Edited by Tom Marble
After the Second World War, cities devastated by the conflict had to rebuild themselves. Los Angeles, devastated by self-inflicted Urban Renewal, began the rebuilding process soon after. This issue examines the several ways in which corporate architects … | +
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.
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 … | +
Please join the LA Forum on Thursday June 27 – for our 6th lecture in 2006’s On The Map series.
This week we visit the White Marble Residence by Tom Marble and Pae White.
The White Marble residence is a cabinet of curiosities. Each … | +
1. In the hullabaloo surrounding proposed changes to the historic Huntington Hartford Gallery at Two Columbus Circle, Ada Louise Huxtable, longtime architectural critic for the New York Times, famously dismissed the Edward Durrell Stone landmark as possessing “dubious architectural … | +
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Back to Forum Issue 4: Consuming the City
The inaugural issue of Forum Annual is now available. It marks the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design’s first print periodical after a five-year absence. Forum Annual is our reaction to a void we perceive in the city. … | +
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 … | +