A Spanish team among the finalists for the Dallas Museum of Art contest
12/07/2023.
[Dallas] USA
metalocus, ANTONIO CORREDERA, CRISTINA RODRÍGUEZ
metalocus, ANTONIO CORREDERA, CRISTINA RODRÍGUEZ
The Dallas Museum of Art has revealed the finalist concept designs created by renowned teams of American and international architects in the competition to reimagine the DMA.
Among the selected teams are four Americans and two Europeans (including one Spanish) who are David Chipperfield Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Johnston Marklee, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Nieto Sobejano Architects, and Weiss/Manfredi.
The DMA presents the proposals of the finalists to the public, on the website of the contest organized by Malcolm Reading Consultants.
Among the selected teams are four Americans and two Europeans (including one Spanish) who are David Chipperfield Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Johnston Marklee, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Nieto Sobejano Architects, and Weiss/Manfredi.
The DMA presents the proposals of the finalists to the public, on the website of the contest organized by Malcolm Reading Consultants.
Aerial View. Rendering by David Chipperfield Architects.
Gallery View. Rendering by David Chipperfield Architects.
The "Street". Rendering by David Chipperfield Architects.
Flora Street Courtyard. Rendering by David Chipperfield Architects.
Aerial from Klyde Warren Park. Rendering by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Lobby from Auditorium. Rendering by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Sky-lit Contemporary Gallery. Rendering by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Kiley Sculpture Garden. Rendering by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Contemporary Galleries Pavilion. Rendering by Johnston Marklee.
Eagle Family Plaza. Rendering by Johnston Marklee.
Flora Street Entrance. Rendering by Johnston Marklee.
New Interior Street. Rendering by Johnston Marklee.
North Harwood Street View. Rendering by Michael Maltzan Architecture.
Ross Avenue View. Rendering by Michael Maltzan Architecture.
Concourse View. Rendering by Michael Maltzan Architecture.
Barrel Vault Welcome Hub. Rendering by Michael Maltzan Architecture.
Aerial View. Rendering by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.
Rooftop Gallery View. Rendering by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.
View from Klyde Warren Park. Rendering by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.
Ross Avenue Plaza View. Rendering by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.
Kiley Gardens. Rendering by WeissManfredi.
Gallery View. Rendering by WeissManfredi.
View from Klyde Warren Park. Rendering by WeissManfredi.
North Entry Plaza. Rendering by WeissManfredi.
The Museum’s project focuses on strengthening the DMA’s work with its communities, creating stronger civic connections, transforming the welcome for visitors with new facilities, and expanding education and gallery space to accommodate important collections – all underpinned by a thorough modernization.
"We very much look forward to hearing from our communities and welcome comments on the ideas and themes in these proposals. Please visit the presentation in-person or via the online gallery where there will be opportunity to provide feedback that will help shape the future of the DMA."
The DMA’s Eugene McDermott Director, Dr. Agustín Arteaga.
The DMA is focused on better serving the diverse city of Dallas and being a dynamic connector where people of all cultures feel welcomed and embraced. Stronger civic connections will reaffirm the DMA as the anchor of the Dallas Arts District and connect it to surrounding neighborhoods.
Contemporary Galleries Pavilion. Rendering by Johnston Marklee.
Additional flexible gallery space will accommodate a collection that is expanding exponentially. Currently, many masterworks remain in storage, unseen by the public due to lack of space.
The program also requires a reorganization of internal space, circulation, and entrances, as well as a comprehensive modernization framed within a thoughtful sustainability strategy.
"The competition has inspired a creative flowering that is underpinned by contemporary commitments to sustainability, social equity, and the use of public space. In the decades since the Museum was originally designed these themes have become paramount."
Competition Director, Malcolm Reading.
View from Klyde Warren Park. Rendering by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.
The first stage of the competition, which launched in February 2023, attracted 154 team submissions from around the world, and resulted in the selection of six finalist teams led by:
-David Chipperfield Architects (London, UK).
-Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York, USA).
-Johnston Marklee (Los Angeles, USA).
-Michael Maltzan Architecture (Los Angeles, USA).
-Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain).
-Weiss/Manfredi (New York, USA).
-Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York, USA).
-Johnston Marklee (Los Angeles, USA).
-Michael Maltzan Architecture (Los Angeles, USA).
-Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain).
-Weiss/Manfredi (New York, USA).
The finalists were selected by the DMA’s Architect Selection Committee who assessed the submissions using the stage one criteria published in the competition Search Statement.
"These initial designs from some of the world’s most in-demand creative minds help us visualize how the DMA could reinvent itself, and they’ve thrilled us. Yet among the six there is only one winner… So we're aware we are approaching a momentous decision in the lifetime of this Museum."
Architect Selection Committee Co-Chairs, Jennifer Eagle and Lucilo Peña.
Opened in 1984, the original campus by Edward Larrabee Barnes was surrounded by empty lots and warehouses. Over the nearly four decades since its opening, the neighborhood around the DMA has grown and evolved, including the expansion of the Arts District, the addition of Klyde Warren Park to the north, and the construction of new residences, restaurants, and offices.
Aerial from Klyde Warren Park. Rendering by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Barnes’ austere Modernist design in Indiana limestone forefronted elegance and calm dignity. Today, the DMA needs to re-present and enliven its spaces to relate to a more open and inclusive society with changing visitor expectations.
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Malcolm Reading Consultants.
Dates
11 July, 2023.
Location
1717 N Harwood St, Dallas, TX 75201, USA.
David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield was born in London in 1953 and studied architecture at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London before working at the practices of Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.
In 1985 he founded David Chipperfield Architects, which today has over 300 staff at its offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai.
David Chipperfield has taught and held conferences in Europe and the United States and has received honorary degrees from the universities of Kingston and Kent.
He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and an honorary fellow of both the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). In 2009 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2010 he received a knighthood for services to architecture in the UK and Germany. In 2011 he received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture and in 2013 the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association, while in 2021 he was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in recognition of a lifetime’s work.
In 2012 he curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro and Benjamin Gilmartin. Diller Scofidio + Renfro Studio
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Studio. Founded in 1981, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) is a design studio whose practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, installation art, multi-media performance, digital media, and print. With a focus on cultural and civic projects, DS+R’s work addresses the changing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio is based in New York and is comprised of over 100 architects, designers, artists and researchers, led by four partners--Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro and Benjamin Gilmartin.
DS+R completed two of the largest architecture and planning initiatives in New York City’s recent history: the adaptive reuse of an obsolete, industrial rail infrastructure into the High Line, a 1.5 mile-long public park, and the transformation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ half-century-old campus. The studio is currently engaged in two more projects significant to New York, scheduled to open in 2019: The Shed, the first multi-arts center designed to commission, produce, and present all types of performing arts, visual arts, and popular culture, and the renovation and expansion of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Most recently, the studio was also selected to design: Adelaide Contemporary, a new gallery and public sculpture park in South Australia; the Centre for Music, which will be a permanent home for the London Symphony Orchestra; and a new collection and research centre for the V&A in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Recent projects include the 35-acre Zaryadye Park adjacent to the Kremlin in Moscow; the Museum of Image & Sound on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro; The Broad, a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley; the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University in New York; and The Juilliard School in Tianjin, China.
DS+R’s independent work includes the Blur Building, a pavilion made of fog on Lake Neuchâtel for the Swiss Expo; Exit, an immersive data-driven installation about human migration at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris; Charles James: Beyond Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Arbores Laetae, an animated micro-park for the Liverpool Biennial; Musings on a Glass Box at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris; and Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design at the Jewish Museum in New York. A major retrospective of DS+R’s work was mounted at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Most recently, the studio designed two site-specific installations at the 2018 Venice Biennale and the Costume Institute’s Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. DS+R also directed and produced The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o’clock, a free, choral performance featuring 1,000 singers atop the High Line, co-created with David Lang.
DS+R has authored several books: The High Line (Phaidon Press, 2015), Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account (Damiani, 2013), Flesh: Architectural Probes (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011), Blur: The Making of Nothing (Harry N. Abrams, 2002), and Back to the Front: Tourisms of War (Princeton Architectural Press, 1996).
DS+R has been distinguished with the first MacArthur Foundation fellowship awarded in the field of architecture, Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential" list, the Smithsonian Institution's 2005 National Design Award, the Medal of Honor and the President's Award from AIA New York, and Wall Street Journal Magazine's 2017 Architecture Innovator of the Year Award. Ricardo Scofidio and Elizabeth Diller are fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and are International Fellows at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
DS+R completed two of the largest architecture and planning initiatives in New York City’s recent history: the adaptive reuse of an obsolete, industrial rail infrastructure into the High Line, a 1.5 mile-long public park, and the transformation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ half-century-old campus. The studio is currently engaged in two more projects significant to New York, scheduled to open in 2019: The Shed, the first multi-arts center designed to commission, produce, and present all types of performing arts, visual arts, and popular culture, and the renovation and expansion of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Most recently, the studio was also selected to design: Adelaide Contemporary, a new gallery and public sculpture park in South Australia; the Centre for Music, which will be a permanent home for the London Symphony Orchestra; and a new collection and research centre for the V&A in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Recent projects include the 35-acre Zaryadye Park adjacent to the Kremlin in Moscow; the Museum of Image & Sound on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro; The Broad, a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley; the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University in New York; and The Juilliard School in Tianjin, China.
DS+R’s independent work includes the Blur Building, a pavilion made of fog on Lake Neuchâtel for the Swiss Expo; Exit, an immersive data-driven installation about human migration at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris; Charles James: Beyond Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Arbores Laetae, an animated micro-park for the Liverpool Biennial; Musings on a Glass Box at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris; and Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design at the Jewish Museum in New York. A major retrospective of DS+R’s work was mounted at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Most recently, the studio designed two site-specific installations at the 2018 Venice Biennale and the Costume Institute’s Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. DS+R also directed and produced The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o’clock, a free, choral performance featuring 1,000 singers atop the High Line, co-created with David Lang.
DS+R has authored several books: The High Line (Phaidon Press, 2015), Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account (Damiani, 2013), Flesh: Architectural Probes (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011), Blur: The Making of Nothing (Harry N. Abrams, 2002), and Back to the Front: Tourisms of War (Princeton Architectural Press, 1996).
DS+R has been distinguished with the first MacArthur Foundation fellowship awarded in the field of architecture, Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential" list, the Smithsonian Institution's 2005 National Design Award, the Medal of Honor and the President's Award from AIA New York, and Wall Street Journal Magazine's 2017 Architecture Innovator of the Year Award. Ricardo Scofidio and Elizabeth Diller are fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and are International Fellows at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Sharon Johnston, Mark Lee. Johnston Marklee
Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee are the founders of the architecture studio Johnston Marklee & Associates, based in Los Angeles. Since its establishment in 1998, Johnston Marklee has been recognized nationally and internationally with over 50 major awards. A book on the work of the firm, entitled HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE IS A HOUSE, was published by Birkhauser in 2016. Monographs include: 2G N. 67, El Croquis N. 198, and A+U N. 614.
Sharon is Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; has taught at Princeton University and the University of California, Los Angeles; and has held the Cullinan Chair at Rice University and the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto.
Mark has served as Chair of the Architecture Department at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) since 2018. He has taught at the GSD, the University of California, Los Angeles, the Technical University of Berlin, and ETH Zurich. He has held the Cullinan Chair at Rice University and the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto.
The firm’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Architecture Museum of TU Munich.
Sharon is Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; has taught at Princeton University and the University of California, Los Angeles; and has held the Cullinan Chair at Rice University and the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto.
Mark has served as Chair of the Architecture Department at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) since 2018. He has taught at the GSD, the University of California, Los Angeles, the Technical University of Berlin, and ETH Zurich. He has held the Cullinan Chair at Rice University and the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto.
The firm’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Architecture Museum of TU Munich.
MICHAEL MALTZAN ARCHITECTURE
Michael Maltzan Architecture. Founded in 1995, Michael Maltzan Architecture is an architecture and urban design Los Angeles-based practice. The practice’s work has been recognized with numerous accolades, including five Progressive Architecture awards, 31 citations from the American Institute of Architects, the Rudy Bruner Foundation’s Gold Medal for Urban Excellence, and was selected as a finalist for the Smithsonian/Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s National Design Award. This work has been featured in a number of international publications including Architecture, Architectural Record, Architectural Review, Artforum, A+U, Domus, Blueprint, GA Houses, Lotus, Los Angeles Times, Mark, Metropolis, and The New York Times.
Michael Maltzan received a Master of Architecture degree with a Letter of Distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and he holds both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design where he received the Henry Adams AIA Gold Medal. His designs have been published and exhibited internationally and he regularly teaches and lectures at architectural schools around the world. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award.
ARQUITECTOS NIETO SOBEJANO
Fuensanta Nieto (Madrid 1957) and Enrique Sobejano (Madrid 1957), are graduated architects by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) and Master of Science in Building Design por la Graduate School of Architecture and Planning (GSAPP), Columbia University, New York (USA). Are partners of the office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, with headquarters in Madrid and Berlín.
Enrique Sobejano is Design Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (Germany) and Fuensanta Nieto Fuensanta is an Design Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Both have been guest professors and lecturers at various universities and institutions within and outside Spain. From 1986 to 1991 was Director of ARQUITECTURA magazine, of Official College of Architects of Madrid.
Sobejano Nieto's work has been published in numerous magazines and books in Spanish and international, such as Casabella, METALOCUS, The Sketch, Architectural Review, Domus, Architectural Record, Detail, A + U, etc, and has been exhibited, among other places, Venice Biennale (2000, 2002, 2006) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York (2006). They have received the National Award for Restoration of the Ministry of Culture (2008), the Nike Prize BDA (Bund Deutscher Architekten) (2010) and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2010).
Among his recent works include Madinat al Zahra Museum (Córdoba), Moritzburg (Germany), Colegio de San Gregorio (Valladolid) and the Conference Centres of Mérida and Zaragoza.
NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS: http://www.nietosobejano.com
Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi. Weiss/Manfredi
Weiss/Manfredi is a New York-based architecture firm founded by architect Marion Weiss and architect Michael Manfredi.
Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism is at the forefront of architectural design practices that are redefining the relationships between landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art.
For them, the territory of architecture should deal with the totality of the built environment. We seek to broaden the definition of architecture and look for opportunities to consider, both in physical and disciplinary terms, a broader territory for expression.
The studio received the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Architecture Medal and the 2018 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Institution National Design Award, as well as the AIA New York Gold Medal and the Academy Award for Architecture from the Academy. American of Arts and Letters. Most recently, Weiss/Manfredi was selected through an international competition to reimagine the world famous La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles; and the Trinity Park Conservancy in Dallas selected the firm to serve as design architect to breathe new life into the former Jesse R. Dawson State Prison.
Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism is at the forefront of architectural design practices that are redefining the relationships between landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art.
For them, the territory of architecture should deal with the totality of the built environment. We seek to broaden the definition of architecture and look for opportunities to consider, both in physical and disciplinary terms, a broader territory for expression.
The studio received the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Architecture Medal and the 2018 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Institution National Design Award, as well as the AIA New York Gold Medal and the Academy Award for Architecture from the Academy. American of Arts and Letters. Most recently, Weiss/Manfredi was selected through an international competition to reimagine the world famous La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles; and the Trinity Park Conservancy in Dallas selected the firm to serve as design architect to breathe new life into the former Jesse R. Dawson State Prison.
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