People

Kathryn Holliday, PhD, is founding director of the David Dillon Center for Texas Architecture. While officially a native Texan, she grew up in New Orleans and went to college on the east coast before coming back to the Lone Star state. Dr. Holliday is an associate professor in the School of Architecture where she teaches courses in architectural history that use Dallas-Fort Worth as an urban laboratory. As the Center’s director, she directs student projects, organizes the Dillon Symposium, and writes and lectures about the urban and architectural landscapes of north Texas. For more on her work, see her full faculty profile.

 

 

Lily Corral is the 2018-19 graduate research assistant for the Dillon Center. Lily is a current student in the MArch program, and brings her experience as a journalist writing about real estate and architecture in Dallas to the studio.

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Sloan is a doctoral student in Urban and Public Affairs with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. She is working on her dissertation which examines the ways that exurban cities in the sprawling landscape of Dallas-Fort Worth use city halls and designed and programmed public space to build social capital with their citizens.

 

 

 

Estefania Barreto and Clodagh Ryan, undergraduate students in art history and architecture, completed a research project in Spring 2018 that became Historic Fort Worth’s Fall Architour on architect Wiley G. Clarkson. Estefania is now a graduate student in historic preservation at UT Austin and Clodagh is an architectural associate at SHM Architects in Dallas.

 

 

 

Molly Plummer completed her thesis in landscape architecture in Spring of 2018, investigating the political, economic, and racial factors that influenced the implementation of the 1911 Kessler Plan for Dallas and the lasting effects on issues of equity in the urban landscape. She is using her research skills as the Parks for People Program Manager for the Dallas office of the Trust for Public Land.