The
Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to announce that architect, sculptor and
glass technologist James Carpenter
will speak Wednesday,
Feb. 8, 2012 at 7 p.m. in the Lone Star Auditorium in the Maverick Activities
Center at University of Texas Arlington, 500 W. Nedderman Dr. in
Arlington.  This lecture is presented
with the School of Architecture, UTA. Season Benefactor is Briggs-Freeman Real Estate. The Spring Series Benefactors
are Jackson Walker LLP and Rogers O'Brien Construction Company. Carpenter also
will speak that day at UTA’s 10^th Annual
Building Science Expo. 

Tickets are $20 per lecture for general
admission and $5 for students (with ID).  Tickets can be purchased at the
door before the lecture.   Dallas Architecture Forum members receive
free admission to all regular Forum lectures as a benefit of membership, and
AIA members can earn one hour of CE credit for each lecture. 
For more information, visit

www.dallasarchitectureforum.org

, email

director@dallasarchitectureforum.org

or
call 214-764-2406.  


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James
Carpenter

Glass is the most characteristic and telling
material of modern architecture. And as a master in working with glass, James
Carpenter helps bridge the gap between art and architecture. After RISD, he
worked with Corning Glass Works on innovative products, and then in 1978 began
his independent studio practice. A MacArthur Fellow and recipient of many major
design awards, Carpenter created the exquisite moving glass screen in Dallas'
Rachofsky House.

>James Carpenter studied architecture and
sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 1972.  Mr. Carpenter actively exhibited his
sculpture and installation film projects in the United States and Europe and
worked from 1972 through 1982 as a consultant with Corning Glass Works in
Corning, New York.  He worked on the
development of new glass materials including photo responsive glasses and
various glass ceramics.  These research
projects were aimed at potential architectural applications that would utilize
the unique technical capabilities of these glasses to control and manipulate
light and information, and this work eventually brought him back to the
practice of architecture itself. This emphasis on theoretical, aesthetic and
industrial materials research, together with Mr. Carpenter’s ongoing practice
in architecture and structural glass design, continues to inform and guide the
work of James Carpenter Design Associates. 
Mr. Carpenter is the recipient of numerous awards including the National
Environmental Design Award from the Smithsonian Institution, the American
Institute of Architects Honor Award and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in
2004.

>Since 1978, Mr. Carpenter has been working to
develop independent and integrated building structures that have progressively
synthesized art and architecture.  The
studio, James Carpenter Design Associates Inc., is a collaborative environment
encouraging an exchange of ideas between architects, materials and structural
engineers, environmental engineers and fabricators.  The studio has developed unique architectural
projects and structural designs employing glass, steel, wood and composites for
a variety of works, including museums, university buildings, commercial office
towers and cultural facilities.  The
emphasis of JCDA’s design leadership with such major projects as the
redevelopment of the McKim Mead & White Farley Post Office as the new
Pennsylvania Station in New York (2005); the planning and design of the renewed
campus of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (2005-2009), and the completion of the
exterior and lobby of Seven World Trade Center (2001-2006) in New York has
focused upon the transformation of the urban environment and public realm.

www.jcdainc.com


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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 and 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.  For more information on the
Forum, visit

www.DallasArchitectureForum.org

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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
have also come from both other Texas cities as well as from national
institutions that were 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.

 

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