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Out of Cite: Design savants sizzle beneath Canopy
- Photo by Eric Hester
- Photo by Eric Hester
- Photo by Eric Hester
- Photo by Eric Hester
- Photo by Eric Hester
- Photo by Eric Hester
- Photo by Eric Hester
- Photo by Eric Hester
- Photo by Eric Hester
- Photo by Eric Hester
- Photo by Eric Hester
- Photo by Eric Hester
Architecture and design enthusiasts convened for a rare midsummer meet-up at a release party at Canopy for the latest issue of Cite, the architecture and design review of Houston. The latest installment of the Rice Design Alliance mag celebrates all things counterculture in Houston, from underground media, to racial tensions at university campuses, to the surprisingly subversive rise of the de Menil family as purveyors of art and promoters of landmark architecture.
The issue's progressive theme of "Space City Subversion" was belied by the forward-focussed dialogue exchanged between the mélange of students, practitioners and in-Cite-ful readers.
In the crowd were small-town starchitects such as Ben Koush and Carlos Jiménez, and prize preservationist Anna Mod. Among the stalwart archidemics were Thomas Colbert, Michelangelo Sabatino, Joe Mashburn and Rafael Longoria. Jenny Lynn Weitz and Scott Cartwright of roadside furniture-activists wacdesignstudio clinked cups beneath designer Dillon Kyle's wooden assemblage as Cite editor Raj Mankad flipped through the periodical beside spouse Miah Mary Arnold.