SPRING 2021 FORUM LECTURES
Founding Principal
Koning Eizenberg
7 pm, Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Horchow Auditorium, DMA*
Director, Landscape Architecture
Snøhetta
7 pm, Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Horchow Auditorium, DMA*
Co-Founder
MASS Design Group
7 pm, Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Horchow Auditorium, DMA*
Rhotenberry Wellen Architects
Frank Welch Memorial Lecture
7 pm, Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Horchow Auditorium, DMA*
*The Forum’s hope is to have all of these Lectures in the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art. This plan is contingent on state, local and museum guidelines in place at the time of each scheduled Lecture. If Covid-related restrictions are still in place for any of these talks, that Lecture will be presented virtually on the scheduled date and time.
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DIRK DENISON FALL 2020 VIRTUAL LECTURE
Dirk DENISON
Founder and Partner
Dirk Denison Architects
5 November 2020
Thursday, 7 pm - Virtual Members Event
Dirk Denison, FAIA is recognized for design excellence across a range of building types and scales, with a focus on residential, retail, hospitality, institutional, commercial, and campus planning projects. He is also a leader at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and has overseen a master plan and renovation for the iconic campus that includes designs by Mies van der Rohe and Rem Koolhaas.
Denison is the Director of the biennial Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize which recognizes the best built work in the Americas and reveals issues facing our urban environments. Denison's design leadership includes service as president of the Architecture & Design Society and the National Advisory Council for the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Denison received his Master of Architecture from Harvard's GSD. The studio's work has been recognized in Architect, Architectural Digest, A+U, Elle Décor, Global Architecture, Interior Design, Interior Design Homes, Metropolitan Home, The New York Times Magazine, Progressive Architecture, and the Urban Land Institute Magazine, and has won numerous awards from the AIA, the Chicago Architectural Club, and IIDA Illinois. Denison's outstanding residential projects are featured in the monograph Dirk Denison 10 Houses.
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JASON LONG FALL 2020 VIRTUAL LECTURE
Jason LONG
PARTNER
OMA NEW YORK
20 October 2020
Tuesday, 7 pm
Free Virtual Lecture; Forum Members Only
Following Jason Long’s presentation, there was a brief conversation between Jason and Ron Stelmarski, Forum Board member and Design Director at Perkins + Will, about important issues impacting architecture, design and urbanism.
Jason Long is a Partner at OMA, one of the world’s leading and most innovative design firms. He currently leads three OMA projects in Washington D.C.: the 11th Street Bridge Park; a masterplan for the RFK Stadium Campus; and a streetscape design for the Convention Center. In addition, Jason is a design partner for the new First and Broadway Park in downtown Los Angeles and was the project manager for the Lassonde Pavilion in Quebec and the Faena Forum in Miami. Jason's OMA projects also include the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the New Court Rothschild Bank, Milstein Hall at Cornell, The Avery in San Francisco and two new towers for Greenpoint Landing in Brooklyn.
OMA, founded by Rem Koolhaas, is internationally lauded for its ground-breaking designs. Among its many award-winning projects are the Seattle Public Library, the Casa de Música in Portugal, the CCTV headquarters in Beijing, and the Taipei Performing Arts Center. The firm's Concrete at Alserkal project in Dubai was a finalist in the Aga Khan Award for Architecture’s 2019 competition. OMA's presence in Dallas includes the Wyly Theater, a winning proposal for The Connected City, and the design of the recent Dior exhibition at the DMA. In Texas, Jason is OMA’s Design Partner for POST Houston, which will transform the former main USPS facility into a mixed use commercial and cultural center.
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Billie Tsien
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Lee F. Mindel
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Sheila Kennedy
Brad Oldham
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Michael Rojkind
Amale Andraos
Tom Kundig
Richard Bretell
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