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    Lec 4- Water Quality and Solutions to Water Shortages, Rice Design Alliance

    Lec 4- Water Quality and Solutions to Water Shortages, Rice Design Alliance. Water Quality Issues and Solutions to Water Shortages Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 6:30 p.m. Panelists: Jun Chang, Civil and Environmental Engineer, Deputy Director of Public Works, City of Houston, Dr. John Jacob, TAMU/Texas Sea Grant, Director Texas Coastal Watershed Program, Dr. Hanadi S. Rifai, Professor and Director of Environmental Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston Moderators: Mark Greenblatt, Investigative Reporter, KHOU, and Thomas Colbert Water is our most precious resource and this month, RDA hosts a two-part civic forum on water supply issues in the State of Texas and the Houston region on August 24 and August 31, 2011. Texas is currently experiencing one of the worst droughts in its recorded history. Compounding this problem is the fact that many of the state's aquifers have been in decline for many years. Water quality is emerging as a serious issue facing the Houston region. Will the state's water supplies be adequate to support Houston's growing population and continuing industrialization?

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    Lec 1- Jurgen Bey, of Studio Makkink & Bey in Rotterdam

    Lec 2- Wang Shu

    Lec 3- Thomas Campanella

    Lec 5- Urban Growth and Competition for Water in the Houston Region Presented by Rice Design Alliance

    Lec 6- 2011 Sally Walsh Lecture presented by Rice Design Alliance

    Lec 7- Jürgen Mayer H. / Spring 2011 Lecture Series: Catalyst

    Lec 8- Miquel Adria / Spring 2011 Lecture Series: Catalyst

    Lec 9- 5 Years After : Lessons from Katrina, Rita and Ike (RDA Civic Forum - March 9, 2011)

    Lec 10- Andrew Atwood -

    Lec 11- Martin Haettasch -Newer Monumentalities - Collective Formations and Complex

    Lec 12- Wm. Raymond Manning: New Orleans Recovery Series

    Lec 13- Alejandra Lillo: New Orleans Recovery Series

    Lec 14- Scott Bernhard: New Orleans Recovery Series

    Lec 15- Spring Lecture Series: Douglas Brinkley

    Lec 16- John Fernandez: materials in society

    Lec 17- George Beylerian: material libraries

    Lec 18- Gail Peter Borden: Material Precedent

    Lec 19- Blaine Brownell: materials today and in the past

    Lec 20- Rice Design Alliance 2010 Spotlight: Sou Fujimoto

    Lec 21- Mobile Design: The Death of Distance

    Lec 22- Everyday Explosions: Postcolonial Urbanism after media modernity

    Lec 23- 20WORK09

    Lec 24- Urbanism in the Age of Biopolitics

    Lec 25- 2012 Sally Walsh Lecture with Greg Lynn

    Lec 26- What's the Matter With Form?

    Lec 27- 2012 Sally Walsh Lecture with Greg Lynn

    Lec 28- Utopia's Ghost: Postmodernism Reconsidered

    Lec 29- Qin Yun Ma

    Lec 30- Civil Architecture

    Lec 31- Mike Simonian

    Lec 32- Multicultural Modernism

    Lec 33- Kenneth Cobonpue

    Lec 34- Blurred Vision: Architectures of Surveillance from Mies to SANAA

    Lec 35- Looking at the Brazilian architectural challenge

    Lec 36- MASShape

    Lec 37- Megaform: Symptoms, Histories, Projections

    Lec 38- Ecologies of Excess

    Lec 39- Wang Shu at Rice Design Alliance.m4v

    Lec 40- Less -itty, More -ism

    Lec 41- Fluidity

    Lec 42- Making MUSAC

    Lec 43- Bjarke Ingels Lecture

    Lec 44- Lateness and the End of Crisis

    Lec 45- Immediate Gratification

    Lec 46- Dean's Remarks

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