Ted Flato, principal of the award-winning San Antonio, Texas firm, Lake|Flato Architects, spoke April 12 at Preston Geren Auditorium as part of the Department of Architecture’s Spring 2010 Lecture Series.
Flato counts Louis Kahn, Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolph Schindler among his favorite architects.
He served as the principal architect for the Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center in Orange, Texas. The project, which includes botanical gardens, a nature center, outdoor classrooms and structures on a 252-acre site, earned LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for New Construction Platinum certification — the highest level possible in the Green Building Rating System developed by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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