Urban Art Tours: Downtown

This series of tours will look at public art, architecture, place making and urban planning in Houston. Each new tour will focus on a small walkable section of Houston. Downtown […]

Rock Building Stones: Downtown Geology & Materials Tour

This architectural and geological walking tour of downtown goes beyond the typical architectural focus to include the provenance and geology of the buildings’ materials. These sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks […]

Texas Medical Center Walking Tour

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 […]

Rice University: Quads, Courts & Axes Walking Tour

Rice University and Rice School of Architecture both celebrated their Centennial in 2012. A treasure trove of great architecture, the timeless campus features designs by Cram, Goodhue, & Ferguson; John […]

Museum District Walking Tour

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 […]

Montrose Walking Tour

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 […]

Towers And Trees Downtown Walking Tour


Towers and Trees, our newest downtown tour, will explore the magnificent architecture between Hermann Square and Discovery Green as well as the changing dynamics of our downtown. We’ll look at […]

Buffalo Bayou Walking Tour

Explore the city from a vantage point most people don’t see: the waterway that gave Houston life and has been its backbone for 182 years. Architecture Center Houston (ArCH), with […]