Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Home of Rice’s internationally acclaimed Shepherd School of Music and a sought-after performance and recording venue, Alice Pratt Brown Hall hosts approximately 350 events and 75,000 visitors per year.
What’s there: 1,000-seat Stude Concert Hall, 250-seat Duncan Recital Hall, Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ, an opera studio, 65 practice rooms, seven classrooms and rehearsal and small ensemble spaces, and 54 teaching studios
Named for: Philanthropist and arts patron Alice Pratt Brown, wife of George R. Brown, a former Rice Board of Trustees chair and president of Brown & Root
Built: 1991, Ricardo Bofill and the Taller de Arquitectura and Kendall/Heaton Associates
Rice Campus Map No. 15