Join Professor Juan José Castellón and Professor Kalil Erazo for a two course, 3-week summer intensive in Paris. This course offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the design of civil and architectural structures, focusing on integrating technical, ecological, and social aspects. Through lectures, visualizations, field trips, and hands-on experiments, students will explore material behavior, sustainability, and structural analysis, while examining historical and contemporary structures.

• Program Dates: June 27-July 17, 2025

• Program Location: Rice Global Paris Center | Paris, France

• Who Can Apply? Any Rice Undergraduate. Students interested in architecture, civil engineering and civil infrastructure, sustainability. The course will be cross-listed CEVE 238 and ARCH 238 course with no restrictions for students outside of those departments. No pre-requisites. Note for graduating seniors! You are welcome to apply to this course; however, Rice summer aid (i.e. Rice financial aid) is not available to seniors who have obtained enough credits to graduate by the end of the spring semester. Additionally, you will have to postpone your graduation date to the summer in order to participate. You are, however, still eligible to apply for both RICE GLOBAL tuition and travel awards included in the course application.

• Tuition Cost: $1,800 per credit hour (this course is 6 credit hours).

• What's Covered: The program will provide housing for all three weeks, metro card for all three weeks, course-set excursions/tickets, three group meals, and travel insurance.

• Financial Aid: If you already receive financial aid, you are eligible to receive financial aid for up to 9 credit hours a summer for two summer, at 50% of the tuition rate, i.e. if a Paris course is three credit hours and $5,400 total tuition, eligible students would pay $2,700. Rice summer aid (i.e. Rice financial aid) is not available to seniors who have obtained enough credits to graduate by the end of the spring semester.

  After submitting your application, our office is in direct contact with the financial aid office who will let us know if you are financial aid eligible for the summer. If you are accepted, you will immediately know how much financial aid you have available in your acceptance letter.

  To find out if you are eligible before acceptance to a course, contact: fina@rice.edu. To learn more about summer financial aid requirements, please visit: https://financialaid.rice.edu/summer-students.

• Additional Assistance from Rice Global: Students can also apply to receive additional assistance (for both tuition and travel) from Rice Global. Application for assistance is included in the course application.

• Credit Hours: 6 credit hours (3 credits for ARCH 238 & 3 credits for CEVE 238). Must register for both courses at the same time in order to participate. Courses are cross-listed.

• Course Instructors: Juan José Castellón (Architecture)

  Kalil Erazo (Civil & Environmental Engineering)

• Course Description: This course will introduce students to the principles that govern the design of civil and architectural structures from a multidisciplinary persepective. The course will explore architectural and engineering methods and processes through which technology is unfolded and implemented to formulate new forms of habitability. Fundamental technical and scientific aspects in architecture such as structure, energy, and materials articulate the design process from a holistic and ecological point of view, and with an intrinsic cultural and social dimension. The course will explore topics in material behavior, forces analysis, construction, resiliency, sustainability, and design considerations. The course will introduce students to historical and contemporary structures through lectures, multi-media presentations, computer-based visualizations, field trips, and hands-on experiments with materials of construction and physical models of structures. The course also addresses sustainability issues specific to infrastructure systems such as embodied carbon and embodied energy, life-cycle analysis and life-cycle cost, and material recycling. Graphical methods of structural analysis will be introduced to analyze the effect of forces on civil infrastructure.

• Who is this class for? Any Rice Undergraduate. Students interested in architecture, civil engineering and civil infrastructure, sustainability. The course will be cross-listed CEVE 238 and ARCH 238 course with no restrictions for students outside of those departments. No pre-requisites

• Course Zoom Information Session: Take look at the Information Session recording to learn more.

• Syllabus: Take a look at the draft syllabus - subject to change.

• Does this course fulfill a distribution and/or Analyzing diversity requirement? No

For questions, please visit our student program page or email pariscenter@rice.edu. The application deadline is January 31, 2025.