The Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to continue its 20^th Anniversary 2016-2017 Lecture Season with award-winning architect Steve Dumez a partner with the firm Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, based in New Orleans.

Eskew+Dumez+Ripple was founded in 1989 with four core values of design excellence, environmental responsibility, community outreach and client commitment which have guided every aspect of its practice. The resulting diverse body of work—ranging from small, intimate interiors to large urban planning projects—reflects the firm’s broad focus on civic life regardless of scale, budget, scope, or complexity.

The firm is widely recognized for award-winning, innovative architecture and planning projects, grounded by a strong understanding of context and culture, which resonate far beyond the Southeast region.

Under the design leadership of Steve Dumez the firm has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards for design excellence, including more than 25 national design awards and an additional 100+ awards at the local, state and regional levels. In 2014 it received the prestigious AIA National Firm of the Year award. Given to a single firm annually, it is the highest honor the professional organization can bestow on a practicing architecture firm.

Architecture has always sought to be representative of the particular time in which it was built. While it is undeniable that culture and society have changed over time, as have building practices, the design vision of Eskew+Dumez+Ripple incorporates geography, climate, resources, and traditions to develop an architectural response clearly of our own time while maintaining a respect for the past.

The firm pursues a collaborative process to promote meaningful dialogue and build consensus among a multitude of stakeholders, crafting a common vision and translating the hopes and dreams of each community into exceptional, uncommon results.

www.eskewdumezripple.com

See Additional Media Coverage: Architectural Record

http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11352-finding-a-better-way-to-do-good

Dumez will speak on Thursday, March 30 at 7:00 p.m., with check-in at 6:15 p.m., at the Magnolia Theatre in the West Village.

“Eskew+Dumez+Ripple believes in more than simply designing good buildings. They want to create better communities. Under the leadership of Steve Dumez their architects commit to the civic realm as well as a sustainable future, by devoting time to numerous initiatives that advocate for quality in the design of the built environment, including teaching, research, speaking engagements, and public advocacy,” stated Nate Eudaly, Executive Director of the Dallas Architecture Forum. “We believe that Gomez’s thorough, creative approach to architecture and community development will provide a program of great interest to the Dallas community.”

The lecture will occur at 7:00 p.m. on February 22, with a complimentary reception beginning at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are $20 per lecture 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 2016-2017 Season are Briggs-Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty and Maharger Development | Reggie Graham. Spring Series Benefactors are Bodron + Fruit, HKS, Jackson Walker LLP, Janet and Terry Kafka, Scott + Cooner, and Smink, Inc. Lecture Benefactors for this event are Emily Summers Design Associates, GFF and studioOutside.

STEVE DUMEZ

DIRECTOR OF DESIGN AND PARTNER

ESKEW+DUMEZ+RIPPLE, NEW ORLEANS

30 March 2017

Thursday, 7:00 pm

Reception and check-in from 6:15 – 6:55 pm

Magnolia Theater, West Village

Steve Dumez is a partner with the architecture firm Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, based in New Orleans. In over 25 years of professional practice, Dumez has led the design of complex projects in a wide range of building types. As Director of Design for Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, he oversees the design of all projects from concept to construction documents, working closely with a team of senior designers in ensuring the consistent quality level that drives their design-first practice. The firm’s design approach focuses on a thorough research of each project’s environmental and cultural conditions, teasing out details of location, history, climate, patterns of use, and social significance. New and meaningful strategies are found by which context and place can be revealed in the work. Through a reiterative cycle of observation, research, concept generation, and detailed design, Dumez’ firm celebrates local conditions while transcending local convention. Their work prioritizes the experience of a place over formal aesthetic concerns, allowing the project to resonate on many levels for a variety of users over time.

Mr. Dumez’ engaging design process concentrates on first developing a detailed design program for clients including building image and brand goals, program compliance and ultimately physical design drivers. Under his design leadership, Eskew+Dumez+Ripple has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards for design excellence, including more than 25 national design awards and an additional 100+ awards at the local, state and regional levels including the prestigious AIA National Firm of the Year Award. Steve Dumez is a Past-President of AIA Louisiana and AIA New Orleans and serves as an active professional mentor within the region. He has also chaired AIA design awards programs at the local, state and regional level and has served on numerous design award juries across the country. He is actively engaged in many local civic organizations and currently serves on the board of the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans. His projects have been recently published in several books as well as numerous national architectural and design magazines such as Architect, Architectural Record, Contract, and Interior Design.

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 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.

To follow us on Facebook visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-Architecture-Forum/139899379388425?ref=ts.

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The Dallas Architecture Forum

 Presents Lecture by

Award-Winning “Architect as Developer”

Jonathan Segal

Thursday, 9 March 2017 at the Magnolia Theatre

in the West Village

The Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to continue its 20^th Anniversary 2016-2017 Lecture Season with outstanding architect Jonathan Segal, Founder and Principal  of Jonathan Segal Architecture and Development. Jonathan Segal, FAIA, is an award-winning architect and contractor who has created and modeled the unique practice of ‘Architect as Developer’ for over two decades. 

As a Trailblazer in the field, his innovative single-family live/work residences and medium to high-density mixed-use housing, primarily found in San Diego and other communities in southern California, have received numerous national awards. Segal has also focused on conceptualizing and constructing well-designed affordable housing for residents of San Diego that has received honors from architecture and construction organizations.

Among Segal’s accolades are 24 local, state and national AIA awards for residential and urban design including six AIA National Honor Awards for Housing, Architizer award finalist, the AIA HUD Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing Design, a National American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum, and Grand Prize Awards from Residential Architect and Custom Home magazines. Due to his success practicing architecture as a developer, Jonathan Segal’s goal is to promote this method of architectural practice to other architects, so they can achieve increased control and financial success over their projects from conceptualization through completion.

www.jonathansegalarchitect.com

See Additional Media Coverage: Residential Architect and Dwell

http://www.residentialarchitect.com/practice/firm-profiles/ra50-jonathan-segal-faia_o

https://www.dwell.com/article/the-jonathan-0d677165

VIDEO

https://vimeo.com/5371552

A documentary about a new way to build sustainable cities by architect/developer Jonathan Segal FAIA. Film by Jeff Durkin.

Created for the Museum of Modern Art San Diego.Mix 9 Architecture Show 2009.

Segal will speak on Thursday, March 9 at 7:00 p.m., with check-in at 6:15 p.m., at the Magnolia Theatre in the West Village.

“As a pioneer in forging the practice of Architect as Developer, and one who has achieved outstanding recognition in the field of architecture by being named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects at a very young age and receiving so many national, state and local awards, coupled with his desire to share his approach with others in lectures and seminars across the country, we believe Jonathan Segal will present a lecture of great interest to the Dallas community,” stated Nate Eudaly, Executive Director of the Dallas Architecture Forum.

The lecture will occur at 7:00 p.m. on March 9, with a complimentary reception beginning at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are $20 per lecture 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 2016-2017 Season are Briggs-Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty  and Maharger Development | Reggie Graham. Winter/Spring Series Benefactors are Architectural Lighting Alliance, CORGAN, Headington Companies and modmedia, inc // moderndallas.net. Lecture Benefactor for this event is Blum Consulting Engineers. Reception Underwriter is Bernbaum/Magadini Architects.

JONATHAN SEGAL

FOUNDER and PRINCIPAL

JONATHAN SEGAL ARCHITECTURE and DEVELOPMENT

SAN DIEGO

9 March 2017

Thursday, 7:00 pm

Reception and check-in from 6:15 -- 6:55 pm

Magnolia Theatre in the West Village

Jonathan Segal, FAIA, redefines the role of the traditional architect by exclusively eliminating the client and developing, constructing and designing his own work. Since 1988 he has designed, developed, and constructed over 300 national award-winning and trendsetting single-family and medium- to high-density residential, live/work units and mixed-use housing totaling over 300,000 square feet in downtown San Diego and La Jolla, California. Jonathan Segal is considered one of downtown San Diego's most successful and pioneering residential architectural/development companies and has a reputation for providing superior housing at a lower cost than comparable properties. Their focus is exclusively on urban projects, ranging from 80 to 160 dwelling units per acre.

Throughout his career, Jonathan has been as devoted to the interests of Downtown San Diego as he is to the creativity of his architecture. Staunchly opposed to insensitive development, Jonathan is adamant about preserving historic and important architecture while sensitively integrating new development. This passion for architecture and downtown has not gone unnoticed. He has received over 40 national, state, and local design awards, and several of those underscore that his standout talents have come at an early age: he has won six National American Institute of Architecture Housing Honors (AIA) and four State of California AIA Honor Awards for Urban Housing, more than any San Diego architect; he was named by the San Diego Union Tribune as one of “Four Architects” in the city’s history that have made a difference; in 2003 he was named to the AIA’s College of Fellows, FAIA – the youngest San Diego architect to be named to this prestigious fraternity; Segal was honored as Residential Architect Magazine’s 2004 National Rising Star; and “The Prospect” was selected as one of Dwell Magazines top 100 homes ever published. In January, 2011 Residential Architect Magazine named him as one of the top 50 architects in the nation.

Jonathan’s interests in thoughtful architecture and development extend beyond his own projects. He shares his ideas frequently as an AIA speaker and has lectured at thirty US Universities, at the University of Cataluña in Barcelona, Spain and at numerous AIA chapters preaching “Architect As Developer” nationwide. Most recently, Segal has been included as a founding member of the National AIA Congress of Residential Architecture (CORA), and along with Ted Smith founded the Woodbury Institute of Architecture for the Masters in Architectural Development (MRED). In 2007, Jonathan presented his first “Architect as Developer” seminar to over 700 architects in Los Angeles and in the fall of 2008 he presented to over 600 architects in Washington DC.

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.

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.

To follow us on Facebook visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-Architecture-Forum/139899379388425?ref=ts.

For Twitter, our account is DallasArchForum.

The Dallas Architecture Forum Presents

Award-Winning Architect

Craig Dykers

Wednesday, 22 February 2017 in the Horchow Auditorium

Dallas Museum of Art

The Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to continue its 20^th Anniversary 2016-2017 Lecture Season with outstanding architect Craig Dykers of Snøhetta.

Since 1989, Craig Dykers has built an internationally renowned practice of architecture, interior architecture and brand design with offices in Norway, Egypt, England, and the United States.

As one of the Founding Partners of Snøhetta, Dykers has spearheaded many of Snøhetta’s prominent projects internationally, including the Alexandria Library in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway, the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in New York City, and the recently completed San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Expansion in San Francisco. He is currently leading the design of the new Times Square Reconstruction in New York City and The French Laundry Kitchen Expansion and Garden Renovation in Yountville, California.

Dyker’s work has led to numerous international awards and recognitions including the Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for Architecture, the World Architecture Award, and the Aga Kahn Award for Architecture, among many others.

Published internationally for over 25 years, Dykers has most recently been profiled in The New Yorker (2013), The New York Times (2014), and The Globe and Mail (2015), while the practice was named 2016 Architecture Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal Magazine, and has also been published in an Arquitectura Viva Monograph (2015) and nominated by Fast Company Magazine as one of the ten most innovative architecture companies in the world (2013). Snøhetta was one of the seven finalists for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

Active professionally and academically, Craig Dykers has been the diploma adjudicator at the Architectural College in Oslo, a distinguished professor at City College in New York City and a visiting critic in the Syracuse University New York City studio. He has lectured extensively in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

snohetta.com/en/

See Additional Media Coverage: Wall Street Journal and Fast Company

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-maverick-architects-snhetta-became-one-of-the-worlds-most-sought-after-firms-1478135401

https://www.fastcodesign.com/1661977/meet-the-vikings-redesigning-times-square-and-sf-moma

Dykers will speak on Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00 p.m., with check-in at 6:15 p.m., in the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art.

“Craig Dykers’ work has received all the top international awards as well as being named by the Wall Street Journal Magazine the 2016 Architecture Innovator of the Year. His interest in design as a promoter of social and physical well-being is supported by ongoing observation and development of an innovative design process that cannot be labelled or categorized. It is driven by the requirements of each new project and the desire to develop architecture that is in the service of its community,” stated Nate Eudaly, Executive Director of the Dallas Architecture Forum. “We believe that Dyker’s exceptionally creative and unique approach, and numerous high-profile projects located throughout the world, will provide a program of great interest to the Dallas community.”

The lecture will occur at 7:00 p.m. on February 22, with a complimentary reception beginning at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are $20 per lecture 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 2016-2017 Season are Briggs-Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty  and Maharger Development | Reggie Graham. Winter/Spring Series Benefactors are Architectural Lighting Alliance, CORGAN, and modmedia, inc // moderndallas.net. Lecture Benefactor for this event is Billingsley Company, and Reception Underwriters for the evening are Datum Engineers and OMNIPLAN.

CRAIG DYKERS

CO-FOUNDER AND DESIGN PRINCIPAL

SNØHETTA, NEW YORK CITY & OSLO

22 February 2017

Wednesday, 7:00 pm

Reception and check-in from 6:15 -- 6:55 pm

Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art

Craig Dykers is one of the founding partners of Snøhetta, a firm based in Oslo, Norway and New York City. Mr. Dykers has led many of Snøhetta’s prominent projects internationally, including the Alexandria Library in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway, the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in New York City, and the recently completed Ryerson University Student Learning Centre in Ontario, Canada. Dykers also led the design of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Expansion and is guiding the Times Square Reconstruction in New York City, as well as the Calgary Public Library in Alberta, Canada, and the Temple University Library in Philadelphia. Snøhetta shortlisted as one of seven firms for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. 

Dykers’ work has led to numerous international awards and widespread recognition including the Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the World Architecture Award and the Aga Kahn Award for Architecture, among many others. Dykers was born in Frankfurt, Germany and has lived extensively in both Europe and North America. Dykers received a bachelor’s degree in architecture at the University of Texas, Austin after initial studies in medicine and art. He has worked in Texas and California prior to co-founding Snøhetta in Oslo, Norway and New York City. Dykers has served as a Diploma Adjudicator at the Architectural College in Oslo and in recent years has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Syracuse University, Cornell University, Parsons and Washington University in St. Louis. He has lectured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacturers, a LEED accredited professional, and a member of the American and Norwegian Institutes 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 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.

The Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to continue its 20^th Anniversary 2016-2017 Lecture Season with Gordon Gill. This lecture will be presented by The University of Texas at Arlington College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA), in collaboration with The Dallas Architecture Forum, in celebration of the 50^th Anniversary of the founding of the School of Architecture. 

The CAPPA Auditorium is located on the 2^nd floor of the CAPPA College building on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington. The address is 601 W. Nedderman Drive, Arlington, TX 76019. Lecture attendees may park in University lots F-8, 33 & 34. Parking Lot S33 is located west of W. Nedderman Drive and south of UTA Boulevard. Lot F-8 is directly across from the CAPPA Building and Lot 34 is SW of the CAPPA Building. 

Gordon Gill, FAIA, an award-winning architect whose work includes the world’s tallest buildings, is known for thoughtful, elegant buildings that have been published in the national and international business and design press. He is a founding partner of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, which is defining cities of the future from studios in Chicago and Beijing. While he was an associate principal at SOM, Gill was responsible for the Pearl River Tower in Guangzhou, China, the world’s first net-zero-energy skyscraper. Since then he has designed the world’s first large-scale energy-positive building and the world’s tallest tower, as well as the Astana Expo 2017 and its sustainable legacy community. In 2009 he was selected as Chicago’s Best Emerging Architect by the Chicago Reader, and in 2013 Gill was elected to The College of Fellows at the American Institute of Architects.  Gordon Gill earned a B.S. in Architecture at Ryerson University, then earned a Master in Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington and an additional Master of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.

www.smithgill.com 

See Additional Media Coverage: Engineering News Record and The Chicago Tribune 

http://smithgill.com/news/enr_19_jul_16/ 

http://smithgill.com/news/chicago_tribune_2_dec_15/ 

Gill will speak on Wednesday, February 1 at 7:00 p.m., with check-in at 6:15 p.m., in the CAPPA Auditorium (2^nd floor of CAPPA Building), University of Texas at Arlington. Complimentary soft drinks and snacks will be available, with a cash bar provided by UTA. 

"Gordon Gill is an award-winning architect whose work includes the world’s tallest buildings and the most cutting-edge sustainable energy concepts, as well as performing arts centers, museums and master plans across the globe. The Jeddah Tower, scheduled to open in 2020 in Saudi Arabia will take the newest title of “world’s tallest building” at about 3,280 feet,” stated Nate Eudaly, Executive Director of the Dallas Architecture Forum. “We believe Gill’s extensive global experience will provide a program of great interest to the Dallas community.”  

The lecture will occur at 7:00 p.m. on February 1, with a complimentary reception beginning at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are $20 per lecture 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 2016-2017 Season are Briggs-Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty  and Maharger Development | Reggie Graham. Winter/Spring Series Benefactors are Architectural Lighting Alliance, CORGAN, and modmedia, inc // moderndallas.net.  

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 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.

To follow us on Facebook visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-Architecture-Forum/139899379388425?ref=ts.

For Twitter, our account is DallasArchForum.

The Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to continue its 20^th Anniversary 2016-2017 Lecture Season with John Ronan. 

John Ronan, FAIA, is one of our nation’s distinguished design architects. Ronan was named as a member of the Design Vanguard by Architectural Record, and was selected as an Emerging Voice of The League of New York. In 2007, Ronan’s firm was selected as architect of the iconic Poetry Foundation in Chicago, a search that included over 50 architecture firms from around the world. The firm was one of seven international finalists for the Obama Presidential Center. Ronan has lectured widely, exhibited internationally, and has been included in numerous publications and covered by the international design press. His monographs include Explorations: The Architecture of John Ronan and The Poetry Foundation. Ronan has received two AIA Institute National Honor Awards and has won many design competitions including those staged by the Graham Foundation. He holds a Master of Architecture with distinction from the Harvard GSD and is a Professor of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

www.jrarch.com

See additional media coverage: Modern Luxury Interiors Chicago and Fast Company.

http://www.modernluxury.com/interiors-chicago/story/setting-the-pace

https://www.fastcodesign.com/3056513/meet-the-only-local-architect-competing-to-design-president-obamas-chicago-library

Ronan will speak on Tuesday, December 6 at 7 p.m. at the Magnolia Theatre in the West Village.

“John Ronan is an award-winning architect who is known for thoughtful, elegant buildings that have been published in the national and international business and design press. His Poetry Foundation building has achieved iconic status, and he was one of only seven international finalists for the Obama Presidential Center – a commission won by Billie Tsien, who spoke for The Forum last season,” stated Nate Eudaly, Executive Director of the Dallas Architecture Forum. “John is very engaging with audiences, and we believe his breadth of architectural, education and research experience will provide a program of great interest to the Dallas community.”   

The lecture will occur at 7 p.m. on December 6, with a complimentary reception beginning at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are $20 per lecture 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 2016-2017 Season are Briggs-Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty  and Maharger Development | Reggie Graham. Fall/Winter Series Benefactors are Architectural Lighting Alliance, CORGAN, MAPP Construction, and modmedia, inc // moderndallas.net. 

JOHN RONAN

FOUNDING PRINCIPAL

JOHN RONAN ARCHITECTS, CHICAGO

6 December 2016

Tuesday, 7:00 pm

Reception and check-in from 6:15 – 6:55 pm

Magnolia Theater, West Village

John Ronan FAIA is founding principal of the firm John Ronan Architects, and serves as Lead Designer on all projects the office undertakes. He is known for his abstract yet sensuous work which explores materiality and atmosphere.  He was a winner in the Townhouse Revisited Competition staged by the Graham Foundation and his firm was the winner of the prestigious Perth Amboy High School Design Competition, a two-stage international competition to design a 472,000 square foot high school in New Jersey. Ronan was named as a member of the Design Vanguard by Architectural Record magazine, and he was selected to The Architectural League of New York's Emerging Voices program.

In 2007, Ronan’s firm was selected as architect of the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, a search that started with 50 architects from around the world.  Princeton Architectural Press published Explorations: The Architecture of John Ronan, a monograph on the firm’s work.  The Center for American Architecture and Design at the University of Texas published The Poetry Foundation. In 2016, the firm was named one of seven international finalists for the Obama Presidential Center.

Ronan has lectured widely and his work has been exhibited internationally, including the Art Institute of Chicago and The Architectural League of New York's Urban Center. His work has been included in numerous publications on design and covered extensively by the international design press.  His firm has been the recipient of two AIA Institute National Honor Awards (for the Poetry Foundation and The Gary Comer Youth Center, both in Chicago).  John Ronan holds a Master of Architecture degree with distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan.   Mr. Ronan is a Professor of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture.

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 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”.

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