On View
June 27-August 23, 2024
Architecture Center Houston

Deliverables
Exhibition design
Marketing materials

Curators
Dalia Munenzon
Maggie Tsang

Contributors
Cadaster
Lola Ben-Alon and The Natural Materials Lab
Dept.
Departamento del Distrito
Dalia Munenzon and the Urban Climate Adaptation Lab
Jess Myers
Feifei Zhou

Design Direction
Dora Godfrey

Sponsors
Diluvial Houston Initiative, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-supported project; Rice School of Architecture, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston, Rice University Office of Research, and BeDESIGN.

Photography
Courtesy of Jason Chen

Big, Hot, and Sticky spotlights Houston as a novel urban ecosystem: a constellation of highways, waterways, air-conditioned buildings, remnant prairies, and possums. This exhibition invites seven designers to respond to Houston’s provocation through critical histories, design research, and speculative projects rooted in the city’s urban landscape: How are environments, climates, and cultures co-constructed? What is the future of this notoriously air-conditioned, car-centered, energy capital?

This was the first exhibition I had the opportunity to work on during my time at Architecture Center Houston. I collaborated closely with Maggie Tsang, Dept., and Dalia Munenzon, GULFLAB, to create an exhibition experience that invites viewers to consider what it looks like to live in a city that is Big, Hot, and Sticky. 

I inherited an established visual system for the exhibition from designer Dora Goddfrey, which posed my primary challenge: maintaining its integrity while developing materials across print and social media.