The M Pavilion constitutes the initial stage of the Museum. Its iconic architectural components suggest to visitors the type of exhibition spaces and artistic content that the Museum will offer to the public of Houston once it opens its doors in the near future.

The Pavilion's provisional and movable characteristics project to the public a key component of the Museum's philosophy, namely, the intention of taking exhibitions out of the permanent building onto different landscapes and urban environments in the state of Texas and beyond in order to reach wider and more diverse audiences. This objective clearly broadens the scope of what we understand as the tasks a conventional Museum and highlights the experimental quality of the overall project.

The M Pavilion's innovative and experimental architectural design will surely have a combined social and aesthetic impact on downtown Houston, where as of today there is not one Museum among a growing number of theatres, stadiums, restaurants, bars and other commercial interests. Hence, the Pavilion, and of course the Museum once it is finished, will serve as an urgently needed architectural icon with the capacity of integrating the scattered artistic, public and commercial projects in that area into a coherent, original and contained urban destination for local, national and international publics.

The Pavilion's architectural iconic, urban-integrating, and socio-economic-experimental characteristics -- in addition to its low cost -- not only offers the public a new lens to explore a diversity of creative options in the international field of art and design, but also a new symbol for the city of Houston, where we have not seen the development of iconic architectural projects since the 1980s, and where the downtown area has been mostly overlooked by our city's urban planners.