EXHIBIT - William Merriweather Peña: The Father of Architectural Programming
Mon, Dec 08
|San Antonio
Learn more about this remarkable trailblazer with MACRI!
Time & Location
Dec 08, 2025, 10:00 AM – Mar 20, 2026, 4:00 PM
San Antonio, 2123 Buena Vista St, San Antonio, TX 78207, USA
About the event
Explore MACRI’s new traveling exhibit, William Merriweather Peña: The Father of Architectural Programming.
William "Willie" Merriweather Peña (1919-2018) was perhaps the most important Mexican American architect of the 20th century, yet he remains largely unknown outside of the architecture field. Learn more about the life and work of this remarkable trailblazer with MACRI!
This Laredo, TX native was a proud Aggie, decorated World War II veteran, author, and partner in Caudill, Rowlett, Scott, which grew to become the largest architecture firm in the world. Peña’s groundbreaking work on architectural programming, which he honed during his first two decades at CRS, became the basis for a book first published in 1969, Problem Seeking: New Directions in Architectural Programming, which he followed with Problem Seeking: An Architectural Programming Primer, now in its fifth edition and considered the classic programming guide for architects and a standard architecture textbook. It also earned Peña the…