RIVES TAYLOR

Rives Taylor, FAIA, is a Texas licensed, practicing architect and educator. He leads the firmwide sustainable project delivery area for the design firm of Gensler. He also is engaged in research with the Houston Advanced Research Center, focusing on sustainable building technologies for the hot and humid climate of the Gulf Coast. For his efforts in advancing sustainable design in the Houston region he was recognized in the fall of 2005 with the President’s Citation of the Houston Citizen’s Environmental Coalition.

Rives is the Kirksey Fellow for Sustainable Design at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture of the University of Houston. Both here and at the Rice University School of Architecture, where he is a lecturer, he teaches numerous sustainable design methodology seminars as well as advising studio on this approach. As adjunct professor at the University of Houston he teaches general quantitative structures and materials/methods core classes, architectural history and theory lectures and seminars, and architectural research methods.

He is on the board of the Rice Design Alliance, sits on its programs, editorial and fund raising committees, and is active in the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He is also a member of the national USGBC and is a member of its program committee. He is a board member, as well as director of communications, in the Houston USGBC chapter. He is LEEDTM 2.0 accredited. He is a certified Green Advantage trainer, to assist the building contractor community in its sustainable efforts.