Significant buildings from the late 1950s and early 1960s included the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research Building (1959, altered) and the Kelsey-Leary-Seybold Clinic Building (1963, demolished), both designed by Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson. George Pierce-Abel B. Pierce designed the Houston State Psychiatric Institute For Research and Training Building (1962, demolished). These building represented a new trend in modern architecture, Formalism, where symmetry and ornament began be used in modern design. The Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research Building and the Houston State Psychiatric Institute For Research and Training Building both made extensive use of pierced concrete blocks to create patterned screen walls and the Kelsey-Leary-Seybold Clinic Building had its exposed structurally column and beam system clad with decorative marble paneling. The Houston State Psychiatric Institute For Research and Training Building won a design award from the Houston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1962. The Kelsey-Seybold Clinic building won a national design award in 1967 in a competition administered by American Institute of Architects and Marble Institute of America. – Ben Koush. The Buildings of The Texas Medical Center Through The Years. OffCite Blog. Sep. 5, 2012
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