"UH was founded in 1927 as a junior college meeting in borrowed rooms at San Jacinto High School, but it quickly grew into a four-year university and moved to its current campus, designed by the noted landscape architects Hare & Hare, in 1939. As enrollment skyrocketed after World War II, UH retained some of Houston's most famous architects, including John Staub, MacKie & Kamrath and Alfred C. Finn, to expand its original Art Deco campus. The result is a group of buildings ranging from the traditional deco Roy G. Cullen Memorial (1939) to César Pelli's modern Science and Engineering Research and Classroom Complex (2005, pictured)."
"Tickets will be sold beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Park, located just east of the Moores School of Music Building at UH Entrance 16 off Cullen Boulevard. [map] Free parking is available in UH Lot 16B (a permit is not required on Sundays)."
"On the second Sunday of every month at 2 p.m. (6 p.m. June through September; there is no tour in December), GHPA presents a docent-guided walking tour of an architecturally and/or historically significant area of Houston. The cost is $10 per person ($7 for GHPA members and students), with a $2 discount if you walk, bike or ride public transportation to the tour. Reservations are not required unless otherwise noted."
