Room & Board Hosts an Evening with LA Family Housing
2017-09-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Room&Board, 3231 Helms Avenue, Culver City, CA, 90034
Free
In collaboration with Angeleno magazine, please join Room & Board on Wednesday, September 13 from 7 to 9 pm, for a special art show featuring works by over 100 local, contemporary artists in support of LA Family Housing (LAFH), which is dedicated to helping people transition out of homelessness and poverty.
Through September 24th, designated artwork on display in their showroom will be available for purchase for $400 with 50% of proceeds going directly to LAFH.
Stop by for inspired conversation and light bites. Please RSVP.

Rejuvenation Hosts "Modern Royal" with designer Ryan Saghian
2017-08-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Rejuvenation, 8780 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90034, United States
On Thursday, August 31st from 6 to 8PM, please join Rejuvenation in hosting Ryan Saghian, one of Beverly Hills’ rising stars of interior and furniture design. He will be presenting a pop-up capsule collection featuring new selections from his own line, vintage pieces, and Rejuvenation furnishings that remind him of what the Persian Royal family residence might look like today had they continued their reign.
Come catch Ryan’s exuberance and truly modern take on a “more is more” maximalist tradition. Persian teas, light bites and good design!

Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre Screens Their Performance of "Technicolor Drip" on Helms Walk
2017-08-06 20:00 - 21:00 | Helms Walk, 3270 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
The third in the 1988 series, Technicolor Drip, features Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre dancers in the window frames and hanging window/art vitrines of the parking garage where Technicolor Drip by artist Jen stark (2015) is installed. The artwork highlights Culver City’s movie history through the rainbow concept in the film The Wizard of Oz. The title references the historic film coloring process employed in movie making. This work is 12 minutes and will continuously loop between 1-3pm. Later that evening from 8-9pm we will host a screening of the performance on Helms Walk, our pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue, followed by a Q & A with Heidi Duckler, Jen Stark and Marla Koosed.
The performance and screening are free and open to the public though reservations are required. All necessary day-of information (parking, check-in procedures, etc.) will arrive in a “Know Before You Go” email prior to the performance.
Technicolor Drip Performance
Sunday, August 6, 2017
1:00pm-3:00pm
Platform
8850 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
Technicolor Drip Screening
Sunday, August 6, 2017
8:00pm-9:00pm
Helms Walk, pedestrian plaza on Helms Avenue
8800 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
For additional information visit heididuckler.org.

Join us for a Special Screening of "Landfill Harmonic"
2017-07-15 17:00 - 19:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, July 15th from 5 to 7:30pm, please join us in welcoming The Possibility Project and Mending as Metaphor for a reception and special film screening of Landfill Harmonic, immediately followed by a Q+A with The Possibility Project‘s founders, Kim Pearce and Kath Davis. Also featured is a clothing pop-up from the slumwear108 line, with proceeds supporting the social justice work of Pearce and Davis.
About Landfill Harmonic
‘The world sends us garbage, we send back music’
We live in an unprecedented time of social and environmental upheaval, so what might the possibilities look like when there is harmony between the two? Landfill Harmonic is a feature length documentary that follows the journey of a Paraguayan Youth Orchestra that makes its instruments entirely out of waste. The film masterfully demonstrates how ordinary people can make extraordinary choices to rise above conflict and create so much hope in the process.
The Possibility Project is an Australian based social enterprise, that collaborates with slum communities in India to create a slow clothing label called slumwear108. The founders will share their insights on how people around the world are collaborating to enact peaceful, social, and environmental cohesion.
Space is limited. Please RSVP to ruthkatzensteinsouza@gmail.com.

Arcana Books Welcomes Authors Barry and Barbara Shaffer
2017-06-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, June 24th between 4 and 6 PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts as they welcome Echoes of Bhutan authors Barry and Barbara Shaffer.
Echoes of Bhutan is the first fine art publication from Los Angeles-based photographer Barry Shaffer. Compiled during Mr. Shaffer’s visits to Bhutan in 2001, 2014, and 2015 as a private citizen, a photographer for the Tribal Trust Foundation, and at the invitation of Bhutan’s government and travel Industry, the stunning photographs are accompanied by written contributions from Dr. Robert Thurman, Bhutan’s Queen Mother, Bhutan’s Fourth King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Honorable Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, National Geographic editor Costas Christ, and Samten Wangchuk. The book has been selected to receive its Asian release at the “Mountain Echoes International Literary Festival” in Thimphu, Bhutan in August 2017. All proceeds from the sales of Echoes of Bhutan will benefit Bhutan’s Tarayana Foundation.

Arcana Books Hosts a Special Event Celebrating Dan Hicks' Autobiography
2017-06-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Sunday, June 18th from 4 to 6PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a special event to celebrate the publication of the late, great Dan Hicks’ autobiography I Scare Myself.
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of “The Summer of Love”, Dan’s editor and close collaborator Kristine McKenna will be signing copies of the book and moderating a panel discussion about Dan’s life and music featuring Van Dyke Parks, Maria Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, and Hot Licks guitarist Paul Robinson. There will also be a short musical performance by the participants following the discussion.
Though he passed away in early 2016, Dan’s music, and the stories he tells in this book, remain as fresh and irresistible as ever. Combining those stories with dozens of rare photographs and a detailed discography by esteemed writer and critic Kristine McKenna, I Scare Myself takes readers on a journey behind the music, and into the life and mind of the fantastic artist who created it.

This Modern Life: A Design Field Day at Helms Bakery
2017-06-10 12:00 - 18:00 | Helms Design District, 8800 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90034, United States
Welcome to This Modern Life: Embracing Life’s Imperfections, a campus-wide day of design celebrating the Japanese tradition of wabi-sabi, the art of recognizing beauty in imperfection. Participating showrooms and stores will feature workshops, demonstrations, tastings, sweepstakes and special guests! Plus Local Mercato and Beautiful Things L.A. pop-up for one day only. Pick up a map at the information booth on Helms Walk and explore! Complete info on our dedicated event page.
Free Valet Parking by the Rejuvenation showroom at Helms and Venice.
#thismodernlife

Arcana Books Hosts a day of Art + Salad with Julia Sherman and Evan Kleiman
2017-06-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Sunday, June 4th from 3 to 5 PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for this extra special event celebrating the publication of Julia Sherman’s fantastic new Abrams book: Salad For President!
Q + A between Ms. Sherman and Evan Kleiman will begin around 3:30, concurrent with the nude figure and vegetable life drawing. Listen, sketch from life, snack on Sherman’s Mexican Fruit Salad (recipe from the book!) and raise a glass! Bring your own art supplies or use the charcoal and newsprint provided by Arcana.

The creator of the immensely popular Salad for President blog presents a visually rich collection of more than 75 salad recipes, with contributions and interviews by artists/creative professionals like William Wegman, Tauba Auerbach, Laurie Anderson, and Alice Waters. Sherman loves salad, and she encourages her readers to consider it an everyday indulgence that can include cocktails, soups, family style brunch dishes, and dinner-party entrées.
Salad—with its infinite possibilities—is a game of endless combinations, not stifling rules. And with that in mind, Salad for President offers a window into how artists approach preparing their favorite dishes. Sherman visits sculptors, painters, photographers, and musicians in their homes and gardens, interviewing and photographing them as they cook. Utterly unique in its look into the worlds of food, art, and everyday practices, Salad for President is at once a practical resource for healthy, satisfying recipes and an inspiring look at creativity.

Rejuvenation Hosts a Reception with Cheyenne Parker
2017-06-01 07:00 - 22:00 | Rejuvenation, 8780 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90034, United States
Free
On Thursday, June 1st from 7 to 10 PM, Rejuvenation hosts an opening reception for Black Room, an installation featuring the work of designer, collector, artist, model, LGBT influencer and Fire Island reality star, Cheyenne Parker. A portion of proceeds will benefit LA LGBT homeless youth programs, a cause close to Cheyenne’s heart. The installation will remain in-store until June 3rd.

Arcana Books Hosts a Discussion and Book Signing for SO-IL's "Solid Objectives: Order, Edge, Aura"
2017-05-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
LA Forum joins with Arcana: Books on the Arts in hosting a publication launch for Brooklyn-based architecture and design office SO-IL who are presenting their first monograph – “solid objectives: order, edge, aura”.
A beautifully illustrated collection of built and unbuilt projects, texts, processes, and experiments from the firm’s first eight years of work (2008-2016), “solid objectives” proposes an architecture that requires interpretation. The publication is at once a visual and textual manifesto that introduces an attitude towards the design and realization of architecture in an interconnected environment.
The event will feature SO-IL’s Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu in discussion with Johnston Marklee‘s Mark Lee, and photographer Iwan Baan.
Come to Arcana this Sunday, May 21st between 4:00 and 6:00 PM for what promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking event! If you cannot attend but would like to purchase a signed copy of Solid Objectives please click here or call us at 310-458-1499.

Arcana Books Hosts a Conversation About L.A.'s Dynamic Drinking Scene
2017-05-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Tuesday, May 16th from 6:00 to 8:00PM, head over to Arcana: Books on the Arts as they welcome Adrienne Stillman, the author of Where Bartenders Drink (Phaidon), and a panel of the city’s best bartenders and cocktail experts for a conversation about LA’s dynamic drinking scene, and what truly makes a great bar.
Following the conversation, attendees will sip cocktails and have the chance to get a personalized copy of Stillman’s new insider’s guide to 700 of the world’s best drinking destinations.

Arcana Books Welcomes Harold Bronson
2017-05-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Sunday, May 14th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM, Arcana: Books on the Arts invites you to a book signing with Harold Bronson and an evening to twist, shout, and dine on humanely raised, grass-fed hot dogs from Let’s Be Frank.
Harold Bronson grew up in Los Angeles as a passionate Anglophile. Through his career first as a music journalist, then as a label executive, Harold met and befriended many of those performers whose music he loved. With his newly released My British Invasion from Rare Bird Books, Harold pens his insider’s account of London’s cultural youthquake of the sixties and seventies that brought us The Yardbirds, The Dave Clark Five, Manfred Mann, Herman’s Hermits, The Hollies, The Kinks, The Troggs, The Zombies, Johnny Rotten, Pirate Radio, and much, much more. A co-founder of the legendary Rhino Records label, Harold is the author of Rock Explosion: The British Invasion of America in Photos 1962-67, Hey, Hey, We’re The Monkees, and The Rhino Records Story: Revenge of the Music Nerds.

Cal Poly LA Metro Program Hosts West of West at the Helms Design Center
2017-05-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Thursday, May 4th from 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Helms Bakery District is pleased to present a reception, lecture, and discussion with JAI KUMARAN & CLAYTON TAYLOR of WEST OF WEST, in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).
The event is FREE and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to calpolylametro@gmail.com.
Free self-parking is available in the lots on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

About the Architects:
West of West
West of West is an architecture and design studio founded by Jai Kumaran and Clayton Taylor in 2012, formed in California and currently headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Inspired by the explorative spirit of the American West, the studio engages architecture and design to activate new frontiers of viewing, framing, and occupying the landscape. Each project is an opportunity to build a new reality by creating progressive spaces and shaping new experiences. West of West is dedicated to collaboration. With an emphasis on open dialogue, we work alongside our clients to develop and realize projects while balancing the specific social, economic, and environmental conditions of every project with function, beauty, and opportunity. Since its inception, the studio has completed multiple projects ranging from commercial and cultural to residential and product design in cities across the United States.
Jai Kumaran, Associate AIA
Jai is a founding partner of W/W. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He has worked for multiple internationally recognized design firms, most recently Morphosis Architects (Los Angeles). There, he was a design leader on large scale urban developments including the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Chengdu Financial Center, among many others. He also was a member of the construction administration team for Emerson College, Los Angeles, a project which brought together student housing, administrative offices, and educational facilities on a dense urban site. The project has since won multiple design awards both nationally and internationally. Jai’s longstanding dedication to the craft and detail of architecture allows W/W to consistently execute the highest level of work possible.
Clayton Taylor, AIA
Clayton is a founding partner of W/W. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Clayton has worked at a series of well-recognized Architectural Design firms including Coop Himmelblau in Vienna, as a Project Designer at Morphosis Architects (Los Angeles), and most recently as an Associate at Rios Clementi Hale Studios in Hollywood. At RCHS, Clayton led design efforts on many creative office and multi-family developments in the Los Angeles area including, Columbia Square, Crossroads of the World, The Telephone Building, and Flight at Tustin Legacy. He also completed many competitive design proposals for RCHS like the Rancho Cienega Sports Complex and the Southwest School of Art, which won the AIA Next LA Honor Award in 2013. Clayton is a NCARB certified architect and licensed to practice in California and Oregon.
Photos (Left to Right): Jai Kumaran & Clayton Taylor; Roadside Hotel; GLCO New York

Arcana Books Welcomes Tabitha Soren for a Talk + Presentation
2017-04-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, April 29th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in celebrating the publication of Tabitha Soren’s thought-provoking monograph FANTASY LIFE : BASEBALL AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. A talk and presentation by the photographer will begin at 4:30.
In 2002, Tabitha Soren first began photographing a group of twenty-one minor league draft picks for the Oakland A’s – young men coming into the major league farm system straight from high school or college. For the past fifteen years, she has followed these players through their baseball lives spending time on farm teams waiting to get called up to The Show, with frequent trades, big breaks, broken hearts, day jobs, long bus trips, injuries, waiting around, calling plays from the dugout, gum and tobacco chewing, praying, bonding, and aging. It turns out, getting drafted isn’t the same as making the team, making the team isn’t the same as playing, playing isn’t the same thing as a star turn or a star’s paycheck, and getting paid isn’t the same as having a secure future for when you retire in your early thirties.
This project examines meritocracy’s myths and the precariousness of a person’s fate when it hangs by the thread of perpetual self-perfection. In Fantasy Life’s case, it is professional baseball players who are in that position. But that feeling is not limited to athletes in America. The United States is a striving culture unlike any other. Some of the subjects, like Nick Swisher and Joe Blanton, have gone on to become well-known, respected players at the highest level of the game. Some left baseball to pursue other lines of work such as selling insurance, and coal mining. Others have struggled with poverty and even homelessness.
Fantasy Life portrays a selection of these decade-plus stories, gathering together a richly textured series of photographs taken on the field and behind the scenes at games, along with commentaries by each of the players and memorabilia from their lives from kindergarten-age baseball cards to x-rays of career injuries. It includes a five part short story by noted author Dave Eggers about a fictional minor leaguer that compellingly condenses the roller-coaster ride of the farm team everyman, from youthful pursuit of stardom through the slog of endless hardscrabble games, to that moment of realization that success may not be just around the corner after all. Additionally, ten players from the project have contributed essays for the book about their experiences with success and failure – and how they had to piece together a new identity after their professional sports careers.

Cal Poly LA Metro Program Hosts Heather Roberge at the Helms Design Center
2017-04-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Tuesday, April 20 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Helms Bakery District is pleased to present a reception, lecture, and discussion with HEATHER ROBERGE of MURMUR, in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).
The event is FREE and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to calpolylametro@gmail.com.
Free self-parking is available in the lots on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

About the Architect:
Heather Roberge is an LA-based designer and educator. She is the founder and principal of Murmur: Architecture and Environments and is associate professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA where she currently serves as Vice Chair. Ms. Roberge’s research and professional work investigates the spatial, structural and atmospheric potential of digital technologies on the theory and practice of building. In graduate level courses in design and technology, her teaching emphasizes innovative approaches to material, computation, and manufacturing as opportunities to expand the formal vocabulary and spatial implications of building envelopes and assemblies. In recognition of her distinctive work, she was selected for the prestigious 2016 Emerging Voices Program by the Architectural League of New York. In 2015 her installation for the SCI-Arc Gallery, En Pointe, was awarded an AIA design merit award. In 2011 Murmur’s proposal for the Succulent House received an AIA Next LA design merit award. Her work has been published in A+U, Praxis, Metropolis, I.D., Wallpaper, Architectural Record, Log, 306090, Form Magazine, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times and exhibited in group shows in the U.S. and abroad.
Photos (Left to Right): Heather Roberge; Succulent House; En Pointe at SCI-Arc Gallery

Arcana Books Hosts a Celebration for Photographer Lenard Smith
2017-04-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, April 15th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts as they welcome their friend Lenard Smith to celebrate his lovely new limited edition, nearly-sold-out survey of recent work: A Sort Of Looking.
Smith’s first publication presents a selection of seductive images from the past five years of work that draw lines connecting the artist’s hand and chance. The formal compositions of his still lifes bring attention to the banal object form; tissue paper, flower, and in between the exploration of sculptural arrangements. Smith’s portrait work commands attention – bringing the viewer up close up to his subjects – whether they are photographed in the studio or quickly on the streets. These powerful portraits act as a metronome throughout the entire book, grounding the audience. The title reveals the artist’s engagement with institutional critique, and plays with the discourse that is commonly used in art conversations. A Sort of Looking is in fact Lenard Smith’s own looking, and not a “sort of”, but exactly how he is able to view the world in front of his lens just as he sees it.

Arcana Books Hosts a Book Signing With Photographer Moshe Brakha
2017-04-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Sunday, April 9th from 4:00 to 6:00PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book signing with photographer Moshe Brakha on the release of L.A. Babe: The Real Women of Los Angeles 1975-1988.
Moshe Brakha’s acidly crisp, otherworldly images evoke a certain stylistic sensibility and a knack for innovative and sensual photography that engages the viewer. This latest release, collects his most compelling subjects from the late seventies and early eighties – the various women he encountered all over Los Angeles. The book includes vintage portraits of legendary proto-punk band The Runaways, LaToya and Janet Jackson, Patricia Arquette, longtime Los Angeles scene-maker Angelyne, and many, many others. From Beverly Hills High School cheerleaders to brash bartenders and groupies, L.A. Babe captures the essential Los Angeles at its sunniest, coolest, grittiest glam and punk peak.
In a career spanning five decades, Moshe Brakha has created scores of iconic editorial images including work for the legendary Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Beyond, and album covers for the likes of Devo, The Ramones, Sparks, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, Pat Benatar, The Weirdos, and Alice Coltrane.

Unmentionables: LA's 1st Interior Architecture Symposium
2017-04-07 16:00 - 2017-04-08 18:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Over the past two decades, Chu+Gooding have been honing their craft toward the mastery of the interior architectural experience. They have recommitted to their roots to create thoughtful and lasting architecture for those who dwell within it. A significant milestone in this twenty-year endeavor is the Unmentionables Symposium, an inaugural 2-day event hosted by Woodbury University’s Interior Architecture Department, where founding principal Annie Chu has taught for the past six years.
Unmentionables is aimed at exploring new narratives for interior architecture and establishing a precedent for welcoming previously unmentioned ideas in spatial practice and theory. The symposium will serve as a provocation for marginalia, taboos, illicit ideas, and undertheorized issues such as critical interiority and physical and virtual constructed environments.
Unmentionables brings together a range of notable thinkers and designers drawn from literature, architecture, film, art, philosophy, and interior design. Over the 2-day period, the symposium will feature persistently critical voices from around the country.
More info, full schedule, and tickets available at UnmentionablesSymposium.com

Cal Poly LA Metro Program Hosts B+U Architecture at the Helms Design Center
2017-04-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Tuesday, April 4 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Helms Bakery District is pleased to present a reception, lecture, and discussion with HERWIG BAUMGARTNER & SCOTT URIU of B+U ARCHITECTURE, in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).
The event is FREE and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to calpolylametro@gmail.com.
Free self-parking is available in the lots on Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
Thursday, April 20th: Heather Roberge of Murmur

About the Architects:
Baumgartner+Uriu Architecture

Headquartered in Los Angeles, California and established in 2000 by architects Herwig Baumgartner and Scott Uriu, Baumgartner+Uriu (B+U) are an internationally recognized design duo operating at the forefront of contemporary design. Their design process can be described as driven by digital techniques and advanced computation that utilizes new technologies and material resources. Baumgartner+Uriu’s work consistently pushes theboundaries of architecture and urban design by experimenting with new spatial concepts, intesnfiying existing urban landscapes in pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design. The architects’ work has comprised cultural locations (including museums, concert halls and exhibition spaces), educational and transportation facilities, master planning and urban design, offices and mixed-use developments, restaurants, and residential work.

Baumgartner+Uriu’s work was recently exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, California; the FRAC center in Orleans, France; the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France; the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice Italy, the Architecture and Design Museum (A+D) in Los Angeles; the SCI-Arc gallery in Los Angeles, California; SITE gallery and David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico; INSITE gallery, Bangalore, india; the 2011 AIA Emerging Professional exhibition in Washington D.C.; the Stadtkrone 2030 Exhibition in Milan, Italy; the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria; at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc); and the Los Angeles Form for Architecture and Urban Design in Hollywood, California.

Baumgartner + Uriu recently have been named the world’’s top 50 innovators in the field of architecture and design by the publication 50 under 50. Two Monographs have been published on Baumgartner + Uriu’s work. The most recnet one, B+U- Designpeak 12, was published by Equalbooks and part of its monograph series. Their work has also been widely published and discussed in books magazines and newspapers such as Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Azure, FORM, Mark magazine; as well as on television and radio.

Baumgartner+Uriu is an award winning firm and has received the Maxine Frankel Award for design research (2010), the AIA national award for emerging professionals (2011), the A+Award for Sustainability (2012), the Graham Grant for advanced studies in the fine arts (2014), the COLA fellowship for 2015 from the City of Los Angeles- Department of Cultural Affairs and their Aperture project won the Best Design Innovation Project in the 2016 Blueprint Awards.

Herwig Baumgartner

Herwig Baumgartner, an Austrian native, is a licensed architect and principal/co-founder of Los Angeles based Architecture firm Baumgartner+Uriu (B+U). He received his diploma in Muisc and New Media from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and his Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Baumgartner has lectured and conducted workshops nationally and internationally and is a professor teaching design and applied studies in the graduate and undergraduate programs at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Most recently, he represented SCI-Arc at one of the leading symposiums on recent developments in architectural geometry and computation at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Prior to founding B+U Baumgartner worked as a senior associate and project architect at Gehry Partners and also collaborated with artist Richard Serra.

Scott Uriu

Scott Uriu is a licensed architect and principal of B+U, which he co-founded. He was born in Davis, California, and was initially an undergraduate mathematics major at the university of California, Davis. He then received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from California State Polytechnic Pomona and studied at the Architectural Association in London, Diploma Unit 7. Uriu has lectured and conducted workshops nationally and internationally and is a professor and teaches design studio and applied studies at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). He was previously part of the design faculty at Woodbury University. Prior to founding B+U, Uriu worked as an architect at Gehry Partners.

AIGA Presents "Designers Are Not Makers" at the Helms Design Center
2017-03-15 18:45 - 21:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Wednesday, March 15 please join us as we welcome AIGA to the Helms Design Center for a series of discussions and presentations for the design community.
The first topic, “Designers Are Not Makers”, addresses the growth we have witnessed in “maker” culture, leading to increased access to the tools and information needed to tinker, program, and build custom products and solutions. Manufacturing can now happen on a desktop as easily as in a home workshop. The benefits of stepping away from a computer to work with your hands continues to gain influence in business and culture. Yet, with all the focus on making, it is the designer who gets celebrated once the “making” becomes mass production.
Questions to be discussed:
As digital technology continues to insert itself into our daily lives, what is the role of the tactile?
What is the importance of physical creation in a world of digital technology, virtual reality, 3D printing and rapid prototyping?
And where does the act of designing stop, so the role of making can take over?
Agenda
6:45 PM: Meet & Greet
7:30 PM: Introduction
7:35 PM: First Speaker
8:05 PM: Second Speaker
8:30 PM: Q&A
8:50 PM: Closing Remarks
8:55 PM: Giveaways
9:00 PM: After Party
Ticket Pricing
Members (Contributing & Supporting): $15
Members (Sustaining & above): Free
Non-Members: $25
Requests for cancellation refunds may be granted only up to 24 hours before the event starts.
About The Speakers
Andrew Byrom is a British-born designer and educator based in Los Angeles. His clients include The New York Times Magazine, Sagmeister Inc., Penguin Books, The Architecture + Design Museum and UCLA Extension. His interdisciplinary work has been recognized by AIGA and the Type Directors Club. He has been featured in many design related publications and has exhibited his design work in venues across the United States, Europe and Asia. Andrew is currently teaching Advanced Typography and The History of Graphic Design at California State University, Long Beach.

Will Ayers is the Founder/Creative Director of fashion label WILLIAM; and the Principal of Design for the signage and wayfinding studio GNU Group. WILLIAM, with its atelier based in Downtown Los Angeles has debuted collections at Paris Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week, and Pitti Uomo; collaborates with prestigious accounts including Farfetch. GNU Group, a design studio specializing in global programs of environmental graphics, branding, signage, and wayfinding; opened a new studio in Los Angeles established by Will Ayers, expanding their international presence.

Cal Poly LA Metro Program Hosts Tom Wiscombe Inside the Helms Design Center
2017-03-14 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Tuesday, March 14 from 6:30 – 8:30pm, Helms Bakery District is pleased to present a reception, lecture, and discussion with Tom Wiscombe of Tom Wiscombe Architecture, in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).
The event is FREE and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to calpolylametro@gmail.com. Free Parking is available at the Valet located on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, April 4th: B+U Architects
Thursday, April 20th: Heather Roberge of Murmur
About the Architect
Tom Wiscombe
Born in La Jolla, California in 1970, Tom Wiscombe is an Architect living in Los Angeles. He is founder and principal of Tom Wiscombe Architecture, an internationally recognized design practice. His work stands out in terms of its mysterious figural features, its alluring graphic qualities, and its tectonic inventiveness.
Wiscombe has developed an international reputation through winning competition entries, exhibitions of work at major cultural institutions, and publications worldwide. In 2014, Wiscombe began planning and design of the Main Museum of Los Angeles Art with Tom Gilmore, the developer known for leading the re-vitalization of downtown Los Angeles. This project involves 105,000 square feet of renovation and new construction beneath, inside of, and on top of several historical bank buildings. In 2016, Wiscombe, together with Orange Barrel Media, MOCA, and Imaginary Forces, won the West Hollywood Sunset Spectacular competition, a new form of billboard for the 21st century. In 2014, Wiscombe also received Second Place in the international competition for the Kinmen Passenger Service Center, Taiwan. In 2011, Wiscombe won first place in the competition for the 123,000 square meter. Chinese National Games Civic Sports Arena in Shenyang.

Wiscombe is Chair of the Bachelor of Architecture Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he has taught for over 10 years. Wiscombe has taught Advanced Research studios as Visiting Professor at PennDesign (U. Penn) for 4 years, and in 2012, held the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship at Yale University. He has published texts on architectural theory in journals such as AD, Project, and LOG. His work is part of the permanent collection of the FRAC Centre Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA San Francisco, and MoMA New York.

Previously, Wiscombe worked for Coop Himmelb(l)au, where he was the right hand of Principal Wolf Prix for over 10 years. He was responsible for multiple international projects and large project teams from competition through realization. Notably, he was Chief Designer for the UFA Cinema Center, Dresden, BMW Welt, Munich, and the Lyon Museum of Confluences, known as three of the most important works of contemporary architecture.

H.D. Buttercup Hosts a Guest Designer Event on March 2nd
2017-03-02 17:00 - 19:00 | H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic, 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles,, CA, 90034, United States
Free
To kick off the month of March, H.D. Buttercup is hosting a Guest Designer Event. Please join them on Thursday, March 2 from 5:00 to 7:00PM for a meet and greet with five top designers from Los Angeles. The award-winning list includes: Lucie Ayers, Lindsay Chambers, Breeze Giannasio, Natalie Marom and Alexandra Rae. The designers will create in-store vignettes, exclusively with H.D. Buttercup products, inspiring customers to go for the unexpected.
Stop by for snacks, drinks and a whole world of inspiration!

Cal Poly LA Metro Program Hosts Patrick Tighe Inside the Helms Design Center
2017-02-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, February 25 from 6:30 – 8:30pm, Helms Bakery District is pleased to present a reception, exhibition, and book signing with Patrick Tighe of Patrick Tighe Architecture, in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).
The event is FREE and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to calpolylametro@gmail.com. Free Parking is available at the Valet located on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, March 14th: Tom Wiscombe of Tom Wiscombe Architecture
Tuesday, April 4th: B+U Architects
Thursday, April 20th: Heather Roberge of Murmur
About the Architect
Patrick Tighe FAIA, FAAR, is a Los Angeles architect and educator. The highly acclaimed namesake firm, Patrick Tighe Architecture, is committed to creating an authentic, contemporary architecture informed by technology, sustainability, and building innovation. Since its inception, the firm has produced a strong and diverse body of work. The firm has gained international recognition for their award winning projects and for their work in the affordable housing sector.
The firm has received over 50 design awards, has been published extensively and exhibited globally. Tighe was recently awarded the Pacific Design Center’s 2017 Star of Design. A monograph of the firms work, entitled “Buiding Dichotomy” was just released. Available on Amazon.

Patrick Tighe Architecture: Building Dichotomy
With Essays by Thom Mayne and Stephen Philips

From the publisher: This beautifully designed and illustrated monograph sets out Patrick Tighe’s innovative, diverse, and wide-ranging collection of contemporary work towards the post-digital, showing the reader a hyper- detailed analytical investigation of digital forms and their practices.

It sets out how his architecture has brought a return to the real in an attempt to rethink the language and practice of architecture. The book’s many inspiring and intricate drawings render clear the ideas that show the palpable energy and momentum that exists in this practice. In every instance, this firm embraces dichotomy, mining its potential to produce a more vital and consequential architecture.

The book’s stunning imagery and nuanced narratives tell the story of Tighe’s architecture across 35 projects spanning across the globe, to help establish how his work draws from and builds upon existing polarities to find resolution, and how tensions yield a more dynamic architecture. The work is multiple and varied: from the small-scale residential to the urban scale, from the United States to Europe to China to North Africa, from high-end villas for royalty to art installations to social housing projects.

This compelling collection of work follows the following five key themes: CRAFT (from the manufactured to the technological); MATERIAL (from the natural to the synthetic); EXPERIENCE (from the actual to the perceptual); GEOMETRY (from the simple to the complex); and METHOD (from the analog to the digital). This distinguished monograph also includes an incisive introduction by Patrick Tighe and is augmented by two essays by Thom Mayne and Stephen Phillips, who also provide clarity and insightful discourse on how Tighe’s work is continuously in transition and evolving, and how he’s rethinking and engaging in a discourse to defamiliarize the familiar.

Arcana Books Heads to Printed Matter's Los Angeles Art Book Fair!
2017-02-23 19:00 - 20:00 | MOCA, 152 N. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
It’s that time of year again when you get to visit Arcana: Books on the Arts during the Printed Matter’s Los Angeles Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Please check the event website for complete hours.
Beginning with a preview on Thursday, 2/23 through Sunday, 2/26, you will find them at Booth P05 with another enticing assortment of rarities including Pop and Conceptual artist books and catalogues, (maga)’zines, artworks + multiples, and an array of coveted posters, announcements, and ephemera. It’s a unique opportunity to shop many of the exquisite, inspiring, and rarely-seen items from the Arcana hidden-recesses and flat files.
In addition, they will be hosting two great book signings during the festivities! At Thursday night’s opening benefit, renowned gallerist, archivist, and editor Johan Kugelberg will be signing copies between 7:00 and 8:00 PM of his recent publication God Save Sex Pistols – the unseen and definitive visual history of the incendiary punk band. Presented by Arcana: Books on the Arts and Anthology Editions, both the Deluxe and swanky Ultra-Deluxe Anthology editions as well as the Rizzoli trade edition will be available.
On Saturday 2/25, New York-based photographer Aaron Stern will be joining Arcana at 3:00 PM to sign his hot-off-the-press We Live Behind The Moon Sometimes – an edition limited to fifty copies each containing a 5 x 7″ print. “Our memories are so often distorted to fit a narrative we create for ourselves. We replay memories the way we wish to remember and rebuild them to fit our own story. These images explore these themes as well the overarching theme in my work: love and loss, and how they relate to the landscape in our minds and around us.”

Cal Poly LA Metro Program Hosts Pita & Bloom Inside the Helms Design Center
2017-02-23 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Thursday, February 23 from 6:30 – 8:30pm, Helms Bakery District is pleased to present a reception, lecture, and discussion with Florencia Pita nd Jackilin Bloom of Pita and Bloom, in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).
The event is FREE and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to calpolylametro@gmail.com. Free Parking is available at the Valet located on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
Saturday, February 25th: Patrick Tighe of Patrick Tighe Architecture
Tuesday, March 14th: Tom Wiscombe of Tom Wiscombe Architecture
Tuesday, April 4th: B+U Architects
Thursday, April 20th: Heather Roberge of Murmur
About the Architects
Pita & Bloom
Pita & Bloom is an architectural research and design collaborative based in Los Angeles. Started in 2010 by Florencia Pita and Jackilin Hah Bloom to test ideas on their shared notions of color, form, and material applications, Pita & Bloom aims to represent attitudes of contemporary culture while addressing each project’s specific challenges. Their projects to date include speculative cultural buildings, indoor and outdoor environments, social housing in Mexico, as well as objects to be viewed or used. In 2014, Pita & Bloom were called “two female visionaries” in Architecture Magazine’s Next Progressives, and they were selected as one of five finalists of the MoMA PS1 YAP competition. Recently they were selected as one of twelve teams to represent the U.S. Pavilion’s exhibit, The Architectural Imagination, at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Artist Michael Kalish Exhibits "The Art of Finding Love" at H.D. Buttercup
2017-02-23 16:00 - 19:00 | H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic, 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles,, CA, 90034, United States
Michael Kalish, the renowned artist, is known for his massive public art installations, but it’s his newest interactive installation, “The Art of Finding Love”, that reflect his most moving work to date.
Beginning on Thursday, February 23 through February 26, “THE ART OF FINDING LOVE”, an interactive art sculpture by MICHAEL KALISH, will be exhibited inside the H.D. Buttercup showroom. Pop in to meet the artist on 2/23 from 4:00 to 7:00PM.
EXPERIENCE IT
Standing at 20 feet tall, you are invited to come and “find love” as you walk around this interactive sculpture until you find the one spot where the letters come together.
LIVE IT
Bring home a limited edition tabletop version of the interactive sculpture that functions as both a vase and a candle holder.

H.D. Buttercup Invites You to Brunch
2017-02-12 11:00 - 14:00 | H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic, 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles,, CA, 90034, United States
Free
On Sunday, February 12th from 11:00AM to 2:00PM, drop by H.D. Buttercup for brunch on them!
Inspired by top fashion trends and artistic designs, H.D. Buttercup is proud to present their most inventive furniture and rugs to date. Shop their new Spring 2017 Collection and enjoy an afternoon of art for the whole family. Cruise their showroom, create kites with your kids, and have some delicious bites with the entire H.D. Buttercup team.

Arcana Hosts a Book Signing and One-Day Installation with Tony Manzella and Tom Hall
2017-02-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, February 4th from 4:00 to 6:00PM, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts as they welcome their longtime friend Tony Manzella to celebrate his hot-off-the-web-press True Image – a thirty-two page tabloid format collection of color photographs. Designed by David Blankenship for Because, and published by Verb Editions, True Image is a striking representation of our unseen surroundings that excavates local landscapes.
For the event Los Angeles-based audio / video artist Tom Hall will create an installation featuring a unique generative algorithm that translates True Image’s complete image set into a hardware synthesis ambient soundtrack.

Woodbury College Hosts a Discussion on Womanhouse and WomEnhouse: A 20-Year Perspective on Feminism and Architecture
2017-02-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
45 years ago, from January 30 to February 28, 1972, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro organized a feminist art installation and performance space called Womanhouse, located in an abandoned Victorian house near CalArts. 20 years ago a group of 24 female artists, architects, poets, art historians, and cultural theorists derived inspiration from Womanhouse in their design of a collaborative, multi-authored website that explores the politics of domesticity and gender relations through virtual “rooms” and conceptual domestic “spaces.” WomEnhouse proposed that, just as the domestic sphere is no longer separated from the public world of capital, so too the “feminine” (and feminism) must expand into a cyberpolitics that addresses the multivalent vicissitudes of identity formation and domesticity at the turn of the millennium.
Founding members of WomEnhouse, Annie Chu, Christina Magar, and Pat Morton, will discuss the past, present, and future of the ideological and symbolic conflation of women and houses through the formative lens of this groundbreaking website. With an estimated 750,000 people attending the Los Angeles Women’s March on January 21, 2017, and recent publications concerning the absence of women in architecture, questions surrounding female bodies in public space are as relevant to address on February 3, 2017 as they were on January 30, 1972. Come and participate in this timely discussion!
Seating is limited, so please RSVP here. Free Valet parking is available in the lot located at Venice Boulevard and Helms Avenue.
You can read more about the event here!https://woodbury.edu/womanhouse-and-womenhouse/

Arcana Hosts A Special Workshop With Christina Kim
2017-01-08 11:30 - 13:30 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
On Sunday, January 8th at 11:30AM, please join us at Arcana: Books on the Arts for a special workshop with Christina Kim to learn to make yo-yo puffs!
A yo-yo puff is a circle of fabric gathered around its edges into a “puff” used for embellishing quilts and clothing. First, a circle is drawn on a piece of cloth, cut out, and stitched with thread around the outside of the folded edge while turning a tiny hem as you go. The thread is pulled, gathering the fabric into a puff, then knotted. A traditional form of recycling thought to date back centuries, yo-yo or Suffolk puffs, as they are sometimes called in England, are best known in the United States for their use in Depression-era quilting practice.
Christina attempted her first yo-yo puffs creation, a coverlet, in high school by following instructions in an issue of Seventeen magazine. For a project in 2013 evoking the transformation of winter to spring, 10,000 puffs dip-dyed and hand-painted in subtle gradients of sky, snow, and cherry blossom colors were made for an 18 window installation in Tokyo. The technique was incorporated into the dosa Traveler 2013 collection.
$55.00 includes materials and a rare small-group workshop with Christina Kim.
Book your place in advance (by calling Whitney at 310-458-1499 or writing to books@arcanabooks.com), or “at the door” on Sunday morning.
