Texas A&M students create designs for Houston art, architecture museum building

Students in a fall 2009 first-year graduate studio at Texas A&M explored alternative designs for a new art museum in downtown Houston. The Anza Falco Museum of Art and Design will begin operations in a transitional structure scheduled to begin construction later this year.

"The students’ projects addressed how materials are not just about construction choices," said Gabriel Esquivel, assistant professor of architecture, "but also a means of creating diverse sensations in a space, focusing on the effects produced by the materials’ textures and surfaces."

These latest concepts join a long line of American architectural innovation such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York City and Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The students’ creations also follow in the footsteps of Aggie Architect Adrian Smith ’66, designer of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.


"Jewel in the City" by Dustin Mattiza


"The Kiss" by Jie Sun


"A Floating Project" by Kyle Reeder


"Take Over - Take Off" by Geoffrey Kornegay


"Garden Patch" by Heather Davis


"Formal White" by Matt Miller

Click Here to see more images of the students’ designs. Click Here for more about the museum.

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This article was originally posted in archone, Texas A&M’s College of Architecture newsletter.