End of 2022-23 Season Highlights and Thanks

2022-2023 / Season in Review

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The Forum is grateful to you - our members, sponsors, and donors. Because of your support, our 2022 – 2023 Season was a great success! We presented Lectures and Panel Discussions featuring thought-leaders who educated and informed our attendees. We also had three 365 Modern Receptions at outstanding Dallas residences, where attendees were inspired by their designs. And our YouTube Channel now has over seventy-five Forum programs with more than 21,000 views locally, nationally, and internationally. Your valued support and participation are greatly appreciated!

A highlight of our 25th Anniversary Season was our Design Recognition – Looking Back Looking Forward competition to highlight and honor the significant projects completed in North Texas over the last 25 years. An esteemed jury reviewed over 160 entries and we announced the Finalists at our party at Fountain Place in May. Plan to join us at The Forum’s Awards Dinner on October 11th at the Meyerson when the twenty-five most significant projects, and ten exciting new projects in process, are awarded.

We look forward to our next twenty-five seasons, as we together advance The Forum’s mission, improve our community, and experience inspired design!

Thank you!

Nate Eudaly Executive Director Eurico Francisco Board President

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LECTURES Listed in Chronological Order

Dallas Design LEADERS —>

Michael SORENSEN —>

Michael MALTZAN —>

Florian IDENBURG & Jing LIU —>

MAGUI PEREDO —>

PANELS Listed in Chronological Order

Ray CALABRO —>

Sharon JOHNSTON —>

Chris LaGUARDIA —>

Juan MIRÓ & Miguel RIVERA —>

Philip KAFKA —>

Parks & Trails in Dallas - 25 Years of Progress —>

Urbanism in Dallas - Over the Past 25 Years —>

Design Inspirations - Dallas Sculptors —>

SPONSORS, MEMBERS & DONORS

Lecture Sponsors —>

Panel Sponsors —>

Corporate Patrons & Supporters —>

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SPECIAL EVENTS

365 Modern Living Receptions —>

Design Recognition - Looking Back Looking Forward —>

Lectures

Dallas Design LEADERS

The Dallas Architecture Forum opened its 25th Anniversary by featuring eight of Dallas’ well-respected architects. These thought leaders visited together in informal conversations about their work. All these esteemed designers have long-term relationships with The Forum – many of them for the entire twenty-five years of The Forum’s existence. All have spoken previously at Forum events, and we were honored to have them together for this special evening.

The program consisted of two moderated groups with four of the eight participants in each group. Each of the architects presented some of their project images. The unique twist was rather than the architect discuss his/her projects, the others in their group gave feedback about their colleague’s work. It was an insightful and fun discussion.

The evening’s Speakers were:

Bruce Bernbaum, AIA Bernbaum / Magadini Architects

Russell Buchanan, FAIA Buchanan Architecture

Gary Cunningham, FAIA Cunningham Architects

Bob Meckfessel, FAIA DSGN Associates

Sharon Odum, AIA

Sharon Odum Architect

Marcel Quimby, FAIA Quimby Preservation Studio

Dan Shipley, FAIA Shipley Architects

Ron Wommack, FAIA

The evening’s Moderators were:

Ron Wommack Architect

Kate Aoki, AIA Dallas Museum of Art

Kelly Mitchell, AIA

Mitchell Garman Architects

LECTURE / Michael SØRENSEN

Michael Sørensen is Design Director and Partner at Henning Larsen, leading the firm’s projects in North America. Henning Larsen, one of the leading design firms in Europe, has an international practice in architecture, landscape, and urbanism. The firm has designed many iconic projects, including Cockle Bay Park and the Biotope, Kiruna City Hall and Vejlands Kvarteret, and the Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre (in collaboration with Olafur Eliasson). The firm has been recognized with multiple design awards including the International Architecture Award, Architizer A+ Awards (finalist), Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Award and the Mies van der Rohe European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.

As North American Design Director, Michael works with large, multinational teams of consultants and clients to maintain a strong concept throughout all phases of design. Major projects completed include the University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business and the Public Service Building in Minneapolis. Currently, Michael is leading the design of various civic, cultural, mixed-use, and higher education projects including the Raleigh Civic Tower in North Carolina, Amazon’s new Boston offices and the Performing Arts Center in the Seaport District, the University of Toronto Mississauga´s ACT Building, the Etobicoke Civic Centre in Toronto, and the Toronto Downsview Framework Plan, one of the largest developments underway in North America. henninglarsen.com

LECTURE / Michael MALTZAN

Michael Maltzan, FAIA, is Founder and Principal of Michael Maltzan Architecture. The studio’s projects cross a wide range of typologies, from cultural institutions to city infrastructure. Notable projects include the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice, MoMA QNS, Star Apartments, the Pittman Dowell Residence, the new Sixth Street Viaduct, MIT Vassar Street Residential Hall, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery Inuit Art Centre. Michael’s work has gained international acclaim for innovation in both design and construction. It has been recognized with five Progressive Architecture awards, 47 citations from local, state, and national chapters of the AIA, the Rudy Bruner Foundation’s Gold Medal for Urban Excellence, and a 2020 Best of the Millennium AIA LA Honor Award. The firm and its projects have been widely featured in national and international publications and have been exhibited in museums worldwide, including the MoCA Los Angeles, MoMA New York, the Heinz Architectural Center, the Canadian Center for Architecture, and three La Biennales di Venezia.

Michael received an M. Arch from the Harvard GSD, and BFA and B. Arch degrees from RISD. He received the 2016 AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal, is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award and a member of the National Academy of Design. His work was named one of the 25 Best Inventions of 2015 by Time magazine. In 2021 the Society of Architectural Historians presented him with its Change Agent Award. He serves on the Deans leadership council at the Harvard GSD and the Visiting Committee to the GSD. mmaltzan.com

LECTURE / SO-IL Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg

SO–IL is an award winning, internationally recognized architectural design firm that creates spaces for culture, learning and innovation. Founded in 2008 by Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg, the studio has a wide range of projects both in the US and abroad. Through building practice and interdisciplinary research projects, Jing Liu has led SO–IL in engaging with the socio-political issues of contemporary cities — in projects like the Artists Loft North Omaha and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in Cleveland. Her projects range from artistic collaborations with contemporary choreographers and visual artists to master plan and major public realm design in cities like Melbourne and Indianapolis.

Florian Idenburg’s years of working in cross-cultural settings make him a thoughtful and collaborative partner. He has a particularly strong background in institutional spaces, leading the office on projects such as Kukje Gallery and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, as well as Amant in Brooklyn. His strength lies in generating imaginative ideas and transforming those into real-world spaces and objects. SO-IL is locally rooted with a global reach. With its ambitious private and public clients, they explore how the creation of environments and objects inspires lasting positive intellectual and societal engagement..

so-il.org

LECTURE / Magui PEREDO

Magui Peredo and her partners at Estudio Macias Peredo design and construct projects that are closely linked to local craft and original design in both buildings and interiors. Their work is aligned with the environment in a site-specific manner, and also incorporates local artisans in the building process. Among their outstanding projects are El Eco Pavilion, Torre Avancer, Casa Tejada, Edificio Turin, Casa Guzman Jimenez, Complejo Industrial, Casa Americana, and Punta Caliza Hotel Holbox. In addition to their professional practice, Ms. Peredo and her husband/partner Salvador Macias coordinate the Jardín 17 architecture exhibition space at Casa Estudio Luis Barragán in Mexico City. Ms. Peredo has exhibited her work at the National Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture, at SFA MOMA, and at the Mexico pavilion of the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Estudio Macias Peredo presents lectures and forums on their practice in universities in Mexico and abroad. The studio has won several awards, including the Emerging Voices prize by The Architectural League in New York; and was a finalist in the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Competition. Magui is also a project workshop professor at ITESO in Guadalajara and a member of Mexico’s National Academy of Architecture.

Estudio Macias Peredo

LECTURE / Ray CALABRO

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Bob James Memorial Lecture

Ray Calabro FAIA, Principal and Managing Partner of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Seattle, brings a depth of experience in leading teams in a collaborative design process that achieves extraordinary, awardwinning projects. These projects include civic and cultural, corporate headquarters, academic, retail, and private residences across the United States and Canada. Ray is also a curatorial leader at BCJ and has been instrumental in the creation of its celebrated monographs, including its most recent publication Gathering. Ray frequently speaks at national and international design conferences, and as a design critic at schools of architecture. Some of Ray’s projects of note include Kicking Horse Residence, Jackson Residence, Nu Skin Innovation Center, Boundary Point Cabin, and Grand Teton Visitor Center.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is a practice of six studios across the country designing places that translate their clients’ aspirations into built environments greater than the sum of their parts. BCJ brings a holistic approach to architecture, interior design, planning, and adaptive re-use. Their sustainable, site-specific designs have received an extraordinary record of design achievement – 10 National Honor and COTE Awards from the AIA, and over 750 awards in total recognizing the firm’s work. The firm has also been awarded the prestigious AIA National Architecture Firm of the Year Award.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

© Eric Staudenmaier

Sharon Johnston of Johnston Marklee designs award-winning projects of diverse scale and type, spanning fourteen countries throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Recent projects include the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, a renovation of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the new UCLA Graduate Art Studios campus in Culver City; and the new Dropbox headquarters in San Francisco. Current projects include the design of the new home for the Whitney Independent Study Program at Roy Lichtenstein Studio; a renovation of the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center; and the renovation of the Hauptbau at the Kunstmuseum Basel.

Sharon Johnson, FAIA is Professor in Practice at the Harvard GSD and was named as an Architectural Record’s Women in Architecture: New Generation Leader. Both Sharon and Mark Lee have taught at Princeton and UCLA and held the Cullinan Chair at Rice and the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto.

The studio has been recognized nationally and internationally with over 50 major awards and received the Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. Publications include House Is a House Is a House Is a House Is a House, and monographs 2G N. 67, El Croquis N. 198, and A+U N. 614. The firm’s work is in the permanent collections of MOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, SF MOMA and the Architecture Museum of TU Munich. Sharon and Mark were the Artistic Directors of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

. Johnston Marklee

LECTURE / Chris LaGUARDIA LaGuardia Design Group

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 25person 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 19902020, 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.

LaGuardia Design Group

LECTURE / Juan MIRÓ & Miguel RIVERA

Miró Rivera Architects

The Frank Welch Memorial Lecture

Miró Rivera’s award-winning design philosophy is rooted in “responsible architecture” that believes architects must engage as thinkers, builders and artists on every project. Founding partners Miguel Rivera, FAIA and Juan Miró, FAIA were born only a few days apart in Puerto Rico and Spain, where they studied architecture before completing Master’s Degrees at Columbia and Yale. The partners worked at illustrious studios including Gwathmey Siegel, Felix Candela, Santiago Calatrava and Mitchell/Giurgola before founding their own firm. Their esteemed projects include the Pedestrian Bridge and the Core-ten Trail Restroom at the Lady Bird Lake Trail, both honored by Architectural Review / RIBA; Chinmaya Mission; Stonehedge Residence; and Lakeshore Residence. Circuit of The Americas Formula 1 Grand Prix in Austin was named one of ArchDaily’s top 100 works of architecture in the country.

The studio marries elegant design with time-tested sustainable elements that include locally sourced materials, water conservation, and abundant natural light. It is widely published including Architectural Record and the New York Times and its own monograph, Miró Rivera Architects: Building a New Arcadia. The studio has received over 100 design awards, including 40 AIA awards, numerous Austin Green Building certifications, and exhibited at the Venice Architectural Biennale. In 2016, the studio received the Texas Society of Architects’ Architecture Firm Award. They are listed as one of ArchDaily’s World’s Best Architects and were honored with the 2023 Texas Medal of Arts in Architecture.

Miró Rivera Architects

Farquhar Residence by Frank Welch, FAIA

The Forum’s Sixth Annual Frank Welch Memorial Lecture

Thank You to Our Lecture Fund Donors

The Boeckman Family Foundation

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Irma and Reggie Graham

W. Mark Gunderson, Architect

Janet + Terry Kafka

Deedie Rose

Liz, Ed and Franklin Tirrell

Ward Family Foundation

Photo by W. Mark Gunderson

Philip Kafka is the Founder and President of Prince Concepts, a development company that revitalizes blighted inner-city neighborhoods to create vibrant communities. In Detroit, this development work includes the True North live/work housing development and the Caterpillar apartments. It also includes public parks and spaces incorporating over 600 new trees designed by landscape architect Julie Bargmann of D.I.R.T. studio. These projects are constructed with a consistent attitude - one that promotes and prioritizes high quality space - public and private. Kafka has also taken his development philosophy to Fort Worth, Texas where the inaugural PS 1200 project, designed by AIA Gold Medal Winner Marlon Blackwell, along with landscape design by Bargmann.

Kafka’s projects have received many prestigious design awards. Prince Concepts was named one of the ten most innovative architecture focused companies in the world by Fast Company. Kafka’s projects have also been recognized for their design excellence by Progressive Architect, The Architect’s Newspaper, and as a Finalist for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. PS 1200 is a Finalist for The Dallas Architecture Forum’s Design Recognition: Looking Forward competition in the “Retail and Mixed Use” category. Kafka serves on the boards of Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.

Prince Concepts

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Panels

Parks and Trails in Dallas

25 Years of Progress

Moderator

Willis WINTERS • Dallas Park & Recreation Department Director Emeritus

Panelists

Tara GREEN, Principal • OJB Landscape Architects

Amy MEADOWS, President and CEO • Parks for Downtown Dallas

Bud MELTON • Urban Trails and Bikeways Planner

Urbanism in Dallas

Over the Past 25 Years

Moderator

Eurico FRANCISCO, Design Principal • Perkins&Will

Panelists

Patrick KENNEDY, Founding Partner • Space Between Design Studio

Julia M RYAN, Director • Planning and Urban Design, City of Dallas

Tamela THORNTON, Executive Director • Urban Land Institute Dallas-Fort Worth

Design Inspirations

Dallas Sculptors

Moderator

Wendy KONRADI, Wendy Konradi Interior Design

Panelists

Brad GOLDBERG, Brad J. Goldberg

Sherry OWENS, Sherry Owens Sculpture

Jay SHINN, JAY SHINN

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Events

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FARQUHAR RESIDENCE

365 Modern

HIGHLAND PARK RESIDENCE

365 Modern

BROOKVIEW RESIDENCE

Celebrating Inspired Design Looking Back – Looking Forward

Jurors

Deborah Berke, FAIA Yale University Deborah Berke Partners

Carlos Jimenez Rice University Carlos Jimenez Studio

Andrea Cochran, FASLA Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture

Maurice Cox, FAIA, NOMA City of Chicago Planning Director

Brigitte Shim, FRAIC, Hon. FAIA University of Toronto Shim + Sutcliff

Photo © Nicholas Olic

Finalist Announcement Party

May 25, 2023

Fountain Place

A capacity crowd celebrated with The Forum as Finalists in the Design Recognition were announced.

See the list of all Finalists HERE

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The Forum educates, enriches and connects our community by presenting programs and events, creating experiences, and engaging global and local thought-leaders from the design fields to enhance how we live.

The Dallas Architecture Forum is for everyone who wants to experience inspired design. The Forum presents an award-winning Lecture Series that brings outstanding architects,interior designers, landscape architects and urban planners from around the world, as well as Symposia, Receptions at architecturally significant residences, and Panel Discussions on issues impacting North Texas.

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