A three-story art gallery slotted onto a formerly residential lot facing a busy street, this sliver of a building makes the most of its limited spatial opportunities. Argentine-born architect Fernando Brave modulated planes of white-painted stucco and of metal siding to produce tranquil proportions, causing the tall, thin building to recede into its site.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "De Santos Gallery", [Houston, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-HN34.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 340-340.
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