Hines College professor Gail Peter Borden, FAIA, along with Michael Bell (Columbia University) and Eunjeong Seong (Pratt Institute), opened Is Housing Still Housing? Houston’s Single-Family House. As economic, environmental, and technological shifts redefine how and where people live, the exhibition challenges the conventional understanding of housing and proposes new frameworks for addressing shelter at scale.

A year has passed since The Gateway Decathlon chose the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design as a player in its competitive event, including ten categories addressing the future of housing and providing teams with $100,000 to build their housing units. The international competition puts the Hines College against other architecture schools at California Polytechnic State University, Virginia Tech, Dalian University of Technology, and more. The multi-year process culminates in an exhibition near the iconic Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, where eleven teams will showcase their built designs on-site in the summer of 2026.

University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design professors Dalia Munenzon and Matthew Johnson are launching the Adaptive Ecofutures: Shaping the Gulf Coast of Tomorrow studio, an ambitious new program dedicated to addressing the complex environmental and urban challenges facing the Gulf Coast. Developed in partnership and funded with a $748,848 research grant from the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), this program focuses on equipping future designers with the tools necessary to build sustainable, resilient communities.