Lecture by Brad Cloepfil, Architect Lecture series for Museums in the 21st Century

Brad Cloepfil, founding principal of Allied Works Architecture, Inc., will kick off  a three-part lecture series on contemporary architecture in conjunction with the New Mexico Museum of Art exhibition Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings. These lectures will take place every two weeks from March 12 through April 9, at 6:00 p.m., in the Saint Francis auditorium.

Brad Cloepfil’s Allied Works Architecture has offices in Portland, Oregon and New York City, and is engaged in a wide variety of cultural, commercial and residential projects across North America. In recent years, Allied Works has focused on important cultural and educational buildings within urban centers, arts districts and academic campuses.

Completed projects include the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, a major addition to the Seattle Art Museum, the Booker T. Washington School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas, and the redesign of 2 Columbus Circle for the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan.

Most recently, the firm completed a renovation and expansion of the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The UMAM project is included in the Museums in the 21st Century exhibit at the NM Museum of Art.

Current commissions include the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado, a new animation studio for Pixar in Emeryville, California; master planning and feasibility analysis for the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon; and master planning and feasibility study for the Caldera Arts Foundation in Central Oregon. 

Allied Works has also recently won international design competitions for the National Music Centre of Canada, in Calgary, Alberta, which will include the adaptive reuse of a historic hotel and blues club, and the Vancouver Community Connector in Washington State, an urban park that spans a major highway, which will serve to re-connect the city’s downtown core to an historic fort.  

The firm has been selected to participate in the final phase of an international architectural competition to design a new pavilion for the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec.

Free Friday Evening Lectures are presented in collaboration with AIA Santa Fe,the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers’ Tax, AIA Santa Fe, and the New Mexico chapter of ASLA.

For more information visit the webpage for Museums in the 21st Century>