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Helms Bakery Partners With Saatchi Art To Feature Emerging Artist Kevin Bradley

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Robot World is a new exhibition of original works by Kevin Bradley and his Church of Type. On view inside the Helms Design Center gallery space from November 12 - 29, the exhibition continues Saatchi Art's series of shows around the world featuring today's most exciting emerging artists.

Free

LA Forum’s “Out There, Doing It” Series Continues At Helms Bakery

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

On Thursday, November 12th at 7:00pm, please join the LA Forum and the 2015 Out There Doing It participants for an “ideas potluck.” No need to bring a casserole, just bring your best questions, thoughts, concepts, and critiques. Four teams of emerging architects, designers, and curators will muse, discuss, and debate at Helms Design Center.

Free

Kao Pao Shu Sample Sale Comes to Helms Bakery

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

On Friday, November 6th and Saturday, November 7th, from 10:00am - 8:00pm, please join us for a Kao Pao Shu sample sale. Up to 80% off on the latest and previous collections of bags, ready-to-wear and accessories.

Free

LA Forum’s Out There, Doing It Series Comes To Helms Bakery

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design presents their 2015 Out There Doing It programming. The annual OTDI series brings together emergent design practitioners in dialogue. Join us on Thursday, October 15 at 7:30 pm as we partner with LA Forum for a conversation between OTDI participants moderated by Adam Dunn on the state of practice, exhibition, and cross-disciplinary experimentation.

Free

Helms Bakery Partners With Cal Poly Pomona Department of Landscape Architecture

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Join us on Friday, October 9th at 6:00pm for the LANDSCAPE AS NECESSITY debate series, showcasing the power of landscape architecture. The goal is to raise the profile of the profession in Los Angeles and beyond, as well as build public awareness and change prevailing perceptions about landscape architecture in the city. Most importantly, the series will create a landscape architecture community in Los Angeles that bridges the academy and practice.

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Helms Bakery Screens Making Space: 5 Women Changing the Face of Architecture

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

On Thursday, August 27th, Helms Bakery partners with the Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) and AIA Los, Angeles to bring you a series of films and conversations that explore how art, architecture and design influence our daily lives.

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Architecture & Design Film Festival: Gray Matters

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

On Thursday, June 4th, Helms Bakery partners with the Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) and AIA Los Angeles to bring you a series of films and conversations that explore how art, architecture and design influence our daily lives.

Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture.

Free

Lecture Series: Alvin Huang of Synthesis Design + Architecture

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Helms Bakery and the Cal Poly Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design Host a Free Lecture and Discussion Series:
Alvin Huang of Synthesis Design + Architecture

On Thursday, May 28th from 6:30 - 9:00pm, please join us in welcoming Alvin Huang, AIA - architect, educator, designer, and Founder and Design Principal of Synthesis Design + Architecture, an award-winning contemporary design practice focused on exploring design at the intersection of Performance, Technology and Craft. Alvin specializes in the integrated application of material performance, emergent design technologies and digital fabrication in contemporary architectural practice.

Lecture Series: Erin Besler of Besler & Sons

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Helms Bakery and the Cal Poly Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design Host a Free Lecture and Discussion Series:
Erin Besler of Besler & Sons

On Thursday, May 21st from 6:30 - 9:00pm, please join us in welcoming Erin Besler, co-founder and principal of the Los Angeles based design collective, Besler & Sons. Holding both a B.A. from Yale University and a M.A. of Architecture with Distinction from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Besler is a faculty member in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA, where she was the 2013-2014 Teaching Fellow.

Lecture Series: Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects

Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

Helms Bakery and the Cal Poly Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design Host a Free Lecture and Discussion Series:
Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects

On Thursday, May 14th from 6:30 - 9:00pm, please join us in welcoming Stanley Saitowtiz, partner, principal and founding member of San Francisco based firm, Natoma Architects. Saitowitz produces architecture as an un-programmed and indeterminate blank slate, which is highly refined and evolved.