Series - LA Forum

OUT THERE DOING IT 2011: AFTERIMAGE

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.

On the Map 2011 – Varying Degrees

ON THE MAP 2011 – Varying Degrees: Recent Projects in Higher Education
Higher education plays a major role in this country’s development and economic recovery. Around Los Angeles, academic institutions such a Caltech, UCLA, USC, and the Claremont Colleges have undertaken … | +

Out There Doing It 2010: In Medias Res

In Medias Res, “in the midst of things,” or “into the middle of affairs,” is a narrative device that begins a story in the middle or at the end. These events are staged as ongoing conversations in architecture, conversations in … | +

On the Map 2010: Habitation

The HABITATION series is an invitation to experience a form of living that is not necessarily yours, yet encourages critical examination of the players who develop, fund and inhabit Los Angeles from the inner city to the west side.

Field Reports 2009: Research & Deploy

Research & Deploy, The LA Forum’s fall lecture Series, examines the role of research in contemporary architectural practice.

Three Lectures on Architecture After Nature by John May

Three lectures by John May, Lecturer in the departments of Geography and Architecture at UCLA, on issues of Site and sustainability.

09.02.2009 Architecture After Nature|John May|Michael Osman|sustainability

Field Trips 2009: Backstage L.A.

BACKSTAGE LA examines different forms of infrastructure and their relationships to the global community of Los Angeles.

Out There Doing It 2008: Loose Talk

Partnering of presentations by Architects with follow-up discussions with generational predecessors.

On The Map 2008: Back to School – First Event

Thursday July 17,2008 7:30 $15.00 admission, LA Forum Members free
CNCA High School
3500 W. Temple Street
Los Angeles, CA 90004
Daly/Genik Architects
Conversation with Kevin Daly, Christopher Hawthorne, and Mark Hansen
Today, contemporary school designers face a crisis. Hamstrung by dwindling funding and … | +

Out There Doing It 2007

The next OTDI Lecture is scheduled for Thursday, November 1st at LACE Gallery.
Kivi Sotamaa, Sotamaa Design Ltd. & Florencia Pita, Mod
LECTURERS:
Kivi Sotamaa
Sotamaa Design Ltd., Finland & Columbus, OH
Kivi Sotamaa is Visiting Professor at UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design … | +

09.03.2007 Florencia Pita|Kivi Sotamaa|Mod|out there doing it

On the Map 2007: Extra Small Excess

This summer the LA Forum’s “On The Map” series draws from the spirit of excess celebrating the obsessive spirit of the small project, and maps a momentary constellation of Los Angeles projects that speak to larger aspirations than size.

Out There Doing It 2006

The Los Angeles Forum’s annual Out There Doing It lecture series provides a forum for alternative, young, emerging, experimental, research-based, and conceptual design practices to speak about their work before their peers. Listen to and join in dialogue with the speakers … | +

On the Map 2006

The Forum’s 2006 On the Map series focuses on houses and studios:
June 15: ONE-WINDOW HOUSE
Touraine + Richmond
2129 Linden Avenue, Venice 90291
June 22: URBAN BEACH HOUSE
Lee + Mundwiler
7 Vicente Terrace, Santa Monica, 90401
June 29: TR-1 HOUSE AND STUDIO
Cigolle x Coleman
17463 Tramonto … | +

Out There Doing It 2005, the Return

First held in 1989, the Forum’s OUT THERE DOING IT lecture series at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House has provided Los Angeles with a key venue for emerging design practitioners.
The names in the first … | +

On the Map 2005

During the months of June and July the Forum once again holds “On the Map,” a lecture series that intends to build a critical map of Los Angeles’s architectural milieu while providing access to some works that might otherwise remain … | +

New Spaces, New Cartographers

The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design launches its fall 2004 series, New Spaces and New Cartographers. New Spaces and New Cartographers examines the fields and networks defining contemporary spatiality together with the extraterritorial spaces remaining left over … | +

On the Map 2004

During the months of June and July the Forum will hold their annual “Out There Doing It” summer lecture series – now called “On the Map”- that will occur in recently completed architectural projects. This series intends to build a … | +

Out There Doing It 2002

This annual series has been an important showcase for emerging design talent in Los Angeles over the last fifteen years.
All lectures take place on Tuesdays at 7:30pm at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, 835 … | +

slippery when wet: specific conversation about generic conditions in los angeles

This series of evenings, dealing with architecture in the newly transformed city, take place at Woodbury University’s Center for Community Research and Design 6518 Hollywood Blvd. Street parking or paid parking in rear lot. Admission $7, Forum members. The evenings … | +

Out There Doing It 2001

For the last twelve years, Out There Doing It, the summer lecture series sponsored by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, has served as an important venue for emerging design talent. Set at the MAK Center for … | +

Out There Doing It 2000

This annual series, taking place at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, has been an important showcase for emerging design talent in Los Angeles over the last ten years. This year’s lineup included artists and … | +

Book Talk 2000

The spring 2000 lecture series, Booktalk, brought together LA writers on architecture and urbanism to discuss recent publications. The participants included:
Mary Ann Ray and Robert Mangurian, Wrapper: 40 Possible Surfaces for the Museum of Jurassic Technology(William Stout Publishers, 2000)
Peter Zellner, … | +

1997 Lecture Series INSIDE OUT: Critical issues in the Relationship of Architecture and Interior Design

LA Forum Spring 1997 Lecture Series
INSIDE OUT: Critical issues in the Relationship of Architecture and Interior Design
April 15 – ARCHITECTURE / INTERIOR DESIGN: THE DESIGN DIVORCE?
Panelists:
Barbara Barry, Interior Designer
Nancy Troy, Art Historian, USC
Judith Sheine, Architect and Author
Neil Denari, Architect
April 30 … | +

Out There Doing It 1989

Out There Doing It 1989
A Series of Lectures and discussions by independent practitioners in Los Angeles.
January 30: Franklin D. Israel
February 13: Aks Runo | Central Office of Architecture
February 27: Johnson/ Favaro, Michele Saee
March 27: Ron McCoy | Norman Millar
April 10: Neil Denari | Holt, … | +

History of LA Forum Series

Link to: History of Lectures + Symposia page.