There's no end in sight to the building boom on college campuses in Houston, adding a flurry of new, modernist buildings to campuses that began with traditional architecture 75 to 100 or more years ago.
“The Admirer” by Orly Genger, a larger-than-life web of woven recycled fishing rope, flows across the The Moody Center for the Arts front lawn at Rice University, photographed on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023 in Houston.The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, photographed on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023 in Houston.
A quote on the Roy G. Cullen building on the University of Houston campus on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023 in Houston.The Roy G. Cullen building on the University of Houston campus on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023 in Houston. When architect John S. Chase, the first Black licensed architect in Texas, designed three buildings for TSU — the Martin Luther King Humanities Center , Ernest S. Sterling Student Life Center and Thurgood Marshall School of Law , they were modern, too, since most post-World War II architecture schools had transitioned toward teaching contemporary design.
The first building at Rice to make a major statement that modern architecture had arrived was the 2007 Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion, located away from the campus’ oldest buildings and intended to be a hub for students. The Turrell skyspace followed five years later. In terms of buildings, this pavilion was the catalyst for all of the modern architecture that followed, and the skyspace spread modern thought to a different part of campus, Ristow said.
When board members thought a proposal was too modern, it was Brochstein himself who reminded them that despite the vast quantity of red clay roof tiles on buildings across campus, the original Rice building — Lovett Hall — has a metal roof. Brochstein, who ran his family’s renowned millwork business, earned two degrees at Rice and was a trustee emeritus when he died last year.
Charles Renfro, whose firm won the student art center design competition, leaned on his memories of Brochstein Pavilion, as well as a pair of small metal buildings where art students learned their craft, as he created a plan for the new Sarofim Hall. Those funky metal buildings were intended to be temporary, even though they functioned as classrooms and art studios for decades. Renfro, a Baytown native, studied both music and architecture at Rice, graduating in 1989.
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