Looking Forward:
A New DMA
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos described their competition-winning proposal—which will be developed by the Museum in consultation with its stakeholders and communities—“as a reflection of the original building, transforming the relationship between art, landscape, and community into a balance of memory and innovation.”
Hola and thank you for taking the time to learn more about this exciting chapter in the DMA’s history. Dallas–Fort Worth is changing by the minute: the success of the Metroplex is such that it will soon be the third largest in the country. Just as we catalyzed the Dallas Arts District when our current facility opened in 1984, the DMA sees this moment in time as our opportunity to once again play a significant role in shaping the future of Dallas.
At the heart of one of the most exciting cities in America, the DMA is moving closer to the day when we can unveil a reimagined building, a new identity, and, potentially, the most significant collection of contemporary art of any encyclopedic museum. We look forward to continuing this journey with all of you while fulfilling our mantra, art is at the center, and equity and community are at the core, of all we do. Please consider this my personal invitation to keep up with our progress and join us to build a new DMA!
Sincerely,
Agustín Arteaga
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The winner’s concept design is on view now at the DMA as part of the Looking Forward: A New DMA presentation located in the DMA’s Focus Gallery II on the main level. We hope you will join us on-site for a look at where we have been and where we are going together.
The DMA’s current building, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, opened in January 1984. It was the founding institution in what is now the largest arts district in the U.S. This timeline highlights how the city, district, and Museum have changed dramatically over the past 50 years.
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Voters approve a city bond to partially fund construction of a new DMA building.
1979
Dallas population, 904,078.
1980
City Council designates 60 acres as the Dallas Arts District.
1983
DMA opens on January 29, 1984.
1984
DMA’s expansion to house the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection opens.
1985
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center opens.
1989
Dallas population, 1,006,977.
1990
DMA’s Nancy and Jake L. Hamon Building opens.
1993
Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art opens.
1998
Dallas population, 1,188,580.
2000
Nasher Sculpture Center opens.
2003
Booker T. Washington High School (a DISD magnet school) reopens.
2008
DMA’s Center for Creative Connections (C3) opens.
2008
AT&T Performing Arts Center (four venues and a park) opens.
2009
Dallas population, 1,197,816.
2010
Moody Performance Hall, Klyde Warren Park, and the Perot Museum of Nature and Science open.
2012
DMA’s Painting Conservation Studio (now the Inge-Lise Eckmann Lane Paintings Conservation Center) opens.
2013
DMA’s Eagle Family Plaza opens.
2016
City of Dallas approves a new Cultural Plan.
2018
Dallas population, 1,304,379.
2020
Dallas Arts District passes a new master plan for the neighborhood.
2021
DMA releases its Five-Year Strategic Plan grounded on “Art at the center. Equity and community at the core.”
2021
DMA launches the Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition, selects Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos as winner.
2023
The WINNING PROPOSAL
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HISTORY OF THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART AND THE CITY OF DALLAS
Art is at the center, and equity and community
are at the core, of all we do.
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MEDiA SUPPORT
• Jennifer Eagle, Architect Selection Committee Co-Chair
• Lucilo Peña, Architect Selection Committee Co-Chair; trustee;
President of Development, Billingsley Company
• Agustín Arteaga, The Eugene McDermott Director, Dallas Museum of Art
• Zaida Basora, FAIA; Executive Director, The American Institute of Architects – Dallas
• Mary McDermott Cook, Trustee
• Jeffrey S. Ellerman, Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Vice Chairman CBRE
• Marguerite Steed Hoffman, Former trustee
• Darren L. James, FAIA; NOMA; President, KAI Enterprises
• Howard Rachofsky, Trustee
• Catherine Marcus Rose, Trustee and Former President of the Board of Trustees
• Deedie Rose, Trustee
• Jennifer Scripps, President and CEO, Downtown Dallas, Inc.
• Gowri N. Sharma, President of the Board of Trustees
• Gayle Stoffel, Trustee
The Museum recently announced it is convening a Master Facilities Plan Task Force, chaired by trustee and former Board President, Catherine Marcus Rose and ASC Co-Chair and Trustee Lucilo Peña. The new task force will take the project forward, working with the winning team, the DMA Board of Trustees, and the community at large. Throughout its history, the Museum has secured funds from private sources for its initiatives and will continue this approach. The Museum will also seek continued public support from the City of Dallas to maintain our City-owned facility.
NSA’s concept design was embraced by the ASC because it provides potential solutions to address circulation, sustainability, and gallery expansion while respecting the existing building. The committee was also attracted to the balance created by the proposed north and south façades.
NSA’s design moves include enhancing the interior street by bringing light in from above, improving accessibility by rationalizing the stepped ground floor ramp and gallery half levels, and making visual connections through the entire building north and south.
The design unifies the vertical circulation and references the interior street so visitors can easily orient themselves. Two new dynamic façades reinstate visibility and identity equally from the south at Ross Plaza (currently underplayed) and the north end at Woodall Rodgers.
The concept addresses the need for expanded gallery space by creating a dramatic floating square extension on the roof–reflecting Barnes’s square
grid–a huge flexible space for displaying contemporary art. The extension also incorporates an events space and restaurant, with a roof terrace overlooking Klyde Warren Park.
Education and performance spaces are arranged along Harwood Street, with street-level glazing encouraging curiosity and opportunities for activation of the Flora and Fleischner courtyards.
A new covered loading dock with facilities for conservation and staff offices infill the underused area off North St. Paul Street.
The principles of sustainability are addressed impactfully with the decision to retain much of the original building’s embodied carbon by limiting changes to the existing structure and fabric, further enhanced by an integrated approach to rainfall collection, bioclimatic design, and electricity generation through photovoltaics and geothermal energy.
The team set out to make their design "precise and beautiful" reflecting the spatial hierarchy and grid arrangement developed by Barnes, embracing nature, and opening up the ground level to achieve transparency and engage with the street. They propose activating the Ross Avenue Entrance with an informal outdoor amphitheater and moving the sculpture garden barrier wall to improve access into the garden.
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Looking Forward: A New DMA / De Cara Al Futuro: Un Nuevo DMA
About the Competition
Barnes’s austere modernist design in Indiana limestone fore-fronted elegance and calm dignity. The modern-day DMA needs to re-present and enliven its spaces to relate to a more open and inclusive society with changing visitor expectations.
The Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition was generously underwritten by three major contributors to the DMA.
Free General Admission to the Dallas Museum of Art is made possible with generous support from the Robert Gerard Pollock Foundation. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported, in part, by the generosity of DMA Members and individual and institutional donors, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.
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Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos described their competition-winning proposal—which will be developed by the Museum in consultation with its stakeholders and communities—"as a reflection of the original building, transforming the relationship between art, landscape, and community into a balance of memory and innovation."
While respecting Edward Larrabee Barnes’s original design intent in his 1984 building, the NSA proposal includes a new floating contemporary art gallery on the roof and rebalances the north and south façades, communicating the expression of art via an exterior LED-generated artwork mediated by a perforated surface. Transparent glazing at the north façade (Klyde Warren Park), and at the Harwood Street façades at ground level, gives passers-by views of visitors inside the Museum engaging with the art.
Throughout the competition process, the Museum has been focused on its vision as originally set out in its 2021 Five-Year Strategic Plan: better serving the diverse city of Dallas and being a dynamic connector where people of all cultures feel welcomed and embraced.
01 / 02
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART SELECTS NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS
AS WINNER OF INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION
The winner’s concept design proposes a radical transformation to speak to new audiences and improve accessibility while sustainably preserving much of the original Edward Larrabee Barnes building
On August 3, 2023, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced that the team led by the award-winning Madrid-based practice Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (NSA) has won the Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition.
The decision by the Museum’s Architect Selection Committee (ASC) was ratified by the Dallas Museum of Art Board of Trustees, concluding a six-month international competition, which launched in February 2023 and attracted 154 submissions from around the world, resulting in a shortlist of renowned U.S. and international teams.
Known for their dynamic and innovative façades at the Contemporary Art Centre in Córdoba, and the Montblanc Haus in Hamburg, the Spanish design team of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano has previously received accolades including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Hannes Meyer Prize, the Alvar Aalto Medal, and the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts from the Government of Spain.
01 / 02
The Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition launched in February 2023 and attracted 154 team submissions from around the world. In April, six finalist teams were selected by the Museum’s Architect Selection Committee (ASC)and given a nine-week design period to develop concepts.
The Museum’s program focused on strengthening the DMA’s work with its communities, creating stronger civic connections to reaffirm the Museum as the anchor of the Dallas Arts District and connect it to surrounding neighborhoods, and transforming the welcome for visitors with new facilities.
Additional flexible gallery space is needed to accommodate a collection that is expanding exponentially. As of 2023, many masterworks remain in storage, unseen by the public due to lack of space. Three visionary philanthropic gifts from the Hoffman, Rachofsky, and Rose families are expected to make the DMA’s contemporary collection the most significant of any encyclopedic museum across the globe.
The program also required a reorganization of internal space, circulation, and entrances, as well as a comprehensive modernization framed within a thoughtful sustainability strategy.
Opened in 1984, the original campus by Edward Larrabee Barnes was surrounded by empty lots and warehouses. Over the nearly four decades since its opening, the neighborhood around the DMA has grown and evolved, including the expansion of the Arts District, the addition of Klyde Warren Park to the north, and the construction of new residences, restaurants, and offices.
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Looking Forward:
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Hola and thank you for taking the time to learn more about this exciting chapter in the DMA’s history. Dallas–Fort Worth is changing by the minute: the success of the Metroplex is such that it will soon be the third largest in the country. Just as we catalyzed the Dallas Arts District when our current facility opened in 1984, the DMA sees this moment in time as our opportunity to once again play a significant role in shaping the future of Dallas.
At the heart of one of the most exciting cities in America, the DMA is moving closer to the day when we can unveil a reimagined building, a new identity, and, potentially, the most significant collection of contemporary art of any encyclopedic museum. We look forward to continuing this journey with all of you while fulfilling our mantra, art is at the center, and equity and community are at the core, of all we do. Please consider this my personal invitation to keep up with our progress and join us to build a new DMA!
Sincerely,
Agustín Arteaga
A message from
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Director
THE WINNING PROPOSAL
Art is at the center, and equity and community are at the core, of all we do.
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART SELECTS NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS AS WINNER OF INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION
The winner’s concept design proposes a radical transformation to speak to new audiences and improve accessibility while sustainably preserving much of the original Edward Larrabee Barnes building.
On August 3, 2023, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) announced that the team led by the award-winning Madrid-based practice Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (NSA) has won the Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition.
The decision by the Museum’s Architect Selection Committee (ASC) was ratified by the Dallas Museum of Art Board of Trustees, concluding a six-month international competition, which launched in February 2023 and attracted 154 submissions from around the world, resulting in a shortlist of renowned U.S. and international teams.
Known for their dynamic and innovative façades at the Contemporary Art Centre in Córdoba, and the Montblanc Haus in Hamburg, the Spanish design team of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano has previously received accolades
The winner’s concept design is on view now at the DMA as part of the Looking Forward: A New DMA presentation located in the DMA’s Focus Gallery II on the main level. We hope you will join us on-site for a look at where we have been and where we are going together.
The winner’s concept design proposes a radical transformation to speak to new audiences and improve accessibility while sustainably preserving much of the original Edward Larrabee Barnes building
On August 3, 2023, the Dallas Museum of Artt (DMA) announced that the team led by the award-winning Madrid-based practice Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (NSA) has won the Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition.
The decision by the Museum’s Architect Selection Committee (ASC) was ratified by the Dallas Museum of Art Board of Trustees, concluding a six-month international competition, which launched in February 2023...
...and attracted 154 submissions from around the world, resulting in a shortlist of renowned U.S. and international teams.
Known for their dynamic and innovative façades at the Contemporary Art Centre in Córdoba, and the Montblanc Haus in Hamburg, the Spanish design team of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano has previously received accolades including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Hannes Meyer Prize, the Alvar Aalto Medal, and the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts from the Government of Spain.
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos described their competition-winning proposal—which will be developed by the Museum in consultation with its stakeholders and communities—"as a reflection of the original building, transforming the relationship...
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...a balance of memory and innovation."
While respecting Edward Larrabee Barnes’s original design intent in his 1984 building, the NSA proposal includes a new floating contemporary art gallery on the roof and rebalances the north and south façades, communicating the expression of art via an exterior LED-generated artwork mediated by a perforated surface. Transparent glazing at the north façade (Klyde Warren Park), and at the Harwood Street façades at ground level, gives passers-by views of visitors inside the Museum engaging with the art.
Throughout the competition process, the Museum has been focused on its vision as originally set out in its 2021 Five-Year Strategic Plan: better serving the diverse city of Dallas and being a dynamic connector where people of all cultures feel welcomed and embraced.
...and attracted 154 submissions from around the world, resulting in a shortlist of renowned U.S. and international teams.
Known for their dynamic and innovative façades at the Contemporary Art Centre in Córdoba, and the Montblanc Haus in Hamburg, the Spanish design team of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano has previously received accolades including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Hannes Meyer Prize, the Alvar Aalto Medal, and the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts from the Government of Spain.
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos described their competition-winning proposal
—which will be developed by the Museum in consultation with its stakeholders and communities—"as a reflection of the original building, transforming the relationship between
art, landscape, and community into...
The winner’s concept design proposes a radical transformation to speak to new audiences and improve accessibility while sustainably preserving much of the original Edward Larrabee Barnes building
On August 3, 2023, the Dallas Museum of Artt (DMA) announced that the team led by the award-winning Madrid-based practice Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (NSA) has won the Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition.
The decision by the Museum’s Architect Selection Committee (ASC) was ratified by the Dallas Museum of Art Board of Trustees, concluding a six-month international competition, which launched in February 2023...
...to lack of space. Three visionary philanthropic gifts from the Hoffman, Rachofsky and Rose families are expected to make the DMA’s contemporary collection the most significant of any encyclopedic museum across the globe.
The program also required a reorganization of internal space, circulation, and entrances, as well as a comprehensive modernization framed within a thoughtful sustainability strategy.
Opened in 1984, the original campus by Edward Larrabee Barnes was surrounded by empty lots and warehouses. Over the nearly four decades since its opening, the neighborhood around the DMA has grown and evolved, including the expansion of the Arts District, the addition of Klyde Warren Park to the north, and the construction of new residences, restaurants, and offices.
The Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition launched in February 2023 and attracted 154 team submissions from around the world. In April, six finalist teams were selected by the Museum’s Architect Selection Committee (ASC)and given a nine-week design period to develop concepts.
The Museum’s program focused on strengthening the DMA’s work with its communities, creating stronger civic connections to reaffirm the Museum as the anchor of the Dallas Arts District and connect it to surrounding neighborhoods, and transforming the welcome for visitors with new facilities.
Additional flexible gallery space is needed to accommodate a collection that is expanding exponentially. As of 2023, many masterworks remain in storage, unseen by the public due...
...a balance of memory and innovation."
While respecting Edward Larrabee Barnes’s original design intent in his 1984 building, the NSA proposal includes a new floating contemporary art gallery on the roof and rebalances the north and south façades, communicating the expression of art via an exterior LED-generated artwork mediated by a perforated surface. Transparent glazing at the north façade (Klyde Warren Park), and at the Harwood Street façades at ground level, gives passers-by views of visitors inside the Museum engaging with the art.
Throughout the competition process, the Museum has been focused on its vision as originally set out in its 2021 Five-Year Strategic Plan: better serving the diverse city of Dallas and being a dynamic connector where people of all cultures feel welcomed and embraced.
...and attracted 154 submissions from around the world, resulting in a shortlist of renowned U.S. and international teams.
Known for their dynamic and innovative façades at the Contemporary Art Centre in Córdoba, and the Montblanc Haus in Hamburg, the Spanish design team of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano has previously received accolades including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Hannes Meyer Prize, the Alvar Aalto Medal, and the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts from the Government of Spain.
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos described their competition-winning proposal
—which will be developed by the Museum in consultation with its stakeholders and communities—"as a reflection of the original building, transforming the relationship between
art, landscape, and community into...
The winner’s concept design proposes a radical transformation to speak to new audiences and improve accessibility while sustainably preserving much of the original Edward Larrabee Barnes building
On August 3, 2023, the Dallas Museum of Artt (DMA) announced that the team led by the award-winning Madrid-based practice Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (NSA) has won the Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition.
The decision by the Museum’s Architect Selection Committee (ASC) was ratified by the Dallas Museum of Art Board of Trustees, concluding a six-month international competition, which launched in February 2023...
• Jennifer Eagle,
Architect Selection Committee
Co-Chair
• Lucilo Peña,
Architect Selection Committee
Co-Chair; Trustee;
President of Development,
Billingsley Company
• Agustín Arteaga,
The Eugene McDermott Director,
Dallas Museum of Art
• Zaida Basora,
FAIA; Executive Director,
The American Institute of Architects
– Dallas
• Mary McDermott Cook,
Trustee
• Jeffrey S. Ellerman,
Chairman of the Board of the
Trustees; Vice Chairman CBRE
HISTORY OF THE DALLAS MUSEUM
OF ART AND THE CITY OF DALLAS
THE WINNING PROPOSAL
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos described their competition-winning proposal—which will be developed by the Museum in consultation with its stakeholders and communities—
“as a reflection of the original building, transforming the relationship between art, landscape, and community into a balance of memory and innovation.”
1979
1979
1979
1979
1979
1979
Voters approve a city bond to partially fund construction of a new DMA building.
City Council designates 60 acres as the Dallas Arts District.
DMA’s expansion to house the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection opens.
Voters approve a city bond to partially fund construction of a new DMA building.
Dallas population, 904,078.
DMA opens on
January 29, 1984.
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Dallas
population, 1,006,977.
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony
Center opens.
DMA’s expansion
to house the
Wendy and Emery Reves Collection opens.
DMA opens on
January 29, 1984.
City Council designates 60
acres as the Dallas Arts District.
Dallas
population, 904,078.
Voters approve a city bond to partially fund construction of a new DMA building.
1990
1989
1985
1984
1983
1980
1979
DMA’s Center for Creative Connections (C3) opens.
Booker T. Washington High School (a DISD magnet school) reope
Nasher Sculpture Center opens.
Dallas population, 1,188,580.
Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art opens
DMA’s Nancy and Jake L. Hamon Building opens.
2008
2008
2003
2000
1998
1993
DMA’s Painting Conservation Studio (now the Inge-Lise Eckmann Lane Paintings Conservation Center) opens.
Moody Performance Hall, Klyde Warren Park, and the Perot Museum of Nature and Science open.
Dallas
population, 1,197,816.
2013
2012
2010
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HOURS
Monday–Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday–Sunday
11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Now on view in Focus Gallery II
November 9, 2023 ongoing
Closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day
Holiday hours: Closed at 5:00 p.m.
on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve
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Looking Forward: A New DMA /
De Cara Al Futuro: Un Nuevo DMA
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Hola and thank you for taking the time to learn more about this exciting chapter in the DMA’s history. Dallas–Fort Worth is changing by the minute: the success of the Metroplex is such that it will soon be the third largest in the country. Just as we catalyzed the Dallas Arts District when our current facility opened in 1984, the DMA sees this moment in time as our opportunity to once again play a significant role in shaping the future of Dallas.
At the heart of one of the most exciting cities in America, the DMA is moving closer to the day when we can unveil a reimagined building, a new identity, and, potentially, the most significant collection of contemporary art of any encyclopedic museum. We look forward to continuing this journey with all of you while fulfilling our mantra, art is at the center, and equity and community are at the core, of all we do. Please consider this my personal invitation to keep up with our progress and join us to build a new DMA!
Sincerely,
Agustín Arteaga
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos described their competition-winning proposal—which will be developed by the Museum in consultation with its stakeholders and communities—
“as a reflection of the original building, transforming the relationship between art, landscape, and community into a balance of memory and innovation.”