Modernism at Risk Open House, June 18th

FORM VIDEO: 6th Street Bridge: A Bridge to the Future, with Alex Ward, AIA, of Friends of the Los Angeles River and lxw design

FORM: pioneering design magazine video with Alex Ward, AIA of lxw design and Chairman of Friends of the Los Angeles River(FoLAR). Read the piece on Friends of the Los Angeles River with Lewis MacAdams, FoLAR's cofounder. Find it in FORM magazine's Mar/April 2011 Infrastructure issue.
The piece is also located on YouTube

A production of FORM Video Services

>For more on infrastructure, RSVP to the April 7 issue event at Perkins+Will with Friends of the Los Angeles River. A panel discussion will explore how infrastructure impacts the human experience, the environment and the economy. Moderator will be Jack Skelley, architecture/design/urbanism journalist and FORM contributor. Click here to fill out the RSVP form

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LA's Central City Association Architects Panel Showcases the Evolution of the Architecture Business

By James Brausell, Guest Contributor

The Central City Association today gathered for the monthly meeting of the organization, focusing on architecture in an architectural showcase panel entitled, “Looking Up, Moving Forward.”

The panel may have been more aptly named, “Looking to Integrate, Moving International,” with the panel focusing mostly on opportunities to engage architecture with infrastructure, along with cultural and social institutions, in international cities and domestic locations other than the city and county of Los Angeles. According to Alice Kimm, of John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects, the recession requires that architects to ask, “How do we identify ourselves in our work in the world out there?”

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EVENT: Central City Association LA's Architects Panel: Looking Up, Moving Forward - Thursday, Nov 18

Central City Association of Los Angeles presents:
CCA’s Architects Panel: Looking Up, Moving Forward

Thursday, November 18, 2010
11:00 a.m. Registration & Architectural Showcase
12:00 p.m. Luncheon & Panel Discussion
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Gabrielle Bullock, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP - Perkins + Will
Nathan B. Cherry, AIA, AICP, LEED AP - RTKL Associates Inc.
Robert Hale, FAIA - Rios Clementi Hale Studios
Alice Kimm, FAIA - John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects, Inc.
Mia Lehrer, FASLA - Mia Lehrer + Associates
Michael Maltzan, FAIA - Michael Maltzan Architecture
MODERATOR: Scott Johnson, FAIA - Johnson Fain
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Millennium Biltmore Hotel (Gold Room)
506 South Grand Avenue, Downtown Los Angeles

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AIA/LA Design Awards 2010 - Some Event Pics