On the campus of the University of Texas at Dallas, the first phase of the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum, a planned culture and arts district, has opened. Designed by Los Angeles–based architecture firm Morphosis, the building will serve as a satellite location of The Crow Museum of Asian Art, an institution based in Downtown Dallas.
Clad in textured-precast-concrete panels, the Crow Museum’s materiality echoes that of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Morphosis’s debut in Dallas which opened in 2012. Both structures are imbued with the firm’s aesthetic signatures—splayed V-columns, dynamic structure, and non-orthogonal forms—while responding to Lone Star State’s hot and sunny climate.
