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Saturday, October 15 and Sunday, October 16
12:00pm to 5:00pm
8 Houses will be featured in this year's AIA Home Tour. Brochures and posters are available at various locations througout the city. You can buy tickets at the AIA office in advance or purchase them at any of the featured housed on the Tour days. Tickets are $20.00.
We need volunteers! Click here to download a docent form.
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307 East Gaywood
Brave/Architecture
Fernando Brave, AIA
with Clauda Dasso Zapater
713-524-5868
Construction Management Services
Designed by a 2005 Honor Award winning architectural firm, this dramatic house is just under 5,000 sq. ft. Set among towering pine trees, the front provides privacy from the street and primary living spaces open to the backyard. A two-story living room features a vaulted wood ceiling combined with high windows that fill the room with light. The house was also designed around the clients’ impressive art collection.
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1506 West 26th Street
Houston Heights
MC2 Architects , architect and contractor
Chung Nguyen, AIA
713-802-2305
Design of the Nguyen Residence is based on Vietnamese tradition, especially the worship of ancestors. The complex is two houses, one for the son and his family and one for the parents, on either side of a lotus pond and glass ‘ancestor pavilion,’ which painted white to represent the spiritual purity of the lotus flower. The roof of the pavilion, inspired by a banana leaf, collects rainwater and channels it into the pond. This unusual house has been widely praised and published in local and national media. |
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914 West 23rd Street
Houston Heights
Carl Brunsting, AIA
713-522-2778
Cascade Enterprises, Contractor
Designed for a young couple in a transitional neighborhood, this 3,500 sq. ft. house aims to maximize a sense of space, both interior and exterior. Expression of functional construction elements is a key design element.
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8th Street at Tulane
Houston Heights
Strasser Ragni, LLP, Architects
Eric Ragni, AIA
713-444-3608
FS Group, Contractor
Two attached houses were designed and built on a shoestring budget utilizing several advanced building technologies for energy efficiency and sustainability. The white PVC roof reflects 86% of the sun’s energy, and the rain screen around the building envelope insulates, sheds water, and ventilates the façade. The three-story modern townhouses feature interesting cut outs and niches on the interior.
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3728 Ingold
Southside Place
Natalye Appel + Associates Architects, LLC
Natyle Appel, FAIA
713-522-7992
The Southampton Group, Contractor
Nestled around an existing Live Oak and swimming pool, this 5500 sq. ft. contemporary house provides an open floor plan that connects exterior and interior spaces. Exterior materials, stucco on the first and second floors and stained cedar plank siding on the third floor gathering and meditation room, express interior functions. Hardwood floors and stained wooden warm the light-filled interiors, which include a large, open kitchen finished with stainless steel, tile, and wood.
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3827 Merrick
Braes Heights
Glassman Shoemake Maldonado Architects
Ernesto Maldonado, AIA
713-521-3354
Gerring Homes, Contractor
Spacious porches extend the living area of this house into surrounding yard and gardens. Efficient use of space allows a family of four to live comfortably in 3,000 sq. ft., including porches. The second floor screened porch doubles as a play area for the family. Built in the Brays Bayou flood plain, the house was designed to deal with potential flooding.
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3012 Duke Street
West University Place
Allen Bianchi, AIA
713-822-1467
Charter Homes, Contractor
Natural light and open spaces create a serene atmosphere in this house designed for a large, growing family. Open spaces communicate with each other and the outdoors. Five upstairs bedrooms and a media room are arranged around a home office, which is effectively separated by a low, curving wall.
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5910 Grace Lane
Riverside Terrace area
m + a architecture studio, architect and contractor
Mark Schatz, AIA and Anne Eamon
713-440-0083
This is the second small house designed by this design award wining architecture firm. At only 1,200 sq. ft., the house was constructed as a new prototype for a suburban starter home or retirement home. Small House #2 is an exploration of the ideas of efficient planning, dramatic spatial development, light and color, and adapted modest material. The house is furnished with cool, modern furniture throughout.
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