Location Houston
Client Rice University
Architect Michael Maltzan Architecture
Design Team Michael Maltzan, FAIA; Tim Williams; Jeanette Fabry; Andrea Manning; Matt Austin; Hiroshi Tokumaru; Peter Emi; James Tate; Ann Soo; Jen Lathrop; Gee-Ghid Tsi; Pil Sun Ham; Alan Sillay; Peter Osborne; Collin Cobia; Casey Benito
Contractor Linbeck
Executive Engineer Cardno Hanes Whaley
Civil Engineer Walter P. Moore
MEP and Sustainability Engineer Stantec
Structural Engineer Guy Nordenson and Associates
Acoustic Engineer Nagata Acoustics
Geotechnical Engineer Ulrich Engineers
Lighting Designer Horton Lees Brogden
Theater Planning and Design Consultant Fisher Dachs Associates
AV/IT/Security Consultant Rice University
Waterproofing Consultant Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates
Facade Consultant Thornton Tomasetti
Fire and Life Safety Consultant Jensen Hughes
The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University is a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to the advancement of transdisciplinary collaboration for students between the arts, sciences, and humanities. The 50,000-sf facility houses a collection of instructional, production, performance, and exhibition spaces. Flexible spaces bring diverse programmatic functions into contact with one another and allow for extending views out toward the campus. While recalling the architectural history of the campus, the building’s design features bricks coated in magnesium oxide. It is distinctive of its own time and modern in spirit. The LEED Silver building defines a new southern campus gateway and an expanded arts and cultural core on Rice’s campus.