COLLECTION: Cactus Chair

Architect Deger Cengiz explores the effect of visual data on the user’s experience with his living Cactus Chair. The limited-edition prickly design features a green-tinted glass seat hovering precariously above a Barrel Cactus planted in river stones and dirt.

“The existence of the cactus gives a temporary discomfort,” explains Cengiz. "Even though the user knows that the cactus behind the glass is not a real threat."

The Cactus Chair was presented by Voos Furniture during New York Design Week 2010.

EVENT: California Design Biennial: Action/Reaction - July 18-November 1

Ellen Keith and Indhira Rojas, Where Does It Go?The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is proud to present the fourth California Design Biennial: Action/Reaction, an exhibition that highlights the most significant and innovative designs being created in California. Great works of art are often inspired by challenges and adversity; this exhibition will focus on how California’s established and emerging designers are responding to current economic, political and environmental challenges. In a departure from past California Design Biennials, this exhibition will not feature a juried competition but will instead have a separate curator for each design category: industrial design, fashion, graphic, transportation and architecture. This is the first year that architecture is being included as a category.

Organized and presented by the PMCA since 2003, the California Design Biennial showcases new directions in design, as well as exploring how design impacts and inspires our culture. While the exhibition focuses on work created in the past two years, it builds upon the unique history of California design for the past 100 years.

FORM Event: August 5th - International Issue - Expo 2010 National Pavilions Presentation

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Palecek Showroom at L.A. Mart Design Center
Suite 1048
1933 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA - Downtown, 90007
Free Parking Available

Expo 2010 National Pavilions presentation
Professor/Filmmaker Mina Chow, AIA, NCARB, USC US-China Institute
Join us as Professor/Filmmaker Mina Chow shares her unique experiences and images from one of the most important architecture events in the world. Having just returned from Expo 2010 in Shanghai, Professor Chow will share her architectural discoveries about the national pavilions. She will discuss her current documentary project on emblem architecture filmed at Expo 2010. Members of her film crew will also participate in the discussion.

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Head of the Class

Los Angeles Trade Technical College graduates with honors

Image: Benny Chan/Fotoworks

Designed by MDA Johnson Favaro Architecture, South Campus is the first project to be completed within the the Los Angeles Trade Technical College's campus master plan. The reestablishment of the 80-year-old urban college is a result of the Los Angeles Community College District's voter approved bond funding in 2001. Located on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, South Campus consists of two 5-story buildings totaling over 120,000 SF and nearly $80 million in construction costs.

As one of several higher education projects by the firm, Johnson Favaro's approach is a fundamental component of LACCD's transformation. Principal Steve Johnson states, "Buildings of simple form but enduring substance are the norm and have served well for a long time to impart purpose and dignity to the endeavor of higher education. Community colleges, long neglected and for too long often seen as "13th grade," deserve the same quality environment that we experience at a 4-year college. It is arrogant to assume we can best the tradition with our experiments. It is a challenge to simply do as well."

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EVENT TONIGHT: LA Trade-Tech Building Tour and Panel Discussion

6:30-9 PM tonight, June 3rd, Thursday

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LA Trade-Tech South Campus - TE Building
S. Grand Ave & W 22nd St.(approximate)
Los Angeles, 90007

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