Dallas Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization for everyone interested in learning about and improving the architecture, design, landscape and urban fabric of the North Texas region is pleased to continue its 2015-16 Lecture Season with esteemed architect Deborah Berke, FAIA, and founding partner of Deborah Berke Partners, a New York City-based architecture and design firm that has completed projects around the world.
The firm specializes in cosmopolitan art-filled hotels for 21c Museum Hotels, buildings related to the arts, residential developments and private homes. The 21c properties consistently rate as top reader favorites on the Conde Nast Traveler list. Berke has achieved fame for her book, The Architecture of Everyday, which she co-edited with Stephen Harris; her firm has been published in every major design publication including, Architectural Digest, Dwell, The New York Times, Architectural Record, Interior Design Best of Hospitality, Departures, Wallpaper, and Monocle; it is the subject of the book Deborah Berke, by Yale University Press – the first book about a contemporary American architect to be published by this esteemed academic press, and the firm has been inducted into the Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame and is a member of the Architectural Digest 100. A new book on the studio’s work will be published by Rizzoli in 2016. In July 2016 Berke will become the first female Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University where she has been an Adjunct Professor since 1987.
