The Museum Of Fine Arts Houston

Designed by the Pulitzer Prize–winning architect Rafael Moneo and opened in 2000, the Beck Building—which houses the Museum’s collections of antiquities, Old Masters, Impressionism, American art, and modern and contemporary art—offers a variety of spaces for entertaining.

Designed by Steven Holl Architects. The new L-shaped building is constructed from a series of sandblasted, precast concrete panels, alternating with panes of glass, in a rhythm of verticals and slight angles. The Glassell School Lobby and first floor gallery are available for entertaining

Designed by Steven Holl Architects as the third MFAH gallery building, it is the final component in the eight-year project to expand and enhance Museum’s Susan and Fayez S. Sarofim Campus. Gathered under a “luminous canopy” roof, the concave curves reference the billowing clouds that fill the “big sky” of Texas, allowing natural light to flood the central spaces.

Designed by Bauhaus master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in two phases (1958 and 1974), the Law Building’s elegant modernist pavilion opens onto Bissonnet Street. To the rear of the building is the Museum’s original structure, a Neo-classical design created by William Ward Watkin in the early 1920s, which has gallery spaces that are more intimate.