Bustler's editor picks for architecture & design events: Los Angeles, May 2-9
By Bustler Editors|
Monday, May 2, 2016
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There is always something exciting going on in the bustling City of Angels. Planning for another full week ahead? Bustler has compiled a snappy list of thought-provoking lectures, upcoming exhibitions as well as ongoing ones you might have not heard about yet, and other noteworthy happenings around town that are not to be missed. Check back regularly at the start of the week to stay up to date.
Have a look at the Bustler editorial team's list of Los Angeles recommendations for May 2-9.
AIA|LA Design Awards Tour: Blackbirds by Bestor Architecture | May 3, recommended by Alexis Petrunia
This Tuesday, check out Bestor Architecture's residential project in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. In an area that offers limited livable space, this multi-unit project is a progressive design solution for high quality dense housing in the popular location. The houses are under 1,930 square feet, are a mix of two and three bedrooms, and are built around a living street: a central courtyard that comprises both landscape and parking areas, as well as serving as the stage for larger community functions and play. The tour will take place tomorrow night at 5 p.m.
RELATED EVENT AIA|LA Design Awards Tour: Blackbirds by Bestor Architecture
Artist Talk with Kaari Upson | May 5, recommended by Amelia Taylor-Hochberg
Best known for her 11-years-and-counting multimedia work, “The Larry Project”, in which she constitutes a strange man’s identity from abandoned objects, Kaari Upson is a young artist practicing in Los Angeles. Her upcoming talk, hosted by the recently opened Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery in Los Angeles’ Arts District, should be an intriguing look into the artist’s practice, as well as a great opportunity to see the gallery.
RELATED EVENT Artist Talk with Kaari Upson
Design for Dignity: Changing The Housing Equation By Design | May 6, recommended by Alexander Walter
With the City of Los Angeles officially recognizing homelessness as a “crisis”, the Design for Dignity forum summons community leaders, architects, writers, and other creatives to put forward actionable steps to tackle this epidemic. The Los Angeles chapter of The American Institute of Architects hosts the event, and the impressive line up of session leaders and speakers includes Michael Maltzan, Michael B. Lehrer, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Peter Zellner, and Gale Holland among many others.
RELATED EVENT Design for Dignity: Changing The Housing Equation By Design
“Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home” Film Screening & Mental Health Discussion | May 7, recommended by Justine Testado
Catch a film screening of “Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home” at the Santa Monica Library. As mental well-being comes to the forefront of architectural discussions, the documentary sheds light on L.A.'s ongoing issue with homelessness and gentrification, as well as the negative changes to the mental healthcare system — which is supposed to be accessible to all citizens, especially to those without homes. Listen to the stories of eight individuals who have found a way to make a life for themselves in Skid Row amid the challenges of homelessness.
RELATED EVENT “Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home” Film Screening & Mental Health Discussion
The Logic of Riots | May 7, recommended by Nicholas Korody
Located on Chung King Rd in historic Chinatown, the Public School is one of LA's great “institutions” – although the word hardly fits for an informal, self-run, and non-hierarchical space dedicated to alternative pedagogy. This week Joshua Clover, author of Riot.Strike.Riot: the New Era of Uprising (Verso, 2016), will lead a discussion on the role of riots in shaping Los Angeles historically, as well as the future position of riots in urban politics.
RELATED EVENT The Logic of Riots
storefront: Public Fiction: The Poet and The Critic, and the missing | Open now until June 19, recommended by Paul Petrunia
What does it mean be “the artist’s museum” in a city filled with artist-run spaces and initiatives? LA's Museum of Contemporary Art is seeking the answer to this question in this ongoing project curated by LA's Public Fiction, a journal and roving exhibition that experiments with the idea of the exhibition as a medium. The project is ongoing, with Nancy Lupo, Litia Perta, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya taking over May 3, until June 6.
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