Dialogues in Space featuring Wendell Burnette, FAIA      

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Architect, educator, author and lecturer Wendell Burnette, FAIA, will discuss his thoughts about the current state of practice and how his office, Wendell Burnette Architects, navigates the boundaries between practice and the connections to space, light, context, the environment, and community.

https://wendellburnettearchitects.com

Participants will engage in, and learn to:

Recognize the value of an existing place, as a vehicle in the formation of architectural ideas that promote genuine Community and healthy environments.

Define an approach to site-specific design - the ability of the design team to carefully consider the context of the site from many different scales, and respond to the unique circumstances of climate, views and open space.

Use construction practices to leverage the intrinsic properties of materials as both a spatial and construction system, with a focus on minimizing embodied energy and providing long-term sustainability.

Incorporate a demonstrated use of passive and active environmental systems as an active part of a building's construction and use.

Dialogue House, Phoenix, Arizona

Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Wendell Burnette, FAIA is a self-taught architect with an internationally-recognized body of work. For over twenty-seven years, his eponymous studio is concerned with space, light, context and community. He is a native of Nashville, who discovered the southwest desert as an apprentice at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West. His eleven-year association with the studio of Will Bruder culminated in a six-year design collaboration on the Phoenix Central Library. Wendell was a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University for over 15 years, and continues to teach and lecture widely in the United States and abroad.

Wendell Burnette Architects’ projects include residences located locally and nationally, the Palo Verde Library / Maryvale Community Center and the highly acclaimed Amangiri Resort in southern Utah, as well as current work in the Southwest and multiple locations worldwide. In 2009, Wendell received the Academy Award in Architecture from The American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, recognizing an American Architect whose work is characterized by a strong personal direction. This award was accompanied by an exhibition at the Academy that same year. In 2016, he released his first full-length monograph Dialogues in Space, published worldwide with Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers.

Wendell’s design philosophy is grounded in listening and distilling the essence of a project to create highly specific architecture that is at once functional and poetic.

Amangiri, Canyon Point, Utah

 

Cost:

AIA, Assoc., Allied, NOMA Members: Free

Attendees of 2022 Design Awards: Free

Students: Free

Non-Members: $10.00

Zoom info will be sent before event.

 

Desert Courtyard House, Scottsdale, Arizona