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The original Make Space for Art (Sept '07 - Jan '08) call for entries attracted
68 designers from 19 countries submitting ideas for our future environmentally friendly facility
to be built on a 35-acre site in Oak Cliff. The jurors for MSA are Mark Gunderson, AIA of Ft. Worth; Dr. Richard Brettell of UT Dallas; Louise Harpman of UT Austin, Max Levy, FAIA of Dallas; and Rick Lowe of Project Row Houses in Houston.
MSA was sponsored by Perkins-Will, Barry Whistler Gallery, Preservation Tree Services, and City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.
Mark Gunderson
Board Member
Gunderson is a practicing architect in Fort Worth, Texas and is past
president of the Dallas Architectural Foundation. He currently serves
on the board for Dallas Architecture Forum and writes and lectures
frequently on architecture. In 2006, his alma mater, Texas Tech
University, presented Gunderson with Distinguished Alumnus Award from
its College of Architecture. He has been a visiting critic at both
Texas Tech and the UTA School of Architecture. Currently at work as a
co–author to “Buildings of Texas”, a new 1,000–page double volume in
the series “Buildings of the United States,” published by the
University of Virginia Press for the Society of Architectural
Historians.
Dr. Richard Brettell
Juror, Make Space for Art
Dr. Brettell is founding president of the Dallas Architecture Forum,
former Director of the Dallas Museum of Art and holds three degrees
from Yale University. He has taught at the University of Texas,
Northwestern University, The University of Chicago, Yale University,
and Harvard University and is currently Margaret McDermott
Distinguished Professor in the Interdisciplinary School of Arts and
Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has begun to
publish architectural criticism, including “Beyond the Golden Age:
Three New Art Museums for Texas” in Southwest Review and “Lost in
Translation: Ando’s Building for The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth”
for CITE. Brettell established and curated the “Five Modern Architects”
exhibit for University of Texas at Dallas in 2002.
Rick Lowe
Juror, Make Space for Art
Lowe is the founder of Project Row Houses, an arts and cultural
community located in a historically significant and culturally charged
neighborhood in Houston, Texas. As an artist, Rick has participated in
exhibitions and programs nationally and internationally. From 1996 to
the present, he has exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum, the
Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston and several other art museums
around the world. In 1997, Rick and Project Row Houses were awarded a
silver medal by the Rudy Bruner Awards in Urban Excellence. He was the
year 2000 recipient of the American Institute of Architecture Keystone
Award. In 2002, he was awarded by Theresa Heinz the Heinz Award in the
arts and humanities. Rick was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University from
September 2001–June 2002. In 2006, Rick received the Brandywine
Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2007, he has been an Osher Fellow at the
Exploratorium in San Francisco, and received the Houston Spirit Award
given by the Mayor of Houston.
Max Levy, FAIA
Juror, Make Space for Art
Fort Worth native Max Levy is a Dallas–based architect, adjunct
associate professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, and fellow
with the American Institute of Architects. He has lectured across
Texas, written for Texas Architect, and authored “Chasing the Modernist
Rainbow” (2000). Recent honors include a 2007 Best in Show award from
the Dallas AIA; a 2006 National Honor Award from the American Society
of Landscape Architects; a 2002 AIA Dallas House of the Year Award from
D Magazine and a 2001 AIA National Honor Award. His design capacities
and poetic sensibility have caused his office to receive more design
awards from the Texas Society of Architects than any other small
practice in the history of the TSA Awards program.
Louise Harpman
Juror, Make Space for Art
Louise Harpman is a partner at Specht Harpman. Before founding Specht
Harpman, she worked as a designer at Eisenman Architects and Buttrick
White & Burtis Architects. She is currently serving as Associate
Dean for Undergraduate Programs at the University of Texas at Austin,
where she is also the Harwell Hamilton Harris Professor of
Architecture. Before joining the UT faculty, she taught for eight years
at the Yale School of Architecture and for four years at the University
of Pennsylvania. Louise Harpman received her Bachelor of Arts degree
from Harvard University where she concentrated in East Asian Studies.
She holds a Master of Philosophy degree from Cambridge University and
received her Master of Architecture degree from Yale University, where
she was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Certificate and the Janet Cain
Sielaff Prize. Louise Harpman is the co–editor of Perspecta
30:Settlement Patterns (1999). She is the author of the Brooklyn Public
Library Design Guidelines (1996) and is a member of the Board of
Directors of the Design Trust for Public Space.