As Dallas Architecture Forum celebrates its 25th anniversary, the non-profit will present architect Ray Calabro, Principal and Seattle Managing Partner of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in their annual Bob James Memorial Lecture.

Calabro FAIA, Principal and Seattle Managing Partner of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, brings a depth of experience in leading teams in a collaborative design process that achieves extraordinary, award-winning projects. These include civic and cultural, corporate headquarters, academic, retail, and private residences across the United States and Canada. Ray is also a curatorial leader at BCJ and has been instrumental in the creation of its celebrated monographs, including its most recent publication Gathering. Ray frequently speaks at national and international design conferences, and as a design critic at schools of architecture. Some of Ray’s projects of note include Kicking Horse Residence, Jackson Residence, Nu Skin Innovation Center, Boundary Point Cabin, and Grand Teton Visitor Center.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is a practice of six studios across the country designing places that translate their clients’ aspirations into built environments greater than the sum of their parts. BCJ brings a holistic approach to architecture, interior design, planning, and adaptive re-use. Their sustainable, site-specific designs have received an extraordinary record of design achievement – 10 National Honor and COTE Awards from the AIA, and over 750 awards in total recognizing the firm’s work. The firm has also been awarded the prestigious AIA National Architecture Firm of the Year Award.