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VideoFest to Celebrate 25th anniversary :: Sept. 27-30, 2012

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Dallas, TX – The Video Association of Dallas has announced that the 25^th anniversary of its VideoFest will be Sept. 27-30, 2012 at its original home, the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. in downtown Dallas. Call 214-428-8700 for information or visit www.videofest.org.

VideoFest is now the oldest and largest video festival in the United States, and continues to garner critical and popular acclaim. Merging art and technology since 1986, VideoFest has specialized in independent, alternative, and non-commercial media, presenting hard-to-find works rarely seen on television, in movie theaters, or elsewhere, despite their artistic excellence and cultural and social relevance. Even in a Web 2.0 environment where everything is seemingly available on the Internet, the VideoFest provides curatorial guidance, a critical voice in the wilderness navigating the vast and diverse landscape of media, helping to interpret its cultural and artistic significance. The event provides a communal environment for real-time, face-to-face dialogue between makers and audiences.

Highlights of VideoFest 25 will include:

The winners of the 24 Hour Video Race (the 2012 race will be May 4 at the Angelika);

The winner of VideoFest Awards for narrative feature, narrative short, experimental, documentary feature, documentary short, animation and other;

The Texas Show, a juried compilation of short film and video by Texas artists;

Workshops for filmmakers;

The Program, curated visual art videos and installations, including work by Robert Frank;

VideoFest 25 jewelry designed by Brad Oldham;

Retrospective programming at The Power Station;

Shorts online first for voting, winners to be screened at DMA

ABOUT VIDEO ASSOCIATION OF DALLAS

The mission of the Video Association is to promote an understanding of video as a creative medium and cultural force in our society, and to support and advance the work of Texas artists working in video and the electronic arts. The Video Association of Dallas (VAD) is a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated on April 25, 1989. It began in 1986 as a weekend event, “Video As A Creative Medium”, presented at the Dallas Museum of Art by independent curators Barton Weiss and John Held. That first event, which included two nights of video by selected local and national video artists, was a great popular success, which led to the founding of the Dallas Video Festival (DVF) in 1987. Video Association of Dallas also presents the 24 Hour Video Race, the Texas Show Tour, North Texas College Film Festival, Texas Independent Film Network screenings, Texas Fllmmakers Production Fund workshops, Three Star Cinema, and other programs throughout the year.

For press information: Lisa Taylor at 214-914-1099, taylormadepress@gmail.com.

VIDEOFEST 25 FACT SHEET

WHAT: VideoFest 25

Presented by the Video Association of Dallas

WHERE:

At the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St.

WHEN:

Thursday, Sept. 27 7-11:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 28 7-11:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 29 noon-11:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 30 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m.

TICKETS:

All-Festival Pass: $50

All-Evening Passes: Thursday or Friday $20

All-Day and Evening passes: Saturday or Sunday $25

Seniors (60 or older) and students with ID: $10 off

Some selected programs will be $6 per program available at event only

Special: 5 Films for $5 each, see any 5 films during the 4 days of VideoFest 25 for $25

Tickets will be available at the door or online at videofest.org

INFO:

Video Association of Dallas

T: (214) 428-8700

E: info@videofest.org

http://www.videofest.org

Press: Lisa Taylor, 214-914-1099, taylormadepress@gmail.com

Sign up for the Video Association Newsletter and Videomaker’s Resource List: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/manage/optin/ea?v=001PATbu7Y33LGmUMkarkySZQ%3D%3D

Join the Video Association of Dallas’ Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6575722334

Become a Fan of the 24 Hour Video Race: http://www.facebook.com/pages/24-Hour-Video-Race-of-Dallas/103277330637

Become a Fan of VideoFest 25: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-VideoFest/192194875617

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Eleventh Annual 24-Hour Video Race:: May 4-5, 2012

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Sign up now to enter

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The 11^th Annual 24-Hour Video Race, presented by The Video Association of Dallas, will commence at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, May 4, and end 24 hours later at 12-midnight on Saturday, May 5. The Angelika Film Center is at 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln. To register, visit http://www.24hourvideorace.com or call 214-428-8700 or email videorace@videofest.org. The event is sponsored by Texas Commission on the Arts, Dallas Film Commission and Office of Cultural Affairs City of Dallas. Brainfood.com is the web sponsor.

The screenings of the work of all the entrants will be Tuesday-Thursday, May 8-10 with the finalists screened on Monday, May 14 at the Angelika Film Center. The winning videos will be shown at the 25th annual VideoFest in Sept. 27-30 at the Dallas Museum of Art and also on KERA –TV Channel 13’s program “Frame of Mind” and on You+Media Dallas. Team members should bring Race lanyards for admission to the screenings. (This includes teams who did not finish the Race.) Members of the general public can also attend. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under. The screening schedule will be posted the Monday after the race.

Dallas film and video makers of all levels of experience are invited to participate in the race, both creatively and literally. Teams that do not make it to the finish line at midnight will not be included in the judging, All teams will be assigned four critical elements: one theme, one prop, one location and one line of dialogue. This year’s race participants will use H264 QuickTime files on USB drives.

Anyone with a camera and the willingness to race can participate. Past teams have included elementary school students to professional filmmakers. Student teams compete against other student teams and adult teams are categorized by team size rather than skill level.

Team Categories & Fees:
The 2012 24 Hour Video Race is limited to 100 teams. Teams are not registered until paid in full. You are strongly encouraged to field the size of team. After you register, you will be prompted to pay by PayPal, so get your credit card ready!

Pixelvision Division: K-High School: no limit on size.$75 per team + $5 per team member. Team captains must be 18 years of age or older, or adult mentor must register and supervise team. Team captain is responsible for providing VAD with written evidence that each participant under 18 has obtained the prior written consent of a parent or legal guardian to participate in the 24 Hour Video Race.

Futurevision Division: College; no limit on size

$75/team + $5/team member
Auteur Division: 1 or 2 members
$50 each member

Guerilla Division: 3-5 members
$150/team + $5/team member

Hollywood Division: 6 or more members
$200/team + $5/team member

ABOUT VIDEO ASSOCIATION of DALLAS:

The Video Association of Dallas (VAD) is a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated on April 25, 1989. It began in 1986 as a weekend event, “Video As A Creative Medium”, presented at the Dallas Museum of Art by independent curators Barton Weiss and John Held. That first event, which included two nights of video by selected local and national video artists, was a great popular success, which led to the founding of the Dallas Video Festival (DVF) in 1987. Video Association of Dallas presents the 24 Hour Video Race and other programs throughout the year.

For press information, please contact Lisa Taylor at 214-914-1099.

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David Dillon Symposium :: April 26-27, 2012

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Keynote address by Paul Goldberger

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Inaugural David Dillon Symposium

“Criticism Today” April 26-27, 2012

Organized by the David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture

The University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture

Presented by the Dillon Center and the Dallas Architecture Forum

The inaugural David Dillon Symposium will be April 26 and 27 at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center and will honor Dillon’s prolific career as an architectural critic. Through a keynote address and a daylong symposium, the changing role and venues for architectural criticism today will be explored. A wide range of respected speakers from Texas and across the country who write about architecture for newspapers, magazines, journals, books, and blogs, will consider the purpose of architectural criticism in a digital world where publishing and access to information have radically changed the traditions of the field. What is the role of the architectural critic today? Who reads criticism? Can good criticism help shape a better, more vibrant city?

The keynote speaker for “Criticism Today,” will be Pulitzer Prize-winning Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic for The New Yorker. Goldberger will speak Thursday, April 26 at 7 p.m. in the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. Goldberger also will speak as part of the Dillon Symposium on Friday, April 27 11 a.m.-4:45 p.m. at the Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora St. The Symposium also will include: Kate Holliday, Director of David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture; Scott Cantrell, critic at The Dallas Morning News; Thomas Fisher, Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota; Stephen Fox, fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas; Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times; Alexandra Lange, critic, journalist and architectural historian; Benjamin Lima, critic and art history professor at University of Texas Arlington; and Stephan Sharpe, editor of Texas Architect.

Advance reservations and ticket purchase is encouraged. Tickets for both the keynote address and symposium are $35 for Dallas Architecture Forum members and UTA Faculty and staff, $45 for general admission, and $15 for full-time students. Lunch is not included, but afternoon beverages will be provided. Tickets for the keynote address only are $15 or Dallas Architecture Forum members and UTA Faculty and staff, $25 for general admission, and $5 for full-time students. For more information on the symposium, visit http://www.uta.edu/architecture/research/dillon/symposium.php. Registration is available at the Dallas Architecture Forum’s website, www.dallasarchitectureforum.org or by phone at 817.272.2313. If available, remaining tickets may be purchased before the Thursday evening keynote and the Friday symposium.

The David Dillon Symposium is organized by the David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture; and is presented by the Dillon Center and the Dallas Architecture Forum.

The event sponsors are The Dallas Morning News, Deedie and Rusty Rose, The Eugene McDermott Foundation, Nasher Sculpture Center, Museum Tower, a joint venture of Brook Partners and Turtle Creek Holdings, and One Arts Plaza by Billingsley Company.

The schedule of events:

Thursday 4/26/12, Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art

7:00 p.m. Keynote address by Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker

Friday 4/27/12, Nasher Sculpture Center

11 a.m. Nasher opens

11:15 a.m. Introduction

Kate Holliday, Director of David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture

11:30 a.m. Morning panel: “The Tradition of Criticism in Texas”

Scott Cantrell, The Dallas Morning News

Stephen Fox, Anchorage Foundation

Benjamin Lima, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas Arlington

12:45 p.m. Lunch break

2:00 p.m. Afternoon panel: “Criticism Today”

Tom Fisher, University of Minnesota

Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker

Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times

Alexandra Lange, Design Observer

Stephen Sharpe, Texas Architect

About the participants

Keynote speaker, Thursday, April 26, 7 p.m. Dallas Museum of Art

Paul Goldberger is the architecture critic for The New Yorker, where since 1997 he has written the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City. He was formerly Dean of the Parsons school of design, a division of The New School. He began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, the highest award in journalism.

He is the author of several books, most recently Why Architecture Matters, published in 2009 by Yale University Press; Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, a collection of his architecture essays published in 2009 by Monacelli Press, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude, published in 2010 by Taschen. In 2008 Monacelli published Beyond the Dunes: A Portrait of the Hamptons, which he produced in association with the photographer Jake Rajs. His chronicle of the process of rebuilding Ground Zero, entitled UP FROM ZERO: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York was named one of The New York Times Notable Books for 2004. Goldberger has also written The City Observed: New York, The Skyscraper, On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Post-Modern Age, Above New York, and The World Trade Center Remembered, Architecture Criticism: Does It Matter? (2003); Designing Downtown (New Yorker, 2003); A Delicate Balance (on the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, New Yorker, 2002)

Symposium speakers, Friday, April 27, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Nasher Sculpture Center

Scott Cantrell is music critic at The Dallas Morning News and also writes occasionally about art and architecture. He arrived at The News in 1999, after 10 years at the Kansas City Star and previous positions at newspapers in Albany and Rochester, N.Y. A former president of the Music Critics Association of North America and two-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award for music journalism, he has also written for The New York Times, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and magazines including Gramophone, BBC Music, Opera, Opera News and Symphony Magazine. He has performed as an organist and choral conductor and taught music history at the State University of New York at Albany.

Thomas Fisher is Professor of Architecture and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. Educated at Cornell University in architecture and Case Western Reserve University in intellectual history, he previously served as the Regional Preservation Officer at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, the Historical Architect of the Connecticut State Historical Commission, and the Editorial Director of Progressive Architecture magazine. He has lectured or juried at over 40 schools and 60 professional societies, and has published 35 book chapters or introductions and over 250 articles. He has written six books – In the Scheme of Things, Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture; Salmela Architect; Lake/Flato: Buildings and Landscapes; Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for Survival; Ethics for Architects; and The Invisible Element of Place, The Architecture of David Salmela. His article on the state of architectural criticism just appeared in Places on December 1 of last year: The Death and Life of Great Architecture Criticism.

Stephen Fox is an architectural historian and a fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas, a Houston-based foundation that undertakes projects in architecture, architectural history, and architectural publishing. He is a lecturer in architecture at the University of Houston and Rice University. Fox is the author of The Country Houses of John F. Staub and the Houston Architectural Guide. He is co-author with Ellen Beasley of the Galveston Architecture Guidebook and is a contributor to The Buildings of Texas, a two-volume guidebook to the architecture of Texas, which will be published by the Society of Architectural Historians. As sampling of his critical essays on architecture can be read online: “Home / Work” Cite Magazine (2002); “Making Public Buildings” Cite Magazine (2009.)

Christopher Hawthorne is architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times, a position he has had since 2004. He also has been a columnist for the Los Angeles Times Magazine. Before coming to the Times he was architecture critic for Slate, contributing editor for Metropolis magazine and a frequent contributor to The New York Times. His work has also appeared in the Washington Post, The New Yorker, Architect, Landscape Architecture, Domus, Volume, and Architectural Record, among many other publications. He is the author, with Alanna Stang, of The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture, published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2005, and was consulting curator of an exhibition based on the book at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley and Occidental College and was a mid-career fellow at Columbia’s National Arts Journalism Program. A native of Berkeley, Calif., he is an honors graduate of Yale College, where he studied architectural history and political philosophy. Samples of his recent critical work can be read online at the Los Angeles Times: “Best of 2011 in Architecture” (18 December 2011); “Art meets architecture: Larry Bell and Frank Gehry” (26 October 2011)

Alexandra Lange is a critic, journalist and architectural historian based in Brooklyn, and her work has appeared in The Architect’s Newspaper, Icon, Metropolis, New York Magazine and The New York Times. She is a weekly blogger for the Observers Room at Design Observer. She teaches architecture criticism in the D-Crit Program at SVA and the Urban Design & Architecture Studies Program at NYU. She is co-author, with Jane Thompson, of Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes (Chronicle, 2010). In March 2012, Princeton Architectural Press published her new book, Writing about Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities. Her February 2010 assessment of the state of contemporary architectural criticism can be read on Design Observer, Why Nicolai Ouroussoff Is Not Good Enough.

Benjamin Lima teaches 20th and 21st-century art history at the University of Texas Arlington. His current book project investigates how experimental and event-based work in the 1960s engaged with themes of war and other traumatic violence. He has written criticism for many publications including ARTNews, Art Lies, Artforum.com, …might be good, Pastelegram, and FrontRow, and presented at conferences including the College Art Association, German Studies Association, and the Research Forum of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies at UT Austin. His blog and articles are online at benjaminlima.wordpress.com.

Stephen Sharpe recently began his twelfth year as the editor of Texas Architect, the bimonthly magazine published by the Texas Society of Architects. Since joining the staff of the AIA state component in June 2000, Stephen has continuously broadened TA’s editorial content to make it more relevant to its 11,000 subscribers. In recognition of his accomplishments, he was awarded Honorary AIA membership earlier this year and the TSA Award for Excellence in Media in 2005. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from North Texas State University in 1979, Stephen began his career as a newspaper reporter and feature writer. Following jobs with a small weekly in Colorado and then a daily in Greenville, Texas, he joined the staff of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and later the San Antonio Light before moving on to Texas Architect. Read his articles: “Midcentury Update” and “Drama Machine” (a review of the Wyly Theater in Dallas).

Symposium coordinator

Kate Holliday is Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas Arlington where she teaches courses in modern architectural history and theory. As director of the newly established David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture, she coordinates research programs and public events that encourage public dialogue about architecture and urbanism in north Texas. She is the author of two books on New York architecture, the award-winning Leopold Eidlitz: Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age, published by W. W. Norton in 2008 and her new book Ralph Walker: Architect of the Century, to be published by Rizzoli in 2012. She is a graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts and the University of Texas Austin.

About David Dillon (1941-2010)

A graduate of Boston College, Dillon held masters and doctoral degrees from Harvard in literature and art history. He came to Dallas as an assistant professor of English at Southern Methodist University, but his freelance writing on architecture attracted the attention of editors at The Dallas Morning News, and he joined the staff in 1981. He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Dillon wrote a dozen books and more than 200 articles in publications that included Architectural Record, Domus and Harvard Design Review. He served as a juror for numerous national awards and design competitions. His writings received awards from The Associated Press, the Dallas Press Club and the Texas Society of Architects.

About the Dallas Architecture Forum

The Dallas Architecture Forum is a not-for-profit civic organization that brings leading architectural thought leaders from around the world to speak in Dallas and also fosters important local dialogue about the major issues impacting our urban environment. The Forum was founded in 1996 by some of Dallas’ leading architects, business, cultural and civic leaders, and it continues to benefit from active support and guidance from these citizens. The Forum fulfills its mission of providing a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in – and for – the Dallas area. The Dallas Architecture Forum’s members include architects, design professionals, students and educators, and a broad range of civic-minded individuals and companies intent to improve the urban environment in North Texas. The Forum has been recognized nationally with an AIA Collaboration Achievement Award for its strategic partnerships with other organizations focused on architecture, urban planning and the arts. For more information on the Forum, visit www.DallasArchitectureForum.org.

Among the over 130 speakers who have addressed the Forum’s Lecture Series are Shigeru Ban, Brad Cloepfil, Diller + Scofidio, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Daniel Libeskind, Thomas Phifer, Rafael Vinoly, Juhani Pallasmaa, AIA Gold Medal Winner Peter Bohlin, and regional architects David Lake and Ted Flato. Pritzker Prize winners speaking to the Forum have been Kazuyo Sejima, Rafael Moneo, Thom Mayne, Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster (the latter two in collaboration with the ATT Performing Arts Center). Other speakers for the Forum have been leading designers Calvin Tsao, Andrée Putman, and Karim Rashid; landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh; and National Trust President Emeritus Richard Moe. Important critics, authors and patrons who have spoken to the Forum include Emily Pulitzer, Terence Riley, Pulitzer prize winners Robert Campbell and Blair Kamin, Aaron Betsky, and the late David Dillon.

The Forum organizes and presents an annual series of Panels—local, informal, open, and offered free of charge as a public service to the community—led by a moderator who brings a subject of local importance along with comments by participating panelists. Moderators and Panelists have also come from both other Texas cities as well as from national institutions that were connected with particular Panel subjects. Panels offer attendees the opportunity to participate in creating discourse. Important topics addressed in Panels in recent years include: “Thoughts on the Dallas Comprehensive Plan”; “The Kimbell Expansion: A Discussion”; “Filling Out the Dallas Arts District”; and “Re-envisioning the Trinity”.

The Dallas Architecture Forum also presents two symposia annually. The Forum works closely with the School of Architecture of the University of Texas at Arlington, and jointly presents the David Dillon Symposium in Texas Architecture. Symposia have focused on local architectural icons Frank Welch and E. G. Hamilton, and on “African American Architecture in Dallas”. The Dallas Design Symposium, founded four years ago by the Forum, has created a partnership with the Nasher Sculpture Center and in 2011 presented environmental artist Christo.

To follow us on Facebook visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-Architecture-Forum/139899379388425?ref=ts. For Twitter, our account is DallasArchForum. For press information and photos, please contact: Lisa Taylor, 214.914.1099 or Taylormadepress@gmail.com

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Dallas Architecture Forum Presents a Lecture with Steven Ehrlich :: September 21, 2011

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Dallas Architecture Forum and AIA Dallas present Architect Steven Ehrlich in conjunction with the 2011 AIA Built Projects Design Awards

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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

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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Dallas Architecture Forum Announces 16th Season of Lectures

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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.

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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.

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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 Architecture Forum Presents Dan Wood :: November 3, 2010

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The Dallas Architecture Forum presents architect Dan Wood of Work Architecture Company who will speak Wednesday, November 3 at 7 p.m. in the Horchow Auditorium of the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St.

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.

Lecture benefactors are AIA Dallas, the Dallas Architecture Forum and the School of Architecture, UT-Arlington. Season Benefactor is Briggs-Freeman Real Estate.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dan Wood, AIA, LEED AP is a co-founder of WORK Architecture Company. Wood received his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and Masters Degree from Columbia University. Wood has focused for many years on developing contemporary forms of ecological urbanism, including WORKac’s competition-winning Greenbelt City project in Las Vegas, the Wild West Side study for Hudson Yards in New York and a study for the redesign of New Jersey in order to provide food locally for the New York metropolitan region. Wood has also led the firm’s ongoing master-planning work for the BAM Cultural District in Brooklyn.

Prior to forming WORKac, Wood achieved international recognition as a partner with Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in the Netherlands. Wood was involved in leading many of the firm’s best-known projects, including the IIT Campus Center, the Universal City Master Plan and both the Downsview Park and Union Station projects in Toronto.

Wood has taught at the Cooper Union and the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University where he was the Baumer visiting studio professor of Design. Wood is an Adjunct Professor at Princeton University’s School of Architecture.

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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Update DADA Film Premiere :: October 10, 2010

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Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA)

Celebrates its 25^th anniversary

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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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Dallas Architecture Forum Presents Rafael Vinoly :: May 13, 2010

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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.

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

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Dallas Architecture Forum presents Christy MacLear :: Dec. 10, 2009

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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.

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
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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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Dallas Architecture Forum :: Juhani Pallasmaa :: April 9, 2009

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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.

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.

Dallas Architecture Forum :: Guy NORDENSON :: March 26, 2009

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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.
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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.

Dallas Architecture Forum :: Elizabeth Smith :: February 19, 2009

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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

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.

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VideoFest to Celebrate 25th anniversary :: Sept. 27-30, 2012

Location announced-Dallas Museum of Art

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Eleventh Annual 24-Hour Video Race:: May 4-5, 2012

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David Dillon Symposium :: April 26-27, 2012

Keynote address by Paul Goldberger

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Dallas Architecture Forum Presents a Lecture with Steven Ehrlich :: September 21, 2011

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Dallas Architecture Forum Presents Dan Wood :: November 3, 2010

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Dallas Architecture Forum Presents Rafael Vinoly :: May 13, 2010

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Dallas Architecture Forum presents Christy MacLear :: Dec. 10, 2009

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Dallas Architecture Forum :: Juhani Pallasmaa :: April 9, 2009

Annual Rose Family Lecture

Dallas Architecture Forum :: Guy NORDENSON :: March 26, 2009

At the Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas Architecture Forum :: Elizabeth Smith :: February 19, 2009

This lecture is at the Dallas Museum of Art

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