This week's picks for LA architecture and design events
By Justine Testado|
Monday, Sep 25, 2017
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Wondering where design-inclined folks are gathering around Greater Los Angeles? September marks the beginning of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, which is celebrating Latin American art in dialogue with the city of Los Angeles. More architecture schools have already kicked off their Fall 2017 lecture series events as well. Have a look at Bustler's latest event picks for L.A., and check back regularly for more event recommendations.
Mark Wigley: Anarchitecture 101.5 - Cutting Matta-Clark | September 26
As part of SCI-Arc's Fall '17 lecture series, Mark Wigley — architecture professor and Dean Emeritus of Columbia GSAPP — will give a lecture about architect-turned-artist Gordon Matta-Clark. “[Matta-Clark's] surgical interventions into buildings relentlessly disturb assumptions about space and social life. Yet the mythology of architect-turned-artist Matta-Clark veils the full radicality of the work. The mystique of anarchitecture gets in its own way.”
RELATED EVENT Mark Wigley: Anarchitecture 101.5 - Cutting Matta-Clark
HOME – So Different, So Appealing | Closing on October 15
There's still time to check out LACMA's “HOME – So Different, So Appealing” exhibition! From Pop Art to 'anarchitecture', “this exhibition features U.S. Latino and Latino American artists from the late 1950s to the present who have used the deceptively simple idea of 'home' as a powerful lens through which to view the profound socioeconomic and political transformations in the hemisphere.”
RELATED EVENT HOME — So Different, So Appealing
Condemned To Be Modern | Open now until January 28
“Condemned To Be Modern brings together the work of 21 contemporary artists who have responded critically to the history of modernist architecture in Latin America. In works produced during the last two decades, these artists explore the effects, contradictions, and contested legacies of modernism in Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico...”
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