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Pamphlet 6: Meet the Nelsons, by Wes Jones
Meet the Nelsons documents “The Nelsons,” Wes Jones’s notorious comic strip that appeared in ANY Magazine (Architecture New York) from 1994 to 2001. Pamphlet 6 in our pamphlet series follows the LA Forum exhibition of the same name held in Summer 2009. 01.16.2010 ANY magazine|comic art|Cynthia Davidson|Meet the Nelsons|Mohamed Sharif|Wes Jones |
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Pamphlet 5: Pendulum Plane, by Oyler Wu Collaborative
This Pamphlet documents the design, fabrication, and installation of Oyler Wu Collaborative’s Pendulum Plane, their bold, competition-winning intervention at the L.A. Forum’s new gallery in Hollywood. 08.01.2009 Liner|Oyler Wu Collaborative|Pamphlet series|Pendulum Plane|Todd Gannon |
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Pamphlet 4: After The City, This (Is How We Live), by Tom Marble
Using the structure of a screenplay to tell the story, architect Tom Marble takes the reader inside the minds of the people on both sides of the development conflict – those seeing land as a commodity for profit, and those who see it as a valued resource for all to enjoy. 12.01.2008 community|development|real estate|screenplay|Southern California|suburbs|Tom Marble|Urbanism |
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Pamphlet 3: Polar Inertia, by Ted Kane
Architect Ted Kane takes a critical look at how city life predicated on total mobility and utterly dependent upon the corporate-controlled wireless world is expanding the meaning of urbanity while constricting the bedrock virtue of citizenship. 03.01.2008 ecology|RV's|taco trucks|Ted Kane|The Architecture of Four Ecologies|urban systems |
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Pamphlet 2: Out the Window (LAX)
In Forum Pamphlet 2, contemporary artist Zoe Crosher takes the viewer on an exploratory journey inside the impersonal and transient travel world surrounding the mega international airport, LAX. 07.01.2007 hotel|LAX|Pamphlet series|photography|Zoe Crosher |
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Pamphlet 1: Dead Malls
The Forum announces a return to its printed pamphlet series, beginning with a pamphlet for the Dead Malls competition. Featuring the work of all five finalists in color as well as other entrants in the competition, this pamphlet critically investigates … | + 05.13.2003 Dead Malls|shopping mall|Stoner Meeks|typology|Central Office of Architecture |
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Building Paranoia: The Proliferation of Interdictory Space and the Erosion of Spatial Justice
Case studies documenting the privatization of what was once public space though methods such as street barricades, fortification, security systems, etc. 01.15.1994 case study|John Kaliski|public space|Steven Flusty |
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Los Angeles and the L.A. School by Marco Cenzatti
Los Angeles and the L.A. School by Marco Cenzatti accompanied by a reproductions of a painting series on Los Angeles, “Skycam,” by artist Peter Alexander. Designed by Christopher Vice. Cenzatti introduces the work of a group of … | + 01.01.1993 Allen Scott|Edward Soja|Los Angeles|Los Angeles School|Marco Cenzatti|Michael Storper|Peter Alexander|Skycam|Susan Christopher|Urban Theory|Urbanism |
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Los Angeles Boulevard: Eight X-Rays of the Body Public by Douglas R. Suisman
A 72-page pamphlet divided into eight in-depth analyses of Los Angeles’ Boulevards. 01.01.1989 Douglas R. Suisman|El Pueblo|Hollywood|hollywood boulevard|Los Angeles Boulevards|Los Angeles history|public space|Sunset Boulevard|Urbanism|Wilshire Boulevard |
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35mm Works by Photographer Grant Mudford
A book of twenty of Mudford’s black and white photographs of every day architecture in several American cities, including Los Angeles. The book was designed and handbound by architect Gary Paige. Released in Spring, 1988. Both photos: Los … | + 04.01.1988 architectural photography|Gary Paige|Grant Mudford |
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The Ecology of Fantasy by Margaret Crawford
An essay describing the relationship between theme parks and modern American urbanism. This essay discusses how Reyner Banham’s autopia acts as a device for facilitating the melding of Jean Baudrillard’s hyper-reality, as embodied by themed environments such as Disneyland’s Main Street, into the true reality of urban Los Angeles. 01.01.1988 autopia|Disneyland|ecology|Jean Baudrillard|Reyner Banham|The Architecture of Four Ecologies|themed environments |
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Swimming to Suburbia: Some Thoughts on the New City and How it Came to be That Way by Craig Hodgetts
L.A.’s streets and avenues are stitched together from a mosaic of discrete city grids which are discontinuously linked by dislocations, swerving axes and polar rotations. These grids open vistas, frame trivialities and reveal anomalies. It is a system of altercations and inconsistencies—of thoughtless breadth and pragmatic anticipation which has bred, albeit carelessly, the culture of cruising, hatchbacks and convenience corners which exemplify the present vision of the future city. 01.01.1987 Craig Hodgetts|Los Angeles Urbanism|Swimming to Suburbia |