DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art revealed the finalists’ concept designs devised by renowned US and international architect teams in the competition to reimagine the DMA. The Museum’s brief to the six teams was to give its campus greater physical visibility and transparency, show visitors what is going on inside, and make the DMA more welcoming, and accessible to all.

The concept designs are now available to view in a free presentation at the DMA and in an online gallery on the competition website hosted by international competition organizers, Malcolm Reading Consultants, here.

The DMA’s Architect Selection Committee will meet in July to interview the finalists and make a recommendation to the Dallas Museum of Art Board of Trustees; a winner announcement is expected in August. The design will then be developed in close partnership with the Museum and its stakeholders.

The Museum’s project focuses on strengthening the DMA’s work with its communities, creating stronger civic connections, transforming the welcome for visitors with new facilities, and expanding education and gallery space to accommodate important collections – all underpinned by a thorough modernization.

The DMA’s Eugene McDermott Director, Dr. Agustín Arteaga, said: ‘We are delighted to share the competition concepts: six fascinating visions from some of the world’s most accomplished design teams showing how the DMA might be transformed.

‘We very much look forward to hearing from our communities and welcome comments on the ideas and themes in these proposals. Please visit the presentation in-person or via the online gallery where there will be opportunity to provide feedback that will help shape the future of the DMA.

‘Each team has thought deeply about the Museum’s civic presence, about an energized circulation. Where to put new galleries and how to weave in gardens and landscape? What elements should stay, what should go? What are views that will draw audiences? How do we get physically, intellectually, spiritually closer to art?

‘We’re captivated by six unique propositions with different priorities and aesthetics. The DMA’s future sparkles with possibilities – we have the momentum now to create a reinvented DMA that will significantly enhance Dallas.’

Architect Selection Committee Co-Chairs, Jennifer Eagle and Lucilo Peña, said: ‘These initial designs from some of the world’s most in-demand creative minds help us visualize how the DMA could reinvent itself, and they’ve thrilled us.

‘Yet among the six there is only one winner… So we’re aware we are approaching a momentous decision in the lifetime of this Museum.

‘What are we, the deciding committee, looking for? Well, a brilliant analysis of the complex program, for energy and inspiration, for a deep connection to our communities and Larrabee Barnes’ original intent.

‘We congratulate the competitors for the intense work they’ve produced in answer to the Museum’s program. We’re hugely looking forward to interviewing the teams.’

Malcolm Reading, Competition Director, said: ‘These are sophisticated concepts conceived in a little over nine weeks, elegantly presented and richly annotated.

‘The competition has inspired a creative flowering that is underpinned by contemporary commitments to sustainability, social equity, and the use of public space. In the decades since the Museum was originally designed these themes have become paramount.

‘They set the stage for an identity reshaped, for reinforcing and realigning the Museum’s important role as the anchor of the Arts District and restructuring its connections to an endlessly changing Downtown.’

The concept designs will be on display on Mezzanine Level 2 (M2) at the DMA.