Innovators in California architecture take part in M&A exhibition, opening tomorrow in Long Beach

Heads up to our Angeleno readers looking for weekend plans, come to the opening reception of "Materials & Applications: Building Something (Beyond) Beautiful, Projects 2002 - 2013", taking place from 6 to 8 p.m at the University Art Museum in Cal State Long Beach.

Starting tomorrow, the M&A exhibition will feature works of the most active, up-and-coming names in California architecture. The show is free and open to all, and will run until April 13, 2014.

Catch a preview of the show right below.

"'Materials & Applications: Building Something (Beyond) Beautiful: projects, 2002-2013' is a survey of the last 11 years of landscape and architecture experiments at Materials & Applications. Spanning from the first groundbreaking party to the present (and beyond), models, prototypes, installation components, rare images and more reveal a multifaceted inquiry into the potential for new and underutilized approaches to transform the built environment.

From the cutting edge of smart materials, robotics, & computational design; to the underutilized traditional materials of bamboo, felt, and pressure-formed plywood, a handful of the California's top young architects helped cement M&A as a hotbed for innovative ideas."

Exhibitors include:

• Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues
• Marcelo Spina (PATTERNS)
• Oyler Wu Collaborative (Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu)
• Jimenez Lai
• Rob Ley
• Doris Sung, with Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter and Matthew Melnyk
• Gail Peter borden
• Layer (Lisa Little and Emily White)
• FoxLin (Michael Fox and Juintow Lin), NONDesigns (Scott Franklin and Miao Miao) and Brand Name Label (Gabriel Renz)
• Axel Kilian, and Darius Miller
• Jenna Didier with Ian Quezada and Daniel Ash
• Anja Franke, John Southern, and Nick Blake
• Edmund Ming-Yip Kwong
• Eddy Sykes
• Didier Hess with Workshop LEVITAS
• Francois Perrin

All photos courtesy of Materials & Applications.