Join us on Thursday, April 15th, for a lecture and live Q+A discussion with Adam Nathaniel Furman

Joyful Deviance

In collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design

Lecture is Free and Open to the Public

Adam Nathaniel Furman

Adam Nathaniel Furman is a London-based designer & artist of Argentine and Japanese heritage whose practice ranges from Architecture & interiors to sculpture, installation, writing, and product design. He co-runs the Saturated Space research group on colour at the Architectural Association, and was a studio master of Productive Exuberance at Central Saint Martins College of Art. Furman published the book Revisiting Postmodernism with Sir Terry Farrell for the Royal Institute for British Architects in 2018, and has written for numerous publications internationally. Presently, he is writing a new work for RIBA — “Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories”. Furman is also the recipient of several awards, including the Blueprint prizes for Design Innovation in 2014, Best Small Project in 2018, the UK Rome Prize for Architecture 2014-15, and FX Product Designer of the Year 2019. Furman’s work is in the collections of the Sir John Soane Museum, the Design Museum (London), the Abet Laminate Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, and continues to be exhibited in numerous cities around the world.

Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

Free Parking is available at the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Blvd.

Photos (Left to Right): Image of Adam Nathaniel Furman; Image of Gateways at London Design Festival (2017); Image of Nagatacho in Tokyo (2017).