Dallas Architecture Forum Lecture with Michael Maltzan October 13, 2010

The Dallas Architecture Forum will present a lecture by MoMA QNS architect Michael Maltzan on Wednesday, Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave. in Uptown Dallas. Single tickets, available at the door only, are $20 for general admission and $5 for students with I.D. Dallas Architecture Forum members are admitted for free. The reception begins at 6:15 p.m. For more information, call 214-764-2406 or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum.org. Images are available upon request via Lisa Taylor at Taylor-Made Press, 214-914-1099 or [email protected].

Michael Maltzan, FAIA, is design principal of Michael Maltzan Architecture. Since founding his firm in Los Angeles, California, in 1995, Maltzan has created a practice that engages the increasingly complex reality of urbanization and information-driven culture. Building on his experiences as a child in Levittown on Long Island, New York, and his belief in the role architecture can play in the contemporary city, his work endeavors to synthesize the ambiguity of the contemporary world through an architecture that is both a catalyst for new experiences and infused with optimism for its role as an agent for change. This work, from MoMA Queens to Skid Row, creates new connections across a range of scales, programs, and environments.

Maltzan’s work has been recognized with numerous accolades including five Progressive Architecture awards, 19 citations from the American Institute of Architects, and the Rudy Bruner Foundation’s Gold Medal for Urban Excellence; he was a finalist for the Smithsonian/Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s National Design Award in 2009. His designs have been featured in over 100 national and international publications and have been exhibited in some of architecture’s most prestigious venues including the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Solo exhibitions of Maltzan’s work have also be staged at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Carnegie Museum’s Heinz Architectural Center. He has lectured nationwide as well as in Canada, China, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. Additionally, Maltzan has served as a design instructor, lecturer, and critic at The Architectural League of New York, Rhode Island School of Design, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California, Harvard University, University of Waterloo, and Southern California Institute of Architecture. He is a licenses architect in Texas and California, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a GSA Design Excellence Program Peer.

Maltzan holds both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, where he received the Henry Adams AIA Scholastic Gold Medal. He received a Master of Architecture degree with a Letter of Distinction from Harvard University. He is a licensed architect, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a GSA Design Excellence Program Peer.

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