Dallas Architecture Forum : Feb 19 February 19, 2009

The Dallas Architecture Forum continues its 13th season of lectures with Chicago curator and critic Elizabeth SMITH on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St. in downtown Dallas. The Affiliate Sponsor is Preservation Dallas | Modern Committee. The Lecture Benefactors are Emily Summers Design Associates and Caren Prothro. The Reception Underwriters are Armond + Cindy Schwartz

Single tickets, available at the door only, are $20 for general admission, $10 for DMA members, 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, 214-943-1099 or [email protected].

Season benefactors are: Briggs Freeman Real Estate; MODIA Home Theater Store | Mody & Mody; Museum Tower; SHW Group; The Joule, A Luxury Collection Hotel; and URBAN EDGE developers ltd. Spring Series Benefactors are Jackson Walker LLP and RTKL Associates, Inc.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

The California Case Study Houses are arguably the most important contribution by a group of designers to American architecture. Elizabeth Smith's magnificent Taschen volume on these buildings and projects is definitive. She is the James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; previously she was Curator at MOCA in Los Angeles. In addition to organizing exhibitions on art and architecture she serves on many national panels and juries. For more information visit mcachicago.org.

ABOUT 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. For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org.

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