Michael MALONE, AIA
“The Texas Ranch House – Icon of a Residential Design Practice”
Tuesday, 6:30 pm
27 October 2009
918 Dragon Street, Design District
The Texas Ranch House is an architectural sign and symbol of our state’s connection to the land and a formerly agrarian and pastoral lifestyle. Popularized by books, films and television the ranch house has a certain look and feel that actually has little to do with the actual structures that were purpose-built by their first owners, who were living this life on working ranches. Is the Texas Ranch House as an architectural project in its present manifestation, like the antebellum southern plantation house, a purely romantic construct or is it actually representative of the development of a time honored project type?
Richard BRETTELL, Ph.D
“THE Park: Woodall Rodgers Park, The Arts District, and The Myth of Millennium Park”
Tuesday, 7:30 pm (Note starting time of 7:30 for this Panel only)
10 November 2009
Dallas Center for Architecture, 1909 Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Suite 100
Dallas has spent a generation in the gradual completion of The Arts District. Yet, in a very few years of planning, funding, and construction, an urban park adjacent to the Arts District will be completed. As always in Dallas, skeptics abound, but the panel will consider the plan and planning process of The Park in the context of The Arts, District, Uptown, and other downtown urban parks.
Svend FRUIT, AIA
“Renovating Modern”
Tuesday, 6:30 pm
8 December 2009
Dallas Center for Architecture
A discussion of the importance of saving Modern architecture for the context of the city – how to work with it and how to learn from it. What are the inspirations of an architect, an interior designer and an owner in such work?
Thomas FEULMER
“Working Space”
Tuesday, 6:30 pm
26 January 2010
918 Dragon Street
Three people who work in buildings designed by well-known architects will discuss how they’ve come to understand the spaces in which they spend most of their daily lives. Their experiences of how these buildings function as practical, social, and poetic spaces will be the jumping off point for a discussion on how we develop relationships with architecture.
Ron WOMMACK, FAIA
“Artists Talk Architecture”
Tuesday, 6:30 pm
16 February 2010
Dallas Center for Architecture
Artists discuss their unique view of architects and architecture.
Julie COHN
“On Collaboration”
Tuesday, 6:30 pm
9 March 2010
Dallas Center for Architecture
Designers, architects and artists often times function as de facto therapists in the creative process. They facilitate dialogue between clients, product designers, manufacturers etc. enabling through collaboration the creation of a final product that is a seamless sum of its parts. It is no accident that the collaborative model is most often the underlying structure of a successful building, design, invention or work of art.