The Evolving Suburban Dream Housing Design in the Suburbs

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The Forum will present an illuminating Panel Discussion on housing design in the suburbs. North Texas has some of the fastest growing suburban areas in the country, with a wide range of housing types. Panelists Andre Brumfield and Patrick Craine, joined by moderator Brad Bell, will discuss challenges and opportunities that this development presents for producing good urban design. The Panel, to be presented virtually, is free and open to the public. Registration information will be available next week.

Brad BELL, Moderator
Director, School of Architecture – UTA CAPPA

Brad Bell is the Director of the School of Architecture at UTA CAPPA. He also directs the Digital Architecture Research Consortium at UT Arlington where he researches the integration of advanced digital technologies and innovative material applications into new building solutions. He has lectured, taught, and written on the uses of CAD/CAM technologies for the past fifteen years. From 2008-2015 he founded and co-directed TEX-FAB, an organization committed to providing a platform for education on digital fabrication and parametric modeling to the professional, academic and manufacturing communities in Texas. Professor Bell has been awarded the UT Arlington President’s medal for Teaching Excellence in 2015. In 2020 he was awarded the TxA Award for Outstanding Educational Contribution. Brad sits on the Board of the AIA Dallas, the AIA Ft. Worth, and The Dallas Architecture Forum, where he also Chairs the Lecture Programming Committee. Over the past 20 years, his design practice has built innovative residential houses in Texas, Colorado, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M and a Master of Architecture degree from the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.

Andre BRUMFIELD, Panelist
Principal and Design Director, Gensler

Andre Brumfield is a Principal and Design Director in Gensler’s Chicago office and serves as the firm’s Global Cities + Urban Design Leader, applying his 23 years of experience in revitalizing and repositioning urban environments to shape equitable, accessible communities. His extensive portfolio comprises city-wide master planning and high-density, urban infill to emerging urban district redevelopment, mixed income housing, and neighborhood and community revitalization. Andre’s visionary, yet realistic revitalization plans have been successfully implemented in economically challenged areas throughout the world. Andre is a member of the Chicago Plan Commission and on the Board of Trustees for Chicago Architecture Center.

Patrick CRAINE, Panelist
Founder and Director, Practice

Patrick is the founder and director of Practice, an Architectural Office. The office is a design-build firm that engages in creating socially informed and culturally relevant architectures that take advantage of the built environment’s ability to enable, empower and make resilient the diverse agendas of the publics it interacts with. Its design methodology is always informed out of preexisting intelligences found in daily encounters with people, physical spaces, technologies, practices, societies, online realities, infrastructures, institutions and policies. Patrick has taught Graduate Design Studio at both Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and at the University of Texas at Arlington. He holds two master’s degrees in architecture, the first from the University of Texas at Arlington and the second from Columbia University, GSAPP. He has experience in both design and construction and has been in the business of buildings since 2008. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his work including the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize for Design Excellence and designed the winning project for the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program in partnership with Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation.

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