Join us for the 5th Annual Clays for College shooting event, a fundraiser supporting the MGMC Scholarship Fund, on Monday, March 30. What a fun way to help raise scholarship money for high school students as they prepare to become future Architects. This will be a day of support, competition, recreation, and fun. Participation is […]
This bicycle tour explores the Historic Third Ward and surrounding areas including Houston Community College, Emancipation Park, Project Row Houses, Dowling Street, the Negro Hospital, later Riverside General Hospital, the Buffalo Soldiers Museum, and Texas Southern University. The tour is a dynamic discussion of the neighborhood’s character, history and future in the center of Houston […]
A conversation focusing on residential, design–build, high-end, and small commercial practices with Franco Albarran (Albarran Architects), Luisa Aurrecoechea (LEAM Design + Build), and Paul Benavente (Stella Maris Architecture).
The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world. Equivalent to the 8th largest business district in the United States, TMC has over 50 million square feet of patient care, education, and research space. 160,000+ individuals visit the Texas Medical Center each day with more than 6 million patients treated annually. The […]
Join us for a day of imagination and creation with the National Organization of Minority Architects, Houston's Project Pipeline, and Architecture Center Houston's Kids+ Architecture Committee.
Living in the Bayou City, we are used to experiencing flooding, hurricanes, strong winds, and freezes that can cause our homes to lose power or damage them. During these events, many families are in need of an emergency shelter that can provide a warm bed, healthy meals and activities for kids.
Aspiring student architects will be challenged with designing their own “Haven”: a community center, which can act as an emergency shelter in times of need.
Houston’s Third Ward is a culturally rich, historically African-American neighborhood, that includes Texas Southern University (HBCU), The University of Houston (Tier 1), Emancipation Park, and numerous other cultural gems. One of those is the Columbia Tap Trail, completed in 2009, which sits atop the abandoned Columbia Tap railroad route - originally built by enslaved people […]
This tour explores the original footprint of the Heights, Texas’ and Houston’s first mixed-use community and home to 121 of the 279 National Register of Historic Places listed in Houston. We will look at a wide variety of building types that are historic and original to the area as well as more recent contemporary architecture […]
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 view point of Gunnar Birkerts, the simplicity and craft of […]
Join us for a tour of the Galveston Bay Foundation’s new home, the Gessner Center. The Center demonstrates how architecture and landscape design can serve as active agents of ecological stewardship, advancing the Foundation’s mission to protect and restore the Gulf Coast environment while fostering meaningful community engagement. Located in Kemah, the state-of-the-art four-acre headquarters […]
This tour will look at public art, murals, architecture, place making and urban planning in Houston. Tour stops include Market Square Park, Buffalo Bayou, Lynn Wyatt Square and areas west of Main Street. Artists featured on this tour include Mel Chin, Paul Kittelson, Claes Oldenburg and Dean Ruck. Meets in the NE Corner of Market […]
Architecture Center Houston is proud to announce their upcoming exhibition Kinetics of Urban Movement, opening Thursday, June 18, 5:30-7:30pm, curated by Rodrigo Gallardo, Bobby King and Shane Yee. Skateboarding is not merely a subculture reacting against the built environment, but a distinct way of perceiving architecture and space. Through their movement, skateboarders activate qualities already embedded […]
Join ArCH and Houston Parks and Recreation Department on Saturday, June 20, for an introductory clinic designed to teach youth participants the proper technique of skateboarding and to enhance their overall experience at the skatepark. Cherries Wheels (Austin), Honey Stake Club (Houston), and Houston Skate Academy will be on site to lead participants through foundational […]
