EVERY. THING. CHANGES. 20-20 - Key Persons
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Utilizing google maps to triangulate the course of my desmadre (chaos) over the years. First start at some hospital run by nuns in East Los …
In response to Viva's text, In. Memorial. is a series of vases as street objects for people to present tributes to their memories, beloved ones, or historic events.
The project is composed of five pieces made by using a technique called coiling -- an ancient method to shape clay into vessels. The gestural contours and freewheeling, robust shapes are inspired by organic outlines of human body and nature, reflecting the influence of Valentine Schlegel among other ceramists from the 1950s.
These vases are an invitation to the community to rest their memories in the city, placing flowers to honor their lives and universal feelings concerning public tragic events. The installation is accompanied by a visual piece in which Lorena, starting from Viva´s experiences, navigates through her own map of memories, along with visions of vases splashed throughout the urban grid, and following the hypnotizing tunes by Cameron Stallones/Sun Araw.
To my grandmom. To all the people who have lost their lives due to the pandemic and police brutality. RIP.
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This place, a Castle, that would in practical terms be called a Seminar House, is where diverse groups could come together for the purpose of a collaborative goal.
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Délice Intangible (dee-leese ahn-ton-juh-blee) is French for the Intangible Delight. Délice Intangible is a fictional restaurant inspired by Anthony Carfello's written piece April 23, 2022. The restaurant resides in the middle of Century City in the year 2024. A shoulder turn away from the Century City Twin Towers, Délice Intangible has a deliberate handful of exquisite delectables that require exotic storage and calibrated refrigeration. The senior partners have hired a collection of egoless, brilliantly skilled hands from Madrid, Bologna, Seoul, Shikoku, Copenhagen, and Mattapan. This well-to-do restaurant is represented by a menu, here placed delicately inside of a custom envelope. Each portion on the menu offers an exquisite challenge to the palette. Those wondering what the premiums are regarding a dining experience for two, might consider reservations elsewhere.
Los Angeles contains multitudes, as any large city anywhere. But here, scale and size and separation continue decade after decade to make the feeling of any one location less multitudinous than it actually is. In other words, one can stand "here" and completely forget the existence of "there," as L.A. history re-teaches us over and over.
The intersection of Wilshire Blvd. and Santa Monica Blvd. is one such place. It's the front door of the luxury lounge that is Beverly Hills, but also a bus stop where those leaving to return to other "theres" stand en masse as thousands drive past.
On the occasion of the L.A. Forum's Every. Thing. Changes. project, a group will spend August 8, 2020, at this intersection facilitating a day of curbside workshops and discussions. Participants will consider these corners of Wilshire Blvd. and Santa Monica Blvd. as a nexus and explore what understandings might emerge from hours of observation and deliberation. Inspired by the 1970s East L.A. collective Asco and their work, "First Supper (After a Major Riot)," where the artists presented one of their surreal performances on a traffic median, this effort will be presented on the sidewalk across from the Waldorf Astoria, visible to all passersby.
Our neighborhoods are a direct product of the regulatory documents which shape them: Codes, standards, regulations, policies, legislation. These documents exist to guide decision-making towards "good" built outcomes and protect us - the public - from nefarious actors.
Jakob Sellaoui is an Austrian-american architect and educator based in Vienna. Within his practice architecture is understood as a cultural process, where built projects and theoretical investigation operate side by side, critically engaging with our contemporary reality. Up to date the studio has realized and ongoing projects in diverse scales and environments including Austria, Nicaragua, US and Japan. Its work has received several awards including the Austrian Cultural Ministry's Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky Grant, the Ahead Award and the Schindler Residency at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles.
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Lisa Teasley, native of Los Angeles and graduate of UCLA, is the author of the acclaimed novels Dive and Heat Signature, and the award-winning story collection, Glow in the Dark, published by Bloomsbury. Teasley's essays, stories and poems have been much anthologized; she has done fellowships, lectures and led writing workshops around the world in countries such as Indonesia, Nigeria, Haiti, and China. Her spoken word performance venues include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Broad museum. Teasley is also the writer and presenter of the BBC television documentary "High School Prom," and is a senior editor at Los Angeles Review of Books. A visual artist as well, her last solo painting retrospective was at the Marie Baldwin Gallery, spring 2019. Lisa was a member of the former art collective, the Yams, who debuted their film at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Her website is www.lisateasley.com.
Loren Adams is an interdisciplinary designer and educator with a background in architecture, digital fabrication, robotics, and public policy. She is broadly interested in the way things are made, what they are made from, and how advanced technologies might offer us new opportunities for sustainable form- and place-making.
Formerly based in Los Angeles, Loren now resides in Melbourne, Australia.
She has taught extensively at RMIT, Monash University, and The University of Melbourne, where she was the inaugural coordinator of the Melbourne School of Design Robotics Lab. In 2019, Loren led a travelling studio to Los Angeles, during which her architecture students were required to plan a heist. She currently leads the Computational Design team at Grimshaw Architects in Melbourne.
Lorena Garcia is a landscape architect and educator. Founder of PUENTEALAMEDA, an international landscape architecture firm based in Los Angeles and Madrid that explores creative and collaborative designs which address the complexity of natural processes, with projects as Reina Sofia Museum Master Plan (Madrid, Spain), Hotel Kamaroti (Sifnos, Greece), MediaLab-Prado Gardens (Madrid).
As a designer, she studies experimental forms of representing the landscape through collages, which she has published in multiple independent zines over the years. Recently, Lorena took up ceramics and has begun to play with the medium to explore new potential urban objects.
She moved to Los Angeles in 2012. Currently she is lecturing at the Landscape Architecture Department in the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona, and at the Madrid School of Design (Spain).
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Orhan Ayyüce is a senior editor for Archinect and also writes for other domestic and international publications. His writing is translated to many languages in Europe, Asia and Middle East. He writes articles and interviews about architecture, urbanism, people, politics, arts and culture. He has taught architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design at California Polytechnic University, Pomona and Woodbury University in Burbank in all levels of undergraduate school to graduate school. He is currently a full time professor at East Los Angeles College. Additionally, he teaches urbanism and architecture at Escuela Libre de Arquitectura in Tijuana, Mexico. Orhan Ayyüce is a recognized name in architectural schools and a well-known design critic in Southern California and beyond.
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Sam Bloch is a journalist in New York. A staff writer at The Counter, he has also written for The New York Times, L.A. Weekly, Places Journal, Art in America, CityLab, Artnet News and others. A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, he used to live in one of Los Angeles's shadiest neighborhoods.
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Tory J. Lowitz attended classes via Art Center before graduating from High School in Culver City. His experiences shaped his commitment to abstraction. Lowitz received a BFA 1993 and studied closely with Emerson Woelffer at Otis Parsons Art Institute.
He continues his education in Tokyo at Sogetsu School of Ikebana where Tory received his Sankyu Shihan Degree. The school's philosophy has assisted in reflection and disposition while physicalizing a foundation of sculptural practices mixing human experiences with sentiment and also honoring those that have passed on. Lowitz studies in Los Angeles with his sensei Kaz Yokou Kitajima and in Tokyo under Sogetsu's Iemoto, Akane Teshigahara, and masters of the institution.
Stop and wait-just for a moment. Follow the path, step down the hill and see. You already know how. Another left-over place sprawling between all the "proper" stuff. Down here no money is to be made. This is where things become uncertain, blurry and less defined. A split stair awaits you. It has been here before. Nobody knows why. An element of transition-a moment in limbo. A provisional roof initiates space. Like a tent, protecting and framing your stay. Offering a point of pause. To endure and let time pass without keeping count.
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Viva Padilla is a poet and founding editor of Dryland, an independent print literary journal founded in South Central Los Angeles in 2015. She is a first-generation Chicana, daughter of Mexican immigrants who crossed the border. She has been in the trenches at the LA Times, Red Hen Press, and Punk Hostage Press. Her poetry has been featured in Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from LA's Cultural Quakes & Shifts, Acentos Review, Brooklyn & Boyle and others. Last October, she was featured at Casa De Las Americas in Havana, Cuba. She is currently working on a bilingual poetry manuscript.
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The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design is an independent nonprofit organization that instigates dialogues on design and the built environment through public programming, exhibitions, and publications. L.A. is a catalytic place for architecture and design, offering lessons that extend globally. Our curatorial stance frames and challenges what architecture means in an evolving city.