The architect will lead the Houston university’s architecture school.

The $17.8 million renovation, led by Walter Hood and Mark Cavagnero, will open to the public next month.

The current director of Urban Planning at Columbia University’s GSAPP will assume the new role in July.

The initiative—launched last November by the mayor’s office, along with the city’s chief design officer, Christopher Hawthorne—drew nearly 400 responses worldwide.

A leader in Chicago’s architectural scene for half a century has died in a bicycle accident.