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Fall 2019 APLA Lecture Series Welcomes El Dorado, Principals David Dowell & Josh Shelton
October 23, 2019 @ 3:30 pm
El Dorado Here and Now
Established in 1996, EL DORADO is an integrated architecture, urban design, curatorial, education and fabrication practice with studios in Kansas City, Missouri, and Portland, Oregon. In the beginning, as equal parts art gallery, fabrication shop and design studio, ELDO was known for fingerless gloves and raffish outbursts that helped jumpstart Kansas City’s emergent culture. Today, we work purposefully across scales and contexts, from city blocks to exhibitions, between critical ideas and an intangible, spiritual attachment to place. EL DORADO’s two partners and 19 staff — including 11 architects, a university professor, curators, industrial designers and certified welders — chase big ideas with a common touch.
EL DORADO was named the #16 Design Firm in 2017 ARCHITECT 50, #11 in 2016, and appeared in Curbed’s 2015 inaugural class of Groundbreakers. In 2008 the Architectural League of New York recognized El Dorado as an Emerging Voice. ELDO’s work has been published in Aeroflot Inflight, Art in America, Azure, Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, CityLab, DETAIL China, Dwell, Entrepreneur Magazine, Kansas City Star, Metropolis, New York Times, Slate and SPACE Korea. The practice is the recipient of numerous international and national peer-reviewed accolades, including American Architecture Awards; AZ Awards; RADA Awards; Interior Design Best of Year Awards; Metal in Architecture Awards; inclusion in the Annual Design Review; and AIA National, Regional and Local Design Excellence Awards.
