Rita Hodge

 
 

Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Texas, Austin, TX

Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture from Texas A&M, B/CS, TX

 

Education

far left:  self portrait center:  entry to jain residence over water feature symbolizes purification.   top right:  timber bamboo with monstera deliciosa.   bottom right:  shadows dance across this limestone terrace surrounded by four multi-trunk river birch. 

2002       Founded my firm, rHfactor. 


1998 - 2002    Project manager, McKinnon Associates, Houston, TX.

Residential Design/Build firm.  Responsible for initial client contact thru design, bid, construction, including long term maintenance. 


Spring 1997    Associate Professor, Texas A&M University (TAMU)

Taught the History of Landscape Architecture in North America. 


1994 - 1997    Project Manager, The Office of James Burnett, Houston, TX

Firm specialized in health care facilities, corporate campuses and urban parks.  Responsibilities included initial presentations through project completion.  Specialized in construction administration.


1990 - 1994    Various Graduate Teaching Assistantships & freelance landscape design from Houston to Austin sustained me in graduate school. 

professional Experience

Smith Residence                         Master Plan                                               Houston     

Burnett/Frates Residence            Master Plan & Construction Admin.             Houston

Cohen Residence                        Master Plan & CA                                     Houston

Dickson Ranch                            Master Plan & CA                                     Brenham

Astro’s Halliburton Plaza            Construction Administration for OJB            Houston

Woodlands Marriott Hotel          CA for OJB                                               Woodlands

Jain Residence                            Master Plan                                              Houston

Marks Residence                        Master Plan and Construction                     Houston

Meridian Resource Corp.            Unbuilt Design for Roof Garden                 Houston   

Edwards Residence                    Master Plan and Construction                     Houston

Exxon Brookhollow -

    Heart of the Campus              Construction Administration  for OJB           Houston

St. Elizabeth Hospital’s

    Health & Wellness Center       Master Plan & CA for OJB                         Houston

Selected Projects

2014 - Ralph Smith Residence included on the Garden Oaks Home & Garden Tour

2011 - Russell Residence included on American Institute of Architects AIA Fall Home Tour

2011 - Cohen Residence included on Houston Heights Home & Garden Spring Tour

2009 - Cohen Residence included on American Institute of Architects (AIA) Fall Home Tour

2007 - Edwards Residence and Knapp Residence included on Rice Design Alliance (RDA) Southampton Home Tour.

2005 - Jain Residence included on AIA Fall Home Tour.

2002 & 2003 - Knapp Garden included on Garden Conservancy Tour.

1996 - Texas Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (TASLA) Award of Excellence (team OJB), Hebert Health & Wellness Center, St. Elizabeth Hospital, Beaumont.

1996 - TASLA Merit Award (team OJB), for Exxon’s Heart of the Campus, Houston, TX.

1995/96 - Co-chairman with Jim Burnett, of the Texas Gulf Coast Chapter of the ASLA

1995 - TASLA Award of Excellence, St. Michael’s Hospital, Texarkana, TX.

1995 - ALSA Honor Award for Excellence in the Study of Landscape Architecture, TAMU. 

recognition

  1. •Glentzer, Molly.  “Urban Pioneers Prove You Can Live Large in Tiny Homes,” Houston Chronical.  December, 18, 2011.

  2. •Huber, Kathy.  “There’s No Place Like Home,” Houston Chronical. March 25, 2011.

  3. •Barth, Linda.    “Mode rn Meld: Indoors and Outdoors Become One in this Luminous Lightbox of a House,” Houston House & Home Magazine. October 2009, pp. 32-39.

  4. •Vuong, Mary. “Come on Over to Our House,” Houston Chronicle Gloss Magazine, Houston Chronicle. October 2009, pg. 22.

  5. • Evans, James M. “Home as Human Temple,” Texas Architect Magazine. November/December 2007, pp. 44-47.

  6. •Fox, Susan. “Nurturing Soul at Home,” Gloss Magazine, Houston Chronicle. August 2, 2006, pg. 22.

  7. •Crisp, Barbara. “Exxon Company USA Brookhollow Campus, Heart of the Campus,” Human Spaces: Life Enhancing Designs for Healing, Working, and Living. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers, Inc. 1998.

publications

“How, Why, and When to Hire a Landscape Professional,” Houston House & Home, January

            2002.  Also a slide lecture, Galveston Garden Club, December 2001.

“It’s a Dog’s World,” Houston House & Home, May 2001.

“Child’s Play: Designing Gardens for Children,” Houston House & Home, September 2000.

“Dreaming of a Green Christmas,” Houston House & Home, December 1999.

“Buy the Book,” Houston House & Home, January 1999.

“Herb Gardening in Houston,” Houston House & Home, September 1998.

“Grass Roots Movement: Ornamental Grasses Reshape the Landscape,” Houston House & Home,

            March 1998.

“Art in the Garden,” Houston House & Home, November 1997. Also a slide lecture, Galveston

            Garden Club, December 1997.

“Site Furnishings I & II,” slide lecture, Texas Garden Club’s (TGC) Master Gardener Program, 1996.

“The History of Landscape Architecture 1850 - Present,” slide lecture, TGC’s Master Gardener

            Program, 1994.

“Myth-Conceptions: The Garden Architecture of Emilio Ambasz,” graduate seminar Brown Bag        

            Lecture for Professor Malcolm Quantrell, TAMU. 

“History of Landscape Architecture to 1850,” slide lecture, TGC’s Master Gardener Program, 1993. 

Articles & Lectures

Professional References available upon request