Albert Pope

Gus Sessions Wortham Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Rice University, USA

Albert Pope

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6th LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction – Cairo, April 2019.

Albert Pope, Gus Sessions Wortham Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Rice University, Houston, USA was a workshop expert at the 6th International LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction in Cairo, April 4-6, 2019.
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Albert Pope is the Gus Sessions Wortham Professor of Architecture, in the School of Architecture, Rice University based in Houston, USA and was a workshop expert on “Urbanism and the technosphere” at the 6th Holcim Forum 2019 on “Re-materializing Construction”.

Last updated: June 29, 2024 Houston, TX, USA

Albert Pope is also the Founding Director of Present Future, a design program and think tank at Rice University’s School of Architecture.

He has written and lectured extensively on the broad implications of post-war urban development. His current research addresses the urban implications of climate change. He is actively working on the formulation of new models of density in light of the extraordinary demands soon to be placed on the global urban environment. He is engaged in research on carbon neutral urban development producing large scale planning projects for Houston and Detroit.

He obtained a Bachelor of Architecture from SCI-Arc (1978) and Master of Architecture from Princeton University (1986).

He held previous teaching positions at Yale University and at SCI-Arc and is the author of Ladders: Architecture at Rice (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997).