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NYC x Design
May 10–21
Coinciding with ICFF and FRIEZE New York art fair, the new multidisciplinary event will feature the work local designers and architects in musuem exhibitions, conferences and more in the city's first-ever design festival.

Marin Living Home Tours
May 18, 2013
Tour stunning, architecturally significant homes in the Bay Area.

MICHIGAN MODERN: Design That Shaped America
June 13–16, 2013
The state's historic preservation office brings together a range of professionals for an in-depth look at Michigan's role in developing American Modernism.

Sugar Rush Los Angeles
June 14, 2013
An event benefitting Spark, a non-profit providing mentorship opportunities for students. The AIA|LA, a partner, will be honored.

AIA Convention 2013
June 20–22, 2013
Head to Denver for The American Institute of Architects annual convention. Speakers include Gen. Colin R. Powell.

Dwell on Design
June 21–23, 2013
America's largest Modern design event comes to the LA Convention Center for a weekend of exhibits, panels and more.

Monterey Design Conference
September 27–29, 2013
Kengo Kuma, Hon. FAIA, of Japan, Marcio Kogan, Hon. FAIA, of Brazil, and Odile Decq, of France, join an outstanding group of North American designers for one of the premier retreats for architects.

westedge
October 3–6, 2013
The inaugural design event, to be held at Santa Monica's Barker Hangar, will feature over 200 exhibitors along with expert panels and speakers.

AIAS Forum 2012
December 29, 2013
The annual meeting of the American Institute of Architecture Students and the global gathering of the architecture and design students.

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Friday, December 7, 2012 at 9:26AM

Morphosis-Designed Perot Museum Opens in Dallas

Image by Mark Knight via Life of an ArchitectThe Perot Museum of Nature and Science, the latest work of Los Angeles-based Morphosis (the firm of Pritzker prize winner Thom Mayne), opened to the public last weekend in Dallas, Texas. Described by the NY Times as “alluring but unsettling,” the building features a ten-story concrete cube punched out by a transparent diagonal cylinder displaying one of the building’s elevators. The theatricality of the building’s circulation elements multiplies throughout the building—producing an effect that NYT reviewer Edward Rothstein describes as typically post-modern: “the visitor is led through a cosmos that can itself be dizzying: miniature worlds of systems and interactions; invocations of things known and half known; sensations, simulations and reflections; accounts of dissolution and evolution.

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Morphosis-Designed Perot Museum Opens in Dallas