Michael Sørensen is Design Director and Partner at Henning Larsen, leading the firm’s New York office and projects in North America, which currently total over 10 million square feet in design and under construction. Henning Larsen is an international studio for architecture, landscape, and urbanism. The firm works holistically, creating the setting for transformative ideas to be developed for each project. Henning Larsen, based in Copenhagen, is one of the leading design firms in Europe.

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 many 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 Design Director responsible for several large-scale projects, Michael works with large, multinational teams of consultants and clients to maintain a strong concept throughout all phases of design. Michael’s leadership on all projects shows his belief that at its core, architecture is about creating spaces that foster human relations. His first project to be completed in North America, the University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business, was recently praised by the Dean as “remarkably vibrant with a welcoming energy, values attributed to the design and magnified during the (Covid-19) pandemic.”

The recently completed Public Service Building in Minneapolis was declared by the Star-Tribune to be “one of finest works of contemporary architecture that downtown has seen in years, perhaps generations.” Currently, Michael is leading the design of various civic, cultural, mixed-use, and higher education projects throughout North America including the Raleigh Civic Tower in North Carolina, Amazon’s new Boston offices and Performing Arts Center in the Seaport District, the University of Toronto Mississauga´s ACT Building, the Etobicoke Civic Centre in Toronto, and the Downsview Framework Plan, the largest development underway in North America.

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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 Art 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.

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Magui Peredo is a founding partner of Estudio Macias Peredo, based in Guadalajara, Mexico. The studio has developed a method of observation to understand the current problems and needs of cities and global architecture. They conceive each intervention as a project that draws on the conditions and resources of its situation and context. The studio produces work that emphasizes the construction of projects being closely linked to manual work – craft and hand work are very common in the population of Mexico. The studio seeks to align their work with the environment and pursue ways for handworkers to participate in the building process.

Estudio Macias Peredo has presented numerous lectures and forums on their professional practice in different universities in Mexico and abroad. The studio has won several awards, including the Emerging Voices prize by The Architectural League in New York; finalist in the 2018 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Competition; and participated in the Mexico pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2020. Ms. Peredo has been a guest critic and lecturer at a number of universities. Since 2010 she has been a Project workshop professor at ITESO in Guadalajara. She received the CEMEX award in 2018.

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Ray CALABRO
Principal
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

March 29, 2023
Wednesday, 7 pm
Check-in & Reception – 6:15 pm

Free for Forum Members
General Admission Tickets Available At the Door

Horchow Auditorium of the Dallas Museum of Art

AIA CES Credit Available

Ray Calabro FAIA, Principal of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Seattle, brings a depth of experience in leading teams in a collaborative design process that achieves extraordinary, award-winning projects. These 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.

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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. Mark Lee is the Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard GSD and has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and ETH Zurich. Both Mark and Sharon have also 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.

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Chris LaGuardia is the managing principal and founder of the LaGuardia Design Group, located in Water Mill NY. A fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Chris lectures widely on the importance of the profession as it relates to climate change at universities, museums and ASLA conferences. The LaGuardia Design Group is a 25-person landscape architecture firm specializing in high-end residential, commercial, and institutional design. With a strong belief in creative collaboration between clients, architects, and consultants, the firm works towards expressing the best character of each site while meeting the requirements of program, schedule, and budget. Rather than attempting to mimic nature, LDG’s goal with every design is to interpret natural processes as an artistic expression in their work.

LaGuardia Design has received numerous national and regional design awards for its work and has been published in many national periodicals and media outlets. In 2013, LDG received the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Award of Excellence in Residential Design, the highest national award in the profession. In 2021, the firm published their first monograph with Monacelli Press, Contemporary Gardens of the Hamptons: LaGuardia Design Group 1990-2020, featuring 21 of LDG’s residential works throughout the Hamptons.

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The Dallas Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public education about architecture, design, and the urban environment, completes its 2022-2023 Lecture Series on Wednesday, May 17th at 7:00 pm. As The Forum celebrates its 25th Anniversary, the non-profit is pleased to present Juan MIRÓ and Miguel RIVERA of Miró Rivera Architects in the Sixth Annual Frank Welch Memorial Lecture. This Lecture will be held in the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art. Forum members may attend for free. Tickets for non-members will be available at the door – $5 for Students (with student i.d.), $25 General Admission. Check-in and pre-Lecture Reception will begin at 6:15 pm in the Hamon Atrium.

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.

Sponsors for this Lecture are Season Sponsors Eggersmann Kitchens | Home Living, Maharger Development | Reggie Graham, Perennials & Sutherland and SMINK Art + Design. Series Sponsors are Abeyta Tibbs Architecture, Architectural Lighting Alliance, HKS, Inc., Jackson Walker, O’Brien Architects, Robyn Menter Design Associates and Scott + Cooner. Lecture Sponsors are Emily Summers Design Associates, Gioia-Goyer Group, Muse Integration, Page, and SEBASTIAN. Lecture Supporters are Dane and Thomas Taylor, Ink + Oro, New Era Companies, Talley Associates and TKO Associates..

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Emmanuel Ramirez 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.

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Rodolfo Machado, co-founder of Machado Silvetti, has received numerous awards from the AIA, Progressive Architecture, the American Academy of Arts, and other international prizes for their work. Those award-winning projects include the Denver Art Museum, the Ringling Museum of Art, Chazen Museum of Art, Kennedy Center for Theatre Arts, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Provincetown Art Museum, Scully Hall at Princeton, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Walton College of Business, The Getty Villa, and UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. Rodolfo has been a visiting critic or professor at the Harvard GSD, Carnegie-Mellon, RISD, Yale, Rice, Princeton and the UVA. Internationally recognized, Machado has worked in Berlin, Beirut, Buenos Aires, Seoul, Singapore, Rome, Dubai, Malaysia and across the United States.

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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.

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The Dallas Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public education about architecture, design, public space and the urban environment, completes its 2023-2024 Lecture Series on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 7:00 pm. The Forum is pleased to present world-renowned architect Brian MacKay-Lyons as the speaker for this Season’s Seventh Annual Frank Welch Memorial Lecture. This Lecture will be held in the Horchow Auditorium of the Dallas Museum of Art. Forum members may attend for free. Tickets for non-members will be available at the door – $5 for Students (with student i.d.), $25 General Admission. Check-in and pre-Lecture Reception will begin at 6:15 pm in the Hamon Atrium of the DMA.

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 100+ exhibitions, 900+ publications, and nine monographs.

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THE FRANK WELCH MEMORIAL LECTURE

The Dallas Architecture Forum established the Frank Welch Memorial Lecture to honor the legacy of Frank Welch, both as the Dean of Texas Modernist architects, and as the wonderful friend that Frank was to The Forum. Frank Welch was a long-time member of The Dallas Architecture Forum, and we were fortunate to have events at many of the residences that he designed. The highlight of each event was when Frank would give brief remarks about the project to the attendees. He was always gracious, insightful, and humble, and his presence made the event memorable for all who were there.

Frank Welch’s legacy will continue through his work, including his revered project The Birthday, which won a Texas Society of Architects’ 25-Year Ward in 1997. This seminal project inspired the design aesthetic of a new generation of Texas design professionals. The architects Frank mentored and the lives he touched are lasting tributes to his vision and humanity.

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Germane BARNES
Founder

Studio Barnes

October 23, 2024
Wednesday, 6:00 pm

Note: Lecture CHANGED to 6:00 pm

Angelika Film Center | Mockingbird Station

Check-in – 5:30 pm

Reception Following Lecture

Free for Forum Members

General Admission Tickets Available At the Door

AIA CES Credit Available

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