Known to most on campus simply as “Bio,” MD Anderson Biological Labs is the southernmost of three similar buildings (biology, geology and space science), all of which were designed by the same architects. An exterior “hall” with a covered walkway runs through the buildings. Set into the walls along the walkway are incised bricks whose designs hint at the academic discipline each building houses.
The building reflects the style of architecture popular in Texas in the 1950s. It forms part of the “Court of Sciences” quadrangle developed after the William Ward Watkin/Ralph Adams Cram era.
Named for: Monroe D. Anderson, a banker and partner in what became the world’s largest cotton company, Anderson, Clayton and Co.
Built: 1958, George Pierce and Abel B. Pierce; lecture theater and J. Sayles Leach Court added 1967
