UTSA CACP Speaker Series features award-winning architect Oct. 15
David Dowell
David Dowell
Share this Story(Oct. 10, 2014) -- The UTSA College of Architecture, Construction and Planning (CACP) will host a lecture by award-winning architect David Dowell, principal architect with Kansas City firm el dorado inc, at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 15 in the Buena Vista Street Building Aula Canaria (1.328) on the UTSA Downtown Campus.
Dowell's lecture, "Kansas, Missouri: Notes on Architectural Place-taking from the Navel of North America," is presented free and open to the public as part of the CACP Speaker Series.
Dowell will discuss the idea that architects are products of the locations where they practice, using case studies from el dorado's extensive portfolio of buildings, crafted objects and landscapes to demonstrate his ideas. Dowell believes it's inevitable that the work of architects would reflect the places they choose to live.
El dorado's nearly 20-year history can be characterized as an exercise in "place-taking as much as placemaking," according to Dowell. He believes that location is something that architects must consciously embrace -- unique histories, topography, weather, building traditions and culture are all critical factors that help locate work in a specific place.
El dorado's site-specific architectural designs have garnered regional and national acclaim and were instrumental in transforming areas such as the vibrant Crossroads district in Kansas City, Mo., where the firm is located. El dorado's in-house steel workshop has been a fixture in their architectural office since 1996, further reinforcing the relationship between material expression and design conceptualization.
Dowell joined el dorado in 1998. Previously, he spent two years at the architectural firm BNIM and three years in Europe traveling, teaching and working on a range of public building competitions. His primary focus at el dorado has been on public space, adaptive re-use and community-building projects.
Dowell projects have won local, regional and national design awards and have been published widely. In 2008, he received an Award for Alumni Distinction from Washington University in St. Louis; that same year el dorado was named an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York and Firm of the Year by AIA Kansas City. While completing a master's of architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, Dowell also was the recipient of the John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship and the Arnold A. Arbeit Memorial/Paris Prize.
Dowell is a licensed architect in Kansas, Missouri, Louisiana and Arkansas.
The UTSA College of Architecture, Construction and Planning Speaker Series brings design professionals from around the world to UTSA to share their expertise on a variety of topics with the local community. Free parking is available in UTSA parking lot D-3 under Interstate 35.
UTSA College of Architecture, Construction and Planning Speaker Series
Nov. 5 -- Derek Dellekamp of Dellekamp Arquitectos, Mexico City
Feb. 4 -- Michael Gabellini of Gabellini Sheppard Associates, New York City
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