Second Wave of Modernism IV: Making Space within Place Conference

A one day conference will be held on Friday, October 4, 2019, 8:30AM – 5:00PM, in the Horchow Auditorium of the Dallas Museum of Art. The conference will highlight the city’s leadership with projects that balance design with natural and cultural values and the imperative to deal with climate change. It will also showcase the city’s public-private initiatives and recent innovations in creative management and stewardship. The conference will feature experts from throughout the U.S. and the Dallas area. It will be preceded by an opening reception on Thursday, October 3 at the Nasher Sculpture Center (separate registration required) and will be followed by a day of tours and mobile workshops on Saturday, October 5 (separate registration required).

Introductory presentations (by Peter Walker, Peter Ker Walker, and James Burnett) will illuminate the role that landscape architects have played in laying the foundation for today’s planning and design work by exploring several iconic projects completed in the Dallas Arts District over the past 35 years. A morning panel, titled “Transforming the Downtown Core,” will examine four projects (by Field Operations, Hargreaves Associates, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects and SWA) that are currently in the design or construction phase in downtown Dallas, revealing how a public-private partnership was able to facilitate the development of these priority parks in the urban core. The afternoon panel, “Transforming and Connecting the City,” will be a forward-looking discussion of larger-scale projects currently underway (i.e., in the planning, design, or execution phase) that aim to balance, leverage, and steward both natural and cultural resources. The closing panel, featuring leaders in landscape architecture, planning, journalism, patronage, and stewardship, will reflect on the day’s presentations.