If Dallas is not already on your list of top United States architectural destinations, it is past time to make a correction. The city boasts the largest concentration of Pritzker Prize–winning architects’ work anywhere, including Philip Johnson‘s Thanks-Giving Square, I.M. Pei‘s Dallas City Hall, Fountain Place, and Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Renzo Piano‘s Nasher Sculpture Center, Foster+ Partners‘ Winspear Opera House, and Morphosis‘ Perot Museum of Science. The thriving Dallas Arts District is bursting with performance venues and architectural gems like Edward Larabee Barnes’ Dallas Museum of Art, SOM‘s Trammell Crow Center, and REX/OMA‘s Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre. And more projects are in the works: Cesar Pelli is designing an office complex for Uptown, and a second Santiago Calatrava-designed bridge is planned to span the Trinity River.
Attendees at this month’s Facades+ Dallas conference will have a chance to experience the Big D’s outstanding architecture scene in person. The conference’s dialog workshops, in particular, were designed with Dallas’ built environment in mind. All three afternoon dialog workshops incorporate a field trip to either the Perot Museum, the University of Texas at Arlington (where participants will tour the fabrication lab), or the Nasher Sculpture Center.
To learn more about Facades+ Dallas or register for a dialog workshop field trip, visit the conference website.
