Architecture

Start Spooky Season Right With Tickets to Preservation Dallas’ Fall Cemetery Tour

By Joanna England / October 1, 2021 /

Preservation Dallas has the most interesting architectural tours in town. When we spoke to David Preziosi this summer after picking up our Preservation Dallas Achievement Award, he could not wait to spill about the fall architectural tour that Preservation Dallas had planned. If you’re ready to join some strangers in a cemetery on the day…

Tickets on Sale Today: AIA Dallas, Architecture and Design Foundation Host Impact Dallas Gala

By CandysDirt / August 30, 2021 /

Tickets to the inaugural, signature event will go on sale today, Aug. 30. The Dallas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Architecture and Design Foundation just announced their first Impact Dallas Gala, a black-tie event taking place on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, at The Thompson Hotel in Dallas’ newly redeveloped historic downtown…

An Award-Winning Dallas Midcentury Modern With Original Details Was Just Listed

By Joanna England / July 31, 2021 /

If you look at this home long enough, your imagination will run away with itself. It’s like a Rorschach test — what you see is what you see, and there’s no wrong answer. Is this John Barthel-designed Midcentury Modern a spaceship? Is it an airplane? To me, the home looks like an origami crane as…

Midland-Based Mark Wellen to Deliver The 4th Annual Frank Welch Memorial Lecture June 16

By CandysDirt / June 14, 2021 /

From Staff Reports Dallas is lucky to have such an outstanding collection of Frank Welch designs. In fact, it’s such an incredible group that Preservation Dallas once dedicated an entire architectural tour to the late Texas icon. Welch still looms large in the city, and for as long as the Dallas Architecture Forum is concerned,…

Dallas Architecture Forum Hosts Lecture From Socially Conscious Architect Alan Ricks

By CandysDirt / May 31, 2021 /

From Staff Reports The Dallas Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public education about architecture, landscape architecture, design, and the urban environment, will present leading architect Alan Ricks in person on Wednesday, June 2, at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. Alan Ricks is the Founding Principal and Chief Design Officer of MASS Design Group,…