Curious about what’s next in park development in downtown Dallas? Join The Dallas Architecture Forum on Tuesday, Feb. 11, for a special lecture with acclaimed landscape architect Mary Margaret Jones.
Jones, whose firm Hargreaves and Jones created the Downtown Dallas Master Plan and Belo Gardens, brings an inside look at the firm’s work on the redesign and expansion of Carpenter Park. Jones’ talk will highlight the creation of this new park that will connect Downtown with East Dallas for the first time in decades. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in the Horchow Auditorium of the Dallas Museum of Art. Tickets cost $20 per lecture for general admission and $5 for students.
Jones serves as President and Senior Principal of Hargreaves Jones, a landscape architecture and planning firm in New York City. Hargreaves Jones has won over 100 national and international awards, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and the Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize.
Catch Up On Carpenter Park
“Mary Margaret Jones has impressive project experience that is international in scope and spans every scale from small plazas and gardens to massive iconic projects such as the Parklands for the 2012 London Olympics and Zaryadye Park in Moscow,” said Forum Executive Director Nate Eudaly. “This will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about the impressive scope of Hargreaves Jones’ projects, including the studio’s creation of Belo Gardens and the Downtown Parks Master Plan, and their current work for Parks for Downtown Dallas on the redesign and expansion of Carpenter Park. We believe Ms. Jones and her studio’s work are impactful both around the world and here in Dallas, and we encourage attendance for her important presentation.”
Mary Margaret Jones
Jones brings an impressive resume to the lecture. Co-author of “Landscape and Gardens,” she led many of the firm’s award-winning projects around the globe, and oversees the three offices in San Francisco, CA; Cambridge, MA; and Hargreaves Jones in New York, NY. She served on numerous juries, lectures widely, and actively participates in the public forum of design and development issues.
Jones was the 1998 Prince Charitable Trust Fellow in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome and is Chair Emerita of the Board of Trustees. She served as Visiting Critic in Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Among many positions and honors, Jones was a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council, past member of the National Advisory Council for the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, past member of the Industry Advisory Group for the U.S. State Department and Peer Professional for the General Services Administration, and Fellow of the Urban Design Forum in New York. She holds degrees from UT Austin and Texas A&M University.
If You Go
The lecture begins at 7 p.m., with a reception and check-in at 6:15 p.m. No reservations are needed to attend. Dallas Architecture Forum members receive free admission as a benefit of membership. And AIA members earn one hour of CE credit for each lecture. For more information on The Dallas Architecture Forum visit their website or call 214-764-2406.
