A+D Museum embraces the spirit of collaboration with
fellow organizations down the street, across the city,
around the country and the world. inCOLLABORATION include
POP-UP exhibits, special off-site previews and tours, music
and theatre performances, food and wine events, interac-
tive media shows and much more!
Cal Poly LA Metro Program presents a Discussion with Sylvia Lavin
Sylvia Lavin is a leading figure in contemporary architectural history, theory, and criticism. In addition to her most recent book, Lavin is the author of Language of Architecture Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Cultureand Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity architectural projects for the Hammer Museum, has been a guest curator for the CCA and Ace Galleries, and is currently working on a large-scale exhibition, Fin-de-Sixties LA: From Pop to PostmodernismCritical Studies in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, has been a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, the Havard Graduate School of Design and other international schools of architecture, and is the Director of Hi-C, a design/research group that supports architecture in the public realm.
Join us for an informal talk with Sylvia on the current relationship between art and architecture surrounding the construction of pavilions, entitled “1:1 Model Building”.
Presenting Sponsors: Cal Poly, HMC Architects
Cal Poly LA Metro Program presents a Discussion with Patrick Tighe
Patrick Tighe is principal and lead designer of Tighe Architecture. He received a Master of Architecture from UCLA and a BFA from U MA, Amherst. Prior to establishing the practice, Tighe wan an integral part of the Morphosis team where he was an Associate. The work of Tighe Architecture has received numerous awards and the work has been exhibited internationally, as well as published extensively. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious Rome Prize Fellowship from The American Academy. The previous year, he was the recipient of the 40 under 40 Award and the AIA’s Young Architect Award. Tighe has taught at UCLA and USC, and is a current faculty member SCI-Arc.Join us for a lecture, discussion, and reception hosted by the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design on May 24, 2012.
Presenting Sponsors: Cal Poly, HMC Architects
Where: A+D Museum
Admission: $10 General, $5 Student w/ valid ID, A+D Members, Cal Poly SLO Students/Alumni FREE
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On Restoring Modernism: The Purist and The Pragmatist
A presentation by Michael Boyd in collaboration with Decorative Arts and Design Council of LACMA and Edward Cella Art and Architecture
Join noted designer and collector Michael Boyd Tuesday, June 12 at 6:30pm as he discusses the reconciliation of the role of the homeowner with that of a guardian, in the rehabilitation of modernist domestic architecture. Founder of BoydDesign, a design firm with an emphasis on furniture, interior, and garden design, as well as a consulting firm for the restoration and preservation of modernist architecture, Michael Boyd has supervised the restoration of homes designed by Craig Ellwood, John Lautner, Paul Rudolph, Oscar Niemeyer, Richard Neutra, and R.M. Schindler, among others.
The lecture will address the exhibition PLANEfurniture: types + prototypes, and how the designer seeks invisibility and transparency with new design, exactly as he does with his modernist architectural conservation work. Boyd has insights into the adaptability and timelessness of modernist design philosophy; as well as modernism’s role as a model for continuing design solutions. Boyd appeals for the need to be mindful as a designer of the balance between a purist approach and a pragmatic approach--a dual goal--a truthful convergence between art and life.
Michael Boyd is a Los Angeles based designer, writer, and collector of vintage modern design. Boyd curated and designed the installation of the architecture and design section of the exhibition, Birth of Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury at the Orange County Museum of Art, and his personal collection was featured at SFMOMA in an exhibition entitled, Sitting on the Edge: Modernist Design from the Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd. He regularly contributes essays on the subject of Modernism for International publications. He serves as an advisor to several museums and institutions regarding modern design and architecture.
Where: A+D Museum
When: Tuesday June 12, 6:30pm
Reception to follow at Edward Cella Art+Architecture at 6018 Wilshire Blvd.
Admission: $10 General, $5 Students w/ valid ID, A+D Members and LACMA Decorative Arts and Design Council FREE
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PAST COLLABORATION
Cal Poly LA Metro Program presents An Interview with Jeff Kipnis
Jeff Kipnis is an acclaimed architectural critic, theorist, designer, film-maker,curator, and educator. He is a professor of architecture at Ohio State’s Knowlton School of Architecture, and has served as a visiting professor at Princeton, Columbia, SCI-Arc, Harvard, Cambridge, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. His work as a professor and critic has earned him multiple awards, including an honorary diploma by the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, an AIA Bronze Medal for Service to Architecture, and an Ohio State University Distinguished Research Award. In addition, he’s written as a critic for multiple periodicals, including Assemblage, El Croquis, and Log. As a designer he’s collaborated with architects Resier and Umemoto on the Water Garden in Columbus,Ohio, among other projects.
A+D Musuem and Cal Poly hosted an interview with Jeff Kipnis conducted by Stephen Phillips, director of the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. Jeff Kipnis also spoke about Deconstructivism, Postmodernism and the Contemporary condition of architecture followed by a discussion and reception on April 19, 2012.
Presenting Sponsors: Cal Poly, HMC Architects
Cal Poly LA Metro Program presents A Lecture and Discussion with Hernan Diaz Alonso of XEFIROTARCH
Hernan Diaz Alonso is principal and founder of the Los Angeles-based design
practice Xefirotarch. He is Graduate Programs Chair and Distinguished Professor
of Architecture at SCI-Arc. Previously, a design studio professor at Columbia
University GSAPP, and head studio professor in the “Excessive” post-graduate
program at the Universitat fur angewandte Kunst in Wien, Austria -- Hernan
Diaz Alonso was recently honored by Yale University with the Louis I. Kahn
Visiting Assistant Professorship of Architectural Design for Fall 2010. His
architecture designs have received numerous awards and have been displayed
in both architecture and art museum exhibitions internationally including the
MAK Centre Wien, San Francisco MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago. Widely
published in magazines and periodicals worldwide, Alonso’s work can be found in
multiple books, including the “Excessive” monograph.
Presenting Sponsors: Cal Poly, HMC Architects
deLaB’s Burbank Water & Power Ecocampus Tour
As an extension of the A+D Museum and Woodbury University's Arid Lands Institute's planned programming, de LaB is hosting a special tour of the Burbank Water and Power EcoCampus, a real-world example of innovative drylands design by LA-based landscape architecture studio AHBE. The EcoCampus has been transformed from an industrial relic into a regenerative green space, placing the project on the forefront of sustainable landscape design. The project's sustainable landscape design features have earned it a place as part of the SITES program, a landscape design rating system akin to LEED.
AIGA/LA Good Design is Good Business
Masterlock and the Battle Against Myopia
There are few things more difficult than leading the introduction to change. Innovation means no more ‘business as usual’, which often invites skeptics and critics. 20 years ago, Master Lock – an 80-year old iconic institution – was teetering on solvency. Their flagship products were being threatened by price competition from abroad. One man had to convince management to abandon strategies for competing on price, and instead to differentiate through design. That man is now CEO. Join us for a presentation by Scott Williams, with a special introduction by on how design leads to a greater chance of product success, how investment in design allows premium prices, and how investment in design correlates to greater loyalty.
Scott Williams: With a career spanning theater, TV and hotels, Scott Williams is a brand builder focused on the theatrical narrative at the heart of brands. As Chief Marketing Officer of Morgans Hotel Group, he was the chief architect of brand strategy and realization for the hotels that invented the concept of “hotel as theater.” Prior to Morgans, as Chief Creative Officer Worldwide for Starwood Hotels & Resorts, he controlled creative output, and held the final responsibility for the quality of all of Starwood’s advertising/marketing creative products, including textbook success stories at W and Westin. Williams’s television career included marketing and producing efforts at CBS, ESPN and HBO. And as a writer, producer, teacher and actor, he gained a solid theatrical background at San Francisco American Conservatory Theater, where he received an MFA, and at the storied Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. Williams also received a GMP from Harvard Business School. He serves on the President’s Council of the Red Ribbon Foundation for AIDS and the board of the Greenwich YMCA. Married with three children, Williams resides in Connecticut.
St.Elmo's Village Water Workshop
Come participate in this introductory hands-on workshop for kids and adults alike Saturday, March 24th from 1-3pm. Reflect on water conservation, consider the natural context in which the artwork is being created and explore working with recycled, re-purposed or non-traditional materials. Sponsored by the Studio of h and o.
inCOLLABORATION | Edward Cella Art + Architecture
A+D and Edward Cella Art + Architecture hosted a very special conversation event with art critic Scarlet Cheng and artists Lynn Aldrich, architect Benjamin Ball and art consultant Merry Norris about their recent public art projects and how they address the role of art in the built environment. Presented in conjunction with Edward Cella Art + Architecture’s exhibition: DEATH and LIFE of an OBJECT
AFLA Presents Salons for New Voices
AFLA & A+D Members Only Event
As a part of the Architectural Foundational League of Los Angeles Salons for New Voices, a forum for individuals & organizations whose unique visions deserve wider public consideration. Please join A+D Museum and AFLA for a conversation with COMMON GOOD presenting Abject Object the evening of February 16th from 6:30 - 8:30pm.
“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability to and that way you might change the world.” These words of Charles Eames could well describe Common Good: an organization whose mission is exploring the role of design to create a better now. A multi-disciplinary group of creative generalists, members of Common Good (formerly Project H LA) will be presenting Abject Object, a long term local initiative focused on empowering the homeless community through social enterprise. Partnering with the Downtown Women’s Center, a non-profit that provides housing and resources for homeless women in Los Angeles, Common Good has developed products that are made in skill-building workshop.
Presenting Sponsors: Prudential Lighting, Louis Poulsen, Targetti
Cal Poly LA Metro Program presents "LIVE MODELS": A Lecture and Discussion with Jason Kelly Johnson of Future Cities Lab
Friday, January 27th, 6:30 - 9:00PM
Future Cities Lab is an experimental design and research office based in San Francisco, California. Design principals Jason Kelly Johnson
Moderated by: Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and Associate Professor, Director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)<