co-sponsorship

The Forum has a long history of cosponsoring events with other organizations.

American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles Chapter.
The AIA/LA and the Forum jointly organized in October 1991 a debate "Voyant: An Exchange of Conspiratorial Viewpoints" between architects Eric Owen Moss and Thom Mayne. In 1994, the AIA/LA awarded the LA Forum its Educator of the Year award.

National Organization of Minority Architects.
In November 1992, the Forum and NOMA co-sponsored a discussion panel, "Alternative Disorders" focusing on the causes and impacts of the April Unrest and alternatives for rebuilding L.A.

Society of Architectural Historians/Southern California Chapter.
In February 1993, the Forum joined the Society of Architectural Historians to sponsor a tour of homes designed by renown African American architect Paul Williams and a lecture by his granddaughter, Karen Hudson. Los Angeles Conservancy. The Fall/Winter 1992 series "That Other Stuff: L.A. Vernaculars" involved members of the L.A. Conservancy's Modern and Post-World War II Committee.

Association for Women in Architecture.
For the Summer 1993 lecture series the Forum worked with the AWA to present discussions with practicing women architects and theorists.

Museum of Contemporary Art.
Coinciding with MOCA's "Urban Revisions" exhibition, MOCA's Architecture and Design Council and the Forum will co-sponsor a day-long symposium,"Urban Design, Urban Theory and Urban Cultural" which will explore the nature of contemporary urban life and culture as an entry point into current urban design strategies.

Southern California Institute of Architecture.
SCI-Arc and the Forum joinly sponsored a panel titled, "Artists, Architects, and Public Art" on the on-going debate which originated in Culver City on the question of whether architecture is art under that city's public art ordinance.

Santa Monica Museum of Art, LACE, CLUI, the MAK Center, SCI-Arc, and Woodbury University have generously provided meeting space for lecture series.