Architecture Walk: University of Houston
November 17 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
$7 – $10
Event Admission
Admission is $10 per person for the general public ($7 for Preservation Houston members and students.) Children 11 years old and under are admitted free. Advance ticket purchase is required. Reservations are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. We are not able to accommodate walk-ups the day of the tour. There are no refunds for tour reservations. Registrants will receive parking and check-in information via e-mail. In the event of inclement weather that prevents the tour from being offered as planned, we will notify registrants as far in advance as possible about their options to attend a rescheduled tour or transfer their reservations to another Preservation Houston tour.
https://www.preservationhouston.org/calendar/2024/11/17/university-of-houston-architecture-walk“Houston’s University” was founded in 1927 as a night school meeting in borrowed rooms, but it quickly grew into a four-year university and is now a major urban research institution. Our 90-minute docent-guided tour of the UH campus traces the university’s history and the people who made the school what it is today, including oilman Hugh Roy Cullen, its great benefactor.
The tour explores the heart of the UH campus, highlighting designs by architects including César Pelli, MacKie & Kamrath, Philip Johnson and Alfred C. Finn. We’ll also introduce the university’s exceptional public art collection, one of the earliest of its kind in Texas, and dig into some little-known aspects of UH history including the school’s significance during and after World War II.
