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Dallas Architecture Forum Focuses on DMA’s Cartier and Islamic Art Exhibition Aug. 4

By April Towery / August 1, 2022 /

Islamic architecture is a girl’s best friend. That’s not exactly how the saying goes, but Yale School of Architecture professor Jaffer Kolb is going to shine some light on how the geometric art form influenced a Cartier jewelry line.  Kolb joins Sarah Schleuning, curator of the Cartier exhibition, and Kate Aoki, head of exhibition design…

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The Dallas Museum of Art Wants You to Go Home With Their New Exhibit

By Joshua Baethge / April 9, 2021 /

The Dallas Museum of Art is taking a unique look at the places we live through contemporary art. “For a Dreamer of Houses” features 54 works inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s 1958 book “The Poetics of Space.” Many of the pieces come from the museum’s permanent collection. Among the highlights are major recent acquisitions of works…

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Preston Hollow Modern Masterpiece By Edward Larrabee Barnes

By Karen Eubank / October 7, 2019 /

If the design of this modern masterpiece looks familiar, it’s because it’s by the same architect that was responsible for the Dallas Museum of Art. Edward Larrabee Barnes was commissioned by art collectors to design a futuristic home to house their collection. Barnes is notable not just for the DMA and this incredible modern masterpiece,…

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Dallas Architecture Forum Welcomes Klyde Warren Park Pavillion Architect Thomas Phifer

By Shelby Skrhak / October 17, 2018 /

Thomas Phifer has been called the “master of meticulous modernism,” whose work ranges from the Corning Museum in New York, the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, and the San Francisco corporate headquarters for LinkedIn, to Dallas’ Klyde Warren Park Pavilion and Rachofsky House. The New York City-based architect will be in Dallas to…

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Twentieth Anniversary for Architecture Group Begins with Aga Khan Award Lecture

By Leah Shafer / October 19, 2016 /

The Dallas Architecture Forum will launch its twentieth-anniversary season next week with a lecture about the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is given every three years to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation, and landscape architecture. Through its efforts, the award seeks…

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