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April 15, 2025

A Future Built on Flexibility

Hines College senior interior architecture student, Lene Fourie, has been named a top interior design student in the METROPOLIS Future100 list. She collaborated with associate professor Marta Rodriguez on two projects —Fan House and Habitable Curtains — challenging notions of space, fostering environments that evolve with human needs.

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April 28, 2025

Just Getting Started

From April 14 to 18, the University of Houston Career Services partnered with the National Student Employment Association to celebrate student workers across campus during Student Employment Week. Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design second-year architecture student Sanam Davariar took home the prize for Undergraduate Student Employee of the Year for her role as a digital media work-study student on the College’s marketing and communications team.

April 22, 2025

Alumni Spotlight: Russell G. Clark (M.Arch. '91)

April's Alumni Spotlight features Russell G. Clark (M.Arch. '91) who is a senior project manager at ERES Comapnies and the co-owner of AIX Interests, Inc. "A good deal of my career has been outside the 'typical' architect role. After a brief stint working for architecture firms, I spent most of my time working as an owner’s representative and all the many things that can entail," he said, referencing projects like the redesign and construction of Willie G's for Landry's Restaurants, Inc. and the TXDOT Austin Consolidated Campus.

April 15, 2025

A Future Built on Flexibility

Hines College senior interior architecture student, Lene Fourie, has been named a top interior design student in the METROPOLIS Future100 list. She collaborated with associate professor Marta Rodriguez on two projects —Fan House and Habitable Curtains — challenging notions of space, fostering environments that evolve with human needs.

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April 28, 2025

Just Getting Started

From April 14 to 18, the University of Houston Career Services partnered with the National Student Employment Association to celebrate student workers across campus during Student Employment Week. Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design second-year architecture student Sanam Davariar took home the prize for Undergraduate Student Employee of the Year for her role as a digital media work-study student on the College’s marketing and communications team.

April 22, 2025

Alumni Spotlight: Russell G. Clark (M.Arch. '91)

April's Alumni Spotlight features Russell G. Clark (M.Arch. '91) who is a senior project manager at ERES Comapnies and the co-owner of AIX Interests, Inc. "A good deal of my career has been outside the 'typical' architect role. After a brief stint working for architecture firms, I spent most of my time working as an owner’s representative and all the many things that can entail," he said, referencing projects like the redesign and construction of Willie G's for Landry's Restaurants, Inc. and the TXDOT Austin Consolidated Campus.

April 15, 2025

A Future Built on Flexibility

Hines College senior interior architecture student, Lene Fourie, has been named a top interior design student in the METROPOLIS Future100 list. She collaborated with associate professor Marta Rodriguez on two projects —Fan House and Habitable Curtains — challenging notions of space, fostering environments that evolve with human needs.

March 25, 2025

Alumni Spotlight: Mariana Marquez Keymolen (B.S. '21)

Mariana Marquez Keymolen (B.S. '21) started her Hines College journey through a summer course that introduced her to architecture and industrial design. "Although I studied industrial design, I sought out opportunities to engage in these types of projects whenever I could," she said, now working as a UX/UI designer and taking on projects like the "Better Block" mural project which recently won a Grassroots Initiative Silver Award from APA Houston.

March 20, 2025

Is Housing Still Housing?

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.

March 13, 2025

Form, Function, and Four Wins in a Row

At the beginning of March, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Fort Worth Design Awards celebration honored Hines College students for their outstanding projects in the 2024 AIAFW Student Design Awards. This year’s class of winners not only continued a tradition of winning high praise from the AIAFW Student Design Awards for the fourth year in a row, but they also took home three out of the four top prizes.

Hines College in the News

Future100 Interior Design Undergraduate Winners

Metropolis Magazine

Furniture Library Announces Winners of Student Design Competition

Home Furnishing News

Architecture Students Fabricate Sculptural Benches at the University of Houston

Rhino3Dzine

Courses on climate budgeting and resilience selected for 2025 Course Development Prize in Architecture

Archinect

Gulf Research Program Provides Nearly $6M for Eight Interdisciplinary Design Studios to Investigate Complex Challenges in the Gulf of Mexico Region

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine