FRANK WELCH MEMORIAL LECTURE
FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL
STUDIO RICK JOY
23 January 2019
SECOND ANNUAL
FRANK WELCH MEMORIAL LECTURE
Wednesday, 7 pm
Reception and check-in from 6:15 – 6:55 pm
Horchow Auditorium, DMA
Rick Joy, FAIA is the founder of Rick Joy Architects (Studio Rick Joy).
An award-winning architecture, interiors, and planning firm based in Tucson, Arizona. Studio Rick Joy has been recognized for an exquisitely sensitive and thoughtful approach to site, observation, process, landscape, and building. The studio’s work encompasses intimate single-family homes and large-scale master plans, and includes residential commissions in Miami, New York City, San Francisco, Tucson, Costa Rica, and Turks and Caicos, as well as projects in Nayarit, Mexico City, and Austin. The studio brought new life to Princeton University with the recently completed Transit Hall and Market. Many of his projects are featured in his new monograph, Studio Joy Works.
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Joy has lectured around the world and has been honored by Civitas Sonoran, the Museum of Contemporary Art – Tucson, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, CRATerre, and the Ghost Lab Advisory Board. He is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture and also a National Design Award from the Smithsonian Institute/Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Joy is a fellow of the AIA and Royal Institute of British Architects. Studio Rick Joy’s work has been widely published, appearing in Cereal, Architectural Record, A+U, GA Houses, Architectural Digest, Travel + Leisure, and The New York Times. Joy has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Rice, MIT, and the University of Arizona. He founded Immersion Vermont Masterclass, a weeklong immersive program for mid-career architects, and co-founded CCL Concept Lighting Lab with Claudia Kappl.
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Rick Joy’s focus on simple and thoughtful design in careful harmony with the project site are true to the legacy of Frank Welch. We are pleased that Rick will give the second annual Frank Welch Memorial Lecture, The Forum’s ongoing tribute to honor Frank’s life and career.
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Donations to the Frank Welch Memorial Lecture Fund may be made HERE.
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The Rick Joy lecture will begin The Forum’s outstanding Spring Lecture Series. Please join us for all of these educational and inspiring events.
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