Who we are
The Forum educates, enriches, and connects our community by presenting programs and events; creating experiences; and engaging global and local thought-leaders from the design fields to enhance how we live.
Nor th Texas Giving Day
Donate to The Forum - Give HERE
The Dallas Architecture Forum is participating in North Texas Giving Day, which is open now through Thursday, September 18, 2025.
Please support The Forum — your help last year enabled us to continue to fulfill our important mission. We presented Lectures and Panel Discussions and had two 365 Modern Receptions at outstanding Dallas residences. Our YouTube Channel now has over one hundred Forum programs with more than 40,000 views locally, nationally, and internationally.
Your Gift to The Forum Will:
• FUND OUR FREE PANEL DISCUSSION SERIES, which focuses on issues impacting all North Texas residents
• PROVIDE FREE MEMBERSHIPS TO STUDENTS in 7-12 grades to attend our nationally honored Lecture Series
• BRIDGE THE GAP ON PROGRAMMING EXPENSES (membe rships and sponsorships do not cover all costs)
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Give to The Forum to educate and engage our community, and to enhance how we live! Thank you for your support!
The Dallas Architecture Forum is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and donations are fully tax deductible.
Lecture Series
The Forum Lecture Series features emerging voices, as well as established leaders from the allied fields of architecture and design.
•Pritzker Prize winners
•Pulitzer Prize winners
•AIA and ASLA Gold Medal winners
•Internationally acclaimed architects, designers, landscape architects, planners, authors, patrons, and critics
•More than 275 speakers over the last t wenty-seven seasons.
•Past Lectures available on our YouTube channel
•Some of our distinguished speakers are pictured to the right
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The Forum
Frank Welch Memorial Lecture to honor Frank WELCH, the Dean of Texas Modernist architects and great friend of The Forum.
Engage Educate Experience Enjoy
The Dallas Architecture Forum is for everyone who wants to experience inspired design. The Forum presents an award-winning Lecture Series that brings outstanding architects,interior designers, landscape architects and urban planners from around the world, as well as Symposia, Receptions at architecturally significant residences, and Panel Discussions on issues impacting North Texas.
