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The Dallas Architecture Forum is grateful to you - our members, sponsors, and donors. Because of your support, our 2024-2025 Season was a great success! We presented Lectures featuring thought-leaders who educated and informed our attendees. We also organized Panel Discussions on important issues directly impacting North Texas as well as spotlighting local design talent. We invite you to watch these great Lectures and Panels, as well as almost one hundred past Forum programs, on our YouTube channel. We were honored to also present 365 Modern Living Receptions and special member events during the season. Your valued participation and support of all Forum events is greatly appreciated!
At the start of this season, The Forum and the Dallas design community suffered the untimely passing of the beloved Ron Wommack, FAIA. As part of our tribute to Ron’s legacy, we presented special programming in his honor. We thank all of those who contributed to his memorial fund to support these programs. Also, on a personal note, I (Nate) celebrated my 20th Anniversary as Director of The Forum. It is my privilege to serve you, the Forum Board, and the community.
We look forward to our 2025-2026 Season of Lectures, Panels and Special Events as we together advance The Forum’s mission, strengthen our community, and continue to experience inspired design!
Thank you!
Nate Eudaly, Hon. AIA Executive Director Eurico Francisco, AIA Board President
LECTURES Listed in Chronological Order
Eddie JONES —>
Germane BARNES —>
Ed BAUM —>
Eric HÖWELER —>
Tatiana BILBAO —>
Benedetta TAGLIABUE —>
Wonne ICKX —>
Paul MASI —>
Raymond JUNGLES —>
PANELS & SPECIAL PROGRAMS Listed in Chronological Order
Builders Roundtable —>
Ron Wommack Legacy Program —>
Computation in Architecture —>
Home Heat Money God —>
Design Inspirations —>
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2024-25
Lectures
LECTURE / Eddie JONES Jones Studio
For more than 40 years, Eddie Jones FAIA has led Jones Studio with a persistent optimism that is fueled by his enduring commitment to sustainability and his intrepid spirit for innovative design. Eddie works closely with clients to craft a shared vision and lead all aspects of design from concept through construction. Under Eddie’s design vision and leadership, Jones Studio has received over two hundred design awards, including a National AIA Award and a GSA Design Excellence Honor. The studio’s hallmark projects include civic, cultural, memorial and residential design. Locally he was the design architect for the River Legacy Living Science Center.
Jones was awarded AIA Arizona’s Architect Medal, the highest honor an individual practitioner of architecture can receive in the state. He is also a recipient of the Melvin R. Lohmann Medal for career achievement in architecture from his alma mater, Oklahoma State University - the highest honor bestowed on a graduate of the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology - and was also inducted into their Hall of Fame. He also held the Bruce Goff Chair at the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture.
Eddie was appointed a Founding Governor for The School of Architecture (formerly The School of Architecture at Taliesin) and has served on numerous civic and academic boards and committees designed to advance the quality of architecture in the community. Eddie has lectured widely throughout North America, Europe, and Asia and is active in numerous civic and academic committees, focusing on design excellence, education, community impact, and sustainability. He has published two books, one titled Jones Studio Houses: Sensual Modernism and the other STRIVE: Jones Studio Adventures in Architecture.
Jones Studio
LECTURE / Germane BARNES Studio Barnes
Germane Barnes is a Chicago-born, Miami-based architect, designer, and founder of Studio Barnes, a research and design practice. He is an Associate Professor and the Director of The Community Housing & Identity Lab at the University of Miami School of Architecture, a platform for investigations of architecture’s social and political resiliency. Germane’s research and design practice investigates the connection between architecture and identity, examining the discipline’s social and political agency through historical research and design speculation.
Barnes’ work is in the permanent collections of international institutions including MoMA, SF MoMA, LACMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The National Museum of African American History and Culture. His work has been shown at MoMA’s ground-breaking exhibition “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,” as well as the Chicago Architectural Biennale and Milan Design Week.
Germane has been featured in The New York Times and Architect Magazine. He was selected in the inaugural cohort of The Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab created by Theaster Gates and sponsored by Prada. Most recently, his project Griot was widely published as a participant in Biennale Architettura 2023, Laboratory of the Future.
Germane was awarded the Wheelwright Prize from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Rome Prize from the American Academy, and the Architectural League Prize. Germane and his team, including local member Dennis Chiessa and architect of record GFF, is currently working on the Fort Worth project Transform 1012, which is turning a former Ku Klux Klan auditorium into The Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing.
Studio Barnes
Edward M. Baum FAIA has achieved distinction in parallel professional and academic careers. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard with highest honors. Baum began his career in the office of José Luis Sert and continued that studio’s guiding principles in his own practice. At the national level, Baum’s work has received awards from Progressive Architecture, American Architecture, Wood Design and Residential Architect, as well as state and local design awards. Two significant built projects include the Dallas Police Memorial and Prototype Infill Housing in Dallas. The latter, a series of courtyard houses, was featured in Dwell Magazine, Ottagono, Arquitectura Viva, Wood Design, and Residential Architect. He has also been published in Architectural Record, Baumeister, Progressive Architecture, and Texas Architect. Baum’s socially responsive ‘Prototype Housing for Modest Means’ and ‘Solar/Max Housing’ have both received prestigious American Architecture Awards. A series of compact, affordable houses are planned to begin construction soon in Dallas.
Baum taught at the Harvard GSD for a decade, followed by nine years at Washington University in Saint Louis. Baum was at UTA’s School of Architecture until 2013, where he served as Dean from 1987 until 1999, helping to bring its architecture program to national recognition in design. Recently Baum has been a visiting professor at the Universidad de Navarra in Spain.
In 1998 Baum co-founded The Dallas Architecture Forum. He served as Chair of The Forum’s Lecture Programming Series for over a decade, bringing the Series to national prominence. Largely because of Baum’s illustrious vision, the Forum received the American Institute of Architects’ 2011 Collaborative Achievement Award.
Edward M. Baum Architect
Eric HÖWELER / Höweler + Yoon
Eric Höweler, FAIA, LEED AP is an architect, designer, and educator. He is co-founding partner of Höweler + Yoon and Professor in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he is the Program Director for the Masters of Architecture Program. Höweler’s design work and research focuses on building technology integration and material systems. His projects range from cultural buildings and mixed-use residential buildings to public spaces and interactive environments.
Höweler + Yoon is a design-driven architecture and urbanism practice whose work is deeply informed by social and cultural context. Over the last 18 years, they have built a reputation for work that is formally and technologically innovative, socially engaged, and conceptually rigorous. The awardwinning firm has sought to expand the scope of design beyond disciplinary boundaries, has benefited from collaborations with experts in numerous fields, and has taken a hands-on approach to design and implementation. This has resulted in unprecedented work in atypical fields: interactive landscapes, submersible structures, stone vaulting, and media projects.
Recently completed projects include the MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia, and the Coolidge Corner Theatre expansion. Höweler's work has been exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Venice Biennale.
Eric is the co-author of Expanded Practice, Verify In Field: Projects and Conversations Höweler + Yoon, and author of the forthcoming Design for Construction: The Tectonic Imagination in Contemporary Architecture. Höweler + Yoon
Tatiana BILBAO / Bilbao ESTUDIO
The Bob James Memorial Lecture
Tatiana Bilbao is the founder, CEO and Design Partner of Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO in Mexico City. Since 2004 the studio's practice has integrated research, design, community involvement and sustainable construction with projects ranging in scale from masterplans to affordable housing strategies, from city planning to furniture design.
The studio pursues architecture through multidisciplinary perspectives and promotes a collective environment with a diverse staff of architects, academics and model makers. The working method uses hand drawing and iterative models to keep design and development rooted in spatial and not digital exploration. The firm elevates collaboration between other architects, artists, economists and local governments to enrich the impact and reach of each project.
Bilbao holds a recurring teaching position at Yale University School of Architecture and has taught at Harvard University GSD, Columbia University GSAPP, Rice University, University of Andrés Bello in Chile, and Peter Behrens School of Arts at HS Düsseldorf in Germany. Her work has been published in The New York Times, A + U, and Domus, among others.
Bilbao was recognized with the Kunstpreis Berlin, as an Emerging Voice by the Architecture League of New York and received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture Prize by the LOCUS Foundation. She has also been named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), received the Richard Neutra Award, the AW Architect of the Year, and the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. Recently, the Boston Architectural College awarded Tatiana Bilbao an Honorary Doctor in recognition of the major contributions she has made to architecture.
Bilbao ESTUDIO
Benedetta TAGLIABUE / EMBT Architects
Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT is an internationally acknowledged architecture studio based in Barcelona. Early studio projects included the New Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh, the Utrecht City Hall in The Netherlands, the Headquarters of Gas Natural Fenosa, and the renovation of the Market and neighborhood of Santa Caterina.
Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT’s mature approach to architecture, interior design, and facility planning includes experience with educational, commercial, industrial and residential buildings, restoration of buildings as well as special purpose landscape architecture. The studio has experience in public spaces and buildings in both Europe and China working for state and local governments as well as corporate and private clients.
Current studio projects include the School of Management of Fudan University in Shanghai, a housing project in Taipei, public spaces of HafenCity in Hamburg Germany, the masterplan for the city seashore of Rimini, the metro station Clichy-Montfermeil in Paris and the metro central stations in Naples, Italy, among others.
Today Benedetta Tagliabue - EMBT has offices in Barcelona, Shanghai, and Paris. As an acknowledgment of their work done over the years, EMBT Architects has received the Catalan National Prize, the RIBA Stirling Prize, the National Spanish Prize, the City of Barcelona prize twice, several FAD prizes and World Architecture Festival prizes.
EMBT Architects
Wonne Ickx is a Founding Partner of PRODUCTORA. The studio’s work includes projects in Mexico and abroad, ranging from residential projects to public buildings. Its work has been presented in the Architectural Biennials of Beijing, Venice, and Chicago; in the National Art Museum of China; and in the Victoria and Albert Museum. PRODUCTORA has been awarded the Young Architects Forum and the Emerging Voices accolades by the Architectural League of New York. They received the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for emerging architects for the ‘Pavilion on the Zocalo.’ The Teopanzolco Cultural Center received the American Architecture Prize in Cultural Architecture, Oscar Niemeyer Award, the First International Prize at the Biennial of Architecture of Quito, and the Fundacio Mies Van de Rohe’s Simon Architecture Prize. The studio’s partners have been actively involved in teaching in universities both in Mexico and internationally.
Wonne Ickx is based in New York and leads the firm’s international projects. These include a net-zero building for the Houston Endowment offices, co-housing in Denver, adaptive reuse in Santiago, Chile, and residential projects in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and New York. Ickx studied Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Ghent and also obtained an MA in Urbanism and Development from the University of Guadalajara. He has taught both in Mexico and abroad at institutions such as the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, Centro de Diseño and Universidad Iberoamericano in Mexico City, UCLA, the Harvard GSD, and Columbia’s GSAPP. Ickx is an International Associate AIA and serves on the board of directors of the Architectural League.
Paul MASI / Bates Masi + Architects
The Frank Welch Memorial Lecture
Bates Masi + Architects embraces each project with extensive research, a limited material palate, a focus on natural light, craft, simple but elegant design and the context of place to produce unique solutions as varied as the individuals or groups for whom they are designed - so appropriate for this year’s Frank Welch Memorial Lecture ! Projects include urban and suburban residences, schools, offices, hotels, restaurants, retail and furniture in the United States, Central America and the Caribbean.
Bates Masi’s work has been featured in national and international publications including The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, Interior Design, Architectural Record, Wall Street Journal and Dwell. The studio has produced two monographs, Bespoke Home and Architecture of Place. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger describes the studio’s work as “fresh, sharp and original” with “an unmistakable degree of selfassurance that is marked by a consistent but very subtle kind of elegance.”
Paul Masi, AIA received a BA from Catholic University and his MA from the Harvard GSD. He worked at Richard Meier & Partners before co-founding Bates Masi with Harry Bates. “Our approach to design is about capturing the essence of an idea,” says Masi. The studio has won over 240 design awards, including honors from AIA national, state and local chapters; Cooper Hewitt design recognitions; and awards from IDA, USGBC, Metal Architecture and Residential Architecture. Bates Masi has also won AN Best of Practice, Interior Design Best of Year and AR Record Houses recognitions. For their compelling body of work, Bates Masi has been honored as a member of the Interior Design Hall of Fame.
Bates Masi + Architects
Farquhar Residence by Frank Welch, FAIA
The Forum’s Eighth Annual Frank Welch Memorial Lecture
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Raymond JUNGLES / Raymond Jungles, Inc.
The Rose Family Lecture
Raymond Jungles, FASLA, is the founder of the Miami-based landscape architecture firm, Raymond Jungles, Inc., recognized for excellence in the design and implementation of public and private sector projects. As a landscape architect, Jungles guides his studio to preserve and protect existing ecosystems while also evoking human interaction and improving the lives of others. Raymond graduated with a degree in Landscape Architecture, with honors, from the University of Florida. He established his award-winning firm in 1982, and in 2006 Raymond was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Raymond Jungles leads all RJI’s projects, from their conceptual onset to final completion. He enjoys mentoring his staff and passionately promoting the profession of landscape architecture and the appreciation of natural environments and gardens. Raymond’s work has been celebrated with numerous awards, including three National Awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects for the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve, the Sky Garden, and Island Modern. He is also a recipient of fifty-six design awards from the Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Raymond lectures domestically and internationally at a diverse array of institutions and universities about his work and on the work and influences of Roberto Burle Marx, whom he has acknowledged as his mentor. Widely published, his four monographs Ten Landscapes, The Colors of Nature, The Cultivated Wild, and Beyond Wild feature over seventy of his completed gardens. In recognition of his outstanding body of work, Raymond was awarded the American Society of Landscape Architects’ Design Medal in 2024, widely recognized as the most prestigious honor in landscape architecture.
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2024-25 Special Programs
Panels & Programs
Builders Roundtable
Bill Ward Memorial Panel Discussion
Moderator
Kate AOKI, AIA, Founding Partner • Golden Egg Creative
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Sam ALLGOOD, CEO • Allgood/Pfannenstiel Construction
Stephen HARDY, CEO • Hardy Construction
Steve Hild, CEO Emeritus • Steven Hild Custom Builder
John Sebastian, CEO • Sebastian Construction Group
Ron Wommack Legacy Program
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Eurico FRANCISCO, AIA, LEED AP, Design Principal • Perkins&Will
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Russell BUCHANAN, FAIA, LEED AP, Founder • Buchanan Architecture
Max LEVY, FAIA, Founder • Max Levy Architect
Joshua NIMMO, AIA, LEED AP, Founder • NIMMO
Dan SHIPLEY, FAIA, Founder • Shipley Architects
The Evolution of Computation in Architecture
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Ron STELMARSKI, FAIA, Design Director • Perkins&Will
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Brad Bell, Associate Professor • UTA CAPPA School of Architecture
Michael Fox, Principal • FoxLin Architects; Professor • Cal Poly Pomona
Home Heat Money God
Texas and Modern Architecture
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Design Inspirations
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Stephen KNOWLES, AIA, Design Principal • HDR Dallas
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