Eric BRICKER

Documentary Director
Screening of “Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman”
Thursday, 7 pm
1 October 2009
Magnolia Theater, West Village

The award-winning documentary “Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman” explores the monumental career of the late architectural photographer Julius Shulman, who passed away in July. Populating his architectural photos with human models and striking landscapes, Shulman combined the organic with the synthetic, melding nature with revolutionary urban design. The resulting images helped shaped the careers of some of the great architects of the 20th Century, and his iconic images set the standard for architectural photography.

Taking aesthetic cues from Shulman’s own sensual and nuanced photography, Director Eric Bricker built this film around a blend of Shulman’s own images and in-depth interviews with leading architects, designers, artists, and other luminaries. By offering unprecedented access to his photos and day to day life, Shulman’s intimate involvement in the filming process was incalculable to the production of the film.

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, this documentary film has won awards at multiple film festivals. Director Eric Bricker will attend and discuss the making of the film, and then will take questions from those in attendance after the screening.
www.juliusshulmanfilm.com

Lecture Benefactor: Frank Aldridge

Jeanne GANG

Architect, Studio Gang
Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition Lecture
Thursday, 7 pm
19 November 2009
Magnolia Theater, West Village

Jeanne Gang is principal and founder of Studio Gang Architects, a Chicago based firm that has been recognized for its innovation and leadership in design. Gang’s work represents a diverse range of building typologies, from large-scale undertakings such as the 82 story Aqua Tower in Chicago, which reconsiders the tall building as a site-specific structure, to the SOS Community Center which visibly engages the distinct material properties of concrete. In all of her firm’s projects, Gang engages new creative territory in materials, technology, and sustainability, and her work has received national and international awards and recognition.
www.studiogang.net

Lecture Benefactors: AIA Dallas, the Dallas Architecture Forum, and the School of Architecture, UT-Arlington

Christy MACLEAR

Executive Director, Philip Johnson’s “Glass House”
Thursday, 7 pm
10 December 2009
Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art

Considered by many to be Johnson’s most iconic project as well as his private residence, the “Glass House” is now owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Christy MacLear serves as both the Executive Director of the House and Visitor Center, as well as developing the House to be a prototype and focus for the Trust’s national movement to preserve architecturally significant modernist residences across the country. MacLear will give attendees an insider’s look at the House and these innovative programs.
www.philipjohnsonglasshouse.org

Lecture Benefactors: Emily Summers Design Associates and Dallas Architectural Foundation
Reception Underwriters: TKO Associates and Megan + Casey McManemin

Scott MARBLE

Architect, Marble Fairbanks
Thursday, 7 pm
4 February 2010
Magnolia Theatre, West Village

Scott Marble is a founding partner of Marble Fairbanks and a faculty member at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture. His early engagement with digital technologies at Columbia, teaching one of the first “paperless” design studios, has allowed Marble Fairbanks to pioneer innovative uses of digital fabrication and unique assemblies in their built work. Marble is a frequent lecturer in the areas of digital technologies and building information technologies (BIM). Among his many honors and projects was a commission from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to design a prototype addressing the potential of digital design for the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.
www.marblefairbanks.com

Lecture Benefactor: Balfour Beatty Construction

Gordon GILL

Architect, Smith Gill Architects
Thursday, 7 pm
18 February 2010
Magnolia Theatre, West Village

Gordon Gill has designed award-winning architecture across the globe. His work emphasizes a holistic approach to design that integrates all project disciplines. The results are performance based designs that work symbiotically with their natural surroundings, that contribute to the sustainability of cities, and that augment the built landscape creating an optimal user experience. Among the firm’s many innovative large scale projects are the world’s first net zero-energy skyscraper as well as the first large-scale positive energy building. Gill has received numerous awards including recognition from the AIA and Architectural Record, and has written on the benefits of dense, sustainable communities. Gordon Gill holds graduate architecture degrees from UT-Arlington and Harvard.
www.smithgill.com

Lecture Benefactors: bulthaup dallas and SHW Group
Reception Underwriter: Smink

Deb MITCHELL

Landscape Architect, JJR Landscape Architects
Thursday, 7 pm
8 April 2010
Hamon Education Hall, Winspear Opera House

Deb Mitchell is Senior Vice President and Design Director of the multi-disciplinary landscape architecture, planning, urban design, civil engineering and environmental science firm JJR. With over thirty years of experience in the planning and design of vital cities and communities, she understands urban complexities and public processes. Mitchell has been responsible for the award winning plan of Chicago’s Near North Redevelopment, the plaza for the Morphosis-designed San Francisco Federal Building and the National Garden at the U.S. Botanic Garden.  The focus of Mitchell’s talk will be the newly completed Elaine and Charles Sammons Park, the ten acre urban oasis at the Dallas Center for Performing Arts which she and Michel Desvigne have designed.
www.jjr-us.com

Lecture Benefactor: Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation
Reception Underwriter: Cindy + Armond Schwartz

Presented in association with the AT&T Performing Arts Center

Rafael VINOLY

Founder, Rafael Vinoly Architects
Thursday, 7 pm
13 May 2010
The Magnolia Theatre, West Village

Rafael Vinoly, FAIA, is a leading architect with a large body of award winning projects ranging in scale from residential to large cultural, educational and commercial projects. Born in Uruguay, Vinoly began his New York based practice in 1978 and maintains multiple offices in both the USA and Great Britain. Among some of his best known projects are the Tokyo International Forum, which is the most important cultural complex in Japan; the Kimmel Symphony Center in Philadelphia; the Samsung Tower in Seoul; Jazz at Lincoln Center; the Brooklyn Children’s Museum; and the Boston Convention Center. His museum projects include an expansion of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Nasher Museum at Duke University. Vinoly’s work has been widely recognized and honored, and in addition to being a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects he is also an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
www.rvapc.com

Lecture Benefactor: One Arts Plaza by Billingsley Company

Rem Koolhaas

Partner, OMA
Special Lecture presented by the AT&T Performing Arts Center in association with the Dallas Architecture Forum & Nasher Sculpture Center
Thursday, 4 pm
15 October 2009
Dee and Charles Wyly Theater

Rem Koolhaas, one of the designers of the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, will discuss the future of theatre design in the innovative Wyly Theatre. Koolhaas was a co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. His book S, M, L, XL summarized the work of OMA and established connections between contemporary society and architecture. He heads the work of both OMA and AMO, the conceptual brand of his firm focused on social, economic and technological developments, which also explores territories beyond architectural and urban concerns. Koolhaas is a professor at Harvard where he conducts the Project on the City. Koolhaas has won numerous awards including the Pritzker Prize in 2000, the Praemium Imperiale, the RIBA Gold Medal, the Mies van der Rohe prize and the European Prize for Contemporary Architecture.
www.oma.nl

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Norman FOSTER

Chairman, Foster + Partners
Special Lecture presented by the AT&T Performing Arts Center in association with the Dallas Architecture Forum & Nasher Sculpture Center
Friday, 10:30 am
16 October 2009
Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House

Forum members will be privileged to hear Lord Norman Foster present his designs for the Winspear Opera House and Annette Strauss Artist’s Square. Founded by Norman Foster, Foster + Partners is an international practice with offices in more than 20 countries. It has received over 550 awards and citations for architectural excellence and has won more than 70 international and national competitions. Lord Foster was the recipient of the Pritzker Prize in 1999, the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture and AIA’s Gold Medal for Architecture, and the Royal Institute of British Architect’s Gold Medal. In 1990 he was granted a Knighthood by the Queen and in 1999 was honored as a Life Peerage.
www.fosterandpartners.com

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Joshua PRINCE-RAMUS

Principal in Charge, REX
Special Lecture presented by the AT&T Performing Arts Center in association with the Dallas Architecture Forum & Nasher Sculpture Center
Friday, 2 pm
16 October 2009
Dee and Charles Wyly Theater

Joshua Prince-Ramus, one of the designers of the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, will discuss the Wyly Theatre and his other projects. Ramus served as Partner in Charge of the OMA New York office, and during this time was a leader in the design of the Seattle Central Library, the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum, as well as the Wyly Theatre. In 2006 the New York office of OMA was redefined as REX. Other cultural projects by REX include the 62 story Museum Plaza in Louisville, the Oslo City Library and numerous other public and private projects around the world. Prince-Ramus has been named as one of the “Twenty Essential Architects” by ICON, is a member of the TED Brain Trust, and was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. Forum members will receive information in the near future with procedures for requesting priority admittance to Ramus’ presentation as a benefit of their Forum membership.
www.rex-ny.com

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