As Houstonians gather weekly at farmers markets and community gardens and urban farms sprout everywhere from corner lots to utility corridors to
former industrial sites, the city seems host to a renewed passion for a habit of dwelling that feeds the spirit and the body. This spring, the Rice Design Alliance invites you to “Nourish,” a tour of six contemporary houses with edible gardens, created by architects, landscape architects, and designers. “If our kitchen is the heart of our house,” says tour chair and landscape architect Flora Yeh ofMirador Group, “our edible garden would be a nurturing extension. The houses on this tour share an
integral theme, a way of life.” “Nourish: An Architecture Tour of Houses and Edible Gardens,”
RDA’s 41st annual architecture tour, takes place from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 9, and Sunday, April 10.
The tour includes:
4523 Teas
Natalye Appel + Associates Architects, 2015 Landscape: RH Factor
3312 University
Strasser Design, 2016
2709 Albans
1941; English + Associates Architects, 2010
1514 Banks
Lantz Full Circle, 2012
1603 Cherryhurst
1922; GSMA (formerly Glassman Shoemake Maldonado Architects, Inc.), 2014 Landscape: Grove Hill Farm
748 Arlington
Jay Baker Architects, 2003, 2012
Landscape: Fischer Schalles
The tour is open to the public. This year, eMember tickets start at $35, which also provide a year of digital communications from RDA. Current RDA members can purchase discounted tour tickets at $25; tickets are $15 for students with ID. As always, RDA membership is open to the public.
Tickets are available online. Memberships can be purchased and renewed at ricedesignalliance.org.
RDA has organized tours every year since 1975 to help Houstonians experience firsthand the most interesting works of architecture and landscape and interior design in the city. This year’s tour is made possible by the support of RDA Underwriters 4b Technology Group; Cardno Haynes Whaley; D.E. Harvey Builders; Hines; Louisa Stude Sarofim; Walter P Moore. Support also comes from Austin Commercial; Brochsteins; Builders West; Kirksey; Parra Design Group; Planning Design Research Corporation; Putterman, Scharck & Associates; The Southampton Group; Tellepsen; and workplace solutions. PaperCity is the tour’s media sponsor.
