By Tim McKeough Photography by Steven Holl Architects December 31, 2014 A rendering shows a view of the new Museum of Fine Arts, Houston campus from the rooftop of the Glassell School of Art.

In 1987, Steven Holl completed the Berkowitz-Odgis House, high on the dunes in Martha’s Vineyard, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The wooden building’s slender rectangular form— outwardly expressing ...