Dear Latinos in Architecture,LiA Dallas will host the next planning meeting at ...
Date: Wednesday March 18th.
Time: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Address: 1717 Pacific Ave, Dallas 75201
Events to plan will be From the Architect's Bookshelf book
drive and Enlaces exhibition.
facebook event
Date: Wednesday March 18th.
Time: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Address: 1717 Pacific Ave, Dallas 75201
facebook event
Save the Date!
We are very excited to invite you to our annual ENLACES Exhibition Opening reception. This is a great time to celebrate Latino Architects and Designers in the area.
DCFA | September 25, 2014 | 6-8PM
I hope you will be able to come have a good time with old friends and celebrate a few individuals that have done noteworthy work around Dallas.
Best,
Gloria Espino | David Munoz 
Latinos
in Architecture deliver architectural inspiration to high school youth…
Latinos in architecture had the opportunity to deliver
donated books to one of our local high schools. Thanks to everyone that donated
books.
Last week, I had the opportunity to be a part of an event
that marks what Latinos in Architecture stands for. This event, From The Architects Bookshelf, promotes
higher education in the field of construction, design and art. It is in LiA’s
core values to promote the need for a higher education, and the importance of
sharing with our community. During each of the volunteers’ introduction we were
able to share where we were from, where we obtained our education, our career
path and a recommendation that we thought would help them. Al Hernandez shared his
passion for architecture, and also explained the roles that architects have as
managers of the different disciplines like engineers, contractors, owners and
users.
The school is always carefully selected keeping in mind
that they have an architecture/design program in their curriculum, and then the
instructor gathers a group of student. We delivered the books to Pinkston High
School in west Dallas. The majority of the students that attend this high school
are minorities.
Below is the group of volunteers (from left to right):
Karina Ramirez
Al Hernandez
Gloria Espino
David Munoz
Salud Sierra
Daniel Navarro Rangel
It was really rewarding to see the faces of exiting
student opening books and understanding what architects do as designers. Thanks
to our co-chair David Munoz and Gloria Espino for organizing the event.
MEETING
LiA Committee Meeting
DCFA
March 19, 2014
Our 2 committee meeting is coming up next Wednesday, everyone is invited to join us. We would like to hear from you, and how you can make a positive impact with your participation on our upcoming events.
Check your emails next week, a formal agenda will be distributed.
I hope to see a lot of you in there.
David
LiA Committee Meeting
DCFA
March 19, 2014
Our 2 committee meeting is coming up next Wednesday, everyone is invited to join us. We would like to hear from you, and how you can make a positive impact with your participation on our upcoming events.
Check your emails next week, a formal agenda will be distributed.
I hope to see a lot of you in there.
David
Social Responsibility Opportunity
Independence
Elementary School
Annual Career Day
May 9, 2014
Need: Hispanic
professionals to talk to the kids to inspire them to
purse a professional degree.
School fact: School's population is about 70%
Hispanic.
Program: Morning session 8:15-10:30 a.m.Afternoon session: 12:45-2:30 p.m.
15-30 minutes conversation with the kids | 4 - 6
classrooms.
Contact: Susan Budilovsky-Robson |214.727.5168
Website: http://independence.lisd.net/
After the event: If
you want to make public you participation and
contribution on the LiA social media,
send us a
synopsis and pictures.
THANK YOU
Don’t miss the opportunity to meet one of PRODUCTORA’s principal hosted by Dallas Architecture Forum.
Carlos Bedoya will be at The Magnolia Theatre, West Village on February 20, 2014 at 7:00 pm. This is a great opportunity for all of our members to see how diversity has helped the success of this firm.
The Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to offer a special admission rate for LIA members who are not Forum members-- $10 instead of the normal rate of $20. All you need to do is identify yourself as a LIA member during check-in the evening of the lecture (reception/check in from 6:15 pm to start of lecture) and then pay by cash or check to “Dallas Architecture Forum.”
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Carlos Bedoya Ikeda, a native of Mexico City, studied Architecture and Urbanism at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and received his Masters in Architecture from the ETSAB in Barcelona. After practicing in the office of TEN Arquitectos and serving as a project manager at LCM, he and three other partners from Mexico, Argentina and Belgium founded the architectural firm PRODUCTORA in Mexico City. The name PRODUCTORA emerges from the conviction that the design process advances through a continuous production of material to be evaluated. The work of PRODUCTORA is characterized for a precise attention to geometry, a profound aesthetic ambition and a concern with timelessness in its materialization and programmatic solutions. The studio has produced a variety of residential, public, and corporate projects in Mexico and abroad, including Asia and South America. The firm’s work has been published and awarded nationally and internationally. The firm was recently honored as an international Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York City. In 2011 Productora founded LIGA, space for architecture and exhibitions in Mexico City to promote the exchange of ideas and investigations in contemporary Latin-American architecture.
PRODUCTORA currently is working on a variety of projects, both in Mexico and in other countries, ranging from single family dwellings to office or public buildings. The office has taught and lectured at national and international events. They presented their work at the 2nd architectural Biennale in Beijing and at the Venice Biennale in 2008. PRODUCTORA was one of the architecture studios chosen to build a villa for the Ordos100 Project in Inner Mongolia. They won the International Competition for the CAF Headquarters in Caracas (Venezuela) in collaboration with Lucio Muniain, and have been exhibited at the National Museum of Art in Beijing and at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Bedoya serves on the editorial board of Domus Mexico and has developed an important teaching career, and he currently is a professor at TEC in Monterrey and Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
In its fourth year celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month, the AIA Dallas Latinos in Architecture Committee presents: ENLACES, an exhibition celebrating Latinos in the design-related professions.
Included in the exhibition are: Margine Biswas, AIA (Archiphy); Silvino Castillo (Perkins+Will); Anita Delgado, Associate AIA (Corgan Associates); Al Hernandez, AIA (SHW Group); Julian Lizarazu, Associate AIA; Adriana Mesquita Pacheco (RTKL Associates); Adriana Meyer, AIA (APM Architecture); David Muñoz (Perkins+Will); Javier Rosero (SHW Group); Dulce Torres, International Associate AIA (HKS Inc.); Hector Zumalacarregui (RTKL Associates);
Registration Costs:
Payment in Advance
$10 Members
$15 Non Members
Payment at the Door
$15 Members
$20 Non Members
Thanks to our sponsors!!!:
FMG- Furniture Marketing Group
Good Fulton & Farrell
HKS Inc.
Milby Attorneys & Counselors
Northwestern Mutual
Perkins+Will
RTKL Associates
Rene Barbier
TO REGISTER GO TO:
http://www.aiadallas.org/cde.cfm?event=416158
The West Dallas Community Center is an 80 year old
non-profit organization who is looking to re-invent itself, expand the programs
offer and become a greater resource to the community. The center would like to maximize the use of
their Bataan site to better serve the community. A volunteer effort is taking place as part of
AIA Dallas Latinos in Architecture community outreach projects that involves
developing the center’s visioning, rebranding and updating the centers web
site, setting master plan goals, and developing a site master plan for WDCC
development.
The mission of the WDCC is Helping Youth Excel! They help youth of West Dallas develop
dignity, self-respect and meet life’s encounters with a positive attitude and
manner. They also communicate to the youth that they can make an impact in
their community and with their lives. They train youth to practice acceptable
and new social skills, increased self-worth that will enable them to become
productive citizens of society.
The West Dallas Community Center is located off of Bataan
Street two blocks south of the Margaret Hunt Bridge with a spectacular view of
downtown Dallas. Its location at the
heart of the community makes it an ideal location for the services that it
offers and its goal of reaching out to serve other members of its community.
A site study and schematic site plan has been created by LiA
to assist WDCC as they work with the City of Dallas in the rezoning of the
property to continue to allow for the services currently rendered and as a
guide map to show the future services that can be offered.
The WDCC logo and branding continues to develop. The
goal for this holistic branding effort is to incorporate the web site
development with the new logo design.
The logo is to visually unite the corporation’s goal of reaching to a
greater community demographic, incorporate the Institution's color, and show a
regional connection.
For opportunities and involvement with this program and/or
other LiA programs or to find out more information about Latinos in
Architecture please send an email to liacommittee@gmail.com.
