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Where Space and Time Collapse

2009-10-17T22:29:45Z

Join photographer/artist/philosopher Jay Johnson and a distinguished panel of physicists and artists this afternoon for a discussion about spacetime convergence in the context of Johnson's body of "slit-scan" photographs, now on show at ACE Gallery.

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Visual Acoustics at the Nuart this Weekend

2009-10-15T16:35:46Z

Much has been said about the late great photographer Julius Shulman, but there is more to learn, and more to delight in, in Eric Bricker's movie, Visual Acoustics, a passion project many years in the making, that screens this Friday and Saturday ...

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LARC Award Winner Could be You

2009-10-12T03:50:52Z

When President Obama was told he'd won the Nobel Peace Prize last week, he was reportedly utterly astonished, having not even known he was under consideration. Few are the awards that spring out of blue like that; among the plethora of awards pro...

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From the Spoon to the City : Two LA Architects Discuss Design at Multiple Scales

2009-10-11T21:59:52Z

"From the spoon to the city" ("Dal cucchiaio alla città) is a slogan created in 1952 by the Italian architect and journalist Ernesto Rogers. He was describing the typical approach of a Milanese architect, who in the course of a day might work on a...

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Double-dose of LA Homes on Tour this Sunday

2009-10-02T21:53:59Z

It's an archi-licious Sunday this October 4 with two tours of LA residential architecture on the calendar, one in Silverlake, the other in Manhattan Beach. Join AIA/LA for its self-driven Fall Home Tour this Sunday, October 4th and see contempora...

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David Byrne Brings Pedal Power to LA

2009-10-01T19:19:10Z

There are times when you hear about something that seems to confirm the world has gone bonkers, like this article about a ban on cycling and walking to a school in Saratoga Springs. No wonder children are becoming obese and our carbon footprint g...

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Playful Craig

2009-09-25T20:51:49Z

Wolf Prix and Keith Richards notwithstanding (see below), in order to survive architects have to be, and appear like, grown-ups; after all, they are responsible for spending large amounts of other people's money and, unlike a movie, a building ca...

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Unfrozen Music

2009-09-25T20:04:43Z

A much-trotted out cliche is that architecture is "frozen Music" (a term variously attributed to Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe). Less well known is how many architects love or even pursue music as a second passion, some with c...

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The 60s Turn 50

2009-09-25T17:28:12Z

Angelenos don't like to grow old but it happens to us all, even our buildings, and even those that sprung up in the heat of LA's adolescence -- the 1960s (recall Mad Men's Don Draper on an episode a few weeks back talking about a recent trip to LA...

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WPA 2.0: Border Wall as Infrastructure and Other Ideas

2009-09-23T21:08:54Z

One of the most interesting US design projects unveiled this summer has to have been The High Line in New York, a disused rail line transformed into an instantly beloved, urban park. This reuse of defunct infrastructure represents the kind of imag...

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