The Museum of Fine Arts Houston buoyed by some of the largest donations in the city's history, unveiled last week a $450 million project that envisions its campus as the cultural heart of the city.

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.

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Steven Holl was born in 1947 in Bremerton, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970. In 1976 he attended the Architectural Association in London and established STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS in New York City. Considered one of America's most important architects.He has realized cultural, civic, academic and residential projects both in the United States and internationally. Most recently completed are the Cité de l'Océan et du Surf in Biarritz, France (2011).

Steven Holl is a tenured Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. He has lectured and exhibited widely and has published numerous texts.

Recently the office has won a number of international design competitions including the new design for the Contemporary Art Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, USA) and he has been recognized with architecture's most prestigious awards and prizes. Recently, he received the RIBA 2010 Jencks Award, and the first ever Arts Award of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2009). In 2006 Steven Holl received honorary degrees from Seattle University and Moholy-Nagy University in Budapest. In 2003 he was named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Steven Holl is a member of the American National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), the American Institute of Architects, the American Association of Museums, the Honorary Whitney Circle, the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the International Honorary Committee, Vilpuri Library, of the Alvar Aalto Foundation.

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Published on: January 18, 2015
Cite: "Houston's Museum of Fine Arts Unveils Campus Expansion by Steven Holl" METALOCUS. Accessed
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