La Reunion TX, a not for profit artist residency, launched a call for entries for ‘Make Space for Art’ on Monday, September 17, 2007. Thus far, La Reunion TX has entires from Egypt, Sweden, Hong Kong, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, The Slovak Republic, Finland, UK, among others.
The purpose of ‘Make Space for Art’ is to generate ideas for a future artist studio and short-term housing space in Oak Cliff. The registration deadline for ‘Make Space for Art’ is December 17, 2007 and entries will be due January 31, 2008. Architects, students, and artists are welcome to register and submit entries.
Jury Facilitator for ‘Make Space for Art’ is Mark Gunderson, AIA of Fort Worth. Other jurors include: Rick Brettell of UTD, Rick Lowe of Project Row House in Houston, Louise Harpman of UT-Austin, and Max Levy, FAIA of Dallas. These jurors will honor the most creative entries with cash prizes and a chance to be a part of a 2008 touring exhibition in North Texas. Details of the tour will be announced later.
Facilitator: Mark Gunderson, AIA – Gunderson is a practicing architect in Fort Worth, Texas and is past president of the Dallas Architecture 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.
Richard Brettell, PhD. – 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 – 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 – Fort Worth native Max Levy is a Dallas-based principal, 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 fromD 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 – 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 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.
