

Rice is founding principal of Lyn Rice Architects. He was selected for the New York Architecture League’s Emerging Voices, and his company will receive the National AIA Honor Award in April for work on the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. Rice’s 27 years of experience include serving as a partner at OpenOffice art + architecture collaboration from 1999 to 2004 and being senior design architect for Diller + Scofidio from 1997 to 1999. Among his many achievements are work as the principal-in-charge and architect-of-record for Dia:Beacon, a 300,000 square foot contemporary art museum in upstate New York. With Diller + Scofidio, Rice led the development of art, analytic, and performance works in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, including Master/Slave (Cartier/Whitney), Facsimile (Moscone Center), and Jet Lag (a touring performance). Rice hold a master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, and he has taught at Columbia and Princeton. He currently is a visiting associate professor of architecture at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.