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The Forum is grateful to you - our members, sponsors, and donors. Because of your support, our 2023 – 2024 Season was a great success! We presented Lectures featuring thought-leaders who educated and informed our attendees. We also organized Panel Discussions on important issues directly impacting North Texas as well as spotlighting local design talent. We invite you to watch these great Lectures and Panels, as well as a total of ninety past Forum programs on our YouTube channel, where they have been watched over 30,000 times locally, nationally, and internationally. Also, two 365 Modern Living Receptions were held at outstanding Dallas residences, with their design teams sharing insights that enhanced the evenings. Your valued participation and support of all Forum events is greatly appreciated!
A highlight of The Forum’s Season was our incredible Design Recognition dinner at the Meyerson where over four hundred attendees joined together to celebrate our esteemed jury’s selections of twenty-five of the most significant design projects completed in North Texas over the last twenty-five years since The Forum was founded. The jury also recognized ten exciting new projects in process. View all the winning projects, as well as highlights of the festive evening, in this E-magazine.
We look forward to our 2024-2025 Season of Lectures, Panels and Special Events as we together advance The Forum’s mission, improve our community, and continue to experience inspired design!
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Nate Eudaly Executive Director Eurico Francisco Board President
LECTURES Listed in Chronological Order
Emmanuel RAMIREZ —>
Rodolfo MACHADO —>
Andrea SOTO & Alejandro GUERRERO —>
Katherine CHIA —>
PANELS Listed in Chronological Order
Trey TRAHAN —>
Mikyoung KIM —>
Carol ROSS BARNEY —>
Brian MACKAY-LYONS —>
Women Engineers Shaping the Built Environment —>
AI and the Design Community —>
Thomas Taylor —>
Design Inspirations —>
Harold Simmons (Trinity) Park Update —>
DESIGN RECOGNITION WINNERS —>
SPONSORS, MEMBERS & DONORS
Lecture Sponsors —>
Panel Sponsors —>
Corporate Patrons & Supporters —>
Circle Members & Donors —>
MODERN LIVING RECEPTIONS —>
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2023-24
Lectures
Emmanuel Ramírez is a founder and Partner of Estudio MMX, an urban and architectural design studio based in Mexico City. Emmanuel is an honors graduate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and has a Masters in Urban Design from The University College of London. Ramirez has worked in leading architectural firms including Alberto Kalach’s Taller de Arquitectura, SOM, and David Chipperfield Architects. He has developed his interdisciplinary interests in the fields of strategic urban design, master plans and architectural design. Ramirez has been a professor at IBERO and UT Arlington and has been invited by multiple national and international institutions to lecture on the work of Estudio MMX.
Emmanuel and Studio MMX have received numerous awards including the Young Creators Scholarship and international awards including the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices award, the Architectural Record Design Vanguard award, the National and International Cemex Awards and the Emerging Architecture Award from The Architectural Review. The studio’s award-winning work focuses on the relationship between three key elements: environment, intervention and content. Each project is carefully analyzed through these lenses to determine and develop its design. The studio’s work has been exhibited in galleries such as Storefront for Art and Architecture, MOMA, and the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Estudio MMX
LECTURE / Rodolfo MACHADO Machado Silvetti
Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti were recipients of the first ever Award in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for “boldly conceived and brilliantly executed projects” and for being “uncompromisingly dedicated to envisioning a meaningful architecture of the public realm.” The firm has received numerous awards from the AIA, Progressive Architecture, and other regional and international awards for their distinguished body of work. Those award-wining projects include the Denver Art Museum, the Asian Art Center - Ringling Museum of Art, Chazen Museum of Art, Kennedy Center for Theatre Arts, School of Business - American University of Beirut, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Provincetown Art Museum, Scully Hall at Princeton, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Wagner Park at Battery Park City, Walton College of Business, The Getty Villa, and UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. Internationally recognized, Machado and his colleagues have worked in Berlin, Beirut, Buenos Aires, Seoul, Singapore, Rome, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Malaysia, Vietnam and across the United States.
Rodolfo Machado was born in Buenos Aires and has resided in the United States all his adult life. He studied Urban Design in Paris and at UC Berkeley for his masters and doctoral studies. Rodolfo has been a member of the Harvard University faculty since 1986 and a visiting critic or professor at Carnegie-Mellon, RISD, Yale, Rice, Princeton and the University of Virginia. The studio’s writing is a recognized part of the architectural zeitgeist, and Machado Silvetti gifted their immense archives of drawings, models, and records to the Harvard GSD.
Machado Silvetti
Andrea Soto and Alejandro Guerrero are Co-Founders and Principals of Atelier ARS, an architecture and landscape architecture studio based in Guadalajara, whose projects are created with three compelling concepts: the relationship of architecture and landscape architecture with nature, the intrinsic condition of these two disciplines, and their relationships with people. Since Alejandro Guerrero is an architect and Andrea Soto a landscape architect, their projects seamlessly combine those two disciplines. Alejandro has BA and MA degrees in Architecture from ITESO University and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He taught architectural design at ITESO and has been a visiting critic at the Harvard GSD. Andrea also graduated from ITESO and has Masters in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard GSD, with an ASLA Award of Distinction. She has lectured at University of British Columbia School of Landscape Architecture, UVA, and the Harvard GSD.
Atelier ARS has received the Emerging Voices award, given by The Architectural League and the Design Vanguard from Architectural Record. Their work has been nominated as a finalist in the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, the Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, and included for three cycles as part of Mexico’s Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Atelier ARS also won first prize in the Latin American Biennial of Landscape Architecture. The studio’s Center for Culture and Arts was a Silver Medal winner in this year’s Erich Mendelshon Preis. Alejandro is the author of the book Arquitecturas del Fuego I y II (Architectures of Fire I and II) which amplifies the studio’s focus on history, architecture, and landscape architecture.
Atelier ARS
LECTURE / Katherine CHIA
Katherine Chia FAIA and her partner Arjun Desai have built Desai Chia Architecture to be a studio that creates inspiring environments expressive of light, materials, and collaborative spaces. Chia grew up in New York State and Belgium and earned her Master of Architecture from M.I.T. and a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College. Prior to founding Desai Chia, she worked for Maya Lin on numerous art and architecture commissions. Chia is a board member at the New York Center for Architecture and the International Center of Photography, and a trustee emerita of Amherst College. The book The Women Who Changed Architecture by Princeton Architectural Press includes Chia’s work in the chapter “Raising the Roof.”
Desai Chia celebrates bold design, deliberate eloquence, and graceful simplicity driven by a guiding principle that architecture can transform communities. The studio is known for two things: its preference for social and humane architecture, and iconic projects that benefit from sustainable technical strategies and extensive knowledge of materials The firm blurs the boundaries between building and nature through its hallmark approach of integrating light as a unifying theme. Desai Chia’s projects have been published extensively in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Residential Architect, Dezeen, Dwell, Arch Daily, and the Architect Newspaper. The firm has also received many accolades including numerous AIA Design Awards and American Architecture Awards. ARCHITECT Magazine ranked Desai Chia Architecture one of the country’s top twenty design studios. Desai Chia has also been honored with an AIA Institute Honor Award and multiple Interior Design Best of Year Awards.
Desai Chia
LECTURE / Trey TRAHAN Trahan Architects
Victor F. “Trey” Trahan III, FAIA, NOMA, is the founder and CEO of Trahan Architects. The practice is rooted in the importance of environmental conservation, social justice, culture, and the arts. Trahan Architects is ranked the number one design firm in the U.S. by Architect Magazine, the official publication of the AIA. The firm has won over one hundred national, state, regional, and local AIA awards, an ASLA Honor Award, five National AIA Awards, and several international design competitions. Trahan received the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award and an Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League. Trey was named the 2021 Laureate for The American Prize for Architecture by The Chicago Athenaeum. He served on the International Council of the Van Alen Institute and is currently a board member of The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Trahan has lectured widely including MIT, USC, Tulane, Carnegie Mellon and Duke. He has also spoken at symposia and conventions, such as the Architecture and Culture annual symposium at Fallingwater.
Trahan Architects’ notable projects include the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, the Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame, the Aurora Event Center, the Laredo Convention Center, Chapel of St. Ignatius, Coca Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre, National Bonsai and Penjing Museum at the National Arboretum, The Fundo Pier in Patagonia, Magnolia Mound Visitors Center, Magazine Street Museum, Ochsner Center for Innovation, Holy Rosary Church, Baton Rouge Municipal Dock, Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria in Austin, and the recently announced USA Pavilion for the 2025 Expo in Osaka, Japan.
Trahan Architects
LECTURE / Mikyoung KIM
The Rose Family Lecture
Mikyoung Kim Design
Mikyoung Kim, FASLA, Founding Principal of Mikyoung Kim Design (MYK-D), is internationally recognized for her studio’s culturally significant projects that celebrate the beauty of collective human experience through landscape and urban design. The studio has been honored as the American Society of Landscape Architect’s Firm of the Year, and Mikyoung has received the ASLA’s National Design Medal and The Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture. MYK-D has also been named as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies” and as an AD Innovator by Architectural Digest. The studio has received over fifty design awards, including numerous ASLA and AIA National Honor Awards for Design.
Mikyoung’s work incorporates resiliency and healthy living as integral components of the studio’s projects. She studied Landscape Architecture at the Harvard GSD, where she was an Olmsted Scholar and received the Norman T. Newton Prize and the Jacob Weidenman Prize. A frequent international speaker, she has lectured at Harvard, RISD, Yale and Stanford, and served on prestigious juries including the Rome Prize. MYK-D strives to make cities healthier and more inclusive. From large-scale urban waterfronts to public gardens and healthcare centers, their designs capture the publics’ imagination. Projects across the US, East Asia and the Middle East include the Seoul Cheonggye River Restoration, Science Hill Wellesley Campus, and Ford’s Michigan Central Park. Recent built work includes Chicago’s Crown Sky Garden and the Regenstein Nature Learning Center. The firm has been widely published, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Geographic, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Record, Surface and Dwell.
Mikyoung Kim Design
LECTURE / Carol Ross BARNEY Ross Barney Architects
The Bob James Memorial Lecture
Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, HASLA, the 2023 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal recipient, is an architect, urbanist, mentor, and educator, and has relentlessly advocated that excellent design is a right, not a privilege. Dedicated to design of public spaces, her exploration into the power of how the built environment can improve our daily lives has produced distinctive structures that have become cultural icons. Notable projects include the design of the new Oklahoma City Federal Building replacing the bombed Murrah Federal Building; McDonald’s Chicago and Disney World Flagship Restaurants; Searle Visitor Center at the Lincoln Park Zoo; JRC Synagogue; CTA Cermak and Morgan Street Stations; UMD Civil Engineering Building; Multi-Modal Terminal at O’Hare; NASA Aerospace Communications Facility; and Chicago’s new DuSable Park. Her studio also designed the iconic Chicago Riverwalk.
Carol is a graduate of the University of Illinois and has taught an advanced Design Studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology for over thirty years, sharing her expertise and shaping the next generation of architects. Carol's exceptional work has garnered over 200 major design awards, including the prestigious Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award. She has also received fourteen National American Institute of Architects Honor Awards for Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design, as well as over 45 AIA Chicago Awards. Her commitment to sustainable design has been recognized with two AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Project Awards. Her studio’s work has been widely published, including features in Architect, Architectural Record, Dezeen, Architects’ Newspaper and Metropolis.
Ross Barney Architects
LECTURE / Brian MacKay-Lyons
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
The Frank Welch Memorial Lecture
Brian MacKay-Lyons, FRAIC, RCA, Hon. FAIA, Hon. FRIBA, founded his firm, now known as MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited, in 1985. The practice works locally and internationally on residential, cultural, and academic projects. Among its many award-winning designs are Queens’s Marque, Smith House, and Mirror Point Cottage in Nova Scotia; Summit Horizon Neighborhood in Utah; and the Canadian Chancery in Australia, currently in process. While the studio’s body of work is known for its cultural responsiveness to local landscapes, climate, and material culture, it also consistently possesses an archetypal quality which touches a global audience.
Brian and the studio are recognized internationally for their design excellence with over 160 design awards, including the prestigious Global Award for Sustainable Architecture; seven AIA National Honor Awards; four Architectural Record House Awards; and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal, the top award in Canada for lifetime contribution in architecture. The practice was also awarded the RAIC Firm Award and eight Governor General’s Medals, the most prestigious Canadian award that celebrates outstanding design in recently built projects. Brian was also appointed to the Order of Canada for his contribution to Canadian culture. Brian was a full professor at Dalhousie University for 37 years, which will bestow an Honorary Doctorate on Brian this May. He has held 18 endowed academic posts at leading universities around the world. Brian and his firm partner Talbot Sweetwater were honored as laureates of the prestigious Global Award for Sustainable Architecture under the patronage of UNESCO. The work of the firm has been recognized internationally in over 100 exhibitions, more than 900 publications, and nine monographs.
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
Farquhar Residence by Frank Welch, FAIA
The Forum’s Seventh Annual Frank Welch Memorial Lecture
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2023-24
Panels
Women Engineers Shaping the Built Environment
Panelists
Moderator
Maria GOMEZ, AIA LEED AP; Design Principal • GFF
Camille BARTON, PE; CEO • Purdy-McGuire
Ann PIAZZA, LEED AP; Principal Emeritus • LA Fuess
Emily ZOELLNER, PE; Project Manager • Manhard Consulting
AI and the Design Community
Panelists
Moderator
Amanda BUCKLEY; Principal and Chief Marketing Officer • OMNIPLAN
Samantha FLORES, AIA, RID; VP / Director of Hugo • Corgan
Clifton HARNESS; Co-Founder • TestFit
Joshua M. NASON; Assoc. Professor • UTA CAPPA
Thomas Taylor Tribute
Moderator
Ron STELMARSKI, FAIA, LEED AP; Principal, Design Director • Perkins&Will
Panelists
Rob BARNES, MBA; President & CEO • Dee Brown, Inc.
Edward M. BAUM, FAIA; former Dean of Architecture • UTA
Nate EUDALY, Hon. AIA; Executive Director • The Forum
Maria GOMEZ, AIA; Design Principal • GFF
Joanna HAMPTON, AIA; Director • OMNIPLAN
Max LEVY, FAIA; Founding Principal • Max Levy Architect
Joe MCCALL, FAIA; Principal Emeritus • Oglesby Greene
Design Inspirations
Panelists
Moderator
Meg FITZPATRICK; President and Founder • MMF Strategies
Chris ANGELLE; Creative Director • Chris Angelle Design
Lauren CANTRELL, PLA, ASLA; Principal / Founder • DELINEATOR Design
Michael MALONE, FAIA; Founding Principal • Malone Maxwell Dennehy Architects
Harold Simmons (Trinity) Park Update
Presenter Tony MOORE; President & CEO • Trinity Park Conservancy
Panel Season Sponsors
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Design Recognition Winners
LANDMARK AWARDS
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Fountain Place
© Nikola Olic
LANDMARK AWARD
Building
Louis I. Kahn
Kimbell Art Museum
LANDMARK AWARD
Symphony Center
Meyerson
Interior Design
Design
Architecture and Design Exchange
Miramar Residence
Philip Johnson's Beck House Renovation
Turtle Creek Pump House
Landscape,Urban Design, Public Master Plan
Landscape,Urban Public Space, Plan
East Dallas Infill Project
Klyde Warren Park
Miramar Residence
Turtle Creek Pump House
Urban Reserve
Landscape,Urban Design, Public Master Plan Looking Forward
Landscape,Urban Public Space, Plan Forward
Cool Schools for a Cooler Dallas
Harold Simmons Park
Harwood Park
PS1200
Residential
Addition to the Stretto House
Miramar Residence
Philip Johnson's Beck House Renovation
Residential Looking Forward
Outcrop
Two White Sparrows
Commercial
Baylor Scott & White Health Administrative Center
Commercial Looking Forward
Commercial Forward
Shady Brook Office Building
Education
Lamplighter School Innovation Lab
Health and
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Legacy ER - Allen
New Parkland Hospital
Retail, Mixed and Hospitality
Mixed Use Hospitality
NorthPark Center Expansion
The Pittman Hotel
Retail, Mixed and Hospitality Looking Forward
Mixed Use Hospitality Forward
PS1200
Infrastructucture Transportation
Infrastructucture and Transportation
Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
Adaptive Re-Use, Preservation Non-Residential Restoration
Re-Use, Preservation and Non-Residential
All Saints Dallas
The Pittman Hotel
The Turtle Creek Pump House
Adaptive Re-Use, Preservation and Non-Residential Looking Forward
Re-Use, and Non-Residential Restoration
Fair Park Master Plan Update
Civic, Cultural Public Art
Cultural and
Kidd Springs Park Pavilion
Dallas Park Pavilion Program
John Bunker Sands Wetland Center
Modern Museum of Fort Worth
Nasher Sculpture Center
Renzo Piano Pavilion, Kimbell Art Museum
Singing Hills Recreation and Senior Center
Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House
Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
Civic, Cultural Public Art Looking Forward
Cultural and Forward
Crow Museum at O'Donnell Athenæum, UT Dallas
Portal Park Slice
by Robert Irwin in Carpenter Park
CONGRATULATIONS!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Special Thanks to our Esteemed Jury
Jurors
Yale University
Deborah Berke Partners
Deborah Berke, FAIA
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
Design Awards
Awards Dinner
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Thanks
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Rose Honorary Chair
Lee Cobb + Lucilo Peña
Irma + Reggie Graham
Kathy + Graham Greene
Janet + Terry Kafka
Robyn Menter
Cindy + Armond Schwartz
Autumn + Jennifer Smink
Jo Heinz + Andre Staffelbach
Emily + Steve Summers
Ann + David Sutherland
Dane + Thomas Taylor
Tiffany + Darren Woodson
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Nate Eudaly Executive Director
BARA
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Kathy + Graham Greene
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