13 posts tagged “dna”
Los Angeles is seeing a sudden upsurge of digital billboards and supergraphics lining freeways, boulevards, and the sides of buildings. Thousands of ad stands are popping up along sidewalks. Is this the future of advertising or another form of visual blight? Are billboards just part of a healthy urban landscape? And, as Los Angeles considers a new sign ordinance amid a blizzard of lawsuits, how do we ensure everyone plays by the rules?
Join the Westside Urban Forum on Friday, March 20, 2009 to hear from all sides of this highly charged topic facing Los Angeles. WeHo Urban Designer, John Chase, will moderate a discussion with John Kaliski, Jane Usher, Paul Prezja and Paul Rohrer.
When: Friday, March 20, 2009 , 7:00am Registration, 7:45am-9:00am Program
Where: The Regency Club, 10900 Wilshire Blvd., 17th Floor, Los Angeles, CA
Members: $30 ($10 for full-time students with ID)
Guests: $45 ($15 for full-time students with ID)
More info here. Online registration is closed.
Boffi and LA Forum present a panel discussion: "DoubleVision: Identity vs. Perception" devoted to an exploration of convergent and divergent points in architectural, industrial and product design practices.
The discussion previews an exhibition entitled "Two Legends of Italian Design", which celebrates and chronicles the parallel histories of Ducati and Boffi.
Featured are new and vintage Ducati motorcycles alongside visionary Boffi kitchen and bathroom designs;
When: 6:30 - 8:00pm, Wednesday March 18.
Where: Boffi Los Angeles, 1344 4th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Reception to follow 8:00 - 10:00pm
Join James Rojas for a discussion on his installation, “Santa Monica Off the Grid." The model is a non-motorized transportation plan designed around the Subway to the Sea and Expo Light Rail.
Date: Saturday, March 14 at 6:00pm.
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: 18th Street Art Center
1639 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA. 90404
The Department of Architecture at Woodbury University announces Valley Summit II: Designing the SFV, February 12 & 13.
The conference will bring together a group of scholars and community design experts who will present strategies on how we might begin to understand and, potentially, augment the 345 square miles that constitute the San Fernando Valley.
Click here for more information and a schedule of events.
Otis College of Art and Design invites all Futurists (and the public at-large) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Futurist Manifesto, written by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The declaration was published on the front page of Le Figaro on February 20, 1909, and launched a cultural phenomena also referred to as the avant-garde movement.
Marinetti¹s legacy continues to exercise a vital and often controversial influence on the contemporary visual and literary worlds.
To commemorate the founding of Futurism, the Graduate Writing Program at
WHEN: Friday, February 20, 2009 from 8pm - 10pm
WHERE: Otis College of Art and Design, just north of LAX, at 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045.
Join the editors of Everyday Urbanism, Margaret Crawford, John Kaliski, and John Chase for a book signing and launch party for the new revised edition, with a panel discussion moderated by Patricia Morton.
Sponsored by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions).
Where: the LACE space, 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028 (public parking behind the building and the in City Parking Structure at 1718 Cherokee Street).
When: Thursday, Jan. 22, 7:30-9:00 PM
The passage in November 2008 of Measure R, a half cent sales tax in Los Angeles County, will provide as much as $40 billion for transit-related projects across the City of Los Angeles over the next 30 years. Meanwhile, U.S. President Barack Obama has pledged to make the largest investment since the 1950s to rebuild our nation's crumbling infrastructure.
Download the entry form
here.
Entries Due March 13, 2009 at 5pm; Winners Announced March 21 at SCI-Arc.
L.A. designer Michael Smith has been named the official interior
designer for the White House. Tune in Tuesday for DnA where we'll talk
about this presidential appointment.
Join the Friends of Hollyhock House for an evening celebrating the life and work of photographer, Pedro E. Guerrero. The photographer is best known for documenting the lives and works of Frank Lloyd Wright, sculptor Alexander Calder, and abstract expressionist Louise Nevelson. The event includes a hosted reception, a dialogue with the artist, and a screening of the new documentary "Pedro E. Guerrero, Portrait of An Image Maker."
January 16 at 6 pm. Find more information and make reservations here.
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