This music school completes the campus of Rice University, construction of which began in the 19th
century, and to which James Stirling and Cesar Pelli have also
contributed. The programme comprises the construction of an
administrative block, classrooms, rehearsal rooms, a studio for a large
organ and an auditorium for 1.000 spectators. The different
constructions are grouped around a number of interior courtyards, in the
style of cloisters, composing a complex which gives the impression of
being a single building. The construction in red brick and the
simplified classicism of the architectonic vocabulary are in keeping
with American traditions and with other examples of the architecture of
this Texan university.