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NYC - "Landscapes of Quarantine" (03.10.10 - 04.17.10)

Landscapes of Quarantine
Mar 10 2010 - Apr 17 2010
Opening reception: Tuesday, March 9, 7pm

Group exhibition exploring the spaces of quarantine, from Level 4 biocontainment labs to underground nuclear waste repositories.

Curated by: Future Plural
Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLOG
Nicola Twilley, Edible Geography

LA - Michael Sorkin: Pro Eutopia Event (02.17.10)

Lecture Series

Wednesday, February 17 at 7pm in the W. M. Keck Lecture Hall

Michael Sorkin: Pro Eutopia

Lecture introduction by SCI-Arc Director, Eric Owen Moss

Michael Sorkin is Principal of Michael Sorkin Studio, New York, and Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at CCNY. The Michael Sorkin Studio is devoted to both practical and theoretical projects at all scales with a special interest in the city and in green architecture.

Copenhagen's Bike-Friendly Culture

Check out this video of Copenhagen's kick ass bike culture/lanes/way-of-living by Street Films! I wish every city in the world would take the initiative to implement the infrastructure needed for such bike-friendly living. Aside from the obvious benefits to society, bicycling more would certainly also help reduce obesity and  air and noise pollution. [Thanks @lostart]

LA - Eames Demetrios Book Event (12.10.09)

LA - Eric Owen Moss Book Event (12.09.09)

ERIC OWEN MOSS
CONSTRUCTION MANUAL
1988-2008

Please join us Wednesday evening for a discussion, reception and celebration of publication of the newly-released monograph of the architecture of Eric Owen Moss.
 
December 9 at 7 pm
W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
Southern California Institute of Architecture
 
Frances Anderton, host of DnA on KCRW and Los Angeles editor of Dwell, will be in conversation with Moss, director of SCI-Arc and principal of Eric Owen Moss Architects, about his career and the work represented in the book.
 
The discussion will be followed by a reception and book signing. Book sales will be hosted by Hennessey & Ingalls; copies purchased at the event will receive a 10% discount.
 
More information about the event and publication can be found here. The discussion will be broadcast live online at sciarc.edu/live.
 
Parking is free. Lot and lecture entrance is at 350 Merrick Street, between 4th Street and Traction Avenue.

SF - Eames Demetrios' KCY Update, Book Signing, & Storytelling (12.07.09)

LA - MediaSCAPES Screening: 'Immersive & Expanded Cinema of Visual Music' (12.03.09)

SCI-ARC LECTURE

12.03.09 | SCI-Arc, W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
MediaSCAPES Screening: Immersive & Expanded Cinema of Visual Music

Thursday, Dec. 3, 7-8:30pm
W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
Southern California Institute of Architecture

SCI-Arc's MediaSCAPES program and the Los Angeles-based Center for Visual Music present an evening of immersive and expanded cinema exploring the evolution of visual works and sound.

LA - Andrew Holder Lecture (12.02.09)

SCI-ARC LECTURE

12.02.09 | W. M. Keck Lecture Hall 7pm

Andrew Holder: Drop It Like It's Fake: Architecture and the Necessity of Faux Science

Along with Claus Freyinger, Andrew Holder has been co-principal at the Los Angeles Design Group (LADG) in Hollywood, California since 2007. The LADG is a firm specializing in contemporary design at all scales, with particular expertise in a materialist approach to design problems, exploiting the properties of pragmatic building materials to create environments and objects that are tailored to generate a specific sensory experience.

LA - Downtown Art Walk Events (11.12.09)

LA - MAK Day (11.07.09)

PLEASE JOIN THE MAK CENTER AT THE SCHINDLER HOUSE FOR:

MAK Day
Saturday, November 7, 12-6 pm

MAK Center for Art and Architecture
at the Schindler House
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069

LA - Jean-Pierre Hébert's "Drawings as Thoughts" and Talk + deegan day design's "Blow x Blow" (10.23.09)

Friday Talk
Friday, October 23 at 1pm in the library

Jean-Pierre Hébert: Sketching Scripts, Scripting Drawings
Artist-In-Residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB

Jean-Pierre Hébert (b. 1939 in Calais, France) lives and works in Santa Barbara. From the 70s on, he has pioneered computational drawing and focuses on defining algorithmic drawing processes and translating them into images in traditional and new media. He has been artist-in-residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara since 2003, and has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award in 2006. More details on Hébert can be found here- http://www.sciarc.edu/faculty.php?id=273

This talk is held in conjunction with Jean-Pierre Hébert’s exhibition in the Library Gallery, Drawings as Thoughts.

Philip Johnson Glass House Oral History Project: Architecture & Influence

Architecture and Influence from Drew Harty on Vimeo.

'Architecture & Influence' is one of two new films produced for the Philip Johnson Glass House Oral History Project.  It features interviews with friends of Philip Johnson including starchitects and other creatives such as Robert A.M. Stern, Charles Gwathmey, Michael Graves, Vincent Scully, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and Jaquelin T. Robertson. 

At Home With John Mayer (Yawn)!

Elle Decor profiled musician John Mayer's Manhattan home. And it's a yawn. Following is their description of what you see above:

In the living area, the sofa, armchairs, lamps, cocktail table, and handknotted silk rug are all by Armani/Casa; the stool, made of woven water hyacinth, is from Apartment 48, and the velvet pillows are from ABC Carpet & Home.

OMFG... how boring! How can a young guy like John have the taste of a 72 year old Japanese woman? I'm not saying his home is ugly. It just doesn't fly for a young rock star's apartment. Someone's been living in hotel rooms for too long (this is a favored aesthetic of the MTV Cribs set). Nice guitar but it's hard to believe it rests there all the time. Really?!

Am I the only person who caught the solo interesting piece in the room?! Hello, editors! Thanks for the obvious shout out to Andy Warhol in the bedroom, but like, there's a kick ass Ryan McGinness piece hanging on the wall and it's getting no love from you decorator zombies. John, whomever picked up that piece for you should've decorated the rest of your home.

LA - A Walk in the City: A Conversation with UFI Fellows Alaa Khaled and Salwa Rashad (09.09.09)

THE MAK URBAN FUTURE INITIATIVE (UFI) PUBLIC FORUM SERIES PRESENTS:

A Walk in the City
A conversation with UFI Fellows Alaa Khaled and Salwa Rashad

Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Reception at 7 p.m.
Presentation begins at 7:30 p.m.
Event free with admission to the Schindler House

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, L.A.
Schindler House
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Admission: $7, $6 students and seniors
Free for Friends of the Schindler House

LA - Hammer Lecture: Hitoshi Abe (06.30.09)

LA - Dwell on Design (06.26.09 - 06.28.09)

Hey LA posse -

Dwell on Design at the Los Angeles Convention Center is this weekend, June 26-28! And it's going to be a jam-packed weekend of design, architecture, green activities, fun, and food! Following are some of this weekend's highlights:

Saturday, June 27
Movie Night - Featuring a screening of the Julius Shulman documentary Visual Acoustics and a  Q&A with director, Eric Bricker.

There will be a Mobile Restaurant Row with tacos, BBQ, hot dogs, shaved ice, and architectural ice cream sandwiches by Coolhaus. Are you good with sweet treats and tasty names? If so, enter the contest to invent their next flavor!

Sunday, June 28
Square Meal Sunday - Event devoted to design and food.

If you are interested in attending Saturday night's Movie Night, I have one pair of tickets to give away to a lucky reader. The tickets will get you into the movie and gain you entrance to dinner, but you'll still have to pay for your own food. Enter by leaving a comment telling us what neighborhood you live in. Remember to enter your email address. A randomly selected winner will be notified by Thursday at 6:00 p.m. PST. If you want to guarantee entrance, purchase a ticket with a special discount code for HOC readers:

Hustler of Culture
Exhibition Plus (Weekend Pass) only $10 with this special code: DWELL25C
Conference Plus (3 Day Pass) from $49 with this special code: DWELL976Y

Other links worth paying attention to:
Schedule-At-A-Glance
Conference Schedule
Mike Mills' Architecture of Reassurance
Alissa Walker's Q&A with Dan Pink, the DoD Keynote Speaker
Modern Family
Dwell on Design Twitter Feed

LA - 'The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive' Book Event (06.20.09)

The MAK Center at the Schindler House, Evil Twin Publications, and Fritz Haeg are pleased to co-host a book release celebration for The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive.

Saturday, June 20, 4-7 p.m.
Admission to this event is free.

Please join us for this very special event!

The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive will be unveiled at the Schindler House on Saturday, June 20, 4-7 p.m. Published by Evil Twin Publications, The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive is a comprehensive archive and account of the Sundown Salon series that ran from spring 2001 through fall 2006 in the home of Los Angeles artist Fritz Haeg.

This event at the MAK Center will be accompanied by performances and activities led by local artists.

NYC - "Reef" (06.02.09 - 07.25.09)

REEF, AN INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION BY ROB LEY & JOSHUA STEIN
JUNE 2 - JULY 25, 2009
OPENING: TUESDAY JUNE 2, 7-9.30pm

'Reef', an interactive installation at Storefront for Art and Architecture by LA-based architects Rob Ley and Joshua Stein, investigates the role emerging material technology can play in the sensitive reprogramming of architectural and public space. Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs), a category of metals that change shape according to temperature, offer the possibility of efficient, fluid movement without the mechanized motion of earlier technologies.

LA - "The Isle" (05.27.09 - 08.23.09)

The MAK Center Presents:

The Isle by Pages (Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi)
Exhibition Explores Paradoxes of Iranian Luxury Island

Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 27, 7 - 9 pm

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, L.A.
Schindler House
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069
323-651-1510
office@makcenter.org
www.makcenter.org

LA - Journey Into Kcymaerxthaere (05.20.09, 05.21.09, 05.27.09, 05.28.09)