FROM COW TOWN TO CUTTING EDGE:
ARCHITECTURE,
LANDSCAPE, AND CULTURE IN FORT WORTH
A STUDY TOUR
(FULL)
Friday through Sunday, October 15, 16, and 17
(Limited Enrollment)
Accompanied by architectural historian Stephen Fox, the Houston Seminar
will explore the Fort Worth area’s most notable public and private
spaces. We begin with a visit to the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas
by architect Renzo Piano. From there we travel to Fort Worth for architectural
visits to the three striking art museums designed by Philip Johnson,
Louis I. Kahn, and Tadao Ando, and a visit to the Fort Worth Botanic
Gardens, a New Deal–era landscape by Hare & Hare. We will
have access to a treasuretrove of houses designed by outstanding architects
of the twentieth century including Paul Rudolph, I.M. Pei, David Adler,
and John Staub. The tour will include visits to exceptional private
gardens and some of Fort Worth’s most distinctive neighborhoods.
For a more complete description of this trip, click
here.
Participants will need to sign the
Houston Seminar’s standard waiver of liability.
