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34 Los Angeles Architects |
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11.18.04 – 02.22.05
The museum of architecture and design closes out the year with a unique window into how 34 LA architects approach their work. The exhibit opens with a reception November 18, 04 – closes February 22nd, 2005.
This self-organized group of architects, evolved from an initial group of 12 organized by architect, educator and activist Bernard Zimmerman, FAIA, with the assistance of architects Stephen Kanner, FAIA and Clive Wilkinson, AIA.
    The exhibit is a preview in support of a new book to be published by Balcony Press and scheduled for release in the Fall of 2005 – entitled “2000 + New Architecture from Los Angeles”. The book’s editor is John Chase. A postcard format catalog accompanies the exhibit, designed by graphic artist Christian Daniels.
Each participating architect has fitted the presentation of his work into a diamond-shaped 6 ft x 2 ft “tower” designed by Lorcan O’Herlihy, AIA. The towers are mounted on wheels, arranged randomly, and can move around the room. This affords the viewer a walk through the exhibit non-sequentially, much like walking through a forest of trees. Each firm’s viewpoint is contained within the tower and may be studied from all angles by a single viewer, or by a group of viewers, thus presenting an opportunity for discussion.
This exhibit is by no means intended as “the best of” – there is no magic in the numbers chosen. Rather, it illustrates the spirit and enterprise of a group of 34 LA architects and the issues which they feel are important in their current work. It is, in fact, a wide representation of an open-ended view of modernist architecture in the fertile architectural ground of Los Angeles – a cutting edge 21st Century City.
The 34 participants represent the full spectrum of architectural offices, from small, to midsize and large.
The participating firms are:
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects; Pugh + Scarpa; Steven Ehrlich Architects; John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects; Marmol Radziner and Associates; William Adams Architects; Chu & Gooding; David Lawrence Gray Architects; SPF: architects; Hodgetts & Fung Design Associates; TurnerMeis & Associates; Mark Mack; Barton Myers Associates; Richard Meier Partners; Studio Works Architects; Perkins & Will; Neil M. Denari Architects; Shubin + Donaldson; Randall Stout Architects; Clive Wilkinson Architects; Jeffrey Daniels Architects; Michael Maltzan Architects; Angelil Graham Pfenninger Scholl Architecture; Frederick Fisher & Partners Architects; Cannon Design; Koning Eizenberg Architecture; Greg Lynn Form; Moore Ruble Yudell; Escher GuneWardena; Central Office of Architecture; Rios Clementi Hale Studios; George Yu Architects; Predock Frane.
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