UH SICSA Documentary Awarded Worldfest Gold Remi
Larry Bell, Professor and Director of SICSA

A documentary film about our University of Houston Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) has received a Gold Remi award at the 44th annual Worldfest-Houston 2011 international film festival. Competition entries in various categories represented 21 countries.

The SICSA film was produced and directed by Nikola Knez of IFILIMS LLC. We are grateful for his outstanding achievement on our behalf.

In 2010 Popular Science magazine featured SICSA in its selection of “30 Awesome College Labs”. Our current projects include an advanced Mars mission planning and design contract with Boeing, and a lunar habitat development conceptualization and educational interactive simulation contract with the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences.
 
SICSA sponsors the M.S. Space Architecture graduate program in the University of Houston’s College of Architecture. Many of our students work at NASA and affiliated aerospace companies.

Mayor Parker Launches Partnership with UH for Unique Emergency Solar-Powered Generation
On 18 April 2011, Mayor Annise Parker and the University of Houston unveiled a new partnership for solar powered generation. Through SECO grant funding, the City is purchasing emergency solar powered container offices/generators, designed by the University of Houston and Amaresco Solar Solutions. These first-of-its-kind solar units will provide mobile emergency power for small power consuming devices needed during an emergency. In non-emergency times, they can be used as spaces for offices, direct services, storage, first aid stations or cooling locations during special events.

UH Architecture 5th Year Design Studio
The 5th year design studio was featured on Houston PBS ‘UH Moment’ and can be viewed at http://www.uh.edu/multimedia/?mm_catId=UH Moment&mm_videoId=AQ-kYNIefn8