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1987 · Houston, Houston, United States

Menil Collection image

Art museum in Houston, Texas, US

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Menil Collection

Houston, Houston, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Hero image

Art museum in Houston, Texas, US

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Rights: Unknown · unknown

Comparison

Field	Menil Collection 1987 · Houston, Houston, United States	Hassan Fathy 1930-1989 · Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1987	1930-1989
Place	Houston, Houston, United States	Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Place context	Houston, Houston, United States	Representative site: Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt
Climate	18°C · 13.1h daylight · 12 km/h wind	27°C · 12.9h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via New Gourna
Focus	Museum	1 works in corpus
Architects	Renzo Piano	Hassan Fathy
Linked context	Bureaus Renzo Piano Building Workshop	Notable works New Gourna
Typologies	museum house	housing settlement village masterplan
Materials	Not recorded yet.	adobe mud brick earth
Carbon signals	museum and house gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Adobe, Brick, and Earth look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Adobe Brick Earth
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely. Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.