“Our Architecture: Arts & Humanities DFW 2012” extended through June 24 at NorthPark Center

Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to announce the extension of its installation of "Our Architecture: Arts & Humanities DFW 2012," an exhibition that features 12 of Dallas and Fort Worth’s landmark museums and performing arts buildings photographed by renowned Dallas based photographer Laura Wilson.
“Our Architecture” will be on display Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. and Sunday noon -6 p.m. from May 30 through June 24, 2012 outside Barneys New York at NorthPark Center, 8687 N. Central Expwy. It is free and open to the public. For more information, email Robynsiegel@mac.com or call 310-779-3359.

DAF commissioned Wilson to photograph original images that celebrate Dallas/Fort Worth’s most architecturally significant cultural buildings.
With the completion of the Dallas Arts District, the Dallas/Fort Worth area is now the home of 12 major cultural buildings designed by some of the world’s most outstanding architects of the 20th and 21st centuries. Tadao Ando, Edward Larrabee Barnes, Brad Cloepfil,  Norman Foster,  Philip Johnson,  Louis Kahn,  Rem Koolhaas,  Ricardo Legorreta,  Thom Mayne,  I. M. Pei,  Renzo Piano and Frank Lloyd Wright—this is the roster of distinguished architects that designed these twelve important buildings.  Universally recognized and honored, seven of the twelve are Pritzker Prize Winners, and nine of them have also been honored with the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. 
The result of the Forum’s commission for Wilson are limited edition prints that celebrate these twelve buildings --- photos that will become iconic images for North Texas.  The photographic prints are now available for purchase at 20" x 20", 30" x 30" and 48" x 48", framed.  For more information, email robynsiegel@mac.com or call 310-779-3359.

ABOUT LAURA WILSON

Acclaimed photographer Laura Wilson is the author of four award-winning books:  Watt Matthews of Lambshead, Hutterites of Montana, Grit and Glory, and Avedon at Work. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The New Yorker, GQ, Marie Claire, Wallpaper, Vanity Fair, and Texas Monthly. Wilson also worked with Richard Avedon for six years producing the definitive project “In the American West”. Wilson is married and lives in Dallas, Texas. She and her husband Robert are the parents of three sons, Andrew, Owen and Luke Wilson.

ABOUT THE DISPLAY

The display was custom built by Tony Horton Collection. Internationally recognized designer Tony Horton creates environments that are inspired by fashion, art, design and architecture. His work has received numerous awards for design excellence. He is one of the original founders of the environmental graphics movement in the retail industry, and his work in creating large-scale exhibits has long been considered the gold standard.
FEATURED BUILDINGS

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth by Tadao Ando; 

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center by I. M. Pei; 

Dee and Charles Wyly Theater by Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramos;

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History by Ricardo and Victor Legorreta; 

Kimbell Art Museum by Louis I. Kahn;

Kalita Humphreys Theater by Frank Lloyd Wright;

Dallas Museum of Art by Edward Larrabee Barnes with garden by Dan Kiley;

Nasher Sculpture Center by Renzo Piano with garden by Peter Walker;

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts with expansion by Brad Cloepfil;

Amon Carter Museum of American Art by Philip Johnson;

Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House by Norman Foster; and

Perot Museum of Nature and Science by Thom Mayne with landscape by Coy Talley. 



ABOUT NORTHPARK CENTER

As one of the premier shopping centers in the United States, NorthPark Center (www.northparkcenter.com) proudly offers shoppers the best of the best in every category represented including the finest in luxury retail and exclusives in the Southwest. Presenting an unparalleled selection of international designers set amid timeless modern architecture and a world-class art collection, NorthPark Center has established a new standard in the United States for innovative retail destinations.

NorthPark Center is owned, managed, operated and leased by husband and wife David J. Haemisegger and Nancy A. Nasher. After a $250 million expansion in 2006, NorthPark Center became the largest shopping center in North Texas and one of the top shopping destinations in the United States. NorthPark Center will continue to open more luxury boutiques, exclusive stores and dining options throughout 2012 and beyond, culminating in more than 235 stores and restaurants.

ABOUT THE DALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM

The Dallas Architecture Forum is a not-for-profit civic organization that brings leading architectural thought leaders from around the world to speak in Dallas.  The Forum also fosters important local dialogue about the major issues impacting our urban environment.  The Forum was founded in 1996 by some of Dallas’ leading architects, business, cultural and civic leaders, and it continues to benefit from active support and guidance from these citizens. The Forum fulfills its mission of providing a continuing and challenging public discourse on architecture and urban design in - and for - the Dallas area. The Dallas Architecture Forum's members include architects, design professionals, students and educators, and a broad range of civic-minded individuals and companies intent to improve the urban environment in North Texas.  The Forum has been recognized nationally with an AIA Collaboration Achievement Award for its strategic partnerships with other organizations focused on architecture, urban planning and the arts. 

Among the over 130 speakers who have addressed the Forum’s Lecture Series are Shigeru Ban, Brad Cloepfil, Diller + Scofidio, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves,  Daniel Libeskind,  Thomas Phifer,  Rafael Vinoly, Juhani Pallasmaa, AIA Gold Medal Winner Peter Bohlin, and  regional architects David Lake and Ted Flato.  Pritzker Prize winners speaking to the Forum have been Kazuyo Sejima, Rafael Moneo, Thom Mayne, Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster (the latter two in collaboration with the ATT Performing Arts Center).   Other speakers for the Forum have been leading designers Calvin Tsao, Andrée Putman, and Karim Rashid; landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh; and National Trust President Emeritus Richard Moe.  Important critics, authors and patrons who have spoken to the Forum include Emily Pulitzer, Terence Riley, Pulitzer Prize winners Robert Campbell and Blair Kamin, Aaron Betsky, and the late David Dillon.

The Forum organizes and presents an annual series of Panels—local, informal, open, and offered free of charge as a public service to the community—led by a moderator who brings a subject of local importance along with comments by participating panelists.  Moderators and Panelists come from Dallas and other Texas cities as well as from national institutions that are connected with particular Panel subjects.  Panels offer attendees the opportunity to participate in creating discourse.  Important topics addressed in Panels in recent years include: “Thoughts on the Dallas Comprehensive Plan”; “The Kimbell Expansion: A Discussion”; “Filling Out the Dallas Arts District”; and “Re-envisioning the Trinity”.  

The Dallas Architecture Forum also presents two symposia annually.   The Forum works closely with the School of Architecture of the University of Texas at Arlington, and jointly presents the David Dillon Symposium in Texas Architecture.  Symposia have focused on local architectural icons Frank Welch and E. G. Hamilton, and on “African American Architecture in Dallas”.  The Dallas Design Symposium, founded four years ago by the Forum, has created a partnership with the Nasher Sculpture Center and in 2011 presented environmental artist Christo.

For more information on the Dallas Architecture Forum, visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org.    For questions about the Forum, call 214-764-2406.    To follow us on Facebook visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-Architecture-Forum/139899379388425?ref=ts.  For Twitter, our account is DallasArchForum. 

For press information and photos, please contact: Lisa Taylor, 214.914.1099 or Taylormadepress@gmail.com.

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