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The campus has approximately 285 acres of level ground planted with more than 4,000 trees. The 2.9-mile campus perimeter is bounded by a hedge of wax leaf ligustrum and a double row of live oak trees. No public roads cross the campus.
The campus includes about 50 major buildings based on a neo-Byzantine style developed by Ralph Adams Cram and characterized by red tile roofs, semicircular archways, and a special rose-hued brick. Architects and firms responsible for notable Rice buildings include:
Howard Barnstone and Eugene Aubry, Houston
Rice Museum (now the Continuing Studies Center) (1969)
Rice Media Center (1970)
Ricardo Bofill, Barcelona, and
Kendall/Heaton Associates, Houston
Alice Pratt Brown Hall (1991)
Brown & Root, Houston (Albert E. Sheppard, architect)
Brown College (1965)
Calhoun, Tungate, Jackson & Dill, Houston
Ryon Engineering Laboratory (1965)
Mechanical Engineering Building (1985)
Cambridge Seven Associates, Cambridge (Charles Redmon, architect)
George R. Brown Hall (1991)
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, Boston (Ralph Adams Cram, architect)
General plan of campus (1910)
Lovett Hall (1912)
Will Rice College (1912)
Mechanical Laboratory (1912)
Baker College (1912, 1914)
Physics Laboratory (1914)
Hanszen College (1916)
Hammond, Beeby & Babka, Chicago (Thomas Beeby, architect)
James A. Baker
III Institute for Public Policy (1997)
Jessen, Jessen, Millhouse & Greeven, Austin
Autry Court
and Gymnasium (1951)
Lloyd & Morgan/Milton B. McGinty, Houston
Rice Stadium (1950)
Lloyd, Morgan & Jones, Houston
Jones College (1957)
Allen Center (1967)
Sewall Hall (1971)
Harvin C. Moore, Houston
Rice Memorial Center (1958)
Rice Memorial Chapel (1958)
Neuhaus & Taylor, Houston
Richardson College (1971)
John Outram & Associates, London
Anne and Charles
Duncan Hall (1996)
Cesar Pelli & Associates, New Haven
Revised campus plan (1983)
Herring Hall (1984)
Ley Student Center addition to Rice Memorial Center (1986)
George Pierce - Abel B. Pierce, Houston
Hamman Hall (1958)
Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories (1958)
M.D. Anderson Biological Laboratory (1958)
Space Science and Technology Building (1966)
Herman Brown Hall (1968)
Antoine Predock, Albuquerque
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (1997)
Dell Butcher Hall (1997)
Staub, Rather & Howze, Houston
Anderson Hall (1947)
Abercrombie Laboratory (1948)
Fondren Library (1949)
O'Connor House (1949)
Wiess College (1950)
Rayzor Hall (1962)
James Stirling, Michael Willford & Associates, London
Anderson Hall addition (1981)
Charles Tapley & Associates, Houston
Mudd Computer Science Laboratory (1983)
William Ward Watkin, Houston
Chemistry Building (1925)
Cohen House (1927)
Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson, Houston
Baker College expansion (1957)
Hanszen College expansion (1957)
Will Rice College expansion (1957)
Lovett College (1968)
Last updated 16 January 1998.
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