12 posts tagged “frances anderton”
Probably LA's biggest contribution to architectural history is its residential design (think Irving Gill, Rudolf Schindler, Greene and Greene, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wallace Neff, Gerard Colcord, John Lautner, Cliff May, Frank Gehry, the list goes on and on. . .), and a new generation of architects is continuing to test ideas here. On Sunday, you can get to peek inside some of the recent creations on the Westside, on the AIA self-guided tour, The Herron Residence by Michael Lee Architects (Michael Lee, AIA), King Residence by John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (John Friedman, FAIA; Alice Kimm, AIA), Painted Light Studio by by Jennfier Wen Architecture (Jennifer Wen, AIA), and Venice Prefab by Jennifer Siegal of OMD are the four homes that will be showcased on the May 3rd AIA/LA Spring Tour. Tickets are NO LONGER available via web, so there is no relevant address. Tickets are available only by physically going to WILL CALL between 11:00AM and 1:00PM.
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.
Shanghai is currently building nine communities that are "self-sufficient" satellite cities. Residents can live, work and shop close to home, eliminating the need to travel to Shanghai. The initiative is called "One City, Nine Towns." Each town is modeled after a different European city.
On Wednesday, January 21, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture is presenting Heterotopias: Themed Environments in Shanghai and Los Angeles. The event features Xiangning Li, a UFI fellow and urban theorist whose research focuses on the transplantation, application, adaptation and distortion of Western models in China.
Li’s research is aimed at evaluating the consequences of such “themed” urban environments. During his UFI residency in Los Angeles, he has found an abundance of examples for comparative analysis, from Disneyland’s Main Street USA to the canals of Venice, California. Examining both the positive and negative aspects of these themed environments, Li has identified lessons for Shanghai as it grows and expands.
Find out more about the event here.
London, where I spent my college years, has long been a buzzing center of art and design that has generated plenty of interesting architectural ideas (Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and many other architectural luminaries were schooled there) but little exciting new architecture – thanks to want of space, limited opportunities for young architects and tyrannical design review. Most notable new buildings in the last 30 years seemed to be high tech: exquisitely engineered but often rather soulless, transparent glass and lacey steel structures. Well, all that’s changed, according to LA’s own Sam Lubell, California editor of the Architects Newspaper and author of the new book, London 2000+. He has sought out a diverse array of new buildings, among them office towers in the high-tech tradition by the likes of Norman Foster but also art-inspired statements like the Rivington Place visual arts complex by younger talents like David Adjaye (heard on last month’s DnA on Obama’s victory and what it could mean for cities). Lubell will be talking about his findings and signing books tonight at the new LA Forum HQ at 6520 Hollywood Boulevard (just East of LACE).
DESIGN SCRIBES UNITE
Lubell is a member of the small club of Angelenos, including yours truly, who write about design and architecture in LA; and almost that entire membership gathered this past Monday at GOOD magazine’s new HQ on Melrose to read from their own works (organized by de LaB, "design east of La Brea"). If audience appreciation had been quantified by a laughometer, the stars of the evening were the Curbed LA duo of Marissa Gluck and Josh Williams on “hideous” homes for sale, which snarkily mocked other people's taste; the City of Weho’s urban designer John Chase on a very strange personal encounter, and a quite brilliant rap about LA’s recession-hit design world by the de LaB event’s organizer Alissa Walker (also DnA’s own associate producer). Some of us will be back at GOOD next Thursday, December 18, to go one better on observing LA; rather we’ll be offering up ideas for how to improve it!
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