Architecture Office Restoration and Adaptive Reuse

A panel discussion with Peter Stanley, Director of Operations and Preservation, Judd Foundation; Troy Schaum, Principal and Founder, Schaum Architects; and Beatrice Galilee, Executive Director and Founder, The World Around. They will discuss the restoration of the Architecture Office and Donald Judd’s own adaptions within contemporary architectural practices.

This event is free and open to the public though advance registration is encouraged.

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Peter Stanley is the Director of Operations and Preservation for Judd Foundation in Marfa. With a background in art, architecture, and construction, he has spent over a decade preserving and restoring Donald Judd’s structures and installed spaces for both the Chinati Foundation and Judd Foundation. Past projects include the reconstruction of Donald Judd’s Winter Garden at the Block, the restoration of the John Chamberlain Building, and the realization of Robert Irwin’s untitled (dawn to dusk).

Beatrice Galilee is an internationally recognized architecture curator, author and design advisor. She is founder and executive director of The World Around, a New York-based nonprofit platform dedicated to visionary global design and architecture. She is the author of Radical Architecture of the Future, published by Phaidon in 2021, and between 2014-2019 served as the first curator of contemporary architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked on collections, exhibitions and commissions including collaborations with artists including Wolfgang Tillmans, Cornelia Parker and Adrián Villar Rojas.

Troy Schaum is the principal of Schaum Architects and an associate professor at Rice University School of Architecture, where he has taught since 2008. His firm considers the city at the scale of the building, both as a site of theoretical experimentation and as a reality that may be transformed through building. He pursues these design ambitions through projects with Schaum Architects, an award-winning architectural firm based in Houston. Texas. Recent and ongoing work includes the restoration the Winter Garden and Block restoration for Judd Foundation and a restoration of the Chamberlain Building for the Chinati Foundation, both in Marfa, Texas; the headquarters for an arts institution in Houston; and a residential tower on Park Avenue in New York City. His work has been exhibited globally including at the Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and the Center for Architecture in New York. His writing has been published in many journals, including The Architect’s Newspaper, Texas Architect Magazine, Dezeen, Domus, Architect, and Architectural Record.

Major support for the Architecture Office Opening Weekend is provided by Fairfax Dorn and Suzanne Deal Booth.

Community support is provided by Alpha Masonry; Bank of America; The Capri; The City of Marfa; Meredith Driess and David Brown; El Cosmico; Harrison Roofing Co., Inc.; J&J Steel Company; King Land & Water; Kyle and Faith Melgaard, Method Building Company; OLAS Wellness; and Texas Commission on the Arts.