During an art exhibition where hundreds of the University’s students, faculty and community members had gathered, Gerald D. Hines, the namesake of UH’s architecture program was announced to have donated $1 million to the college’s international programs.
Dean Patricia Oliver, who has been with the University since 2010, made the announcement at Monday’s exhibit. CultureMap Houston reported Oliver saying Hines was “so impressed by the work of the students that he wanted to insure that students in the College of Architecture would have that (international) opportunity into the future.”
This comes off the heels of the program’s prestigious honor at last summer’s Venice Biennale, where the Gerald D. Hines School of Architecture was awarded the Global Arts Affairs Foundation Prize. At the Biennale, UH was the “featured university” at the showing. The Biennale is the world’s largest architecture exhibit and is held biannually in Vienna, Austria.
