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 one of the country’s leading designers of arts institutions, Charles Renfro, AIA. He will speak on Thursday, April 23 at 7:00 p.m. at The Magnolia Theatre, West Village.
The lecture by Mr. Renfro will start 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. 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 | Claire Dewar 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. Benefactors for the Renfro lecture are Blum Consulting Engineers, OMNIPLAN, bauhaus and Structure Tone. Gensler and Turner Construction Company are the Reception Underwriters.
Charles Renfro is a Partner in the firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), an interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the performing arts, and the visual arts. Renfro is a graduate of Rice University and holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He has taught at Rice University, Parsons the New School for Design, School of Visual Arts, and Columbia University. Together with Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, he is intimately involved in the design of the studio’s projects. Renfro’s projects include the renovation and expansion of the Julliard School, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Creative Arts Center at Brown University, and Blur for the 2002 Swiss Expo. He currently leads design for the Rice University Opera Theater, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Stanford University Art & Art History Building, and Zaryadye Park in Moscow. Other projects for cultural institutions include the Alice Tully Hall and the Hypar Pavilion at Lincoln Center in New York. In addition to those already mentioned the firm is currently working on the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Image & Audio in Rio de Janeiro, and the Columbia Medical Building and Business School in New York.
A signature project for the firm is The Highline, a project completed together with Dallas Architecture Forum past speaker James Corner/Field Operations. DS+R’s work has been exhibited worldwide at museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum, the Netherlands Architecture Institute, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Centre Pompidou. Renfro is a contributing editor of Document Journal, and his writing has been published in Bomb, OUT, and A+U Magazine. He is a board member of Spaceworks and Storefront for Art and Architecture, where he has been President of the Board since 2011. Renfro is a National Academy Academician, and Academy Life Time Achievement recipient, an honoree of the American Academy in Rome, and he was honored as a Rice University Distinguished Alumnus, one of the youngest alumni to ever receive this prestigious award. Most recently, Renfro has been named as a 2015 Texas Medal of Arts Honoraee by the Texas Cultural Trust. http://www.dsrny.com/