The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design presents Out There Doing It 2011: AfterImage. A provocation to cross-disciplinary conversation through expansion of the synergies between architecture and related design practices.

Architects today co-conspire with a host of key figures in a fluid exchange of imagination spanning from pre-design to post-occupancy.  Whether privately volleyed or publicly launched, these dynamic, ad-hoc, and non-linear exchanges provide the fuel that drives design and makes innovation possible. Through interrogating and encouraging these conversations, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design hopes to offer a greater understanding of how architecture is produced, assembled, and disseminated in the contemporary cultural milieu.

All lectures begin at 7:30pm at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House 835 N. Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

All lectures are free for LA Forum members, $5 for students & $10 for non-members. To pre-purchase tickets via Paypal, click here. All lectures are outdoors, please dress accordingly.

LAYER

Lisa Little and Emily White are co-founders of Layer, a Los Angeles based architecture practice. Layer’s approach to design is rooted in rigorous material experimentation and a sensitivity to the nuance of human perception. Current projects include a house in Venice, and installations at the Skirball Cultural Center and the New Children’s Museum in San Diego. Layer’s projects have also appeared in the 2010 California Design Biennial, Interior Design, The Los Angeles Times and at Materials & Applications.

Lisa’s work, at Layer and in independent projects, engages ambient phenomena through built form. She holds a Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She has worked as an associate at Patrick Tighe Architecture and as a designer in the office of Pugh+Scarpa Architects. She teaches design studios at Woodbury University. Previously, she was the director of a software development team at Discreet Logic and a hardware design engineer developing systems for film and television post production.

Emily has exhibited, lectured and published on topics ranging from manufactured islands to the history of code in fibrous architecture. Emily holds a Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and a B.A. from Barnard College. She has worked for Testa + Weiser and Naga Studio Architecture, Dubai, and has taught design studios at the University of Southern California, the University of California at Berkeley and Woodbury University. Emily is currently on the faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

ROEL SCHIERBEEK

Roel Schierbeek is a structural engineer working for ARUP in Los Angeles. His main interest lies in marrying the structural language of a project to its architectural intent. After having worked in the Netherlands, Roel joined RFR in Paris in 2005 where he worked on light weight roofs and facades, super high rise, footbridges and high profile competitions. He was asked to join the newly founded TESS in Paris as an associate in 2007, before moving to Los Angeles recently. He has worked extensively with architects such as OMA, morphosis, Gehry, Richard Meier & Partners and teaches structural engineering at SCI-Arc.

The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design presents Out There Doing It 2011: AfterImage. A provocation to cross-disciplinary conversation through expansion of the synergies between architecture and related design practices.

Architects today co-conspire with a host of key figures in a fluid exchange of imagination spanning from pre-design to post-occupancy.  Whether privately volleyed or publicly launched, these dynamic, ad-hoc, and non-linear exchanges provide the fuel that drives design and makes innovation possible. Through interrogating and encouraging these conversations, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design hopes to offer a greater understanding of how architecture is produced, assembled, and disseminated in the contemporary cultural milieu.

All lectures begin at 7:30pm at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House 835 N. Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

All lectures are free for LA Forum members, $5 for students & $10 for non-members. To pre-purchase tickets via Paypal, click here. All lectures are outdoors, please dress accordingly.

BUREAU FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

Bureau for Architecture and Design, recipient of the Burnham Competition Prize in spring 2011, is based in Los Angeles. For additional information please visit: www.b-a-d.us
Felix Monasakanian is a founding partner of Bureau for Architecture and Design.
Mohamed Sharif is a founding partner of Bureau for Architecture and Design and teaches in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA.

MONICA NOUWENS

Monica Nouwens is a Los Angeles-based Dutch photographer and video artist whose works are held in significant collections worldwide. Among those are Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Salvatore Ferragamo, Florence; Levi’s, London; Prada – U.S.A Corp, New York; Imaginary Forces, Los Angeles; OMA, Rotterdam; Michael Maltzan Architecture, Los Angeles and Bartle Bogle Hegarty, London. In addition to featuring in collaborations with Al Manakh, Icon, Re-Magazine and Volume, Nouwens’s images have appeared in several other notable publications including Archis, Blueprint, Surface and V-Magazine.

After completing an MFA at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and a postgraduate fellowship in Art Media Studies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Nouwens attended the California Institute of the Arts to study Film and Photography in 1993. At Cal Arts Nouwens developed a fascination with the gritty, noir atmospherics and alternative sub-cultures of the metropolitan landscape of Southern California. Examples of this subject matter were featured in ‘Rubbernecking’, Nouwens’s first solo exhibition, held at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam in 2001 and more recently in Angry: Young and Radical, a group show at the Netherlands Photography Museum, Rotterdam. Nouwens has also exhibited her work at Stedelijk Museum Helmond and Amsterdam; Gallery Paul Andriesse in Amsterdam; the MAK Center in Los Angeles; the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; and Trafalgar Square, London for World Aids Day.

Nouwens has taught at Cal Arts, Willem de Kooning Academy, OTIS College of Art and Design, University of California Irvine and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc); and has held workshops at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands and at UDEM, Monterrey, Mexico.

FUTURE LECTURES IN THE SERIES:

LAYER
with response by Roel Schierbeek
Thursday, 11/03

The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design presents Out There Doing It 2011: AfterImage. A provocation to cross-disciplinary conversation through expansion of the synergies between architecture and related design practices.

Architects today co-conspire with a host of key figures in a fluid exchange of imagination spanning from pre-design to post-occupancy.  Whether privately volleyed or publicly launched, these dynamic, ad-hoc, and non-linear exchanges provide the fuel that drives design and makes innovation possible. Through interrogating and encouraging these conversations, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design hopes to offer a greater understanding of how architecture is produced, assembled, and disseminated in the contemporary cultural milieu.

All lectures begin at 7:30pm at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House 835 N. Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

All lectures are free for LA Forum members, $5 for students & $10 for non-members. To pre-purchase tickets via Paypal, click here. All lectures are outdoors, please dress accordingly.

VOLKAN ALKANOGLU

Volkan Alkanoglu is an architect and designer based in Los Angeles. He studied architecture at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Peter Behrens School of Architecture in Düsseldorf and received his Master of Architectural Design degree with Distinction at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.

Before opening his own practice VA | DESIGN he has successfully collaborated in several architectural practices in Germany, United Kingdom, and the USA. VA | DESIGN is currently working on a broad range of international multidisciplinary projects.

Volkan Alkanoglu is a registered Architect with the AKNW in Germany, ARB in the UK and a LEED Accredited Professional (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) in the USA.

JAMES MICHAEL TATE

James Michael Tate received his Masters of Architecture from Yale University and Bachelors of Environmental Design from Texas A&M University. He has previously worked for MOS, Peter Eisenman, and Samuel Mockbee. Tate co-taught a studio with Michael Maltzan at Rice University this past spring; the experience motivated him to move to Los Angeles. Tate designs, makes, writes, and participates in a variety of architectural affairs. His current affinities include narratives, oppositional dialectic blends, seeking refuge in unsettled territories between art and architecture, the latent potentialities of history in contemporary experiments, and the Korean taco food-truck.

FUTURE LECTURES IN THE SERIES:

B.A.D. – BUREAU FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
with response by Monica Nouwens
Thursday, 10/27

LAYER
with response by Roel Schierbeek
Thursday, 11/03

The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design presents Out There Doing It 2011: AfterImage. A provocation to cross-disciplinary conversation through expansion of the synergies between architecture and related design practices.

Architects today co-conspire with a host of key figures in a fluid exchange of imagination spanning from pre-design to post-occupancy.  Whether privately volleyed or publicly launched, these dynamic, ad-hoc, and non-linear exchanges provide the fuel that drives design and makes innovation possible. Through interrogating and encouraging these conversations, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design hopes to offer a greater understanding of how architecture is produced, assembled, and disseminated in the contemporary cultural milieu.

DORIS SUNG

After receiving her B.A. at Princeton University and M.Arch. at Columbia University, Doris Sung worked in various offices in cities across the U.S. before arriving in Los Angeles in 2001.  She developed her research focus while teaching at University of Southern California (USC), the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), University of Colorado and the Catholic University of America.  In 1999, she opened her office, dO|Su Studio Architecture, and soon received many AIA and ASID awards for her work, including the prestigious accolades of AIA Young-Designer-of-the-Year and ACSA Faculty Design Award.  Currently, she is working on developing smart thermobimetals, an unfamiliar material to architecture, as a third skin (the first is human flesh, the second clothing and the third architecture).  Its ability to curl when heated allows the building skin to respond and mediate between our two natures: man and the environment. Funded by the national AIA Upjohn Initiative, Arnold W. Brunner Grant, Graham Foundation Grant and USC ASHSS and URAP Awards, Sung will install a large demonstrative sun-shading structure called “Bloom”, made primarily out of thermobimetal at the Materials&Application Gallery in Los Angeles in October 2011 in collaboration with Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter, architect and glass expert, and Matthew Melnyk, structural engineer.

JENNA DIDIER AND OLIVER HESS

Oliver Hess and Jenna Didier lead Didier Hess, a collaborative art practice that explores public experience, the built environment and the infrastructures created to tie those forces together. Hess and Didier are directors of Materials & Applications, a non-profit research center that functions as an outdoor exhibition space and community hub for the interface between architecture, art, and public space. Projects and events can be seen at emanate.org For nearly twenty years Jenna has worked in the water feature industry and is the principal of Fountainhead Water Feature Design and Engineering – fountainhd.com.  Fountainhead is a leader in sustainable design for water and specializes in integrating rainwater catchment technologies and on site storm water management into water features and the landscape. Oliver has spent nearly twenty years working in a field between visualization and mechanization, and posts thoughts on his website choubun.com.

All lectures begin at 7:30pm at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House 835 N. Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

All lectures are free for LA Forum members, $5 for students & $10 for non-members. To pre-purchase tickets via Paypal, click here. All lectures are outdoors, please dress accordingly.

FUTURE LECTURES IN THE SERIES:

VOLKAN ALKANOGLU
with response by Special Guest
Thursday, 10/13

B.A.D. – BUREAU FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
with response by Monica Nouwens
Thursday, 10/27

LAYER
with response by Roel Schierbeek
Thursday, 11/03

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House is located at 835 North King’s Road, West Hollywood. Lectures are free for members / $5 students / $10 professional non-members. To purchase tickets to the event, please click here

Malepensa; Image Courtesy Atelier Manferdini

In 2004 Elena Manferdini founded Atelier Manferdini, a design office based in Los Angeles, California. The firm has been highly visible as an advocate of design excellence and has been recognized internationally for its ability to create imaginative architecture, fashion and product design. The office is based on a multi-scale work methodology and embraces the philosophy that design can participate in a wide range of multidisciplinary developments that define our culture.

Currently the firm is designing a single family villa in Ascona (Switzerland), a 250,000 sq.ft. master plan in Macerata (Italy) including 80 apartments, a museum and an open theater. Atelier Manferdini has been selected to design a 150,000 sq.ft. residential tower in Guiyang (China) along with other 10 leading design firms from around the world. Recently the firm has collaborated in numerous industries with internationally renowned companies such as: Driade, MTV, Fiat, Nike, Alessi, Ottaviani, Moroso, Valentino, Arktura and Lerival.

In 2006 Ms. Manferdini was invited to design the West Coast Pavilion representing USA at the Beijing Biennale in the Chinese Millennium Museum. In 2008 and 2010, she curated the West Coast USA session of the upcoming Beijing Biennale exhibition. She has lectured widely, including at MIT, Princeton, and Bauhaus.  In addition to leading her design practice, for the past 7 years Ms. Manferdini has been teaching architectural design studios and technology seminars for the Graduate and Undergraduate programs at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Villa Nessi; Image Courtesy Atelier Manferdini

Dora Epstein Jones, Ph.D., is a theorist and teacher of architectural culture.  Her work mainly focuses on the discipline of architecture, and includes interrogations on the discipline’s boundaries and operations through examinations of tectonics, practice and pedagogy, as well as (generally external) concerns such as gender, sex, mobility and criticality.  She has published in Arch’it, ArcCa and other architectural journals, as well as written essays for publications by Office dA, UCLA Architecture and anthologies on gender and sex in architecture.  Ms. Epstein Jones holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History, Theory and Criticism and an M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA.  She is a research fellow of the Luce Foundation, the UC Regents and the AIA. Ms. Epstein Jones is a long-time collaborator with Jones, Partners: Architecture, and has often been a member of their exhibition and installation design team.  Ms. Epstein Jones is the past Coordinator of Cultural Studies, a department she helped organize and name, and a professor at SCI-Arc for the last 8 years.  She has taught many of the courses in the core undergraduate and graduate curriculums, and is an active member of the undergraduate thesis program.

In Medias Res Poster PDF.

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House is located at 835 North King’s Road, West Hollywood. Lectures are free for members / $5 students / $10 professional non-members. To purchase tickets to the event, please click here.

Image courtesy of ATWOOD

Andrew Atwood is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Southern California where he teaches graduate and undergraduate design studios in addition to courses in advanced computation and material technology. In 2009 he founded his Los Angeles based design firm ATWOOD, which explores the expanding roles, ambitions and ambiguities in architecture’s various mediums.

Marcelyn Gow is a partner and founding member of the architectural design collaborative servo. servo’s work focuses on the development of architectural environments integrating technical ecologies with shifting material states and electronic information infrastructures. Recent projects include an installation for the Seville Bienniale and a design for a hydrodynamic roofscape in Stockholm. servo’s work has been exhibited widely, notably at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Centre Pompidou and SFMoMA. Recent publications include a monograph Networks and Environments and projects in Digital Architecture Now, Hatch and Interactive Architecture.  Gow has lectured internationally and contributed to journals including Perspecta, Via and AD. She currently teaches graduate design studios and seminars at SCIArc and is a visiting professor at the KTH in Stockholm. Gow has also taught at UCLA and the ETH in Zurich.

In Medias Res Poster PDF.

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House is located at 835 North King’s Road, West Hollywood. Lectures are free for members / $5 students / $10 professional non-members. To purchase tickets to the event, please click here.

Frank Kim Residence. Image Courtesy B+U.

BplusU uses technology and research in combination with hands-on design and their projects are often informed by the mapping and transforming of imperceptible forces using sonograms. BplusU has developed analytic and generative software that has allowed them to implement their theories into three dimensional form. BplusU is on a continuous mission to research and experiment with new technologies, building materials and construction techniques using 3-d technology and manufacturing techniques, often from outside of the architectural profession.

City Futura. Image Courtesy B+U.

BplusU has worked on projects nationwide and abroad and is currently working on a variety of projects including City Futura – an urban development project for Milan, Italy (2030); a housing development in the United Arab Emirates; Soundcloud – an event structure in Downtown Los Angeles; the recently completed Frank/Kim residence in Pasadena and others. BplusU’s work has been widely published in magazines and books, including the recently released monograph of their work, Vectorfields. Their work was recently exhibited at the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice, the A+D museum in Los Angeles, the Milan Stadtkrone show, in Milan, Italy; at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna; and at the CCRD in Hollywood, California.

City Futura. Image Courtesy B+U.

Stephen Phillips, AIA, Ph.D. is Coordinator of the Los Angeles Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design and Associate Professor of Architecture at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; he is Design Principal in the California based firm Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS). Phillips has received numerous honors, grants, and awards for his work including most recently residential fellowships from the Scholars Program at the Getty Research Institute and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a Graham Foundation Grant, a Canadian Center for Architecture Research Grant, an ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, and an AIACCC Design Merit Award. Phillips publishes and lectures on architecture, media, and technology internationally, which includes chapters and articles in Grey Room, ArcCA, Brownbook, Elemente, Thirty Four, Cold War Hothouses, Surrealism and Architecture, eVolo and a forthcoming article in the Getty Research Journal. He has taught History, Theory and/or Design at UCB, UCLA, SCI-Arc, CCA, Penn, and Princeton. He recently completed his dissertation at Princeton University School of Architecture on the formative research practice of Austrian-American architect Frederick Kiesler, and is the author and editor of Studio Ambition, Research Practice Symposium, and the forthcoming books Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler’s Design Research Experiments and New LA Schools: A Site of Massive Change.

In Medias Res Poster PDF.

LA FORUM / BROODWORK: Outdoor Family
Saturday, August 14th, 2010,   1:00 pm to 5:30 pm

The LA Forum SUNBLOCK Series & BROODWORK present a three-garden tour of different opportunities for family interaction with the outdoors: a sustainable, architect-designed garden; an artists’-designed urban paradise; and a 30,000 sq. ft. community garden.  Each site includes an adult info session and a kid-friendly activity.

Tour starts @ 1pm / Meeting point:
3128 Atwater Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90039

Speakers include:

-Leigh Jerrard
Founder of Greywater Corps

-Eric Nelson
Founder and Director of The Outdoor Education Project

-Mark Vallianatos
Policy Director for the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College

Water and juice provided throughout/snacks at final destination

- Free for LA Forum members & children 18 and under
- $15 for single non-members
- $20 for families
- $5 for students
- CASH or CHECK payment only on day of event.
Advance-purchase tickets available.
Annual Forum Memberships available for purchase at event.

The LA Forum / Farmlab:  A Metabolic Pecha Kucha

The pecha kucha format (20 seconds per slide X 20 slides per presentation) tends toward a rapid-fire staccato of diverse ideas, interests, and projects. In the Metabolic Studio salon, the plan is to retain the volume of new thoughts and concepts thrown out, but to slow the pace at which they are digested by providing greater time and space in which audience and presenters can discuss the material; effectively blurring the line between presenter and audience as presenters are drawn from the long-standing audience of Metabolic salon attendees.

Hosted by LA Forum Board member Rick Miller.  Miller is a cultural geographer researching urban landscapes, both abroad, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia as well as locally in Los Angeles. The LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design has been operating pecha kucha events in LA since 2004.

Visit Farmlab website for info on this event.

Visit the Pecha Kucha website for more info about PK events.

marcosandmarjan is an experimental practice founded by Marjan Colletti and Marcos Cruz in 2000. Their investigations focus on the applicability of new design techniques and innovative construction technologies on architecture, and the development of new typological, topological, morphological, ecological, as well as ‘corpological’ conditions in complex building projects. They have done this though a variety of competition and exhibition projects, built and un-built commissions and a series of small-scale installations. New digital modeling and manufacturing technologies, including 2D and 3D processes, have been of particular relevance.

Built projects include two pavilions and the general layout for the 75th Lisbon Book Fair in Portugal in 2005 and the widely exhibited Nurbster series. More recently they also developed a housing project in Lisbon, a large entertainment complex in Beijing, and several competitions for the Middle East. With ‘Interfaces / Intrafaces’ their work was presented for the first time as a monograph within the scope of the iCP Consequence Book Series on Fresh Architecture from SpringerWienNewYork.