Houston Deco: Houston's Modernistic Architecture
1 Baylor Plaza
unaltered
Completed: 1948
Architect: Wyatt C. Hedrick

The Cullen Building's relief panels depicting the history of modern medicine were executed by Edward Galea, a native of Malta who studied sculpture in Rome.

above | façade, 2006
detail (top) | "Pathology" relief, 2006
detail (bottom) | "Health" relief, 2006

Photo by Jim Parsons
 
 
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