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Dallas Architecture Forum, the non-profit organization dedicated to providing challenging and on-going public discourse about architecture, and the Dallas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects will present a lecture by Los Angeles-based architect Steven Ehrlich and the 2011 AIA Built Projects Design Awards on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at
7 p.m. in the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. in downtown Dallas. This will be the opening lecture of the Dallas Architecture Forum’s 2011-2012 Season. Tickets will be $20 for general admission and $5 for students (with ID). The event is free for DAF and AIA Dallas members. 
Tickets can be purchased at the door before the lecture.

In his more than 30 years of practicing architecture, Steven Ehrlich has developed a signature style of modern global design that achieves sustainability through the integration of new technologies with strategies learned from indigenous builders.  Ehrlich Architects has won eight National AIA Design Awards and was named 2003 Firm of the Year by the AIA California Council. Ehrlich also lectures and teaches extensively.  Ehrlich is the Chair of the jury for the 2011 AIA Dallas Design Awards program that recognizes projects that have been constructed (“built” projects). The winning entries will be announced at the program.

About the Dallas Architecture Forum

The Dallas Architecture Forum provides a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in – and for – the Dallas area. For more information on The Forum or their lecture season, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org.

About The AIA Dallas Design Awards

The AIA Dallas Design Awards recognizes outstanding work by Dallas architects, both in the metropolitan area and around the world. The purpose of the awards program is to honor the architects, clients, and consultants who work together to achieve design excellence.  For more information, visit http://www.aiadallas.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=38

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The Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to announce its 16^th season of lectures that bring leading architectural experts from around the world to Dallas. This season the Forum will present 10 lectures beginning with award-winning architect Steven Ehrlich on September 21, 2011 at 7 p.m. at Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St.

The season will also include four of the leading voices on Chinese architecture in its Chinese Architecture Lecture Series this fall. Organized in conjunction with the Rice University School of Architecture, the Rice Design Alliance, and the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture, the series will provide attendees important knowledge on China’s emergence as an international leader in urban development. The Dallas Architecture Forum also will present an engaging Panel Series focused on issues impacting Dallas, two symposia, its 365 Modern Home Reception series, and special members’ only events as a part of the season.  The season benefactor is Briggs-Freeman Real Estate.

Tickets are $20 per lecture for general admission and $5 for students (with ID). Tickets can be purchased at the door before the lecture. Dallas Architecture Forum members receive free admission to all regular Forum lectures as a benefit of membership, and AIA members can earn one hour of CE credit for each lecture. All lectures are at 7 p.m. at The Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave., unless otherwise noted. Call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org.

Founded in 1996, the Forum has grown to be one of the leading presenters in the country of lectures focusing on the built environment, with over 200 events since its inception presented by such luminaries as Shigeru Ban, Brad Cloepfil, Michael Graves, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, Andree Putnam, Kazuyo Sejima, Karim Rashid, Rafael Vinoly, James Timberlake, Aaron Betsky, Peter Bohlin and Spencer de Grey. It also collaborated with the ATT PAC to present Norman Foster and Rem Koolhaas. The Forum brings both emerging architectural leaders and well-known practitioners to speak to its members, believing it is important to let members hear from both. The Forum is pleased that one of those whom they brought when their practice was still developing, Kazuyo Sejima, won last year’s Pritzker Prize, and that industry leader and recent Forum speaker Peter Bohlin received the AIA Gold Medal last year. These two recognitions, the highest in the industry, attest to the quality and important messages of the speakers for our Lecture Series.

FALL LECTURE SEASON

Steven Ehrlich, FAI

September 21, 2011 at 7 p.m. at Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St.

Presented in conjunction with the AIA Dallas Built Projects Design Awards, the Dallas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Dallas Museum of Art. AIA Members will be admitted for free.

For over thirty years Steven Ehrlich’s firm has approached design with a deep sensibility for people and place. This was nurtured in the 1970s by Ehrlich’s six years practice and teaching in Morocco and Nigeria. From private houses to the recently won competition for the new United Arab Emirates parliament, his projects span scales and cultures with a constant attention to the facts of building. Eight national AIA Honor Awards and several dedicated monographs speak to the work.

www.s-ehrlich.com

Steven Ehrlich is the Chair of the jury for the 2011 AIA Dallas Design Awards program recognizing projects that have been constructed (“built” projects). The winning entries will be announced at the event. The AIA Dallas Design Awards recognizes outstanding work by Dallas architects, both in the metropolitan area and around the world. The purpose of the awards program is to honor the architects, clients, and consultants who work together to achieve design excellence.  For more information, visit http://www.aiadallas.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=38”

CHINESE ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES

Chinese Series Benefactors are Corgan Associates, The Joule, a Luxury Collection Hotel, and National Endowment for the Arts

Thomas J. Campanella

September 29, 2011 at 7 p.m. at Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave.

Bob James Memorial Lecture

Presented with support from the Dallas Center for Architecture Foundation.

The Lecture Benefactor is Emily Summers Design Associates.

The Reception Underwriter is Workplace Solutions.

As author of the book The Concrete Dragon: China’s Urban Revolution and What It Means for the World, Thomas Campanella introduces the Forum’s China Series. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, he holds a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from Cornell and a PhD in Urban Planning from MIT. Currently at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

http://planning.unc.edu/people/faculty/thomascampanella

Pei Zhu

October 6, 2011 at 7 p.m. at Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave.

Reception underwriter is modmedia.inc // moderndallas.net.

Parallel to China’s gaining a primary place in world affairs, its architecture is doing the same. Educated at Tsinghua University and UC-Berkeley, Pei Zhu brings his long concern with both Chinese philosophy and contemporary architecture to his award-winning designs, including the control center for the Beijing Olympics. Other recognitions include a Design Vanguard Award from Architectural Record, WA China Architectural Prize, and an award of merit from UNESCO.

http://www.chinese-architects.com/pei-zhu

Wang Shu

October 13, 2011 at 7 p.m. at Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave.

Reception underwriters are Gromatzky Dupree & Associates and Megan + Casey McManemin.

Brilliant at viewing modern architecture in light of China’s deep culture, Wang Shu incorporates vernacular, traditional, and recycled construction into thoroughly current buildings. His seeking a re-establishment of Chinese contemporary architecture can be seen in works such as two museums in Ningbo and the Ceramic Houses. Wang received the Shelling Architecture Prize in 2010 and the French Architecture Academy’s Gold Prize in 2011.

www.chinese-architects.com/amateur/awards.html

Qingyun Ma

October 20, 2011 at 7 p.m. at Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave.

Lecture Benefactor is One Arts Plaza by Billingsley Company.

Reception Underwriter is Turner Construction Company.

As a young generation assumes leadership in ancient China, this transformation includes architecture. With degrees from Tsinghua and Penn, Qingyun Ma works effectively in both China and the US, where he is currently dean of the School of Architecture at University of Southern California. The projects of his firm, MADA s.p.a.m., have received worldwide recognition in publications and at exhibitions at the Venice Biennale and the Centre Pompidou.

http://archinect.com/features/article/68561/qingyun-ma-part-i-the-idea-behind-s-p-a-m

Julie VandenBerg Snow, FAIA

November 16, 2011 at 7 p.m. at Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St.

Ken Roberts Lecture

Lecture Benefactors are AIA Dallas, the Dallas Architecture Forum, and the School of Architecture, UT-Arlington.

Reception Underwriter is TKO Associates.

Adept at finding elegance and clarity within the constraints of any project, Julie Snow has built a singular practice in the cities and landscapes of the upper Midwest. Recognized by an American Architecture Award, a Progressive Architecture Design Award, several General Services Administration Design Excellence Awards, her firm most recently received a national AIA Honor Award for the gracious and green, Warroads Port of Entry facility on the US-Canada border.

www.juliesnowarchitects.com

SPRING LECTURE SEASON

The Spring Series Benefactors are Jackson Walker LLP and Rogers O’Brien Construction Company.

Mark Sexton

January 19, 2012 at 7 p.m. at Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave.

Reception Underwriter is Scott + Cooner.

Working for three decades in the demanding architectural culture of Chicago, the firm of Krueck and Sexton has set a standard by melding a lively and generous vision with craft and precision. Among their major works is Crown Fountain, done with artist Jaume Plensa, a centerpiece of Chicago’s magnificent Millenium Park along Lake Michigan. Educated at IIT, Mark Sexton brings to today’s work ideas an attention that reflect Mies’ long legacy.

www.ksarch.com

James Carpenter

February 8, 2012 at 7 p.m. at UTA’s Maverick Activities Center, 500 W. Nedderman Dr.

Presented with the School of Architecture, UTA.

Glass is the most characteristic and telling material of modern architecture. And as a master in working with glass, James Carpenter helps bridge the gap between art and architecture. After RISD he worked with Corning Glass Works on innovative products, then in 1978 began his independent studio practice. A MacArthur Fellow and recipient of many major design awards, Carpenter created the exquisite moving glass screen in Dallas’ Rachofsky House.

www.jcdainc.com

Jason Roberts

February 29, 2012 at 7 p.m. at Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave.

Opposite to the ‘top down’ concept of urban design is BETTER BLOCK, founded in Dallas’ Oak Cliff by Jason Roberts and Andrew Howard. The Better Block project is a demonstration tool that temporarily re-visions an area to show the potential to create a walk-able, vibrant, neighborhood center. The idea and the charrettes to realize it have quickly spread to cities like Memphis, St. Louis, New York, and Boston. National media coverage includes NPR, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.

www.BetterBlock.org

Mohsen Mostafavi

March 22, 2012 at 7 p.m. at Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave.

Rose Family Lecture

Presented with support from the Dallas Center for Architecture Foundation.

Lecture Benefactor is Maharger Development Company | Reggie Graham.

Reception Underwriters are Frank Aldridge and Studio Outside.

Guiding one of the leading design schools through our problematic times demands experience and knowledge. As the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Mohsen Mostafavi brings both.  He is the former Dean at Cornell and Chair at London’s Architectural Association, and is a scholar of urbanism and architecture. His books include Structure as Space, On Weathering (with D. Leatherbarrow), and most recently Ecological Urbanism. His research and design projects have been published widely in major international journals.

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/mostafavi

About the Dallas Architecture Forum

The Dallas Architecture Forum provides a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in – and for – the Dallas area. For more information on The Forum or their lecture season, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org. The Dallas Architecture Forum is now on Twitter and Facebook! Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-Architecture-Forum/139899379388425?ref=ts.  Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/DallasArchForum.

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Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA)

Celebrates its 25^th anniversary

with Party, Scholarship Exhibition,

Fall Gallery Walk, Panel Discussions, and Film Premiere

The Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA) celebrates its 25th anniversary year with a Fall Gallery Walk, an Edith Baker Art Scholarship exhibition, panel discussions for artists and the public, and an After Gallery Walk Party the weekend of Sept. 24, 2010. In honor of the 5th anniversary of the Edith Baker Art Scholarship, the film 25 Years of Dallas Visual Art premieres Sunday, Oct. 10, at 2 p.m. in the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St.

The festivities begin with a reception for the winner of DADA’s Edith Baker Art Scholarship and Artist Career Development Fund on Friday, Sept. 24, 6–8 p.m., at the Irving Arts Center, 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd.  The DADA Scholarship Committee juried the seven finalists chosen by visual art faculty members of the Dallas County Community College District. The winner receives $4,000, a mentorship and an internship with a DADA member of his or her choice. The reception is free.

The annual DADA Fall Gallery Walk will be Saturday, Sept. 25. It begins with panel discussions to educate the public and artists from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Bath House Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther.  Panel 1: “How to Start an Art Collection” is from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Panelists are Eddy Rawlinson, Rosemary DesPlas, Karol Howard and George Morton. Panel 2: “How to Photograph Your Art” is from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Panelists are Harrison Evans, Ange Fitzgerald, and Kenda North. Tickets ($15 per panel) can be purchased online at www.dallasartdealers.org or at the door. Proceeds benefit the Edith Baker Art Scholarship.

The Walk (really a car ride) begins at 2 p.m. at any of DADA’s 37 member galleries, museums and nonprofit art spaces. This FREE event goes until 8 p.m. and allows art lovers to socialize and roam (in a car) from gallery to gallery all in one day. Donation jars for the Edith Baker Art Scholarship will be on hand along with refreshments, artists and art professionals.  Maps for the Spring Gallery Walk will be available at each location or at www.dallasartdealers.org as a downloadable pdf. Hours may vary; please see individual listings. Call 214.914.1099 or e-mail info@dallasartdealers.org.

An After Gallery Walk Party will be held from 8 to 11 p.m. at Dallas Contemporary, 161 Glass St. at Riverfront. In honor of the DADA art movement, the party will be multi-disciplinary, featuring the arts of fashion, visual art, theater, dance, music, cooking and bartending. Paper City, Wendy Krispin Caterer, Inc., Darian Thomas Fashion, and The Dallas Conservatory are sponsors. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased in advance at www.dallasartdealers.org or at the door.

In honor of the 5th anniversary of the Edith Baker Art Scholarship, the film 25 Years of Dallas Visual Art premieres Sunday, Oct. 10, at 2 p.m. in the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. The screening is included with admission to the museum. The film will include interviews with Dallas artists, gallerists, collectors and administrators who look back and forward at the Dallas art scene. This film has been made in partnership with You and Yours Productions.

ABOUT DADA

The Dallas Art Dealers Association is an affiliation of established, independent gallery owners and not-for-profit art organizations in the Dallas metropolitan area. DADA serves as a standard bearer for ethical practices in the art business, an educational resource for the community at large and as the facilitator of Edith Baker Art Scholarship and Artist Career Development Fund that provides funding for visual art students. The Dallas Art Dealers Association, organized in 1985 by June Mattingly of Mattingly Baker Gallery, is a 501(c)(6) organization.

Like the Art Dealers Association of America, membership in DADA is by invitation of the board of directors. In order to qualify for membership, a dealer or non-profit space must have an established reputation for honesty, integrity and professionalism among their peers, and must make a substantial contribution to the cultural life of the community by offering works of high aesthetic quality and presenting worthwhile exhibitions. DADA is dedicated to promoting the highest standards of ethical practice within the profession and to increase public awareness of the role and responsibilities of reputable art dealers and non-profit visual art spaces.

ABOUT THE EDITH BAKER ART SCHOLARSHIP AND ARTIST CAREER DEVELOPMENT FUND

In celebration of its 20th anniversary in 2005, the Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA) created the Edith Baker Art Scholarship and Artist Career Development Fund honoring the respected owner and director of The Edith Baker Gallery in Dallas. One of DADA’s founding members, Edith owned and directed The Edith Baker Gallery for nearly 30 years before retiring in 2004. The Edith Baker Art Scholarship benefits a student pursuing study of the visual arts through a cash award and career development activities such as a gallery show, a mentorship and an internship. Proceeds from individual donations, annual DADA events and collection jars at each DADA member location support the Edith Baker Art Scholarship, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Visit www.dallasartdealers.org or e-mail info@dallasartdealers.org for more information.

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The Dallas Architecture Forum continues its 14^th season of lectures with architect Rafael VINOLY of Rafael Vinoly Architects, who designed The Nasher Museum at Duke. Vinoly will speak Thursday, May 13 at 7 p.m. at The Magnolia Theatre, West Village, 3699 McKinney Avenue.

Single tickets, available at the door only, are $20 for general admission and $5 for students with I.D. Dallas Architecture Forum members are admitted for free. The reception begins at 6:15 p.m.  For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org. Images are available upon request via Lisa Taylor at Taylor-Made Press, 214-914-1099 or lisatmp@swbell.net.

Season benefactor is Briggs-Freeman Real Estate. Spring Series Benefactors are Jackson Walker LLP, Humana North Texas, and Jennifer + John Eagle of John Eagle Dealerships. Lecture Benefactors are bulthaup dallas and SHW Group Reception Underwriter is Smink.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Rafael Vinoly, FAIA, is a leading architect with a large body of award winning projects ranging in scale from residential to large cultural, educational and commercial projects.  Born in Uruguay, Vinoly began his New York based practice in 1978 and maintains multiple offices in both the USA and Great Britain. Among some of his best-known projects are the Tokyo International Forum, which is the most important cultural complex in Japan; the Kimmel Symphony Center in Philadelphia; the Samsung Tower in Seoul; Jazz at Lincoln Center; the Brooklyn Children’s Museum; and the Boston Convention Center.   His museum projects include an expansion of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Nasher Museum at Duke University. Vinoly’s work has been widely recognized and honored, and in addition to being a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he is also an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.   www.rvapc.com

ABOUT THE DALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM

The Dallas Architecture Forum provides a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in – and for – the Dallas area. The Forum offers presentations of architecture through public lectures by designers, critics, and historians; through topical discussions; and through occasional study tours to buildings and cities locally and throughout the world. The Dallas Architecture Forum serves as an inclusive arena where people interested in and concerned with the built environment, non-professionals and professionals alike, may interact intellectually and socially.

Our membership comes from business, development, public affairs, education, the arts and from the design fields. This mix of interests and ties is one of the strengths we bring to our involvement with architecture. Support for the Forum’s programs is a grassroots effort, coming from membership subscriptions at all levels and from the generous sponsorship of Forum seasons and events. Visit dallasarchitectureforum.org or call 214-764-2406.

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The Dallas Architecture Forum continues its 14^th season of lectures with the Executive Director of Philip Johnson’s Glass House, Christy MACLEAR for The Bob James Memorial Lecture on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. in downtown Dallas.

Single tickets, available at the door only, are $20 for general admission, $10 for DMA members, and $5 for students with I.D. Dallas Architecture Forum members are admitted for free. The reception begins at 6:15 p.m.  For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org. Images are available upon request via Lisa Taylor at Taylor-Made Press, 214-914-1099 or lisatmp@swbell.net.

Season benefactor is Briggs-Freeman Real Estate. Fall Series Benefactors are The Joule, A Luxury Collection Hotel and Modern Dallas. Lecture Benefactors are Emily Summers Design Associates and Dallas Architectural Foundation. Reception Underwriters are TKO Associates and Megan + Casey McManemin.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Christy MacLear is the Executive Director of the Philip Johnson Glass House. She was brought to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to develop the strategy, assemble a team and prepare the site and Visitor Center to open to the public. With just nine months leadtime, she successfully launched the site in June 2007 with three sold out seasons. With the goal to “reshape the historic house museum model”, Christy has structured a “center for Modernism” to co-lead the National Trust’s investment in Modernist preservation, managed the NTHP board approval to purchase adjacent properties to preserve the Glass House view in perpetuity and developed the “conversations” series to continue the legacy of new ideas through diverse leaders on-site.

Christy is known for her ability to conceive of and lead largescale projects through opening and on-going operations.  She was the Manager of Strategy for the Walt Disney Company’s new town project called Celebration, was the Director of the Museum Campus in Chicago where she represented 3 museum boards through the re-location of Lake Shore Drive and the creation of a lakefront park, and was an independent consultant in Strategy & Visitor Experience to such clients as the Field Museum, the Cleveland Clinic and the leaders of the United Arab Emirates.  She has a degree in Urban Design from Stanford University and an MBA from Wharton where she received a Barnes fellowship.  She has been a professor in the graduate program of Arts Administration for the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and has served on the boards of Chicago’s Three Arts Club, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Steppingstones Museum for Children.

www.philipjohnsonglasshouse.org
ABOUT THE DALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM

The Dallas Architecture Forum provides a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in – and for – the Dallas area. The Forum offers presentations of architecture through public lectures by designers, critics, and historians; through topical discussions; and through occasional study tours to buildings and cities locally and throughout the world. The Dallas Architecture Forum serves as an inclusive arena where people interested in and concerned with the built environment, non-professionals and professionals alike, may interact intellectually and socially.

Our membership comes from business, development, public affairs, education, the arts and from the design fields.

This mix of interests and ties is one of the strengths we bring to our involvement with architecture. Support for the Forum’s programs is a grassroots effort, coming from membership subscriptions at all levels and from the generous sponsorship of Forum seasons and events. Visit dallasarchitectureforum.org or call 214-764-2406.

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The Dallas Architecture Forum continues its 13th season of lectures with distinguished architect and author Juhani Pallasmaa of Helsinki, Finland on Thursday, April 9 at 7 p.m. at the Horchow Auditorium in the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. in downtown Dallas. This is the annual Rose Family Lecture. Lecture Benefactors are Dallas Architectural Foundation and Scott + Cooner. Reception Underwriter is Kathleen + Alan Munoz.

Single tickets, available at the door only, are $20 for general admission, $10 for DMA members, and $5 for students with I.D. Dallas Architecture Forum members are admitted for free. The reception begins at 6:15 p.m.  For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit http://www.dallasarchitectureforum.org. Images are available upon request via Lisa Taylor at http://www.taylormadepress.org, 214-943-1099 or lisatmp@swbell.net. Season benefactors are: Briggs Freeman Real Estate; MODIA Home Theater Store | Mody & Mody; Museum Tower; SHW Group; The Joule, A Luxury Collection Hotel; and URBAN EDGE developers ltd. Spring Series Benefactors are Jackson Walker LLP and RTKL Associates, Inc.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Juhani Pallasmaa has practiced architecture since the early 1960s and established his own office Juhani Pallasmaa Architects in 1983 after having collaborated with a number of architects for over 20 years. In addition to architectural design, he has been active in urban, product and graphic design.

Pallasmaa has taught and lectured widely in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia, and published books and numerous essays on the philosophy and critique of architecture and the arts in over thirty languages.

Pallasmaa has held positions as e.g. Professor and Dean at the Helsinki University of Technology (1991-97), State Artist Professor (1983-88), Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1978-83), Associate Professor at Haile Selassie I University, Addis Abeba (1972-74), and Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki (1970-71).

He has held visiting professorships at the Washington University in St. Louis (1999-2004), University of Virginia (1992) and Yale University (1993) and taught and lectured at numerous universities, conferences, and symposia around the world. His books include: The Thinking Hand: embodied and existential wisdom in architecture, London, 2009; Alvar Aalto Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban, co-editor, London 2007; Raimo Utriainen – The Resonant Line, Helsinki 2007; Encounters: Architectural Essays, Helsinki 2005; The Aalto House, Helsinki 2004; Juhani Pallasmaa: Sensuous Minimalism, Beijing 2002; The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema, Helsinki 2001 and 2007; Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea, Helsinki, 1998; The Eyes of the Skin, London 1996 and 2005; The Melnikov House, London 1996; Animal Architecture, Helsinki 1995; Maailmassaolon taide [The Art of Being-in-the-World: essays on art and architecture], Helsinki 1993; Alvar Aalto Furniture, Helsinki/Cambridge, Mass. 1987; The Language of Wood, Helsinki 1987, and; Alvar Aalto 1898-1976, co-editor, Helsinki 1978.

Pallasmaa has received three honorary doctorates: University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, 1993 (in the arts); Helsinki University of Technology, 1998 (in technology), and, Estonian Academy of Arts, 2004 (in the arts). He is also Honorary Professor of the International Academy of Architecture.

Pallasmaa has received several awards: Silver Plaquette of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, 2006; Finland Prize, 2000; The International Union of Architects´ Award for Architectural Criticism, 1999; Fritz Schumacher Prize (Germany), 1997; Russian Federation Architecture Award, 1996; Helsinki City Culture Award, 1993; Finnish National Architecture Award, 1992.

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The Dallas Architecture Forum provides a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in – and for – the Dallas area. The Forum offers presentations of architecture through public lectures by designers, critics, and historians; through topical discussions; and through occasional study tours to buildings and cities locally and throughout the world. The Dallas Architecture Forum serves as an inclusive arena where people interested in and concerned with the built environment, non-professionals and professionals alike, may interact intellectually and socially. For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org.

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The Dallas Architecture Forum continues its 13th season of lectures with distinguished engineer Guy NORDENSON, who is currently working with Renzo Piano on the Kimbell expansion, on Thursday, March 26 at 7 p.m. at the Horchow Auditorium in the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. in downtown Dallas. Nordenson was originally scheduled for April 1, so this is a CHANGED DATE.

Single tickets, available at the door only, are $20 for general admission, $10 for DMA members, and $5 for students with I.D. Dallas Architecture Forum members are admitted for free. For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit http://www.dallasarchitectureforum.org. Images are available upon request via Lisa Taylor at http://www.taylormadepress.com, 214-943-1099 or lisatmp@swbell.net. Lecture benefactor is: David Griffin & Company Realtors. Season benefactors are: Briggs Freeman Real Estate; MODIA Home Theater Store | Mody & Mody; Museum Tower; SHW Group; The Joule, A Luxury Collection Hotel; and URBAN EDGE developers ltd. Spring Series Benefactors are Jackson Walker LLP and RTKL Associates, Inc.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Structural engineering has been both example and partner in the making of modern architecture. In collaboration with designers like Steven Holl, Richard Meier, and Sejima + Nishwara, Guy Nordenson brings a dynamic logic to the physical reality of buildings. He began his career drafting for Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi; later he was with Ove Arup + Partners, and in 1997 opened his own firm. Guy Nordenson is currently working with Renzo Piano on the Kimbell expansion.
Web:    nordenson.com

Guy Nordenson is a professor of structural engineering and architecture at Princeton University and is a faculty associate of the University Center for Human Values. He is active in earthquake engineering, including code development, technology transfer, long-range planning for FEMA and the USGS, and research. Nordenson initiated and led the development of the New York Seismic Code from 1984 to its enactment into law in 1995. He is co-founder of the Structural Engineers Association of New York and organized the inspections by the SEAoNY of 400 buildings in the restricted zone around the World Trade Center after 9/11. In 2004, he co-curated the Museum of Modern Art’s Tall Buildings exhibition at MoMA QNS with Terence Riley. In 2004, Nordenson was the first recipient of a new award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for contributions to architecture by a non-architect. Nordenson’s recent publications include the WTC Emergency Building Damage Assessments (2004) and Tall Buildings (2003), a companion to the exhibition at MoMA QNS.

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The Dallas Architecture Forum provides a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in – and for – the Dallas area. The Forum offers presentations of architecture through public lectures by designers, critics, and historians; through topical discussions; and through occasional study tours to buildings and cities locally and throughout the world. The Dallas Architecture Forum serves as an inclusive arena where people interested in and concerned with the built environment, non-professionals and professionals alike, may interact intellectually and socially. For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org.

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The Dallas Architecture Forum continues its 13th season of lectures with Chicago curator and critic Elizabeth SMITH on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. in downtown Dallas.  The Affiliate Sponsor is Preservation Dallas | Modern Committee.  The Lecture Benefactors are Emily Summers Design Associates and Caren Prothro. The Reception Underwriters are Armond + Cindy Schwartz

Single tickets, available at the door only, are $20 for general admission, $10 for DMA members, and $5 for students with I.D. Dallas Architecture Forum members are admitted for free. The reception begins at 6:15 p.m.  For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org. Images are available upon request via Lisa Taylor at Taylor-Made Press, 214-943-1099 or lisatmp@swbell.net.

Season benefactors are: Briggs Freeman Real Estate; MODIA Home Theater Store | Mody & Mody; Museum Tower; SHW Group; The Joule, A Luxury Collection Hotel; and URBAN EDGE developers ltd. Spring Series Benefactors are Jackson Walker LLP and RTKL Associates, Inc.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

The California Case Study Houses are arguably the most important contribution by a group of designers to American architecture. Elizabeth Smith’s magnificent Taschen volume on these buildings and projects is definitive. She is the James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; previously she was Curator at MOCA in Los Angeles. In addition to organizing exhibitions on art and architecture she serves on many national panels and juries.  For more information visit mcachicago.org.

ABOUT DALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM

The Dallas Architecture Forum provides a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in – and for – the Dallas area. The Forum offers presentations of architecture through public lectures by designers, critics, and historians; through topical discussions; and through occasional study tours to buildings and cities locally and throughout the world. The Dallas Architecture Forum serves as an inclusive arena where people interested in and concerned with the built environment, non-professionals and professionals alike, may interact intellectually and socially. For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org.