On Thursday, May 17, from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Helms Bakery District and the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design are excited to host a presentation and discussion with Maxi Spina and Jia Gu of Spinagu.
On Saturday, May 19th between 4:00 and 6:00 pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts to celebrate the beautiful new Atelier Éditions publication International Signal Code Alphabet by Corita Kent. They will be hosting a discussion and book signing with Dr. Ray Smith, Director of the Corita Art Center, and artist, curator, and Kent scholar, Aaron Rose.
Join us on Tuesday, May 22 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm for a special celebration and installation of AIA|LA's student competition, 2x8: Interlaced. Stop by to view work by architecture students from across the region, honor the winners, and familiarize yourself with the city's next generation of designers.
In Wednesday, May 30th from 6 to 8 pm, please join Room & Board and the fiber-obsessed community from Knit Wit magazine for a special evening with Emily Katz, the Portland-based macramé phenomenon and author of the new book Modern Macramé.
On Thursday, May 31, from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Helms Bakery District and the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design are excited to host a presentation and discussion with Bryan Cantley of Formu:LA. Form:uLA is an experimental design practice owned by Bryan Cantley that attempts to blur the indeterminate zone between architecture and its representation.
On Friday, June 1 from 6 to 9 pm, please join us for Take 5: A Series of Creative Talks presented by our newest partner, Use All Five. This series of short creative presentations explores the 5 senses - sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch - in an effort to bring together creative innovators in various fields around LA, building a community across disciplines.
On Saturday, June 2, from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Helms Bakery District and the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design are excited to host a presentation and discussion with Christoph Kumpusch of Forward-slash / Back-splash \ ARCHITEKTUR. Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design Student Exhibition and Reception will precede the lecture.
Curatorial Hub is an online gallery featuring diverse and affordable works by well-known and emerging artists from Los Angeles and beyond. To complement its cyberspace-seat at curatorialhub.com, a new exhibition series in a brick-and-mortar outpost will launch in June at Arcana: Books on the Arts! The first show will feature artists David P. Earle and Emily Joyce, with an opening reception on Sunday, June 3rd from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.
How do next generation designers envision the future of their city and individual buildings within it? What are student designers' priorities for architecture? Which conventions will they break from and which will they choose to follow? These answers can be found in the winning entries of 2x8, the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles chapter's 2018 student competition, and revealed further in a corresponding live event on Thursday, June 7, from 6 to 8PM at the Helms Design Center.
