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Cisco Home and Burntsienna Research Society have curated a collection of books centered around Design & Art in California for the Los Angeles Design Festival.
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L.A. GOAL, a non-profit organization committed to creating opportunities and equity for adults with developmental disabilities so they can live more fulfilling lives, presents Moving Together, an inclusive art exhibit exploring the theme of "movement" through various art forms.
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Join Cal Poly SLO LA Metro for a reception, lecture, and discussion with Jennifer Bonner: “Dollhouses, Candy, and Blanks OR Roof Plans, Domestic Still Lifes and Cross Laminated Timber”
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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.
On Thursday, May 18th at 7:45 am, please join Westside Urban Forum at the Helms Design Center for a breakfast reception and discussion about how different cities are responding to the shifting landscape of outdoor dining.
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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.
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.
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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.
Material Encounters in partnership with PLP So Cal is delighted to welcome Christopher Bardt, AIA, to discuss his recent book, Material and Mind in which he delves deeply into the interaction of mind and material world, mediated by language, image, and the process of making.
On Thursday, March 23rd at 7:45 am, please join Westside Urban Forum for a breakfast reception and panel discussion about Measure ULA, affordable housing and homelessness initiatives.
