In 2020, the annual Texas Society of Architects Conference was supposed to be in Dallas. We were supposed to showcase and tour over thirty buildings across the city. We were supposed to welcome architects from around the state to the new home of AIA Dallas and the Architecture & Design Exchange. We were supposed to celebrate new architects at the Interfaith Peace Chapel designed by Philip Johnson. None of that happened. Like most events planned for 2020, things were done differently this year.

Even though this was an unprecedented year, the AIA Dallas conference planning committee rose to the challenge and executed an incredible virtual conference. We were still able to highlight Dallas with continuing education sessions and showcase nine projects with virtual tours of projects around this great city. One of these tours was of the iconic Beck House, designed by Philip Johnson for the Beck Family and built in 1964 along Bachman Creek in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas.