The Dallas Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public education about architecture, design, and the urban environment, continues its 2022-2023 Lecture Series on Thursday, May 11th at 7:00 pm. As The Forum celebrates its 25th Anniversary, the non-profit is pleased to present landscape architect Chris LaGuardia of LaGuardia Design Group. This Lecture will be held at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station. Forum members may attend for free. Tickets for non-members will be available at the door - $5 for Students (with student i.d.), $25 General Admission. Check-in and pre-Lecture Reception will begin at 6:15 pm in the Angelika lobby.
Chris LaGuardia, FASLA is the managing principal and founder of the LaGuardia Design Group, (LDG) located in Water Mill NY, with additional offices in Manhattan and Florida. The LaGuardia Design Group is a 25-person landscape architecture firm specializing in residential, commercial, and institutional design. They have projects across the United States as well as around the globe. The firm has collaborated with many esteemed architecture and design firms including Adjaye Associates, Bates Maasi, Cutler Anderson, Gluckman Tang, Norman Jaffee, REX and Maya Lin Studio. LDG’s creative collaboration with clients and architects expresses the best character of each site.
LaGuardia Design has received numerous national, state, and regional design awards for its work and has been published in many periodicals, including The New York Times, AD, Elle Décor, and Landscape Architecture. In 2013, LDG received the ASLA Award of Excellence in Residential Design, the highest award of its type. The firm published their monograph Contemporary Gardens of the Hamptons: LaGuardia Design Group 1990-2020, featuring 21 of LDG’s residential works. Chris serves on the Board of the Cultural Landscape Foundation. He lectures widely at universities, museums and ASLA conferences about the importance of the landscape profession as it relates to climate change.
Sponsors for this Lecture are Season Sponsors Eggersmann Kitchens | Home Living, Maharger Development | Reggie Graham, Perennials & Sutherland and SMINK Art + Design. Series Sponsors are Abeyta Tibbs Architecture, Architectural Lighting Alliance, Bodron/Fruit, HKS, Inc., HOCKER, Jackson Walker, Kafka Properties LLC, and Robyn Menter Design Associates. Lecture Sponsors are Billingsley Company and Bonick Landscaping. Lecture Supporters are Panoramic Doors and Pritchard Associates.