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Houston Museum of Fine Arts

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Houston Museum of Fine Arts

Site overview

The dynamic triangular shaped Contemporary Arts Museum consists of 17,500 square feet of exhibit space. The steel and concrete museum's slotted entrance opens into an intruiging wedge-shaped lobby. The spacious interior exhibit areas are entirely lit artificially. Diagonal forms also dominate the interior spaces through placement of walls, partitions, and ceiling grids. Mies van der Rohe's formal Museum of Fine Arts is also an important landmark and complements the CAM close by. (Adapted from A Field Guide to Landmarks of Modern Architecture in the United States, by Miriam F. Stimpson)

How to Visit

Open to the public

Location

1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, TX, 77005

Country

US
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Designer(s)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Nationality

German, American

Related chapter

Houston Mod

Commission

1958

Completion

1974

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