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1 7 Architectural Attractions Asia Society Brochstein Pavillion 1370 Southmore Blvd. 6100 Main Street Yoshio Tanaguchi Thomas Phifer 2012 2010 2 8 Astrodome Byzantine Fresco Chapel Loop 610 & Kirby Drive 4011 Yupon Street H. Lloyd & W.B. Morgan Francois De Menil 1965 1997 HOUSTON 3 9 1970’s, painters, sculptors, purposeful architectural and writers have begun to invention. Houston thus explore and disclose these presents a broad array Bank of America Center Carter Building 700 Louisianna Street 806 Main Street other Houstons - funky, of typological and formal Johnson/Burgee Arch. Unknown marginal, subversive- tendancies rather than 1983 1911 inworks that treat well defined, patiently 4 10 Houston as an archeology, distilled, and conciously a compilation of urban applied local traditions. experiences heretofore Such traditions have unexcavated and unalyzed. existed, but they fall into CenterPoint Energy Architecture has hardly disuse, go unrecognized Bayou Bend Tower 2940 Lazy Lane 1111 Louisianna Street attempted to share this and uncatalogued, and J. Staub & B. Briscoe Richard Keating introspective tendancy. so lose their connection 1928 1972 Instead it reflects, as to the present. This 5 11 it customarily has, the phenomenon occurs not city’s extroversion. over centuries, but well Because Houston has within an architect’s span looked beyond itself for of practice” architectural direction, Beer Can House Chevron Tower The American Institute of any traveling architect. Below 222 Malone Street 1301 McKinney Avenue eclecticism, and formalism John Milkovich Caudill Rowlett Scott Architects - Houston has is a short excerpt from the 1968 1982 have been recurring traits. produced an Architectural guide which paints a picture Typological developments 6 12 Guide for the City, which of the architectural scene in have depended more displays a comprehensive the City as it has existed and on externally imposed list of all architecturally continues to: determinates, usually significant buildings and place economic, than on in Houston. This brochure “Phillip Lopate has described BG Group Place Childrens Museum 811 Main Street 1500 Binz Street and our analysis of the the complexity of Houston Pickard Chilton Robert Venturi Architourist City of Houston as yeilding an inner richness, 2011 1992 deciphers their 850 entries unsuspected from the into these 60 Architectural perspective of the freeway, Attractions which illustrate unilluminated in the refracted what the City has to offer, and light of mirror-glass-clad those “must see” works for office towers. Since the The University of Texas at San Antonio 13 19 25 31 37 43 49 55 Houston Museum of MFA - Audry Jones Beck Methodist Research Clayton Library Center First City Tower Hess Tower Natural Science Building One City Center Richmond Hall Center 5300 Caroline Street 1001 Fannin Street 1501 McKinney Street One Hermann Park Dr. 5601 Main Street 1001 Main Street 1500 Richmond Avenue 6670 Bertner Avenue Maldanado Architects Morris Aubry Arch. Gensler George Pierce Rafael Moneo SOM Dan Flavin KPF 2008 1981 2010 1964 2000 1960 1996 2011 14 20 26 32 38 44 50 56 Contemporary Art First Presbyterian MFA - Cullinan Hall & Museum Church Hilton Americas JP Morgan Chase Tower Brown Pavillion One Houston Center Rothko Chapel Two Houston Center 5216 Montrose Blvd. 5300 Main Street 1600 Lamar Street 600 Travis Street 1001 Bissonet Street 1221 McKinney Street 1409 Sull Ross Street 909 Fannin Street Gunnar Birkerts H. Upjohn & M. Sullivan Arquitectonica I.M. Pei Mies Vand Der Rowe S.I. Morris Assoc., 3DI Phillip Johnson William L. Pereira Assoc. 1972 1949 2003 1981 1974 1978 1971 1974 15 21 27 33 39 45 51 57 Cullen Sculpture Garden General Services Admin Lawndale Art & Sacred Hearts Co- Union National Bank Montrose Blvd. & Building Holocaust Museum Performacne Center Museum of Fine Arts One Shell Plaza Chapel 220 Main Street Bissonett Street Unknown 5401 Caroline Street 4912 Main Street 1001 Bissonet Street 910 Louisianna Street Address Mauran, Russell, & Isomu Noguchi Page Sutherland Page Ralph Appelbaum L. Barry Davidson William Ward Watkin SOM Address Crowell 1987 2010 1993 1997 1924 1971 Address 1912 16 22 28 34 40 46 52 58 New texas Children’s George R. Brown MD Anderson Cancer Hospital Maternity CY Twombly Gallery Convention Center Houston Ballet Center Center Pennzoil Place St. Basil Chapel Wabi Sabi House 1501 Branard Street 1001 Convention Blvd. 501 Texas Avenue 1515 Holcombe Blvd. 6701 Fannin Street 711 Louisianna Street 3802 Yoakum Blvd. Unkown Renzo Piano Mario Bolullo Gensler HKS FKP Johnson/Burgee Arch. Phillip Johnson Olsen Kundig Architects 1995 1987 2011 2011 2012 1976 1995 2008 17 23 29 35 41 47 53 59 Houston Center for Post Rice Lofts Discovery Green Heritage Plaza Contemporary Crafts Menil Museum Niels Esperson Building 909 Texas Avenue St. Mathew’s Lawrence Wells Fargo Plaza 1500 McKinney Street 1111 Bagby Street 4848 Main Street 1515 Sull Ross Street 808 Travis Street Mauran, Russell, & 5315 Main Street 1000 Louisianna Street Hargreaves Associates M. Nasr & Partners Unknown Renzo Piano John Eberson Crowell J.W. Northrop Jr. SOM 2008 1987 2001 1987 1927 1913 1927 1983 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60 Herman Miller Outdoor Methodist Research One Allen Center St. Paul’s United Elder Artists Lofts Theatre Houston City Hall Center 500 Dallas Avenue Public National Bank Methodist Williams Tower 1101 Elder Street 100 Concert Drive 901 Bagby Street 6670 Bertner Avenue Wilson, Morris, Crane, 402 Main Street 5501 Main Street 2800 Post Oak Blvd. Studio Red Architects Eugene Werlin & Assoc. Joseph Finger KPF & Anderson James Ruskin Bailey Alfred C. Finn Morris Architects 1930’s 1968 1938 2011 1972 1925 1930 1983.

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