Exploring Dallas during the 2011 Convention

Michael Woods, AIA, a principal at RTKL Associates in Dallas, wants to take you on a tour of his hometown.



Map out your visit of the host city.

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Take a walk downtown from the convention center:

Main Street Garden Park - Thomas Balsley Associates
Wilson Building- Sanguinett & Staats/Corgan Associates
Mercantile Building - Walter Ahlschlager/ BGO Architects
Third Rail Lofts - Good Fulton & Farrell Architects
Gables Republic Tower - Harrison & Abramovitz/ RTKL Associates
The Joule Hotel - Coburn & Smith/Architexas
Dallas Museum of Art - Edward Larrabee Barnes
Nasher Sculpture Center - Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Museum Tower - Johnson Fain Architects
Margot and Bill WInspear Opera House - Foster + Partners
Wyly Theater - Rex/OMA

Venture off the beaten path:

Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge - Santiago Calatrava
Cistercian Chapel - Cunningham Architects
Whiterock Lake
7035 Lakewood Blvd - CD Hutsell
Dallas Arboretum - Lake/Flato Architects


Purchase the AIA Guide to Dallas Architecture online at aiadallas.org


Be sure to register online for the convention before September 28. It won't be the same without you!

72nd Annual Convention and
Design Products and Ideas Expo
27-29 October 2011
Dallas Convention Center

The Courthouses of Central Texas

Thursday, October 27th

7:45 PM–8:45 PM
The Courthouses of Central Texas
Brantley Hightower, AIA, Lake|Flato Architects, San Antonio

The 254 county courthouses of Texas represent a rich and enduring architectural legacy. While the 50 courthouses of the central Texas region exhibit an endearing collection of historical styles, they remain relevant for the contemporary architect. They provide lessons about meaning and modernity as well as sustainability and community. Come along for a unique look at these structures as architectural artifact.

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72nd Annual Convention and

Design Products & Ideas Expo
27-29 October 2011
Dallas Convention Center

Last Day to Register for Advocates for Architecture Day

Just a reminder that registration for Advocates for Architecture Day ends today, Friday, December 17th.

Please register now and be the voice for Texas architecture at the State Capitol on January 25, 2011.

On Monday, TSA will start going through the registrants and begin the process of organizing and scheduling appointments. Anyone not registered by 11:59pm on December 17th will not be scheduled for legislator appointments.

Join Advocates for Architecture at the Texas Capitol

Texas Society of Architects

Advocates for Architecture Day

Tues. January 25, 2011

Texas State Capitol

WHY SHOULD I ATTEND Advocates for Architecture Day?

Texas is facing a HISTORIC budget deficit of $25 BILLION, which is a 1/4 of the overall budget. This means budget cuts will be drastic and revenue sources will be desperately sought!

• What if architects were procured by price instead of qualifications?
• What if K-12 schools are forced to choose from state standardized architectural plans?
• What if sales taxes (8.25%) were imposed on your professional services?
• What if occupation fees were raised?

REGISTER NOW and be prepared to tell your story. Registrations must be received by December 17th!

GET ON THE BUS!

AIA Dallas is sponsoring a bus trip to the Texas State Capitol on January 25th, departing at 5:00 am from the Dallas Design District.

AIA Houston, AIA Fort Worth, and AIA San Antonio will also have bus transportation. Contact your chapter to RSVP for a seat.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

Training will begin on Tuesday, January 25th at 9:00 am at the AT&T Conference Center/hotel (room TBD) within blocks of the Capitol. The morning will be spent learning what our issues are, how to communicate them to policymakers, and some political insight to the Legislative Session. You supply the passion for your profession and we'll supply all the basic skills, tools and information you'll need to be able to confidently approach Texas legislators and articulate the issues that affect architects statewide. Box lunch will be provided immediately following training.

After lunch, we will all meet at the Capitol (location TBD) for a group photo then we'll head down to our reserved briefing room at the Capitol (TSA's unofficial office) to pick up your materials, leave-behinds and talking points. Visits will be scheduled from 1:00 -- 4:00 pm in the afternoon. Once you're done, head back to our Capitol office to let us know how your meetings went and to fill out personal thank you notes to be sent to your legislators. We expect everyone to be done between 4-5:00 pm, at which point you can spend some time touring the Capitol or head back home, with the thanks of TSA and all Texas architects.

TSA Member Profile: Ken Shanks

TSA Member Profile: Dorothy Fojtik

TSA Member Profile: Gerald Bratz

TSA Member Profile: Ricardo Bargas

Texas Architect Contributor: Mort Levy, FAIA

Mort Levy, FAIA often feels as old as the Galveston churches described in his article on page 30, having “architected” in the Houston area for over half a century. He claims no “big” buildings, but he has been involved in many projects for religious organizations, as well as having some commissions that were profitable.

Texas Architect Contributor: Murray Legge, AIA

Murray Legge, AIA is a graduate of the Cooper Union, a principal with LZT Architects in Austin, and a founding member of the interdisciplinary group Legge Lewis Legge. Current projects include a mosque, a park pavilion for the City of Dallas, and an interactive landscape in Quebec. Read his article about Mod Cott on page 52.

Texas Architect Contributor: Gregory Ibañez, AIA

Gregory Ibañez, AIA resides in Fort Worth and is a frequent contributor to the magazine. While writing about the Grauwyler Park Branch Library in Dallas (page 40, Sept/Oct Texas Architect), he says, “This type of architecture is absolutely vital to the building of strong communities, yet as I write this article draconian budget cuts are planned for the Dallas Public Library system. Who speaks for the public realm?”

Tour the Mission City During Convention

J. Brantley Hightower, AIA, recently purchased one of those cool new digital cameras that also shoots video. Wanting to explore this functionality, he agreed to put together a video illustrating some of the more interesting projects in San Antonio that attendees to this year's convention might want to see for themselves. At least until he's ready to move to Hollywood, Brantley works at Lake|Flato Architects.



Map out your experience of the host city for TSA's 71st Annual Convention and Design Products and Ideas Expo.


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The San Antonio Missions
The Alamo (1744)
Mission Concepcion (1755)
Mission San Jose (1754)
MissionSan Juan (1755)
Mission Espada (1756)

The Riverwalk
concept by Robert H. H. Hugman (since 1929)

Bexar County Courthouse
Gordon & Laub (1896)

Tower of the Americas
Ford, Powell & Carson (1968)

San Antonio Central Library
Ricardo Legorreta with Johnson-Dempsey & Associates and Sprinkle Robey (1995)

Pearl Brewery
adaptive reuse by Durand-Hollis Rupe; Ford, Powell & Carson; Lake|Flato Architects (since 2005)
Center for Architecture by Marmon Mok

San Antonio Museum of Art
adaptive reuse by Cambridge Seven with Martin & Ortega and Chumney, Jones & Kell (since 1981)
additions by Overland Partners

Brackenridge Park
Japanese Tea Gardens (1917)

Lucile Halsell Conservatory
Emilio Ambasz (1988)

Trinity University
master plan by O'Neil Ford and Bartlett Cocke with William Wurster (since 1952)

McNay Art Museum
original mansion by Ayres and Ayres (1929)
Stieren Center by Jean-Paul Viguier with Ford, Powell & Carson (2008)



The AIA San Antonio guidebook, Traditions and Visions, mentioned in the video can be purchased on aiasa.org.

Texas Architect Contributor: Filo Castore, AIA

Filo Castore, AIA is an architect who practices ecological common sense. He has lived in Houston since 1995, but wrote the article on the GSA Regional Field Office from his homeland of Italy while visiting family with his wife and daughter. See his article on page 72.

Texas Architect Contributor: Sean Burkholder

Sean Burkholder is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Penn State University. He holds a bachelor’s in architecture from Miami University and a master’s of landscape architecture from Harvard. Burkholder is easily distracted by shiny objects and spends more time than he should postulating the possibilities of vacant urban land. He writes about Overlook Pavilion on page 56 of the Sept/Oct Design Awards edition of Texas Architect.

Texas Architect Contributor: Rebecca Boles, AIA

Rebecca Boles, AIA is an architect equestrian who teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture. Her preferred alternate transportation is the horse. Boles writes about Fort Worth’s Sid W. Richardson Visual Arts Center on page 64 of the Sept/Oct Design Awards edition of Texas Architect.

Texas Architect Contributors: Jim Atkins, FAIA & Grant Simpson, FAIA

Jim Atkins, FAIA, likes to spend time with his extended family in Korea, where he enjoys researching and writing about the architecture of the ancient ruling dynasties. See his second article in a two-part series on risk management, co-authored by Grant Simpson, FAIA.

Grant A. Simpson, FAIA, can often be found in his backyard tropical paradise accompanied by classic Hawaiian music when he is not studying or writing about architects and architecture. The second of his two-part article on risk management, co-authored with Jim Atkins, FAIA, focuses on solutions related to substitutions and can be found on page 86 of Texas Architect's Sept/Oct Design Awards edition.

Texas Architect Contributor: Michael E. Allex, AIA

Michael E. Allex, AIA, is a third generation “Valley Rat”…Rio Grande Valley Rat, that is. After graduating from Texas Tech, Allex interned in Dallas for three years. He returned to his native Harlingen, where he has practiced architecture for nearly 20 years. He enjoys the best of the Valley, fishing the flats and hunting the ranch country. His article on La Lomita Mission Chapel is found on page 48 of the Sept/Oct Design Awards issue of Texas Architect.

Listen to The Shape of Texas' 2-minute episode that features La Lomita Chapel.

Where's TA Today? (5/22)

The staff of Texas Architect has unique opportunities to travel and visit interesting architecture. Do you know where we were when we took these pictures?