This week's picks for LA architecture and design events

Planning ahead for another busy week in Los Angeles? Bustler put together a snappy list of architecture and design events happening around town. This week, hear lectures from SPACEGROUP's Gary Bates and Ferda Kolatan of SU11 Architecture+Design. The A+D Museum has a new exhibition spotlighting drawings of elevation studies by Atelier Manferdini. Down in Orange County, the Laguna Art Museum is showing a retrospective by esteemed artist Tony DeLap. Read on for our latest weekly event recommendations.

Lecture: Gary Bates, SPACEGROUP | March 7

Join Gary Bates, co-founder of Oslo-based architecture firm SPACEGROUP, for a lecture at USC.

Ferda Kolatan Lecture: In Pursuit of the Allusive Object | March 7

Ferda Kolatan is the founding director of SU11 Architecture+Design in New York City and an Associate Professor of Practice at the Graduate School of Architecture at PennDesign. This lecture will map this interest through work produced in his practice as well as through his academic teaching.

A Line of Inquiry: Elena Manferdini | Open now until April 20

“A Line of Inquiry” is a suite of elevation studies developed by Atelier Manferdini during the past three years. These drawings explore the potential of intricate scripted line work at the scale of building facades.

Tony DeLap: A Retrospective | Open now until May 28

Laguna Art Museum’s 2018 retrospective of DeLap’s work will include approximately eighty paintings, sculptures, and drawings, and the accompanying catalogue will survey DeLap’s career and influence. Tony DeLap is Orange County’s foremost living artist...A leading practitioner of Southern California minimalism and “finish/fetish,” he also played a part in the development of op art, hard-edge painting, the California Light and Space movement, and site-specific installation.

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