Alberto KALACH

[siteorigin_widget class=”WP_Widget_Custom_HTML”][/siteorigin_widget]

Alberto KALACH

Principal and Co-Founder TAX Architects, Mexico City
In partnership with UTA CAPPA

11 September 2018 (Tues, 7 pm)
Note Venue Location: Angelika Theatre Mockingbird Station, Dallas

Alberto Kalach is a leader of the gifted generation of Mexican architects fully engaged in the global issues of the 21st century. His firm has a focus on urban planning challenges of Mexico City, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world. Kalach has developed a think-tank of leaders focused on “México: Future City”. Kalach and his colleagues have realized several milestone projects including prestigious lake concepts that are significant to solving crucial water supply problems in the region as a part of their initiative “Recovering the City of Lakes” Kalach studied at the Universidad Iberoamericana and Cornell. He has won important international competitions, including those for universities and civic buildings in the United States and Mexico. Notable works by the studio include Casa GGG in Mexico City, Casa La Atalaya in California, the internationally acclaimed Jose Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City, Casa Romany in California and Reforma 27 Tower in Mexico City. Kalach’s work is extensively published in leading architecture journals and monographs.

kalach.com

Carol WILLIS

Carol WILLIS

Founder and Director
The Skyscraper Museum, New York City
In partnership with the DMA and its exhibition
Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art

25 September 2018 (Tues, 7pm)
Horchow Auditorium, DMA
Reservations Requested for this Lecture by Forum and DMA Members.

Carol Willis, architecture historian, Director of The Skyscraper Museum in New York City, and Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies at Columbia University, will discuss architecture featured in the DMA’s new exhibition Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art. The exhibition examines American culture from the 1910s to the Second World War and reveals how the American love affair with new technology and mechanization shaped architecture, design, and the visual culture of the United States.

Carol Willis has researched, taught, and written about the history of the American city and its buildings. She is the author of Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago (Princeton Architectural Press), which received an AIA book award. In addition to numerous articles in books and scholarly journals, Ms. Willis has curated more than twenty exhibitions at The Skyscraper Museum and written introductions to numerous monographs and collections, including Skyscraper Rivals, New York Architecture, Manhattan Skyscrapers, and New York Deco. She appears regularly in television documentaries and radio broadcasts, including programs for The History Channel, PBS, A & E and BBC Television, NPR, and BBC World Service Radio.

skyscraper.org

Thomas PHIFER

Thomas PHIFER

Founder and Director
Thomas Phifer and Partners

23 October 2018 (Tues, 7pm)
Horchow Auditorium, DMA

Thomas Phifer is widely admired for buildings that relate poetically to their sites. Among his many acclaimed design projects are the Brochstein Pavilion, the Corning Museum of Glass, the just-opened Pavilions for the Glenstone Foundation, and Dallas’ Klyde Warren Park Pavilion and Savor Restaurant. Phifer was also the Design Architect for the team that completed the Rachofsky House, a Dallas icon of architecture and art. Phifer creates elegant designs ranging from corporate headquarters and university buildings to high-profile private residences. Other well-known projects are the North Carolina Museum of Art, The United States Federal Courthouse in Salt Lake City, and a planned restoration of the historic Castle Clinton at Battery Park and the completion of the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw and TR Warszawa Theatre. Phifer’s honors include GSA Design Excellence awards, more than 20 AIA honor awards, and international citations. He has been honored with the Rome Prize and by the National Academy of Design and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

thomasphifer.com

Rick JOY

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget]
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget]
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget]
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget]
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget]
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget]

Rick JOY

Founder and Principal
Studio Rick Joy
The Frank Welch Memorial Lecture

23 January 2019 (Wed, 7pm)
Horchow Auditorium, DMA

Rick Joy, FAIA is the founder of Rick Joy Architects (Studio Rick Joy), an award-winning architecture, interiors, and planning firm based in Tucson, Arizona. Studio Rick Joy has been recognized for an exquisitely sensitive and thoughtful approach to site, observation, process, landscape, and building. The studio’s work has encompassed intimate single-family homes and large-scale master plans, and has included residential commissions in Miami, New York City, San Francisco, Tucson, Costa Rica, and Turks and Caicos, as well as projects in Nayarit, Mexico City, and Austin. Recently, the studio brought new life to Princeton University with the recently completed Transit Hall and Market. Many of his projects are featured in his recently released monograph, Studio Joy Works.

Joy has lectured around the world and has been honored by and associated Civitas Sonoran, the Museum of Contemporary Art – Tucson, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; CRATerre; and the Ghost Lab Advisory Board. He is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture and was recognized with a National Design Award from the Smithsonian Institute/Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Joy is also a fellow of the AIA and Royal Institute of British Architects. Studio Rick Joy’s work has been widely published, appearing in Cereal, Architectural Record, A+U, GA Houses, Architectural Digest, Travel + Leisure, and the New York Times. Joy has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Rice, MIT, and the University of Arizona. He founded Immersion Vermont Masterclass, a weeklong immersive program for mid-career architects and co-founded CCL Concept Lighting Lab with Claudia Kappl.

studiorickjoy.com

Tom WOLTZ

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget]
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget]
[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget]

Thomas WOLTZ

Principal
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

6 February 2019 (Wed, 7pm)
Horchow Auditorium, DM

Thomas Woltz, FASLA is an internationally acclaimed landscape architect who is committed to aesthetic and environmental excellence, social equity, innovation and outstanding urban planning. HIs studio has designed significant public parks and cultural institutions both in the United States and internationally. These projects include Hudson Yards in New York City, The Rothko Chapel and Memorial Park in Houston, NoMA Green in Washington DC, historic sites Olana and Monticello, the Aga Khan Garden in Canada, and Guggenheim Venice. Woltz holds graduate degrees in Landscape Architecture and Architecture from the University of Virginia, where he serves on the Board of Directors. He has been named Design Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company recently named Woltz one of the most creative people in the country. His firm’s work has been recognized with more than 90 national and international awards and has been published widely.

nbwla.com

Architecture Dean’s Roundtable

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget]

Architecture Dean’s Roundtable

Deans Addington, Parr, Vanegas and Williamson
UT Austin, UT Arlington, Texas A & M and Texas Tech

2 April 2019 (Tues, 7pm)
Horchow Auditorium, DMA

UT Arlington – Dean Adrian PARR
UT Austin – Dean Michelle ADDINGTON
Texas A & M – Dean Jorge VANEGAS
Texas Tech – Dean Jim WILLIAMSON
Moderator – Mark LAMSTER

The Forum and UTA CAPPA presented a unique opportunity to hear from some of our state’s leading Deans of Architecture and Urban Planning as they discuss the future of urban life in Texas. These highly respected thought leaders examined both the vast potential as well as looming challenges our state faces as it becomes more of a major leader and economic force, both nationally and internationally. Program participants were Dean Michelle Addington from the University of Texas, Dean Adrian Parr from UT Arlington, Dean Jorge Vanegas from Texas A & M and Dean Jim Williamson of Texas Tech. Their illuminating conversation, moderated by Mark Lamster, Dallas Morning News Architecture Critic and UTA CAPPA Professor, was an important evening of dialogue about the future of our state and the built environment.

Trey TRAHAN

Trey TRAHAN
Trahan Architects

February 21, 2024
Wednesday, 7pm

Check-in & Reception – 6:15 pm

Free for Forum Members
General Admission Tickets
Available At the Door

Horchow Auditorium |
Dallas Museum of Art

AIA CES Credit Available

Trey-Trahan_Headshot-2

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 symposiums 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.

trahanarchitects.com

Please support The Forum, a non-profit organization at donation, so we can continue to present lectures and events featuring design thought leaders that educate, connect communities, and enhance how we live..