Facades+ Dallas participants can register for a full day of dialog workshops.
Dialog, whether between teacher and student, master and apprentice, or a group of peers, has been an essential element of architectural practice throughout history. At next week’s Facades+ Dallas conference the tradition continues, with a series of dialog workshops following day 1’s symposium. Facade geeks from around the world will gather at the premier conference’s Dallas debut to chew over both abstract and concrete challenges, from designing envelopes for resilience to dealing with the problem of glare.
The workshops will feature real-life examples. Here, Woods Bagot’s SAHMRI, with Atelier Ten. (Michael Coghlan / Flickr)
Attendees can create their own dialog workshop experience by selecting from one morning workshop and one afternoon workshop. All three afternoon workshops include a field trip to one of Dallas’ many architectural destinations. The morning offerings include “Next Gen Passive: Exploring the Links between Passive Strategies, Smart Design, Sustainability, and Resiliency,” coordinated by Atelier Ten‘s Emilie Hagen. Panelists Z Smith (Eskew+Dumez+Ripple) and Ryan Jones (Lake|Flato) will join Hagen to discuss contemporary developments in passive design and question the conflation of sustainability with the elimination of resilience, with reference to specific examples from the three firms’ work.
The field trip-oriented afternoon workshops include “Digital Design and Fabrication and the Shifting Paradigm of Architectural Research,” with Brad Bell of TEX-FAB and HKS LINE‘s Heath May. Participants will tour UT Arlington‘s fabrication lab facilities, hear from Bell and May about their work combining academic research and studio practice, and talk to SMU student James Warton about his doctoral research on metallic alloys.
Do not miss this opportunity to rub shoulders with the movers and shakers of the AEC industry: register for Facades+ Dallas today, and reserve your spot in two dialog or tech workshops before they sell out. Besides the hands-on, immersive workshops, the conference offers two full days of exciting keynotes, roundtable discussions, exposure to cutting-edge technology, and networking galore. Learn more at the Facades+ Dallas website.
Field trip destinations include the Nasher Sculpture Center. (Leonel Ponce / Flickr)
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