Albert Pope | Rice Architecture
About Albert Pope
Albert Pope is the Gus Sessions Wortham Professor of Architecture at Rice University. Pope holds degrees from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and Princeton University, and taught at Yale University and SCI-Arc before coming to Rice. His design work has received numerous awards including national and regional awards by the American Institute of Architects as well as a design citation from Progressive Architecture.
He is the recipient of numerous grants from a wide variety of funding agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts, National Academy of Science, and the National Science Foundation. He is the author of the book-length study of the postwar American City, Ladders (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015) and Inverse Utopia (Birkhauser, 2024). Pope has written and lectured extensively on the broad implications of climate disruption in light of the extraordinary demands soon to be placed on the built environment. He is the director of Present Future, a think-tank for urban design based in Houston Texas.
