Dallas Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public education about architecture, design and the urban environment, will present landscape architect Laurie Olin, FASLA, and Co-Founder of OLIN.

Olin is an internationally preeminent landscape architect. In addition to founding the firm OLIN, he is the practice professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught for 30 years, and former chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University.

Olin served as the landscape architect for the Barnes Foundations new center in Philadelphia. He co-authored the book OLIN: Placemaking, featuring landscape architecture, urban design and planning projects. His redesign of the Washington Monument grounds received the 2008 Design Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects. OLIN received a Landscape Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.