Dallas Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing challenging and on-going public discourse about architecture, design and the urban environment, is pleased to present award-winning Texas architect Arthur Andersson of Austin, Texas.   He will speak on Wednesday, February 4 at the Magnolia Theatre, West Village, 3699 McKinney Avenue. 

The lecture by Mr. Andersson will occur at 7 p.m. with a complimentary reception beginning at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general admission, and $5 for students (with ID). Tickets can be purchased at the door before the lecture. No reservations are needed to attend Forum lectures. 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. For more information on the Dallas Architecture Forum, visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org or call 214-764-2406. 

Season Benefactors for the Dallas Architecture Forum’s 2014-2015 Season are Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty and Maharger Development | Reggie Graham.  Spring Series Benefactors are Jackson Walker LLP, Impact Outdoor Advertising | Janet Kafka and Associates, the Bowdon Family Foundation, and Smink, Inc. 

This is the Forum’s annual Bob James Memorial Lecture, with underwriting support from the Dallas Center for Architecture Foundation.  Lecture Benefactors for this lecture are Scott + Cooner and Scott + Reid.   Reception Underwriters for the evening are  Studio Outside and Good Fulton & Farrell, Inc.  

Arthur W. Andersson and F. Christian Wise founded Andersson-Wise Architects in 2001, focused on the idea that a collaborative approach to design leads to a built solution attuned to its purpose, as well as the broader issues of image and context. As Design Director, Andersson’s role as Principal-In-Charge is to provide leadership by establishing design concepts and integrating the client into the collaborative process.  Andersson has practiced architecture over three decades throughout the United States in Kansas City, New Orleans and Austin. He studied architecture at the University of Kansas and at the University of London, England graduating with a Bachelor of Environmental Design.  He collaborated with Charles W. Moore in designing the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition in New Orleans, and also established an office with Moore in Austin.  He is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects.

For Andersson-Wise, the fundamental elements that give buildings meaning are found in nature.    The W Hotel + Residences with Austin City Limits LIVE at the Moody Theater, the Topfer Theatre at ZACH, the Dining Hall & Student Center and the Dormitory & Faculty Residences at St. Stephens Episcopal School, and Temple Beth Shalom on the Jewish Community Center in Austin are a short list of his recently completed projects.  Andersson was most recently selected to design a sustainably driven event center for the Boy Scouts of America called the Summit Bechtel Reserve: Ridge Leadership Center including a 300 seat lecture hall, dining hall, central lodge, and visitor lodging in West Virginia.  Andersson’s projects are full of light and atmosphere, the physical embodiment of the great Charles Moore's influential tenet that architecture is about enhancing a sense of place.
http://www.anderssonwise.com

Dallas Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing challenging and on-going public discourse about architecture, design and the urban environment, is pleased to present innovative architect James Richärd of Phoenix, Arizona.   He will speak on Wednesday, December 3 at the Magnolia Theatre, West Village, 3699 McKinney Avenue.

The lecture by Mr. Richärd will occur at 7 p.m. with a complimentary reception beginning at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general admission, and $5 for students (with ID). Tickets can be purchased at the door before the lecture. No reservations are needed to attend Forum lectures. 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. For more information on the Dallas Architecture Forum, visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org or call 214-764-2406.

Season Benefactors for the Dallas Architecture Forum’s 2014-2015 Season are Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s Realty and Maharger Development | Reggie Graham.  Fall Series Benefactors are Corgan Associates; MAPP Construction Company and modmedia, Inc // moderndallas.net.

 
James Richärd, AIA is the architectural design principal of Richärd & Bauer Architecture, a studio-based architectural and interiors practice focusing primarily on higher education, research, public and academic library design. The firm was founded in 1996 by James Richärd, AIA and Kelly Bauer FIIDA.  Formative experience within large firms reinforced the idea that the largest and best of projects were executed by a 
small group of dedicated people with a common vision. To that end, the firm remains an intimate size of highly skilled and motivated people.  Over its history the firm has garnered a multitude of local, regional, national and international design awards.  The firm was recognized as a Designer of the Year by Contract Magazine and as the Firm of the Year by AIA Arizona in 2013.  The studio was also recognized as an "Emerging Voice" by the Architectural League of New York and as a "New Vanguard" by Architectural Record.  Richärd was also awarded the AIA Arizona Architects Medal in 2008.  Richärd was educated at the University of Arizona, College of Architecture. As a designer with a large A/E firm in the Tucson Sonoran Desert, he developed a special sensitivity to the context of the region and environment.

Richärd has over twenty-five years of experience in planning, design and construction of complex and high profile projects. With broad-ranging architectural experience, he has specialized expertise in research labs, classroom buildings, higher education facilities and libraries. His design process lends itself to complicated multi-discipline clients. Richärd has extensive experience in facilitating the design process and technical knowledge for problem solving. Richärd’s integrated approach to sustainable design has resulted in award-winning environmentally sensitive architecture. 
http://www.richard-bauer.com  

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 upon improving 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 160 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”.

For more information on the Dallas Architecture Forum, visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org. For questions about the Forum, call 214-764-2406.

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Dallas Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing challenging and on-going public discourse about architecture, design and the urban environment, is pleased to announce that its 2014-15 season of lectures will begin with the award-winning  architect, artist, and founder of buildingstudio Coleman Coker.  He will speak on Wednesday, Oct. 8 at 7:00 p.m. at The Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood Street.

The lecture by Professor Coker will be at 7 p.m. with a complimentary reception beginning at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general admission, $15 for DMA Partners, and $5 for students (with ID). Tickets can be purchased at the door before the lecture. No reservations are needed to attend Forum lectures. 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. 

Coleman Coker is an architect and artist best known for the Cook House, the Barton Residence, the Shiloh Falls Residence, Texas Twister at Rey Rosa Ranch, the Patterson Clinic, Bridges Center, and the Alligator House.  Coker founded buildingstudio in 1999 after a thirteen-year partnership with Samuel Mockbee as Mockbee/Coker Architects. Their work was collected in Mockbee/Coker, Thought and Process.  Coker has earned numerous honors, including a P/A Design Award for low-cost housing, “Breaking the Cycle of Poverty”.  He has received two Record Houses Awards and National AIA Honor Awards. His work has been highlighted in various exhibits including MoMA, SF MoMA, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and in the permanent collection of the National Building Museum.

Coker holds a Master of Fine Arts, and an honorary Doctorate, from the Memphis College of Art. He was awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.  He is the Ruth Carter Stevenson Regents Chair in the Art of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. Coker has lectured extensively at universities and professional forums and has participated in numerous design juries across the country. http://www.buildingstudio.net

Season Benefactors for the Dallas Architecture Forum’s 2014-2015 Season are Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s Realty | Claire Dewar and Maharger Development | Reggie Graham.  Fall Series Benefactors are Corgan Associates; The Joule, A Luxury Collection Hotel; and modmedia, Inc // moderndallas.net. This lecture is presented in partnership with the AIA Dallas Design Awards. 

For more information on the Dallas Architecture Forum, visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org or call 214-764-2406. This lecture is presented in partnership with AIA Dallas Design Awards.

Dallas Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public education about architecture, design and the urban environment, is pleased to present  “Research-Based Design Practice”, a Panel Discussion on April 29, moderated by Brad Bell. 

Panels are offered at no charge to both Forum members and to the general public as a public outreach of the Forum. Join us for a cold beverage and lively dialogue! The venue for each of the Panels presented by the Dallas Architecture Forum is 1909 Woodall Rogers Freeway, Suite 100, Dallas, TX 75201 (Five Star Institute Building). Each of the free Dallas Architecture Forum Panels will be held at 6:30 pm, with an informal reception beginning at 6:15 pm.  No reservations are needed to attend the Panels. 

 “The Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to present this next event in its series of thought -provoking Panel Discussions on topics impacting the citizens of Dallas both locally and globally” stated Forum Executive Director Nate Eudaly.  Each of our moderators will be joined by panelists who are subject matter experts in their respective fields.  The result will be engaging and thought-provoking discussions for our attendees.” 

The post-1968 architectural design theory era has come to a close. A new moment has arrived that promotes innovation through the insertion of design research into today’s architectural practice. This panel will examine how new advances in digital technology have specifically accelerated this to take place and discuss what role research will play in shaping the design education and profession moving forward.

Brad Bell teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the integration of digital fabrication technologies into the architectural design process. He has lectured, taught, and written on the uses of such technologies for the past 12 years and has been an invited critic at schools of architecture throughout the United States. In 2012 Bell started TOPOCAST, a design and consultation firm focused on the implementation of innovative methods in casting through the application of digital fabrication technologies.

In 2009 Brad became one of the founders and co-directors of TEX-FAB. TEX-FAB is a non-profit organization founded between three universities in Texas with the primary function of connecting design professionals, academics, and manufacturers interested in digital fabrication. The three co-directors established TEX-FAB as a collective action which combines divergent interests and capabilities in order to strengthen the regional discourse around digital fabrication and parametric design. They see this type of effort as a new paradigm focused on providing a network of affiliated digital fabrication resources, and a platform for education and exchange on issues of parametric modeling. TEX-FAB seeks to engage the new and growing awareness of a regional and global hybridization by leveraging the burgeoning global knowledge base to produce a more specific and contextual dialogue in the region in which we operate, teach, and practice. 

Panel Season Sponsors are Balfour Beatty Construction, John Eagle Dealerships, HOSSLEY Lighting Associates, Purdy McGuire, Inc., Cindy + Armond Schwartz, Talley Associates and WDG Architects.  The sponsor for this specific panel is the UT-Arlington School of Architecture.

For more information on the Dallas Architecture Forum, or the Panel Discussion Series, visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org or call 214-764-2406.