2024 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS and 2024 DWELL ANDERSEN BRIGHT IDEAS AWARD WINNER
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies has awarded a 2024 American Architecture Award to LA DALLMAN’s Pavilion House. The project has also won the Dwell Anderson Bright Ideas Award for excellence in fenestration and daylighting.
GRACE LA, Chair of the Harvard GSD’s Department of Architecture introduces…
seven architectural luminaries throughout the 2024-25 academic year: Shigeru Ban, Lina Ghotmeh, Michele de Lucchi, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Marlon Blackwell, Mario Carpo, and Petra Blaisse.
PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE AWARD
The transformation of the historic Teweles and Brandeis Grain Elevator has won a 2021 Progressive Architecture Award – one of six projects selected from an international pool of 122 submissions. Begun in 1954 and widely recognized as the most prestigious architectural awards program, the annual Progressive Architecture Award recognizes design innovation, excellence, and originality in the field of commissioned, unbuilt architecture. Winners are selected through blind peer review. Architect, the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, hosts the awards program; LA DALLMAN’s grain elevator is featured on the cover of its March 2021 issue announcing the awards. The design is commissioned by the Sturgeon Bay Historical Society Foundation.
2024
11.11 The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies awards the Pavilion House with a 2024 American Architecture Award, “the nation’s highest and most prestigious distinguished building awards program that honor new and cutting-edge design in the United States.”
10.07 LA DALLMAN’s Pavilion House, honored with the Dwell 2024 Andersen Bright Ideas Award.
09.20 The Door County Granary celebrated her soft opening, concluding the second of a three phase transformation. The event was featured on WUWM89.7 radio.
08.25 LA DALLMAN featured in group Exhibition, “Architecture as an Instruction-Based Art,” Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
05.31 Grace La, lecturer and juror, ETH-Zurich - ETSAM Madrid, Master in Collective Housing.
03.28 Grace La introduces Mario Carpo “Generative AI, Imitation, Style, and the Eternal Return of Precedent,” John Hejduk Soundings Lecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
03.19 Grace La introduces Petra Blaisse, “Art Applied: Inside Outside” in conversation with Grace La, Niels Olsen, and Fredi Fischli” Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
02.21 Metropolis features “Grace La on Eileen Gray’s E-1027 Table.”
02.08 Grace La introduces Marlon Blackwell “Radical Practice.” Harvard Graduate School of Design.
02.03 Grace La, Eeva Liisa Pelkonen, “Perspectives on Art, Design, and Architecture,” Yale Women’s Leadership Initiative, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
02.28 James Dallman, Grace La, “LA DALLMAN: Selected Work.” Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning, & Design.
2023
11.30 Grace La, Juror, with Sung Hong Kim, Seongjin Min, Son Jean, Fernando Menis, John Hong (alternate), “Seoripul Open Storage Museum Competition” Seoul, Korea. Winning Entry: Herzog & De Meuron.
11.28 Grace La, “LA DALLMAN: Selected Work.” Seoul National University.
11.27 Grace La, “LA DALLMAN: on the Middle Front,” Hanyang University ERICA, Seoul, Korea.
11.16 Grace La, Carsen Chan, Antoine Picon, panelists, “Our Artificial Nature: Perspectives on Design for an Era of Environmental Change” Harvard GSD.
11.09 Grace La introduces Pier Vittorio Aureli, “The Longhouse,” Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
11.06 Grace La introduces Lina Ghotmeh “Living in Symbiosis - an Archeology of the Future,” Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
10.26 Grace La, James Dallman, “LA DALLMAN: Selected Work.” Tongji University College of Architecture & Urban Planning.
09.28 Grace La introduces Michele de Lucchi “Earth Stations,” Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
09.19 Grace La introduces Shigeru Ban “Balancing Architectural Works and Social Contributions,” Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
08.03 AIA Wisconsin honors LA DALLMAN’s Schwanke Kasten Private Showroom with AIA WI Merit Award.
05.05 Grace La, Juror, Yale School of Architecture, Studio of Beijing architect, Zhu Pei and New York architect, Karolina Czeczek.
05.02 Grace La, Juror, Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design Super Jury, University of Arkansas.
03.09 Grace La, Juror, “Do It Anyway,” Harvard GSD Option Studio of Hiroto Kobayashi.
03.08 Grace La, appointed Chair, Department of Architecture, Harvard GSD, effective July 1, 2023. La is the second woman to be named Chair, and in 2013 became the first Korean American to be tenured at the GSD.
03.03 Busquets, J. Becherand, P. Perrault, D. La, G. Witte, R., panelists. “New Stations as Urban Projects,” Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design, Harvard GSD.
2022
12.08 Grace La, Juror, Columbia University GSAPP, Housing Studio of Hillary Sample.
11.03 Grace La, James Dallman, Angelo Lunati, Giancarlo Floridi, “Five on Five No. 24,” Harvard GSD Loeb Library, 12:30pm-2pm.
10.08 BSA Interior Design Merit Award for LA DALLMAN’s Schwanke Kasten Private Showroom.
09.29 Kersten Geers, Cory Henry, Grace La, Mark Lee, Jelena Pancevac, David Van Severen, Sarah Whiting, “A Conversation: American Architecture (Model), Kenzo Tange Pavilion,” Harvard GSD Panel Discussion.
09.16 Grace La & Erika Naginski, Eco Folly Exhibition Opening Reception, Loeb Library, Harvard GSD. Exhibition featuring the GSD studio and seminar work, Eco Folly, generously sponsored by the Center for Green Buildings and Cities, Harvard University. Sept 2, 2022- October 14, 2022.
09.02 Talking Practice Podcast, Grace La interviews Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects.
05.19 Grace La, “Temporality” Festschrift honoring Professor David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania.
01.22 Grace La & James Dallman appointed Graduate Commons Faculty Directors.. The appointment represents the first faculty directors from the Harvard GSD.
2021
11.01 Grace La lecture, “Resilience & Repair,” Korea Pavilion, Future School, 2021 Venice Biennale: How do we live together?
10.08 BSA Unibuilt Award for LA DALLMAN’s Door County Granary.
09.17 LA DALLMAN’s Pavilion House, awarded AIA WI Honorable Mention, juried by Vivian Lee, Shannon Gathings, and Aaron Thornton.
08.04 James Dallman and Grace La, ”Re-Openings: Kripper Studio and LA DALLMAN,” moderated by Jeffry Burchard, Boston Society of Architects, 7:00pm-8:00pm EST.
06.22 ”Architecture + Podcasts,” Irish Architecture Foundation. Grace La, Emmett Scanlon, and Matthew Blunderfield, panelists, hosted by Blaithin Quinn.
04.09 ”Field Notes on Practice & Pedagogy,” 9 April 2021, 4pm-5:30pm EST, Reflections on how practice informs teaching, roundtable with Dan D’Oca (Interboro Partners), Jenny French (French 2D), Gary Hilderbrand (Reed Hilderbrand), Eric Howeler (Höweler + Yoon), Jungyoon Kim (ParkKim) and Beth Whittaker (Merge Architects), moderated by Grace La (LA DALLMAN).
03.24 Door County Advocate publishes LA DALLMAN granary project on the front page. Article written by Christopher Clough.
03.12 LA DALLMAN awarded a Progressive Architecture Award and featured on the cover of Architect magazine, March 2021.
01.22 Grace La launches BRIDGE WYA, an option studio at the Harvard GSD, Spring 2021.
01.05 LA DALLMAN selected by the Walton Family Foundation as one of twenty two firms nationwide to join the Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program.
2020
12.17 Grace La, Juror, Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, Helsinki Finland Timber Studio of Jeremy Ficca.
12.04 Grace La, Juror, Princeton University School of Architecture, Advanced Studio: HOMESTUDIO, Marshall Brown.
11.09 “Architecture and Leadership,” Allison Williams in conversation with Grace La.
10.31 “Crisis & Inequity,” GSD’s Practice Forum, chaired by Grace La, presents the inaugural Practice Plenary, convening architecture practice courses, and featuring Oji Alexander, Steve Dumez, Toni Griffin, and Carol Reese, 9:00am-12pm EST via zoom.
06.23 “The Campus Post-Covid,” Harvard Club of NY Arch + Design Roundtable, Grace La, panelist, 4:30-5:30 EST.
06.18 James Dallman, Grace La, Keynote speakers- AIA Cincinnati Vision, 12:00pm EST via zoom (Registration required, AIA Cincinnati).
06.18 Talking Practice, the podcast hosted by Grace La, reaches over 50,000 downloads.
05.02 Grace La, Moderator, “Practice in an Uncertain World,” Harvard GSD Practice Forum Roundtable. Invited Speakers: Jeffry Burchard, Scott Cohen, Elizabeth Christoforetti, Jeanne Gang, Eric Howeler, Rahul Mehrotra, Toshiko Mori, Paul Nakazawa, Lyndon Neri, Jacob Reidel, Mack Scogin. RA: John Wang.
03.02 Harvard Graduate Commons Program Fireside Chat with Grace La, interviewed by Guhan Subramanian, Harvard Professor of Law and Business.
02.07 Grace La, presenting at the University of Texas at Austin, “Moving Towards Gender Equity in Architecture”
01.15 Talking Practice Podcast, Grace La interviews Kersten Geers of OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen.
AIA WISCONSIN
HONOR AWARD
The 2019 American Institute of Architects Wisconsin Honor Award recognizes LA DALLMAN, the practice of Professor Grace La and James Dallman for their project, the Levatich House, also known as the Flat Top House. The project is one of three projects to receive an Honor Award for overall architectural design excellence, and the only single family home to be so recognized. LA DALLMAN is noted for works of diverse scale that expand the architect's agency in the civic recalibration of infrastructure, public space and challenging sites.
DRAWING ATTENTION:
The Digital Culture of Contemporary Architectural Drawings
17 September 2019 – 11 January 2020
7 November 2019, 18:30 Roundtable Event
(View the Roca Gallery Guide here and the Video here)
Grace La (LA DALLMAN, Harvard GSD) co-curates with Jeremy Ficca (Carnegie Mellon), and Amy Kulper (RISD), a diverse collection of more than seventy-five contemporary drawings from established and emerging practitioners around the globe. This work is stimulated by a wide range of inputs: from waste, to olfactory clouds; from political borders to airflow; from geometry to speculative forensics. The exhibition is on view from throughout the fall, with a public event hosted by the curators and invited panelists on November 7, 2019, 18:30-21:00. The opening coincides with this year’s London Design Festival and was reviewed by the Royal Institute of British Architects. (Left: CJ Lim, “Ocean Cleaning”).
The curators say “at the crossroads of architecture and information environments, resides the promise and the speculative future of the drawing. Its capacity to structure, imagine, realize, speculate, transform, politicize, and activate makes the drawing an enduring vehicle for the discipline. DRAWING ATTENTION poses the question: can drawings posit possible futures that eschew vaporization and establish architecture as an agile and critical agent in contemporary digital culture?”
2019
12.11 Grace La, Juror, GSD Final Reviews Option Studio of Hillary Sample of MOS.
11.07 Grace La, Jeremy Ficca, Amy Kulper, Moderators. “DRAWING ATTENTION: unplugged,” a roundtable conversation with CJ Lim and Helen Thomas. Presentations by Johanna Just, Jessica In, and Maj Plemenitas. Roca London Gallery, 6:30pm.
10.15 Grace La interviews Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu. “Talking Practice” GSD Practice Platform podcast.
09.17 Grace La, Jeremy Ficca, Amy Kulper, Curators. “DRAWING ATTENTION: the digital culture of contemporary architectural drawings,” Roca Gallery London Exhibition 9.17.19- 1.11.20, featuring international collection of contemporary drawings by established and emerging architects.
07.18 Dancers at LA DALLMAN-designed Marsupial Bridge! Milwaukee Ballet performs, “Ballet Beat” live at the Peck Pavilion, Marcus Center.
07.09 Grace La interviews Preston Scott Cohen. “Talking Practice” GSD Practice Platform podcast.
05.24 Grace La, juror, Rhode Island School of Design Thesis program, Providence, Rhode Island.
05.23 Talking Practice podcast, hosted by Grace La, is named “Top 14 Design Podcasts” by Dezeen.
04.12 Grace La and Eric Howeler host “First Projects,” GSD Practice Platform, Piper Auditorium, 5pm, featuring Scott Cohen, Gary Hilderbrand, Eric Howeler, Grace La, Mack Scogin, Georgeen Theodore.
03.28 Grace La, Jeremy Ficca, Amy Kulper, Co-Chairs. “Black Box: Articulating Architecture’s Core in the Post-Digital Era,” 107th Annual ACSA National Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
03.28 Grace La, Jeremy Ficca, Amy Kulper, Curators. “Drawing for the Design Imaginary,” ACSA Exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
01.24 James Dallman and Grace La, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, LA DALLMAN Option Studio launches, The Anamorphic Double: A Bridge for DC.
TALKING PRACTICE
From the world's premier design school, the Practice Platform at Harvard University Graduate School of Design presents Talking Practice, the first podcast series to feature in-depth interviews with leading designers on the ways in which architects, landscape architects, designers, and planners articulate design imagination through practice.
Hosted by Grace La, Professor of Architecture and Chair of Practice Platform, these dynamic conversations provide a rare glimpse into the work, experiences, and attitudes of design practitioners from around the world. Comprehensive, thought-provoking, and timely, Talking Practice tells the story of what designers do, why, and how they do it—exploring the key issues at stake in practice today.
You can listen to all available episodes via: iTunes, Android, Google, Stitcher, Spotify.
MOVING TOWARDS GENDER EQUITY IN ARCHITECTURE
The gender chasm in architecture persists. Students see it in their mentors, practitioners experience it in the office, and media representation of the profession follows in kind. While schools of architecture are more and more demographically gender-balanced in their student populations, faculty and the practice both remain vastly skewed, indicating that programming in schools may be leading genders into the profession inequitably or “losing” certain populations along the way, or that the bridge between academia and practice is broken. This doesn’t even include the experience of people of non-binary genders in architecture, of which documentation is almost non-existent. Without equal representation of all genders in the profession, it is virtually impossible that the practice of architecture as a whole is serving its clients and communities equitably. It takes a multitude of perspectives to serve diverse communities thoughtfully and effectively, and it is architecture’s charge to do so.
This dialogue series aims to address issues that are important to students, that they face in studio every day, and put people in conversation with them who can help them understand how to clarify and use their voices for the betterment of their experience in school, and of the profession they are bringing their voices into.
This event is made possible by the Austin Foundation for Architecture.
Event: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:00pm
School of Architecture, the University of Texas at Austin
Mebane Gallery
FIRST PROJECTS
Grace La and Eric Howeler host First Projects, a candid roundtable conversation with leading designers hosted by the Practice Platform. Unplugged and off-the-record, designers will share an inside glimpse into the origins of practice, revealing stories behind first projects and the seminal efforts that launch remarkable careers.
Piper Auditorium, GSD 5:00pm, 12 April 2019.
2017 BSA
UNBUILT ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AWARD
Boston Society of Architects honors LA DALLMAN with a 2017 BSA Unbuilt Architecture & Design Award for their proposal, Industrial Capriccio, a transformation of an abandoned rail bridge into a floating garden.
honors LA DALLMAN & Benesch with a 2017 BSA Unbuilt Architecture & Design Award for their proposal, Waterlily Landing, a new civic space for learning and recreation on the waterfront in Milwaukee’s Inner Harbor.
‘ON INTEGRATION’ HARVARD GSD INAUGURAL LECTURE
Grace La and James Dallman, "On Integration"
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Inaugural Lecture
GSD Piper Auditorium. 6:30pm, April 8th, 2014.
Grace La and James Dallman deliver their inaugural Harvard University lecture on the occasion of Grace La’s appointment as senior faculty to the GSD and Director of the M.Arch Programs. The lecture describes the motivations of LA DALLMAN”s practice over the last decade including their diverse range of projects and methods of integration within complex cultural and physical contexts.
RETHINKING PEI: A Centenary Symposium
Roundtable: Emergence of a Modern Practice
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Piper Auditorium, 6:30pm, October 12, 2017
Grace La presents and moderates the roundtable, “Emergence of a Modern Practice,” in which she analyzes the iconic practices of McKim Mead & White and Pei Cobb Freed to define the characteristics of modern practice. La frames the aspirations and challenges of modern practice asking how the agencies of the architect emergent in 20th century practice transformed the conditions under which architecture was produced and perceived. She also questions how the modern architect maintains authorial voice in the context of larger corporate practice. Presenting an overview of I.M. Pei’s work, La discusses the dilemma facing the post-war production of architecture, namely the establishment of an aesthetic or authorial project in the intellectual tradition that followed modernism; and yet, at the same time, subject to the efficiencies, pressures, and benefits of corporate organization. Introduction of the event by Mohsen Mostafavi (Dean, GSD); Speakers include Grace La (GSD and LA DALLMAN), Bill Pedersen (Kohn Pedersen Fox), Li Chung (Sandi) Pei (Pei Partnership Architects), Shohei Shigematsu (OMA), Yvonne Szeto (Pei Cobb Freed).
2018
12.17 Grace La, Juror, University of Virginia School of Architecture Final Reviews.
12.14 James Dallman, Juror, Yale University School of Architecture, Option Studio of Neri Hu.
12.06 James Dallman, Juror, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Core 3 Final Reviews.
12.03 Grace La, Design Advisor, Houghton Library, Harvard University Faculty of Arts & Sciences.
11.07 Grace La, Panelist and review monograph, The Work of Machado and Silvetti.
10.26 James Dallman, Grace La, Jurors, Yale University School of Architecture, Option Studio of Neri Hu.
10.12 Grace La, Moderator and co-host: Outside In | Inside Out, Harvard GSD Practice Symposium.
09.28 Grace La, Panelist, Rhode Island School of Design Thesis Colloquium.
09.20 Talking Practice launches, hosted by Grace La, Harvard GSD Practice Platform podcast series.
08.28 LA DALLMAN and REED HILDERBRAND complete strategic studies for Harvard University campus.
05.23 James Dallman and Grace La, Rhode Island School of Design, Final Reviews.
03.30 Grace La chairs jury, Rotch Travelling Scholarship, Finalist Competition, Boston Society of Architects.
03.15 Grace La, “Preserve: Polity, Memory, Sense,” JAE Special Session, ACSA National Conference, Denver, CO.
02.15 James Dallman Rhode Island School of Design, Advanced Studio Launches, Civic Terraform.
02.15 James Dallman appointed Visiting Design Critic, Rhode Island School of Design.
01.22 LA DALLMAN featured in group Exhibition, "Inscriptions-Architecture before speech", Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
01.18 BSA Awards Ceremony reveals that LA DALLMAN wins Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Honor Award for Industrial Capriccio, Floating Garden, from among 59 blind submissions.
01.06 Harvard University short-lists LA DALLMAN as of 1 of 10, from 75 candidates, for cultural project.
01.03 LA DALLMAN honored with the William Lyon Somerville Visiting Lectureship, University of Calgary, Canada.
2017
07.28 City of Cudahy commissions LA DALLMAN to design the Cudahy Downtown Public Space.
07.06 LA DALLMAN’S Waterlily Landing wins Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Design Award.
07.06 LA DALLMAN’S Industrial Capriccio, Floating Garden wins Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Design Award.
06.19 LA DALLMAN’S Bridge and Urban Spaces, exhibited in “La Ville en Marchant”, Archipel Centre de Culture Urbaine.
06.01 Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies awards Grace La grant for “Peter Pan Housing.”
04.01 Grace La, Juror, Wallenburg Jury & Symposium, University of Michigan.
03.01 Grace La, Jury Chair, ACSA Faculty Design Award.
02.28 Grace La, “Disciplinary Matter in the Expanded Field,” American University of Sharjah.
02.15 Grace La, Moderator, “Emergence of a Modern Practice,Re-thinking Pei: A Centenary Symposium". Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Oct. 18, 2017.
01.06 Grace La, Design Advisor, Harvard University Law School, Lewis Hall Renovation
2016
12.11 Grace La, Juror, Undergraduate Final Reviews, University of Virginia.
12.08 Harvard GSD Final Reviews, Options Studio of Grace La and James Dallman, Unfolding Civic Surfaces: Auditoria as Terraform.
12.06 Grace La, Juror, Thesis & Studio Reviews, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art & Planning.
06.01 LA DALLMAN opens Boston office!
05.23 Grace La, Juror,“ Northern Avenue Bridge Competition,” City of Boston and the Boston Society of Architects. Also, La was interviewed by WGBH.
03.15 Grace La, “Geometry and the Orthographic Projection,” Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 70, Issue 1.
01.21 LA DALLMAN shortlisted for the Knafel Center Renovation, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
2015
12.12 James Dallman, Juror, University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture, Comprehensive Studio of Marlon Blackwell.
11.07 Grace La, Lecture, "Disciplinary Matters in the Expanded Field," Arizona AIA Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
10.16 James Dallman and Grace La, Keynote Lecture, "Expanded Fields" AIA Central States Regional Conference, Des Moines, Iowa.
09.12 Grace La, Juror, Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI-Arc Thesis Reviews, Los Angeles, CA.
08.05 James Corner Field Operations and LA DALLMAN, Finalists, Lakefront Gateway Plaza Design Competition, Milwaukee, WI.
08.01 Grace La, Appointed to the Provost's Academic Leadership Forum (PALF), Harvard University. Convening fifteen tenured faculty members from across the university to discuss key topics in academic leadership.
05.01 Grace La, Juror, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT School of Architecture + Planning, Design Fundamental I, Studio of Skylar Tibbets.
05.08 Grace La, Juror, Cornell University School of Architecture, "Raw Nature/Cooked Nature" Studio of Tao DuFour.
04.24 Grace La, Panelist and Speaker, "The Unimagined Artifacts of the Imaginary," The Van Alen Institute / GSD, Design Competition Conference, Future of Design Competitions Panel.
04.23 James Dallman, Juror, Georgia Tech School of Architecture, Portman Prize Jury, chaired by Julie Snow.
04.13 Grace La, Jay Wickersham, Panelists; Sanda Iliescu, Speaker; "How? Ethics in Making," hosted by WorkingGSD and Women in Design, GSD, April 13, 2015.
04.09 James Dallman, Juror, Boston Society of Architects, Rotch Travelling Scholarship Jury, chaired by Peter Wiederspahn.
2014
11.17 Grace La, "On Practice," Northeastern University School of Architecture.
11.04 Grace La, Paul Nakazawa, Moderators, "Talking Practice," Practice Platform Panel, Harvard University Graduate School of Design featuring David Benjamin, Elena Manferdini, Aaron Sprecher, Ashley Schafer.
10.27 Grace La, Lecture, "Aperture Matter Terrain," University of Arizona School of Architecture.
11.17 Grace La, Paul Nakazawa, Moderators, "Talking Practice," Practice Platform Panel, Harvard University Graduate School of Design featuring David Benjamin, Elena Manferdini, Aaron Sprecher, Ashley Schafer.
10.01 LA DALLMAN'S LightSlabs, exhibited in "Reprogramming the City," Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen.
09.13 Grace La, "Practical Grace: Designers Face the Future," GSD Campaign, afternoon session.
06.25 Grace La, Speaker and Panelist, Flying Car 2014: People Powered Innovation Conference, Greater Milwaukee Committee. Grace La presents an intimate view of LA DALLMAN's work process and design culture.
04.24 James Dallman, Keynote Lecture, AIA Toledo Design Awards Banquet, LA DALLMAN serves as Jury Chairs, AIA Toledo Design Awards, March 2014. The Design Awards Program recognizes design excellence for private and public projects and honors works of distinction located in Northwest Ohio.
04.08 Grace La and James Dallman, "On Intergration," Harvard University Graduate School of Design,
Inaugural Lecture, Piper Auditorium. 6:30pm.
04.05 Grace La, Speaker and Panelist, "One HARVARD." The event is established by the Office of the President and the Provost, and is designed to promote a diverse and inclusive graduate community by welcoming newly admitted students to Harvard University.
03.14 The Trestle, designed by LA DALLMAN and engineered by GRAEF, is awarded the 2014 WRMCA Concrete Design Award. The Trestle is Phase IV of Milwaukee’s Crossroads Project, an internationally recognized transformation of underutilized space for public use which includes the Media Garden (Urban Plaza) and the Marsupial Bridge.
2013
05.02 Grace La, Juror, University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture Super Jury
04.25 Grace La, Jury, National Endowment for the Arts, Our Town (Metro Facilities + Public Art) Leadership Initiatives Panel
04.04 Grace La, Respondent, UWM Urban Edge Symposium, "Repositioning Infrastructure"
02.14 Grace La appointed Full Professor with tenure, Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
2012
12.12 Grace La, Juror, University of Virginia School of Architecture Super Jury
11.07 Grace La, Lecture, "Disciplinary Transparency," Louisiana State University School of Architecture
10.19 James Dallman, Juror, 2012 Cleveland Design Competition, Detroit: Superior Bridge Competition
09.23 Grace La, Lecture, "On (the) Discipline," North Carolina State University College of Design
09.12 Drift Public Seating Exhibition of UWM KI Studio, Learning Landscapes, co-taught by Grace La and James Dallman, Discovery World
07.12 National Endowment for the Arts honors the Harmony Project, awarding a grant in support of the design process for this catalytic arts project energizing Milwaukee’s downtown. The Harmony project will be the new home of the Milwaukee Ballet, the UWM Peck School of the Arts Dance Department and the Medical College of Wisconsin.
06.14 Grace La, Juror, US Artists Architecture and Design Panel, Los Angeles, CA
04.20 Third Ward Gallery Night
Architecture Open House: Envisioning Milwaukee's Future
@ LADALLMAN, 225 E. St. Paul Ave. Suite 302, 5pm - 9pm
04.18 Grace La, Lecture, Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University
01.24 James Dallman, CRSI Design Awards Jury, World of Concrete Convention, Las Vegas.
01.19 Grace La, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Thesis Jury.
2011
11.14 Grace La and James Dallman, Lecture, "La Dallman: Selected Work", University of Pennsylvania School of Design
11.09 Grace La, Juror, Honor Award Jury for the 2011 American Institute of Architects Minnesota, 77th Annual Convention
11.09 Grace La, Lecture and Panel Discussion, Honor Award Jury for the 2011 American Institute of Architects Minnesota, 77th Annual Convention
10.18 Grace La and James Dallman, Lecture, "Resonance", Syracuse University, School of Architecture
09.20 Grace La and James Dallman, Lecture, "Re-fabricating the City", National Building Museum, Washington, DC
09.07 Grace La and James Dallman, Lecture, "RDA - Spotlight Award Winners: LA DALLMAN", Brown Auditorium, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
09.01 La Dallman, appointed Visiting Critics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
05.04 AIA Wisconsin Merit Award recognizing The University of Wisconsin Hillel Student Center, Joseph & Vera Zilber Building, Milwaukee, WI
04.14 Spotlight: The Rice Design Alliance Prize, an international honor that "recognizes exceptionally gifted architects in the early phase of their career." LA DALLMAN is the first United States practice to receive the prize, which was previously awarded to acclaimed architects Antón García-Abril of Spain and Sou Fujimoto of Japan.
04.08 Grace La, Lecture, "LA DALLMAN: Towards an Angle of Repose" Drury University, Hammons School of Architecture
04.07 James Dallman, Distinguished Guest & Speaker, University of North Carolina Charlotte, College of Arts + Architecture, Critical Mass 2011
02.20 Grace La, Lecture, "LA DALLMAN: Architecture and Landform" University of Arkansas, Fay Jones School of Architecture
2010
12.01 "Small Scale: Creative Solutions For Better Living" Princeton Architectural Press
11.01 Grace La, invited as a member of the United States General Services Administration National Registry of Peer Professionals
11.01 Providence River Pedestrian Bridge Competition, Finalist
08.03 Grace La and James Dallman, appointed Design Critics in Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Fall 2010
07.09 Exhibition at the American Institute of Architects, National Headquarters, "UNSEEN Architecture: MKE"
06.01 Wisconsin Commercial Real Estate Women, Women in Real Estate Leadership Award, Grace La
05.26 Mayor's Design Award, Hillel Student Center, Joseph & Vera Zilber Building
05.30 James Dallman, appointed Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University, Fall 2010
05.19 "What's Holding Us Up?" The Architect's Newspaper
05.17 Grace La and Mike Tennity lecture, "Learning Landscapes" The Metropolis Conference at the ICFF, Design Entrepreneurs: What's Next, Design Innovations Rapid-Fire Presentations, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
05.09 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Small can be beautiful, too" Hillel Student Center
04.29 James Dallman, panelist, "A View of Our City: The Nexus of Performing Arts and Architecture" Next Generation UPAF panel discussion, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
04.19 "Next Collective Housing in progress" a+t architecture publishers
03.24 Grace La and James Dallman lecture, "LA DALLMAN: Selected Works" University of Puerto Rico, School of Architecture, San Jose
03.10 Grace La and James Dallman lecture, "LA DALLMAN: Architecture & Landform" 2010 Architectural League Emerging Voices Series
03.03 "Emerging Voices 2010: La Dallman" The Architect's Newspaper
03.01 My Midwest, "Milwaukee Gets Creative: La Dallman - A renowned architecture firm has found success by designing according to Milwaukee's specifications,"
02.22 Solo Exhibition at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, "LA DALLMAN / 90 ft. of Design"
02.22 Grace La and James Dallman lecture, "LA DALLMAN: post-industrial narratives" Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture
02.08 Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute 2010 Design Award - Residential Buildings, Levy House
01.05 Finalist Emerging Voices, Architectural League of New York,
01.02 Exhibition at the Boston Society of Architects, "Urban Interventions"
2009
11.09 Grace La and James Dallman lecture, "LA DALLMAN, Recent Works" University of Minnesota College of Design, School of Architecture
09.18 Grace La and James Dallman lecture, "LA DALLMAN, Recent Works" University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Architecture.
09.02 Exhibition at the Eisner American Museum of Advertising and Design, "UNSEEN Architecture: MKE"
07.01 Topos, "Crossroads Project Milwaukee, Wisconsin"
06.20 SNAPmilwaukee online architectural review by Jim Shields, The Variegated Wall
06.08 SEAOI 2009 Best Small Structural Project Award from Structural Engineers Association of Illinois, Levy House
05.08 Grace La juries the national Bruner Award, Providence, Rhode Island
05.01 James Dallman juries Graduate Thesis Reviews, University of Minnesota School of Architecture, College of Design, Minneapolis
04.30 James Dallman juries Studio Reviews, Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
04.29 Grace La juries the Wallenburg Competition, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, Ann Arbor
04.21 Grace La presentation, "LA DALLMAN: Recent Works," Shorewood Women's Club, Wisconsin
04.03 James Dallman and Grace La lecture, "On Sedimentations, Strata and Other Stuff…" University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Guest Lecture Series
04.02 Published: LA DALLMAN: Fabricated Landscapes
03.30 Exhibition, "LA DALLMAN: Fabricated Landscapes" University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning, SARUP Gallery
03.27 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture presents Faculty Design Award to Grace La
Grace La and James Dallman present Levy House at ACSA National Conference, Portland, Oregon
03.06 Grace La lectures "Urban Lost & Found" at the Community Transformation Project, Marquette University
02.23 Grace La and James Dallman lecture, "Post Industrial Fabrications," University of Tennessee - Knoxville College of Architecture + Design, Robert Church Memorial Lecture Series
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02.20 LA DALLMAN's Crossroads Project reviewed in Archidose:17
02.09 Exhibition, "LA DALLMAN: post-industrial fabrications" University of Tennessee - Knoxville College of Architecture + Design
01.15 "Milwaukee's Emerging Talent: Grace La and PJ Murrill", Shepherd Express
2008
02.29 LA DALLMAN, Keynote Address, NOMAS, Mississippi State University College of Architecture, Art + Design
2007
10.23 Grace La, Keynote Address, Milwaukee Home Magazine Annual Awards
09.11 Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, Silver Medal, Ceremony and Press Conference
08.24 Grace La juries AIA Denver Honor Awards
07.01 National Design Competition, Allegheny Center Plaza, Finalist, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
06.15 Published: Skycar City: a preemptive history (Actar), Barcelona, Spain. Edited by Winy Maas and Grace La
04.26 James Dallman and Grace La, invited jurists, California College of the Arts - San Francisco
2006
12.21 MKE "Wonder Women, Powerful and Empowered: 7 who make a difference" Featuring Grace La the design of Great Lakes Future
11.09 International Chazen Museum of Art Expansion Competition Finalist, Madison, Wisconsin
10.15 Milwaukee Magazine, "Walk the Line" Marsupial Bridge
09.20 "West End Pedestrian Bridge Competition" Exhibition-Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
07.15 Azure, "Trolls Begone" Canada Crossroads Project: Urban Plaza
05.29 2nd Prize in International West End Pedestrian Bridge Competition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
05.11 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "The Lowly Becomes Lofty" featuring LA DALLMAN awards
03.15 AIA Wisconsin Honor Award recognizing Marsupial Pedestrian Bridge and Urban Plaza
03.15 AIA Wisconsin Merit Award recognizing Open-Air Classroom, Milwaukee Montessori School
03.01 a+t: In Common III Collective Spaces, "Marsupial Bridge"
03.01 Wisconsin Builder, "The Eyes Have It"