This year's Enlace introduces a new and engaging format: a rotating domino game night designed to spark genuine conversations and connections in a relaxed, interactive environment. Through time-based gameplay and table rotations, participants will have the opportunity to engage with several LiA Maestros throughout the evening, creating a unique, fun, and memorable mentoring experience. EnLAce […]
The Latinos in Architecture (LiA) collegiate Mentorship and Scholarship program (MaS), through AIA Houston and Architecture Center Houston, intends to bridge the gap between students and professionals in the Latino architecture community. The MaS program matches college students pursuing a career path in architecture with a mentor who has an established career in the field.
Join lifelong skateboarder and architectural historian Ted Barrow on a walking tour of the highlights of Houston's Modernist and Late-Modernist architecture through a skateboarder's perspective. The tour will cover key plazas and buildings which became local, state-wide, and eventually global skateboarding destinations from the late 1980's to today. About Ted Barrow Theodore (Ted) Barrow is an art […]
COLORES, Latinos in Architecture’s seventh annual celebration of Latino culture, will take place September 30-October 2, 2026 at Architecture Center Houston and Kirksey Architecture, with conversations and presentations by Francisco Luna, Buro Verde Arquitectura, Mexico City; Michael Gonzales, AIA, ProtoLab Architects; Chef Otto Sanchez, Magnol French Baking; Marisol Valencia, ceramist and mixed media artist, Karina Gonzalez, […]
COLORES, Latinos in Architecture’s seventh annual celebration of Latino culture, will take place September 30-October 2, 2026 at Architecture Center Houston and Kirksey Architecture, with conversations and presentations by Francisco Luna, Buro Verde Arquitectura, Mexico City; Michael Gonzales, AIA, ProtoLab Architects; Chef Otto Sanchez, Magnol French Baking; Marisol Valencia, ceramist and mixed media artist, Karina Gonzalez, […]
COLORES, Latinos in Architecture’s seventh annual celebration of Latino culture, will take place September 30-October 2, 2026. Join us Friday afternoon for a conversation with Karina Gonzalez, Principal Dancer, Houston Ballet. Please consider becoming a sponsor of COLORES. A portion of the proceeds from this event will be donated to Architecture Center Houston’s Latinos in […]
Towers and Trees explores the magnificent architecture between Hermann Square and Discovery Green as well as the changing dynamics of our downtown. We'll look at the partially realized civic center plan surrounding Hermann Square, the historic backbone of Main Street, the ambitious 1970 proposal that would become Houston Center, the internationally recognized icons from the […]
Join ASLA Texas and Architecture Center Houston for a tour of the Ismaili Center Garden on October 21 at 9:30 am with Thomas Woltz of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. In 2019, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, in partnership with Farshid Moussavi Architects and AKT II Engineers, and DLR as the AOR, was awarded the commission […]
Architecture Center Houston is proud to announce its upcoming exhibition, Big Dome, Bigger Dreams: Visions for Harris County Domed Stadium, opening Thursday, October 22, 5:30-7:30pm. What happens to a wonder when the world moves on? It started as an audacious idea. Create the world’s first fully enclosed and air-conditioned sports stadium in a city known for punishing […]
Montrose is one of the most diverse and interesting neighborhoods in Houston with some of the city's best architecture including spectacular mansions, charming bungalows, the campus of the University of St. Thomas, Rothko Chapel, and the Menil Collection. ArCH tour guides will present an overview of the architectural and social history of the area including […]
The Houston Museum District is one of the few areas in the country with such a dense population of museums, public art, contemporary architecture, and landscape design. On this 2-hour walking tour, you will experience the quintessential Modernism of Mies van der Rohe, the structuralist viewpoint of Gunnar Birkerts, the simplicity and craft of Isamu […]
When the Harris County Domed Stadium opened in 1965, it changed what architects and engineers believed possible. The world's first fully enclosed, air-conditioned sports stadium pioneered a new approach to large-scale structures and set the precedent for the age of modern indoor arenas. Yet what would later become known as the Astrodome achieved something larger […]
