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Small Infrastructures: Exhibition & Panel Discussion

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Free
Small Infrastructures is an exhibition of ADU designs that uses the economics of building assembly as the groundwork for experimentation and addresses how cities can work with architects to build quality, affordable housing under the American Jobs Plan. Ten architects teaching at Harvard GSD and Berkeley CED consider the overlaps between academia, where cost is often external to conceptual work, and practice, where budgeting is an integral task.

Seeding the City: Nature’s Story

Helms Bakery District 8800 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, United States

Free
Join us on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22nd, 2023 from 12:00 noon to 5:00 PM for a full day of playful visualizations to spark your (re)connection with nature.

Westside Urban Forum Breakfast Talk: Mayor Bass’ State of the City

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

On Thursday, April 27th at 7:45 am, please join Westside Urban Forum at the Helms Design Center for a breakfast reception and panel discussion about Mayor Bass's State of the City Address.

Kohler Design Open House

Kohler Signature Store 3250 Helms Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Join Kohler Signature Store on April 28th and 29th for a complimentary private consultation on bathroom design.

Book Signing at Arcana with Ed Templeton for Wires Crossed

Arcana: Books on the Arts 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA

Free
Please join us Saturday, May 6th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for a very special book signing with artist / photographer / skate legend – and all-around awesome human being – Ed Templeton! Hot off the presses, his latest is the years-in-the-works Wires Crossed, which documents nearly twenty years of life on the road with some of the most notable skaters of his generation.

A reception, lecture, and discussion with Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Free
Join renowned architect Lorcan O’Herlihy and Stephen Phillips, Director of Cal Poly Metro Program, for an innovative discussion about Architecture and Design. O’Herlihy has built a robust portfolio of work rooted in embracing architecture’s role as a catalyst for change. Enacting a powerful alliance of inventive designs with vigorous social ideals, O’Herlihy’s work prospers whether it is supportive affordable housing in South Los Angeles, working with grassroots neighborhood advocates in Detroit, or designing cultural institutions like Chapman University Dance School.

A reception, lecture, and discussion with Nima Javidi and Behnaz Assadi of JA Architecture Studio

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Free
JA Architecture Studio, a Toronto-based practice led by Iranian-Canadian architect Nima Javidi and landscape designer Behnaz Assadi, combines the rootedness of a local architecture firm with the broad interests of an international design studio. From small to medium sized buildings that confront detail-level building constraints to ambitious international competitions, the studio’s work tries to find meaningful tangencies between iconographic, geometrical and formal properties of architecture of different backgrounds and invests in inventing new architectural hybrids as responses to the diverse realities of 21st century cities.