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The Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to present its second annual symposium on contemporary design, “Designing for Collections,” with four outstanding speakers, Aaron Betsky, Scott Johnson, Jorge Pardo, and George Sexton, each of whom will share their expertise on how to best design a space for collections on Saturday, May 9  – 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave.

Jack Lane, President and CEO of The New Art Trust and former Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, will moderate.  A cocktail reception with the speakers will be May 8.

Individual tickets for the Symposium can be purchased for $50 and individual tickets for both the Symposium and the cocktail reception can be purchased for $100 and can be purchased online at https://payments.auctionpay.com/ver3/?id=w013769.

See www.dallasarchitectureforum.org for more information or leave a message at 214-764-2406.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Aaron Betsky is the Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum and was Director of the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale.  Previously he directed the Netherlands Architecture Institute, the world’s largest architecture museum. A prolific writer and editor, Betsky has authored over a dozen books and is currently writing a major volume on modernism in architecture and design. He has been published in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, W, Metropolis, I.D. Magazine, and Metropolitan Home.  Betsky holds degrees from Yale and has completed doctoral studies in Architectural History.

Scott Johnson is Design Partner of Johnson Fain in Los Angeles.  His academic studies include Stanford and Harvard Design School,  and he practiced with the Architects Collaborative, SOM and the office of Phillip Johnson.  A number of his best-known and widely published designs include Opus One and Byron wineries, Rincon Center and the MGM Tower.  Current projects include the American Indian Cultural Center, Museum Tower in Dallas, and a wide range of projects in the Far East.  A frequent writer and lecturer, he is the author of The Big Idea:  Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture and Tall Building:  Imagining the Skyscraper.

Jorge Pardo is a LA based artist who blurs boundaries between art, design and architecture.  Recent recognition of his work includes a group exhibition at the Guggenheim New York and the cover of The New York Times T Magazine.  Pardo holds a BFA and has done additional studies in art. His work is in the permanent collections of many museums including New York’s MoMA, MoCA Chicago, MoCA Los Angeles and MoCA Miami. Selected public commissions for his work include the Lever House, the German Parliament, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Dia Center for the Arts.  His work is shown at top galleries around the world.

George Sexton is founder and head of a preeminent lighting and museum design firm.  With a degree in architecture and previous art museum positions, Sexton brings a unique perspective to his work.  Museum projects include New York’s Met and MoMA, Denver Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum,  London’s Royal Academy of Arts, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Nam June Paik Museum, Yale’s Center for British Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Dallas Museum of Art.  Commercial projects include Hearst Tower, Lever House, and projects for Louis Vuitton.  Selected public buildings include the Library of Congress, Monticello, the National Cathedral, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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.