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 continue its 2012-13 season of lectures with award-winning architect and professor Lance Jay BROWN, who will speak Thursday, December 13 at 7 p.m. at the Magnolia Theatre in the West Village at 3699 McKinney Ave. Season Benefactors are Briggs-Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty | Claire Dewar. Fall Series Benefactors are Corgan Associates, The Joule, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Maharger Development | Reggie Graham, modmedia,inc//moderndallas.net. Lecture Benefactor is Emily Summers Design Associates.
The lecture will start at 7 p.m. with a complimentary reception beginning at 6:15 pm. 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.
Lance J. BROWN, FAIA
Founding Principal; Lance Jay Brown Architecture + Urban Design
New York, New York
13 December 2012
Magnolia Theatre, West Village
Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, FIUD is an architect, urban designer, author and ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture at CCNY/CUNY. He has taught and practiced locally, nationally, and internationally, co-chairs the new AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee and is a founding board member of the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization. He is the Principal of the award winning studio Lance Jay Brown, Architecture + Urban Design founded in 1972. He has served as Assistant Director, Design Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts, as Professional Advisor to the WTC Site 9/11 International Memorial Design Competition; co-Directed the 2003 NEA funded Upper Manhattan Heritage Project; served as special advisor to Mostar 2004 Urban Reconstruction Workshop, Bosnia Herzegovina and co-Directed the HUD funded “Crosstown 116: Bringing Habitat II Home From Istanbul to Harlem” and numerous other urban design projects.
Brown has received the New York State AIA President’s Award for Excellence in Non-traditional Architecture. In 2003 Brown was simultaneously named ACSA Distinguished Professor and Fellow, American Institute of Architects and, in 2007, he was awarded the prestigious AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, the highest award for an educator in the United States. He is a re-elected member of The AIA NYC Board of Directors and is the President Elect for 2014. Brown taught at the School of Architecture at Princeton and served two terms as elected Chair and Director of the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, CCNY, CUNY. Brown was educated at The Cooper Union and holds two Masters Degrees from the Harvard GSD. He has lectured nationally and internationally and has numerous publications including the co-authored "Urban Design for an Urban Century"(2010). He was the professional Advisor for New Housing New York Ideas Competition and the Founding Member of the New Housing New York Steering Committee that initiated the competition for the Legacy Project. He is the co-author, with Mark Ginsberg and Tara Siegle, of “The Legacy Project” to be published this year. He is an Editor of “Beyond Zuccotti Park”, a post Occupy Wall Street compendium to be published September 2012.
http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/news/Lance-Jay-Brown-to-Head-ACSA-College-of-Distinguished-Professors.cfm
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”.
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