Enrique Norten at Dallas Architecture Forum Wraps Up Their Season of Lectures

Rutgers Business School in Piscataway, NJ, designed by architect Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos. Photo: GÆ+ Peter Aaron

When it comes to bringing preeminent architecture voices to North Texas, the Dallas Architecture Forum is unbeatable.

Their next lecture, and the final of the season, will feature Enrique Norten, one of the leading architects of Latino heritage in the world. His firm, Ten Arquitectos, has designed award-winning cultural centers, hotels, museums, residential and urban development, parks, public spaces, historic infrastructure adaptations, as well as furnishings.

With over 50 built projects, Norten is recognized for his work on such buildings as the National School of Theatre and Arts, the Habita Hotel, the Americano Hotel, the High Museum of Villahermosa, the NY 53rd Street Library, the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity, the University Museum of Chopo, the Amparo Museum, Santa Fe Eurocenter, Rutgers Business School, and Mercedes House in New York.

Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico. Photo: Agustin Garza

Museo del Chopo in Mexico City. Photo: Agustin Garza

With degrees from Iberoamericana University and Cornell, Norten has taught at Yale, UCLA, Michigan, Texas, Cornell, Parsons, Pratt, and Harvard. He received the Mies van der Rohe Prize of Latin American Architecture and he is an honorary member of the AIA. He received the Richard J. Neutra Medal, and is widely published in monographs and leading journals and publications.

“Enrique Norten has designed award-winning projects of every major type, has held many distinguished professorships in architecture, and he has lectured around the world,” said Nate Eudaly, Executive Director of the Dallas Architecture Forum. “As Dallas continues to expand its focus on its vital connections to Hispanic culture, and with the current exhibition Mexico — 1900 to 1950 at the Dallas Museum of Art, we believe Mr. Norten’s lecture is extremely important and timely.”

This lecture will take place at the Magnolia Theater in West Village, 3699 McKinney Ave. A reception and check-in will be from 6:15 to 6:55 p.m. with the event itself at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $20 per lecture for general admission and $5 for students (with ID). Dallas Architecture Forum members receive free admission to all regular Forum lectures as a benefit of membership, and AIA members can earn one hour of CE credit for each lecture. For more information, visit dallasarchitectureforum.org or call 214-764-2406.