DALLAS

ARCHITECTURE

FORUM

PRESENTS  BLAIR KAMIN ON FEBRUARY 24, 2011

 

For press info:

Lisa Taylor, Taylor-Made Press

214-914-1099 or lisatmp@swbell.net

 

The Dallas Architecture Forum will present Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair KAMIN, who will speak Thursday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. at the Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave. in Dallas’s West Village.  Single tickets, available at the door only, are $20 for general admission and $5 for students with I.D. Dallas Architecture Forum members are admitted for free. The reception begins at 6:15 p.m.  For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org. Images are available upon request via Lisa Taylor at Taylor-Made Press, 214-914-1099 or lisatmp@swbell.net. The Rose Family Lecture is presented with support from the Dallas Center for Architecture Foundation.  Season Benefactor is Briggs-Freeman Real Estate. Reception Underwriter is TKO Associates. Spring Series Benefactors is Jackson Walker LLP.

 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

 

Blair Kamin is the architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, a post he has held since 1992. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and continues a tradition of accessible but authoritative criticism begun by the Tribune's first modern-day architecture critic, Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Gapp. Kamin also serves as a contributing editor of Architectural Record magazine and was part of a team of editors, writers, photographers and critics for the magazine that in 2003 won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence.

 

Born in Red Bank, N.J., Kamin is a graduate of Amherst College, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts with honors in 1979, and the Yale University School of Architecture, from which he received a Master of Environmental Design in 1984. He has lectured widely and has discussed architecture on programs ranging from ABC's "Nightline" to WTTW-Ch. 11's "Chicago Tonight." In 2001, the University of Chicago Press published "Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago," a collection of his Chicago Tribune columns. He also wrote the commentaries for "Tribune Tower: American Landmark," a guide to the newspaper's neo-Gothic skyscraper published in 2000.

 

Kamin is the recipient of 30 awards, including the Pulitzer, which he received in 1999 for a body of work highlighted by a series of articles about the problems and promise of Chicago's greatest public space, its lakefront. Among his other honors are the George Polk Award for Criticism (1996), the American Institute of Architects' Institute Honor for Collaborative Achievement (1999) and the AIA's Presidential Citation, conferred in 2004 in appreciation of the "rhapsodies and scoldings" that have brought architecture to the attention of Chicago's public.

 

His new book is Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age.

www.chicagotribune.com/chi-skylineblog-bio,0,5519775.htmlstory

 

ABOUT THE DALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM

 

The Dallas Architecture Forum provides a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in - and for - the Dallas area. The Forum offers presentations of architecture through public lectures by designers, critics, and historians; through topical discussions; and through occasional study tours to buildings and cities locally and throughout the world. The Dallas Architecture Forum serves as an inclusive arena where people interested in and concerned with the built environment, non-professionals and professionals alike, may interact intellectually and socially.

 

Our membership comes from business, development, public affairs, education, the arts and from the design fields. This mix of interests and ties is one of the strengths we bring to our involvement with architecture. Support for the Forum's programs is a grassroots effort, coming from membership subscriptions at all levels and from the generous sponsorship of Forum seasons and events. Visit dallasarchitectureforum.org or call 214-764-2406.

 

 



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