Today, the Menil Drawing Institute, the latest building on the Menil Collection’s 30-acre Houston campus, announced that it will open to the public on Nov. 3. Designed by Los Angeles–based firm Johnston Marklee with landscaping by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the 30,000-square-foot building will house the institute, founded in 2008, focused on modern and contemporary drawings. Johnston Marklee was selected to design the museum in 2012, picked from a shortlist comprised of Tatiana Bilbao, David Chipperfield Architects, and SANAA. A design was revealed in 2014, and went on to win an award in the 2017 P/A Awards. “They’ve done a good job at not replicating the vernacular, but worked with the ‘ordinary’—these straightforward gabled roofs—to do something exciting with the thinness of the construction,” noted juror Jennifer Bonner.
Menil Drawing Institute Opens Nov. 3
Los Angeles–based firm Johnston Marklee designed the 30,000-square-foot building for the Houston campus.
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Paul Hester
