Love Klyde Warren Park? Meet James Burnett, the landscape architect who reshaped Dallas

No designer has contributed to the transformation of Dallas in the past decade than James Burnett, the landscape architect whose office, the Office of James Burnett (OJB) is responsible for Klyde Warren Park and the Plano campus of Toyota North America. This work will be explored in a new monograph entitled Envisioning Landscapes: The Transformative Environments of OJB (Monacelli, $ 50) and will be the subject of a conversation between Burnett and Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster on October 12 at the Nasher Sculpture Center , be. The program is free to the public; With a donation of US $ 25 or more, attendees will receive a free copy of the book. The proceeds will be used to support the K-12 educational programs of the nonprofit Dallas Center for Architecture (ADEX).

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2001 Florastr., Dallas; October 12, 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., nashersculpturecenter.org

The landscape architect, whose office, the Office of James Burnett (OJB), is responsible for Klyde Warren Park and the Plano campus of Toyota North America, is featured in a new monograph, The landscape architect, whose office, the Office of James Burnett (OJB), is responsible for Klyde Warren Park and the Plano campus of Toyota North America, is featured in a new monograph, “Envisioning Landscapes: The Transformative Environments of OJB” ( Monacoli, $ 50)The facades of Toyota headquarters in Plano are clad in the same car glass that the company uses for windshields.Architecture critic Mark Lamster says new and remodeled towers bring welcome life and good design to the city center.Can Dallas finally bring it together and implement a sensible plan for the Dallas Arts District?The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center is a big, bombastic crowd puller designed by architect IM Pei.

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