POSTOPOLIS! LA

A live 5-day blogathon in Los Angeles with back-to-back discussions, interviews, panels, slideshows, films and parties designed to push the architecture and landscape conversation from virtual to reality. Tuesday, March 31 – Saturday, April 4, 2009 (during Los Angeles Art Weekend) Postopolis! LA follows in the footsteps of the first groundbreaking Postopolis!, which took place in New York in May 2007 and was attended by several thousand people over a period of five days. Postopolis! LA is an opportunity to reflect on how blogs participate, redefine and sometimes even lead the architectural conversations that are happening today on the street, in the schools, and in practicing design firms around the world. http://www.storefrontnews.org/event_dete.php?eventID=87 Tuesday, March 31

5:00pm: Fritz Haeg, Artist and Writer
5:40: Patrick Keller, Architect and Principal, Fabric
6:20pm: Yo-Ichiro Hakomori, Architect and Principal, wHY Architecture
7:00: BREAK
7:20: Dwayne Oyler, Architect and Principal, Oyler Wu Collaborative
8:00: Michael Dear, Professor of Geography, USC
8:40: Jeffrey Inaba, Architect and Principal, Inaba Projects
9:20: BREAK
9:40: Postopolis! LA Welcome Remarks, Joseph Grima (Storefront for Art and Architecture) and Bettina Korek (ForYourArt)
10:00: Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG), David Basulto (Plataforma Arquitectura/Arch Daily), and Bryan Finoki (Subtopia)
10:20: Jace Clayton (mudd up!), Dan Hill (City of Sound), and Régine Debatty (we make money not art)


Wednesday, April 1

5:00pm: Mary-Ann Ray, Architect, Writer, and Principal, Studio Works Architects
5:40: David Gissen, Theorist and Historian, CCA
6:20: Whitney Sander, Architect and Principal, Sander Architects
7:00: BREAK
7:20: Sharon Johnston & Mark Lee, Architects and Principals, Johnston MarkLee
8:00: Robert Miles Kemp, Designer and Principal, Variate Labs
8:40: Freya Bardell & Brian Howe, Principals, Greenmeme
9:20: BREAK
9:40: Ted Kane, Architect and Writer
10:20: Stephanie Smith, Founder, Ecoshack


Thursday, April 2

5:00pm: Austin Kelly, Principal, XTEN Architecture
5:40: Orhan Ayyüce, Architect, Blogger, and Senior Editor, Archinect
6:20: Ava Bromberg, Just Space(s)
7:00: BREAK
7:20: Ben Cerveny, Principal, AFK Lab
8:00: Steve Roden, Musician and Artist
8:40: Gary Dauphin, Writer and Critic
9:20: BREAK
9:40: Benjamin Ball & Gaston Nogues, Architects and Founding Partners, Ball-Nogues Studio
10:20: Mike the Poet, Poet and Writer


Friday, April 3

5:00pm: Michael Downing, Deputy Chief of Counter Terrorism, LAPD
5:40: Bryan Boyer, Organizer, Helsinki Design Lab 2010
6:20: Ari Kletzky, Founder, Islands of LA
7:00: BREAK
7:20: Eric Rodenbeck, Founder, Stamen Design
8:00: Matthew Coolidge, Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation
8:40: Christopher Hawthorne, Architecture Critic, Los Angeles Times
9:20: BREAK
9:40: David Burns, Austin Young, and Matias Viegener, Founders, fallen fruit
10:20: Ken Ehrlich, Artist and Writer


Saturday, April 4

4:20pm: Benjamin Bratton, Architect and Theorist
5:00: Christian Moeller, Artist
5:40: Interactive Arts Panel: Sean Dockray, Dan Goods, Daniel Rehn, and Jay Yan
6:20: Media Panel: Matt Chaban (Architect's Newspaper), Dakota Smith (Curbed LA), Alissa Walker, Greg J. Smith, and Christina Ulke (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest)
7:00: Photography Panel: Catherine Ledner, Misha Gravenor, Dave Lauridsen, Tom Fowlks, and Gregg Segal
7:20: BREAK
8:00: Archinect School Blogger Panel: Moderated by Paul Petrunia, Founder, Archinect
8:40: Magazines Panel: Sam Grawe, Editor-in-Chief, Dwell, and Zach Frechette, Editor-in-Chief GOOD
9:20: Closing Party