The board chairman Richard Kinder said that the project, by Steven Holl Architects, is the most exciting in the institution's 90-year history. The plan, named the Fayez S. Sarofim Campus, is so transformational that in five years Houstonians might not recognize the 1000 block of Bissonnet.
The project designed by Steven Holl Architects and developed in collaboration with Lake | Flato Architects, is a master plan developed through a public campus of 14 acres in the heart of the Museum District of Houston as has unveiled the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. a 164,000-square-foot-building for 20th- and 21st-century art; and a new, 80,000-square-foot home for the Glassell School of Art, all designed by Steven Holl Architects. The project, beginning later this year and slated for completion in 2019, will transform not only the MFAH, but also its surrounding neighborhood, by making a major contribution to Houston's overall efforts to improve the pedestrian experience of the city.
Building upon the Museum's rich architectural legacy, the bold master plan will integrate the new structures into the campus, one already marked by a century's worth of earlier buildings by William Ward Watkin, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Rafael Moneo, and a sculpture garden by Isamu Noguchi.
