DELIRIOUS LA

October 8, 2015

LA Forum’s Fundraiser is October 25.

ForumFest 2015: Bridge, Tunnel, Channel.

ForumFest 2015: Bridge, Tunnel, Channel. parties on, under, and along the L.A. River’s infrastructure. Come celebrate the final days of the Sixth Street Viaduct and support the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

Join us in the Sixth Street Bridge tunnel for a carnival mood and festivities that include DJs, live music, and food trucks. Artistic and musical surprises in store.

This year’s ForumFest honors the Los Angeles River. We applaud the concrete channel as an important catalyst for change in the city and recognize the efforts of designers, activists, citizens, and politicians in reimagining this singular piece of infrastructure.

On view will be temporary installations by architects and designers featured in the Forum’s 2015 Out There Doing It series including, Typical Office (Duygun Inal and Ben Warwas), LA-BOR (Jia Gu and Jonathan Crisman), and PAR (Jennifer Marmon). Jai & Jai (Jomjai and Jaitip Srisomburananont) will present a curated series of video works by Chris Gassaway, Devin Gharakhanian, Nick Korody, Juanito Olivarria, Tomas Koolhaas, Akiko Yamashita, and art by Mike Nesbit.

Supporting the LA Forum means supporting architecture and urban design in an evolving city. ForumFest tickets and sponsorships underwrite our innovative programing: exhibitions, events, and publications.

Photo Courtesy of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

Out There Doing It Roundtable Discussion at Helms Bakery

October 15, 2015

Our annual OTDI series brings together emergent design practitioners in dialogue. Join us on October 15 at Helms Bakery for a conversation between OTDI participants moderated by Adam Dunn on the state of practice, exhibition, and cross-disciplinary experimentation.

Panelists include: Duygun Inal and Ben Warwas, Typical Office; Jia Gu and Jonathan Crisman, LA-BOR; Jennifer Marmon, PAR; Jomjai and Jaitip Srisomburananont, Jai & Jai Gallery

Territorial Repercussions: A One Day Conference about Feeding our Cities at NAC Architecture

October 10, 2015

“Territorial Repercussions” will explore the local interconnectedness between food and the city and how food and city as a unit could address the shift in locally available health food/care. We will focus on two issues related to food- health and its availability. In this one-day symposium we will interrogate/investigate two of the latent forces which shape the present situation. In defining latency, we seek to expose the borders, segregations, unmarked territories, and hidden barriers and obstacles. There is a need for making healthy food choices visible and accessible in areas that are currently highly compromised.

Urban SOS: All Systems Go at A+D Museum

October 15, 2015 – 6:00 PM

Urban SOS: All Systems Go is a global open ideas competition co-hosted by AECOM, Van Alen Institute, and 100 Resilient Cities—Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation. We called on multidisciplinary teams of students to envision more resilient food, water, and energy systems for supplying cities and regions today and in the future. This annual competition was created to engage students in urban planning and design, architecture, landscape architecture, environmental design, and engineering with the issues confronting modern cities and promote cross-disciplinary thinking in urban problem-solving among the emerging generation of designers. Now in its sixth year, the competition provides a platform for undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate students to propose solutions that will be seen by established professionals in their field.

2015 Core77 Conference: DESIGNING HERE / NOW

October 22 – 23, 2015

Join friends, colleagues and the insiders of L.A.’s design scene for a 3 day exploration of the spaces between design disciplines where today’s most impactful work is taking place. 22 design luminaries will present ideas and projects that are years ahead of schedule. They are changing the definition of designer in business, production, creative partnerships and what we can expect from the field in the near future. You’ll walk away inspired and connected, ready to redefine what it means to be a designer, here and now. The fun starts October 22nd.