Sarah Whiting Named Dean of Rice University School of Architecture

Three cheers for architect and Princeton professor Sarah Whiting (that’s her at right, all smiles amidst the Tyvek), who has been appointed dean of the Rice University School of Architecture. “Leading the Rice School of Architecture is a dream job,” Whiting said in a statement issued today. “Because it is small, everyone—faculty and students alike—is engaged. The dean is not a distanced administrator like at big architecture schools, but is right in there focusing the school’s ambition.”