Art Barn and Rice Media Center

Houston (1969, demolished 2014): The Rice University corrugated, galvanized sheet-metal buildings — which started Houston’s tin-house movement — were commissioned by Dominique and John de Menil and built by architects Howard Barnstone and Eugene Aubry in 10 weeks to house the exhibition “The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age.” Local folklore maintains that after Frank Gehry visited the show, he decided to wrap his own Santa Monica bungalow with unconventional materials such as chain-link fence and corrugated steel. These humble buildings are now demolished.