BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Helms Design District - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Helms Design District X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Helms Design District REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250125T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250125T140000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20250114T224034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250125T011900Z UID:10001931-1737806400-1737813600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:VENUE CHANGE: The Heart of LA has Moved to Central Library DESCRIPTION:Dear Friends\, \nDue to high demand and our limited seating capacity\, The Heart of LA is moving to a new venue tomorrow\, on Saturday\, January 25th at 12:00 PM. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this change may cause\, but we felt that the overwhelming response from all of you meant that this important dialogue needed to be shared with a larger audience. \nThe new venue location is the Central Library — Mark Taper Auditorium located at 630 West 5th Street\, Los Angeles\, CA 90071. \nWe are deeply grateful to the Central Library for hosting this event on such short notice. Ample parking is available underneath the library. \nAdditional details may be found HERE. \nPhoto By: Art Gray URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/the-heart-of-la-memory-resilience-and-the-road-to-recovery/ LOCATION:Central Library – Mark Taper Auditorium\, 630 West 5th Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90071 CATEGORIES:Long Term Events,News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Fire-photo-by-Art-Gray-0294XX.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240523T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20240506T152919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T170557Z UID:10001898-1716489000-1716496200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Discussion + Book Launch with Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin\, with special guest Frances Anderton DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, May 23\, 6:30-8:30 pm\, for the book launch of The Atlas of Never Built Architecture by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin\, with a discussion moderated by Frances Anderton.\nIn collaboration with the Helms Bakery District and the Cal Poly SLO LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design \nHelms Design Center        \n8745 Washington Blvd.\, Culver City\, CA 90232 \nFree Parking is available at the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Blvd. \nLecture is Free and Open to the Public. The book will be available for purchase during the event\, courtesy of our friends at Arcana: Books on the Arts. \nRSVP\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Sam Lubell\n \n \n \n \n Greg Goldin\n \n \n \n \n Frances Anderton\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \nA Romp Through Great Architectural Ideas That Never Were (But Inspire What Might Still Be)\nThe Atlas of Never Built Architecture features hundreds of the most spectacular unbuilt projects of the 20th and 21st centuries in a comprehensive\, geographically arranged survey. Imaginative and ambitious\, the projects reveal the incredible diversity of ideas that have emerged from the world’s most influential architects—and many you’ve never heard of. Spanning nearly 80 countries\, the book presents concepts for projects of all types: museums\, art galleries\, cemeteries\, churches\, bridges\, skyscrapers\, hotels\, theme parks\, casinos\, opera houses\, government buildings\, and even a floating theatre boat that resembles a UFO. Seen together\, the projects conjure a strange and wonderful new world while simultaneously offering insight into how architectural projects have been conceived and developed (and dashed) over the last 100 years. The book also includes previously unpublished prints\, paintings\, drawings\, etchings\, preparatory sketches\, and images that bring these alternate histories to life. \nSam Lubell is Editor at Large at Metropolis. He has written more than ten books about architecture for Phaidon\, Rizzoli\, The Monacelli Press\, Metropolis Books\, and Oro Editions. He writes for The New York Times\, The Los Angeles Times\, Fast Company\, Architectural Digest\, Wallpaper\, Dwell\, Architect Magazine\, and other publications. He has co-curated four major architecture exhibitions and taught as an adjunct professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture\, Columbia University GSAPP\, and Arizona State University The Design School. \nFor more than a decade\, Greg Goldin was Architecture Critic at Los Angeles Magazine. He has written a half dozen books about architecture for Phaidon\, Rizzoli\, and Metropolis Books. His work has appeared in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Metropolis\, and the Architect’s Newspaper. He co-curated the museum exhibitions Never Built Los Angeles and Never Built New York\, and has taught as an adjunct professor at USC\, UCLA\, Syracuse University School of Architecture\, and Columbia University GSAPP. He resides in Los Angeles where he continues a family tradition of being a thorn in the side of the rich and powerful. \nFrances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print\, broadcast media and public events. She is the author of Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles\, which won the 2022 Gold award for best Regional Nonfiction from Foreword Reviews. She is co-author of Awesome and Affordable: Great Housing Now\, a multimedia project produced in 2024 by Friends of Residential Treasures: Los Angeles (FORT: LA). She has co-produced short films for the nonprofit housing developers Community Corporation of Santa Monica and Venice Community Housing. Anderton writes a regular newsletter about design and architecture for KCRW public radio station. For many years she hosted the KCRW show DnA: Design and Architecture\, and produced the current affairs shows Which Way\, LA? and To The Point. She teaches an urban housing seminar at USC architecture. Honors include the Esther McCoy Award\, from the Architectural Guild of USC architecture school\, for her work educating the public about architecture and urbanism. \nPreorder The Atlas of Never Built Architecture here \n\nIntroduced by Stephen Phillips\, FAIA\, 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). \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \nSPONSORED BY URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/the-atlas-of-never-built-architecture/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AtlasOfNeverBuiltArchitecture.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230625T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230625T190000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20230603T212354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T230407Z UID:10000542-1687708800-1687719600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:California Dreaming DESCRIPTION:Free \nWhat does “California Dream” mean to you?\nThat’s the question that will be addressed by designers\, architects and audience members gathering at the Helms Design Center on Sunday\, June 25th\, from 4 pm to 7 pm.\nThe event marks the recent publication of Architectural Design (AD) magazine’s California Dreaming issue\, celebrating the latest in California design and architecture. Participating architects and writers – including Aaron Gensler\, Alvin Huang\, Benjamin Ball\, Craig Hodgetts\, Denise Bratton\, Elena Manferdini\, Erin Wright\, Heather Flood\, Jasmine Benyamin\, Jill Stoner\, Preliminary Research Office – will join a lively conversation with moderator Frances Anderton about the themes of the issue and the broader cultural impact of West Coast architecture and design. The dialogue will be followed by a public reception\, and sales of the special issue. \nCalifornia Dreaming is the final event for the Los Angeles Design Festival\, a citywide celebration of “design for the people.” It is also one of the last issues of Architectural Design (AD)\, an influential magazine founded in London in 1930 that has advanced cutting edge technologies and ideas in architecture\, and will cease publication in 2024. \nHelms Design Center\n8745 Washington Blvd\, Culver City\, CA 90232 \nAmbiance: DJ Caviar \n\n \n \n \n \n \n RSVP HERE URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/california-dreaming/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/20230519_AM_AD_Original_01_800px.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230422T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230422T200000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20230209T182159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230413T211914Z UID:10000371-1682164800-1682193600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Seeding the City: Nature’s Story DESCRIPTION:Free\nSaturday\, April 22\, 2023\n12:00 to 5:00 pm Campus-Wide\n12:00 to 8:00 pm Helms Design Center \nBeing in nature can change our mood\, impact our health and well-being\, and provide respite from daily lives dominated by technology\, in surroundings of concrete and steel. Even viewing depictions of nature can reduce stress and serve as a tonic. \nJoin us on Earth Day\, Saturday\, April 22nd\, 2023 for a full day of playful visualizations to spark your (re)connection with nature. \nThe day will feature artworks and activities by artists\, designers and filmmakers who have created powerful imagery celebrating nature — from dreamy fairy gardens and a scavenger hunt to captivating illustrations of the wild animals that live amongst us; from interactive workshops with storytellers\, poster designers and poets\, to a screening of My Garden of a Thousands Bees\, plus so much more. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/seeding-the-city-2023/ LOCATION:Helms Design District\, 8800 Venice Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90034\, United States CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/STC-logo-1000pxB.png GEO:34.0306792;-118.3851538 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design District 8800 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90034 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8800 Venice Blvd.:geo:-118.3851538,34.0306792 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221208T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221208T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20221122T212435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221122T230047Z UID:10000404-1670524200-1670531400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:NAHR Announces 2023 Residency on December 8th DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, December 8th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm\, please join us in welcoming Nature\, Art and Habitat for their 2023 Residency\, “AIR: Commons\, Chaotic Fluid\, Inspiration”\, an evening conversation focusing on the role of air as a connector\, imagining future scenarios about what we will be breathing. \nThe discussion will address pressing questions such as: \n\nHow can human relationships with air help to stop or slow the climate crisis?\nWhat is our awareness of the ecology of air?\nHow does air connect us and highlight issues of global justice?\n\nHead of Ceremony: Deborah Weintraub\, AIA\, LEED AP \nModerator: Frances Anderton\, Design Journalist \nKeynote Speaker: Laurie Lipton\, Artist \nInterlocutor: Richard Molina\, Designer \nRESERVE A SPOT\nSCHEDULE\n6:30: Arrival and socializing\n6:45: Introduction\, Welcome and the “5 Ws” of NAHR\n6:50: Keynote Address\n7:10: Topic Announcement and Workshop on AIR\n7:20: Audience Participation Workshop/Charrette\n8:05: Presentation and Final Summation Remarks followed by light bites and beverages \nABOUT NAHR\nNature Art and Habitat\, an Eco-laboratory of Multidisciplinary Practice\, located in Taleggio Valley\, Bergamo\, Italy and Santa Ynez\, California\, is a program that aims to unfold and display a sensitive type of culture that relates to nature as a source of inspiration and a measure of available resources. \nNAHR is a non-profit organization dedicated to explorations on the environment and creativity\, hosting researchers and scholars from all around the world yearly. \nPhoto Credit: Brian Yulo Ng \nFREE Parking is located inside the interior parking garage located at 8711 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, adjacent to the venue. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/nahr-announces-2023-residency-on-december-8th/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1-002.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221116T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221116T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20221026T180314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221104T165742Z UID:10000490-1668623400-1668630600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Celebration + Talk with Michael Boyd and Michael Webb DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Wednesday\, November 16th from 6:30 – 8:30 PM\, please join us for a lively conversation with Michael Boyd and Michael Webb on the launch of Boyd’s new book MILLENNIUM MODERN Living in Design (Lund Humphries\, 2022) moderated by architecture journalist Frances Anderton and in partnership with the Wende Museum. \nMichael Boyd lives by Le Corbusier’s mantra: “To be modern is not a fashion\, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history\, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was\, that which is\, and that which will be.” \nA design connoisseur\, successful musician\, preservationist\, passionate tastemaker\, and furniture and rug designer\, Boyd believes modernism is a model for new and future design solutions. Boyd’s new book MILLENNIUM MODERN Living in Design (Lund Humphries\, 2022) illustrates his holistic design practice and reflects his belief that the tenets of Modernism—honesty and simplicity—developed more than century ago\, are still relevant to our pluralistic age. In contrast to those who have wanted to do away with the past\, Boyd’s creations and designs are deeply rooted in the history of design. \nOriginally a film music composer\, Michael Boyd is a major collector and curator of modernist design based in Los Angeles\, who has evolved into becoming a successful artist and designer of contemporary modernist homes\, furniture and landscapes. \nMichael Webb Hon. AIA/LA has authored 30 books on architecture and design\, most recently Architects’ Houses and Building Community: New Apartment Architecture\, as well as a memoir\, Moving Around: A Lifetime of Wandering\, while editing and contributing essays to a score of monographs. He is also a regular contributor to leading journals in the United States\, Asia and Europe. Growing up in London\, he was an editor at The Times and Country Life\, before moving to the U.S.\, where he directed film programs for the American Film Institute through the 1970s and curated a Smithsonian exhibition on the history of the American cinema. He now lives in Los Angeles in the Richard Neutra apartment that was once home to Charles and Ray Eames. \nIn an excerpt taken from Michael Webb’s introduction to MILLENNIUM MODERN: \n“An autodidact with strong opinions\, Michael Boyd has immersed himself in the history and creativity of modernism. His faith in the fundamentals is unflinching\, as is his certainty in a revisionist age. “Modernism is a philosophical approach based on rationality and reality\,” he declares. “It grew out of the visual chaos of the 19th century in a quest for honesty\, simplicity\, and truth in materials.” He shares the idealistic vision of the pioneers and has stayed true to their principles in his own work even as modernism has evolved from a narrow torrent into a broad stream with many tributaries.” \nFrances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print\, podcasts\, exhibitions\, and public events. She is the author of Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles\, just published by Angel City Press. For many years\, Anderton hosted DnA: Design and Architecture\, broadcast on KCRW\, a public radio station. Her honors include the Esther McCoy Award\, bestowed by the USC Architectural Guild at USC School of Architecture\, for her work in educating the public about architecture and urbanism. \nThe Wende is an art museum\, cultural center\, and archive of the Cold War that explores social\, political\, and cultural change. The Wende reaches beyond the conventional walls of a museum in pursuit of international scholarship\, artistic interpretation\, community engagement\, digital access\, and experimental public programming. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/book-celebration-talk-with-michael-boyd-and-michael-webb/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BoydBookSigning2022_EventArt_1080x1080px.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221112T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221112T130000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20220915T225851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221104T170700Z UID:10000516-1668247200-1668258000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:smART Talks at Helms! For Artists and Creative Professionals DESCRIPTION:Free\nJoin us on Saturday\, November 12th as we partner with Crewest Studio to present smARTtalks: A New Monthly Educational Series for Artists + Creatives with Expert Panelists! smARTalks occur once a month on Saturdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm inside the Helms Design Center. smARTtalks are FREE intimate learning sessions with a panel of experts covering timely and important topics vital to artists and creatives working in the 21st Century. \nWith just 75 tickets available\, get your tickets now while supplies last! \nRESERVE A SPOT\nHere’s the lineup of discussions and panelists for November 12th: \n\nThe Power of Story in Selling Art: How Narrative Can Help Artists Drive Sales in a Social Media Landscape with speakers: Shana Nys Dambrot and Miles Regis\n\nPreview:Many artists would prefer for their art to speak for itself without having to talk about it. The reality is artists must know how to communicate their story effectively and impromptu when asked by a potential new collector\, curator\, gallery owner\, journalist or even a group of school children. Artists should be able to clearly answer basic questions such as: Why art matters? Why they became an artist and what drives them as an artist? Learn from the experts about best practices in social media to tell a story\, create an on-line persona and promote work online. \n\nHas Digital Art Finally Earned Respect? How Web3\, NFTs\, AR\, VR\, AI and The Metaverse Are Impacting The Art World with speakers: Ronnie Pirovino\, Heidi Johnson\, and Daniel Nomad\n\nPreview:Art and tech comprise exciting new frontiers for art making and selling. And\, while the media love to talk about the big sales numbers some artists are getting for their NFTs\, most people don’t even have a crypto wallet. Still\, NFT’s equipped with built-in resale royalties are a major development. Web3\, Augmented Reality\, Virtual Reality and the Metaverse are hyped topics in the media too. Do these innovations truly represent a real and fundamental shift in the art market or are they simply new tools and mediums for artists and art lovers to enjoy? What should artists know and do with these new media? \n\nCan Public + Immersive Art Experiences Save The World? with speakers: Carmen Zella\, Shana Nys Drambot\, and Isabel Beavers\n\nPreview: In recent years\, communities and entrepreneurs have been producing public and immersive visual art experiences for people to enjoy. They took a dive during the pandemic but are on the way back. Some art installations are free to the public through corporate or civic sponsorship while others charge admission as for-profit ventures. Some are temporary pop-ups\, while others are semi-permanent or permanent. What is driving this trend? Are these exhibitions for the love of art and the public good or simply making money? Where it is all going and how might artists produce their own public art installations? \n  URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/smart-talks-at-helms-empowering-talks-for-artists-creative-professionals-2/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/smARTtalks-Nov-12_resize.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221022T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221022T130000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20220915T181537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221018T165355Z UID:10000515-1666432800-1666443600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:POSTPONED - smART Talks at Helms! For Artists and Creative Professionals DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL A FUTURE DATE. \nJoin us on Saturday\, October 22nd as we partner with Crewest Studio to present smARTtalks: A New Monthly Educational Series for Artists + Creatives with Expert Panelists! smARTalks occur once a month on Saturdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm inside the Helms Design Center. \nsmARTtalks are intimate learning sessions with a panel of experts covering timely and important topics vital to artists and creatives working in the 21st Century. \nEach smARTtalk event costs $20 to attend. Only 75 tickets are available for each month’s event. \nBUY TICKETS NOW\n\nHere’s the lineup of discussions and panelists for October 22nd: \n\nIs Art School Worth The Money? The Truth About Arts Education in America + it’s Impact on the Creative Economy with speakers Lorne Buchman\, Erin Yoshi\, Ibuki Kuramochi\, and Cara Levine. \n\nPreview: Experts say kids who get an arts education do better in school and life\, and the professional tier in the arts is hot; the creative economy is valued at $2T. But\, primary arts education in the U.S. has been defunded over the last 30 years. Meanwhile\, at the college level\, the cost of an arts degree can put an undergrad in debt for life. Is the ROI worth it? What should artists\, designers\, creatives and educators do with this information? With that much cash in the creative economy\, why do artists\, designers and creatives often continue to struggle economically? \n\nArt in an Age of Political Unrest: How Current Events and Cultural Trends Drive Artistic Expression with speakers Brian McCarty\, Karen Fiorito\, Linda Vallejo\, Marianne Sadowski\, and Olga Severina. \n\nPreview: The social and political tumult of the last five years inspired many artists to express themselves politically about racism\, politics\, social injustice\, police brutality\, gun rights\, climate change\, LGBTQ+ rights\, and more. What is the impact and proper role of political art? Where is it most relevant and effective? And\, how is freedom of expression in the arts impacted by cultural trends around language about gender coding\, sexual identity\, race and privilege? Does the art world have room for conservatives? \nFor information\, click HERE! URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/smart-talks-at-helms-oct-22/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/smARTtalks-Oct-22_1200px.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221001T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221001T160000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20220922T001151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T200119Z UID:10000517-1664632800-1664640000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Join us for Frances Anderton's book release celebration! DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, October 1st at 2:00 pm as we celebrate the release of Frances Anderton’s book Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles\, published by Angel City Press. Stop in for a reception\, a lively talk and Q&A. \nPLEASE RSVP\nLiving in Los Angeles has always been equated with the suburban single-family home with a big backyard. But for decades\, L.A. has also been the consummate laboratory for exceptional experiments in multifamily housing — dwellings centered on shared open space\, from the central courtyard to the rooftop garden. In Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles\, author Frances Anderton explores that fascinating history— from the bungalow courts and apartment-hotels of the 1910s\, through the development of garden apartments\, to contemporary mid-rise “urban villages” and co-living spaces. Common Ground features the work of the Zwebells\, R.M. Schindler\, Richard Neutra\, John Lautner\, Ralph Vaughn\, Koning Eizenberg\, Sean Knibb\, Michael Maltzan\, Brooks + Scarpa\, Lorcan O’Herlihy\, Shin Shin\, and many more. In a time of housing crisis\, Frances Anderton makes the case that well-designed\, equitable\, connected living is tomorrow’s American dream. \n\n \n  \nABOUT FRANCES\nFrances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print\, podcasts\, exhibitions\, and at public events. For many years Anderton hosted DnA: Design and Architecture\, broadcast on KCRW\, a public radio station. Her honors include the Esther McCoy Award\, bestowed by the USC Architectural Guild at USC School of Architecture\, for her work in educating the public about architecture and urbanism. Anderton resides in Santa Monica\, California. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/join-us-for-frances-andertons-book-release-celebration/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/COGR-cvr1-1448-x1448.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20220913T231144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220914T000326Z UID:10000512-1664476200-1664483400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing + Talk with Joseph Giovannini DESCRIPTION:Free\nJoin us on Thursday\, September 29th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm for a conversation and book signing with Joseph Giovannini and architectural journalist Frances Anderton about the new authoritative history of the Avant-Garde architecture of our times. \n Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde (Rizzoli)\, by noted critic and designer Joseph Giovannini\, has been called “an amazing achievement\,” “a masterpiece\,” and “an instant classic.” The book chronicles the century-long influence of avant-garde art and the theories of the oblique on prominent architects and some of their highest-profile projects—many of which are in Los Angeles. Don’t miss this lively discussion of architecture that is transgressive\, oblique\, aberrant\, deconstructed\, and digital. \nArcana: Books on the Arts will be at the event selling books. \n  \n \nABOUT JOSEPH \nJoseph Giovannini\, author of Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde\, is a practicing designer who has written on architecture and design for such publications as the New York Times\, Architectural Record\, Art in America\, and Art Forum\, and was architecture critic for New York Magazine\, Los Angeles Herald Examiner\, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He has also taught widely in graduate architecture programs. \nPhoto credit: photographer Tom Bonner \n \nABOUT FRANCES \nFrances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print\, broadcast media and public events. Her book\, Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles\, will be published in fall\, 2022\, by Angel City Press. Anderton also co-creates talks and events at Helms Bakery District. Recent programs included the public symposium Seeding The City; In Harmony With Nature\, a show of architectural work by James Hubbell; and the 2021 exhibition Low Rise Mid Rise High Rise: Housing in LA Today. She is producing Art For Earth’s Sake\, a series of conversations about the art world and its environmental footprint\, to take place at MOCA in fall\, 2022. For many years Anderton hosted DnA: Design and Architecture for KCRW public radio station\, having got her start at KCRW producing Warren Olney’s current affairs shows Which Way\, LA? and To The Point. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/book-signing-talk-with-joseph-giovannini/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Arch-Unbound-Cover_500x750_web.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220924T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220924T130000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20220907T002433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T173929Z UID:10000508-1664013600-1664024400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:smART Talks at Helms! FREE For Artists and Creative Professionals DESCRIPTION:Starting on Saturday\, September 24th\, we are excited to partner with Crewest Studio to present smARTtalks: A New Monthly Educational Series for Artists + Creatives with Expert Panelists! smARTalks occur once a month on Saturdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm inside the Helms Design Center. \nsmARTtalks are intimate learning sessions with a panel of experts covering timely and important topics vital to artists and creatives working in the 21st Century. \nThanks to the wonderful generosity of an arts patron\, smARTtalks is now FREE to all artists in Los Angeles. Simply register to reserve your seat now as it is an intimate event with only 75 seats available. Free coffee and refreshments (donuts!) will be served starting at 9:30 and Parking is located at 8711 Washington Boulevard\, just east of the event venue. \nREGISTER FOR TICKETS!\nHere’s the lineup of discussions and panelists for September 24th: \n10:00 am \n\nWho Are We Now? Artists Discuss COVID + Creativity. How Did The Pandemic Help or Hurt Artists with speakers Dr. Kim Cookson and Eric Weiss\, LMFT.\n\nPreview: Given the tumult of the last 24 months\, we are changed people — and artists. What have we learned? How do we best process the impact of the pandemic? And where do we go from here? Part collective group therapy session\, this discussion will address these relevant\, existential questions touching all of us. We will also address personal wellness in the arts. \n11:00 am \n\nHow To Launch Your First Collectible Art Toy with speakers Ben Goretsky and kaNO\n\nPreview: Collectible art toys and vinyls represent a small but hot and growing segment of the contemporary art market. If you’re an artist interested in launching your first collectible art toy\, don’t miss this smARTalk. You learn about toy design\, fabrication\, packaging and marketing process. You’ll learn how a 2D concept drawing becomes a 3D product\, where to have it manufactured and how to budget the costs. You will get the answers to these and other important questions from top industry experts. \n12:00 Noon \n\nThe Long Overdue and Beautiful Rise of BIPOC Artists in the Primary Art Market: A Sincere and Permanent Correction or Cynical Opportunism by Art Dealers? with speakers April Banks\, Badir McCleary\, Sarah Mantilla Griffin\, and Man One.\n\nPreview: Artists of color are hot in the art market right how — and it’s about time. But why did it take so long for the mainstream art world to rightfully recognize them? What did it take for the art world to finally give artists of color a platform? And\, most importantly\, will it last? How will it be sustained? Or will the fickle and profit-driven art world eventually get bored and move on? URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/smart-talks-at-helms-empowering-talks-for-artists-creative-professionals/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/original_free_22.09.24_WEB.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220918T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220918T160000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20220913T234146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220914T001409Z UID:10000513-1663509600-1663516800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Welcome Back! Balloon Installation & Community Dialogue with Frances Anderton DESCRIPTION:Free\nWe’ve been through unprecedented times\, marked by a retreat from public spaces and by a reevaluation of intimate spaces. On Sunday\, September 18th from 2:00 to 4:00 pm\, join Frances Anderton and  The L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design as we welcome you back and we’ve blown up big balloons! Thought balloons with your messages and observations about how you occupied space over the last 2 ½ years are on display. Welcome to the conversation. \nFor over two years\, we have been confronted with a novel approach to living in space\, one that is unfamiliar and mostly unprecedented. Social distancing and isolation have had a multitude of effects on the global population\, on how we relate to each other and to space. During this pandemic\, (personal) space has increased for some and decreased for others\, with access to and options for different safe physical and mental spaces being sadly granted on the basis of income and privilege. \nThe L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design invites the Los Angeles community to join the conversation about space in a “post-pandemic” world. Two and half months ago L.A. Forum released their limited edition Welcome Back! newsletter that included big balloons! They asked you to write or draw your perception of space during the pandemic on this pneumatic object. \nWhat do you define as a safe space\, physical or mental? | What felt like home during this time\, and how it felt to be (forced) at home? | What spaces did you wish to have more access to or were grateful for? | How did your spatial routine change? \nWith this Welcome Back! Balloon Installation and Community Dialogue\, we’ve created an exhibit with your responses\, celebrating you and your reflections at this public gathering\, one honoring the special exchange that naturally occurs when humans interact in space together. \n“Alone in the empty city. So vast\, so quiet\, for me alone.” \n“2022\, we are ‘normal’ again but I hold space for the new ‘me’ I found.” URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/welcome-back-balloon-installation-community-dialogue-with-frances-anderton/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/LAF-Welcome-Back-Balloon.png GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220804T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220804T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20220722T213238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220805T175633Z UID:10000492-1659637800-1659645000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Welcome Blanket: An Exhibition + Conversation with Jayna Zweiman DESCRIPTION:Free \nOn Thursday\, August 4th from 6:30 – 8:30 PM\, please join us for an opening reception of  Welcome Blanket with founder Jayna Zweiman in conversation with cultural journalist Frances Anderton. \nWelcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms the abstract concept of immigration into a tangible crowd-sourced artistic action. Handcraft makers are invited to make Welcome Blankets that include notecards with stories important to their families about immigration/migration/relocation to create symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected\, catalogued\, and displayed at art institutions and exhibitions. After each show’s close\, Welcome Blanket’s 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors. \nWelcome Blanket makes its inaugural Los Angeles exhibit at Helms Bakery District and will continue at Skirball Cultural Center and LAX airport. A national initiative in partnership with other museums and cultural institutions will continue in the years to follow. \nExhibition Dates\nAugust 4th through September 24th\nViewing Hours on Saturdays from 12:00 to 4:00 PM \n\nABOUT WELCOME BLANKET\nWoven into the fabric of our country is the fundamental idea that our diversity and individual freedoms\, together\, allow for our personal stories that collectively make the United States a great nation. The diverse migration stories are human stories; yet the abstraction of immigration\, from sweeping government policies to the use of language\, particularly by the media\, perpetuates “otherness\,” removing us from these human stories\, ones that we all have. Welcome Blanket is a platform for engagement that transforms this abstraction into a tangible\, crowd-sourced\, artistic action. Participants use their heads\, hearts\, hands\, and histories to craft the country they wish to see. \nWelcome Blanket was initially a response to the proposed 2000-mile border wall between Mexico and the United States. The project reimagined the 2000-mile length\, one of exclusion\, as 2000 miles of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for refugees coming to the United States. Handcraft makers who knit\, sew\, quilt\, crochet\, weave\, felt\, etc.\, use any textile to make 40 inch x 40 inch blankets that are easy to care for and hard to give away. They included stories important to their families about immigration\, migration\, or relocation\, creating symbolic and practical gifts of welcome for new refugees coming to the United States. These gifts are collected\, cataloged\, and displayed at art and cultural institutions. During these exhibits\, the message of welcome is amplified through hosting craft circles\, performances\, discussions\, forums\, and legal assistance for immigrants. Post-show\, our 30+ partner refugee resettlement groups present these tangible gifts of welcome to our newest neighbors. Over 6500 have been made and distributed. \nAfter reaching our initial goal of 2000 miles of yarn\, resulting in 3400 blankets\, the impact was clear. New immigrants felt the welcome; they felt seen as they were gifted these heartfelt\, handmade blankets–a symbol of home\, itself. And the makers reflected the diversity of this country: the youngest was 4 and the oldest 104; there were evangelical Christians\, Muslims\, Jews\, Buddhists; and there were makers from a wide range of political leanings. Many participants had diverse migration stories\, from being descendants of slaves to displaced Native Americans\, from recent refugees to descendants of the Mayflower. \nWelcome Blanket’s impact reflected a sense of inclusion and we set a new goal–to bring people together to develop a new American tradition of welcome. We aim to create an enduring project and build a community of connection\, a network that creates thresholds of welcome that is a public visual pronouncement and a private and tactile experience. We are building a tapestry of American migration history\, connecting the stories of past migrations with people coming to the United States right now\, and creating a space to discuss the complex issues around immigration with humanity. \nMake a Welcome Blanket\, share your story\, come together and craft. Join us.\nFor more information: Welcomeblanket.org and @welcomeblanket \nInformation about additional Welcome Blanket events will be posted shortly.  \nPrevious Exhibitions\nMuseum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta\, GA)\nSmart Museum of Art (Chicago\, IL)\nFuller Craft Museum (Boston\, MA)\nBuild Peace Conference (San Diego and Tijuana)\nWelcome Blanket Brookline \nUpcoming Exhibitions\nSan Francisco International Airport (San Francisco\, CA)\nHeritage Winooski Mill Museum (Winooski\, VT)\nRevere History Museum (Revere\, MA) \n\nABOUT JAYNA\nJayna Zweiman is an architecturally-trained multidisciplinary artist and designer. Her independent practice combines architecture\, art\, craft\, and new media to focus on experiences that overlap physical\, virtual\, and conceptual spaces. \nPerhaps best known as the co-creator and co-founder of Pussyhat Project\, an international network and movement of women’s rights supporters\, Zweiman has become a leading advocate of utilizing design innovation to enact social change. Pussyhat Project became a worldwide phenomenon at the 2017 Women’s Marches with one of the largest crowd-sourced art advocacy projects ever. She is also the creator and founder of Welcome Blanket\, a reconceptualization of the 2000-mile length of the proposed border wall as 2000-mile length of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for new immigrants coming to the United States. \nZweiman’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. Her work has been nominated for the Beazley Design of the Year by the Design Museum in London\, has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum\, and has been awarded the first ever Brand of the Year by the School of Visual Arts. Zweiman was awarded in 2017 as one of “The 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture” by Artsy.\nJayna earned her AB from Brown University with concentrations in visual arts and economics and her Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She lives and works in Los Angeles. \nSpecial thanks to Welcome Blanket sponsors: URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/welcome-blanket-an-exhibition-conversation-with-jayna-zweiman/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/WelcomeBlanket_Emailheader.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220611T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220611T153000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20220520T184904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220607T201437Z UID:10000499-1654956000-1654961400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Talk + Demo With Architect and Ikebana Teacher Ravi GuneWardena DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, June 11 from 2:00 to 3:30 as we welcome architect and ikebana teacher Ravi GuneWardena of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana\, Los Angeles who will talk about the history of the Sogetsu School in Tokyo and its collaborations with artists. The conversation will be followed by a demo of three arrangements (from a simple basic arrangement to an advanced freestyle arrangement) and a discussion with Frances Anderton on the relevance of the art form today. \nThe audience will also have an opportunity to view the completion of the large ikebana work made of unconventional materials (recycled construction scraps) with the addition of fresh plant material. \nRSVP and TICKETS HERE\nIf you plan to pop into the L.A. GOAL art installation which takes place during the same time\, L.A. GOAL is asking guests to please wear masks to protect their teachers and members. Thanks for keeping everyone safe! URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/talk-demo-with-architect-and-ikebana-teacher-ravi-gunewardena-and-frances-anderton/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Ravi-Sculpture.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220609T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220609T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20220511T004036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T172538Z UID:10000474-1654799400-1654806600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:An Evening with AIA Gold Medal Winners Angela Brooks\, FAIA\, and Lawrence Scarpa\, FAIA DESCRIPTION:Congratulations! \nHelms Bakery District Presents An Evening with AIA Gold Medal Winners Angela Brooks\, FAIA\, and Lawrence Scarpa\, FAIA\nThursday\, June 9th | 6:30 PM\nReception and Celebration of Brooks + Scarpa \nPrivate Invitation Only | RSVP Required\n8723 Washington Boulevard | Culver City \nAfter meeting at architecture school at the University of Florida\, Lawrence Scarpa\, raised in a family run restaurant\, and Angela Brooks resolved to not work together. That changed and now Brooks + Scarpa has won the AIA Gold Medal for a partnership dedicated to creating buildings that advance the art and technology of architecture. Through citizen activism they have also disrupted codes\, construction and the financing of buildings\, demonstrating the breadth of ways an architect can shape space and place. \n“Their efforts have fundamentally reshaped public policy initiatives that address critical issues and reforms that serve the public good\, increase housing equity\, and improve the built environment\,” wrote Steve Dumez\, FAIA\, and Douglas A. Benson\, FAIA\, in a letter nominating Brooks and Scarpa for the Gold Medal. \nBrooks + Scarpa has built on the foundations laid by Pugh + Scarpa\, founded in 1991 by Gwynne Pugh and Larry Scarpa. The firm has designed single and multi-family dwellings\, commercial\, institutional\, educational and governmental buildings. Most recently they won the commission to design a new Holocaust Memorial to be placed at the Florida State Capitol Building in Tallahassee. In Los Angeles they have made a deep imprint with affordable housing\, designing formally powerful buildings that also nurture social connection in contemporary variants on the Southland’s courtyard housing. “Form is important but it is experience that matters\,” say the duo\, adding that their body of work is united not by a signature look but rather an approach. “It is a sequence of spaces and not a form. We design from the inside-out.” \nBrooks and Scarpa also relish experimentation with texture and materials\, and have incorporated ping-pong balls\, crushed aluminum cans\, Dixie cups\, industrial brooms and glitter stucco into structures. “Architecture is most powerful when it is tactile. Many times people want to actually touch our buildings—walk up and feel the walls\,” says Scarpa. That material exploration met innovative sustainable design when they sheathed a wall at the Colorado Court affordable housing project\, for Community Corporation of Santa Monica\, with solar panels\, making the energy system into a decorative facade. Now they are pushing new limits with the NEST Toolkit\, a prefab home building system developed in collaboration with Plant Prefab\, that they hope will substantially cut construction costs. “That willingness to take risks has great rewards\,” says Brooks. “We are calculated risk takers.” \nDespite the seriousness with which they take their work\, they have held onto the love of a good party that Scarpa experienced at his father’s restaurant. \nSpecial thanks to the event sponsors: \nAIA Los Angeles\, Bulthaup\, Labib Funk Engineers\, and Plant Prefab.  URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/10055/ LOCATION:Washington Corridor Gallery\, 8723 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232\, United States CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Hero-image.jpg GEO:34.0315037;-118.3774661 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Washington Corridor Gallery 8723 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8723 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3774661,34.0315037 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220423T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220423T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20220316T000240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220419T155655Z UID:10000470-1650711600-1650733200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Seeding the City: A Nature-Inspired Event @Helms DESCRIPTION:Free\nSaturday | April 23\, 2022\n11:00 AM to 5:00 PM\nCampus-Wide Event \nThe Southland was once a garden of Eden. Now\, as Los Angeles continues to build up its cityscape\, connection to the land is out of reach for many. This rupture was underscored by the pandemic\, when access to clean air\, open space\, plants and pets became an essential tonic. \nBut talented and creative designers are finding ways to green the City in ways beyond the traditional backyard\, injecting trees onto rooftops\, flowers under transit lines and plants into defunct concrete pools. They are reclaiming the wild and bringing back long-vanished birds and bees. Artists and writers are creating works reflecting on new ways of coexistence with all species. \nSeeding The City celebrates the 21st century garden in Los Angeles with a daylong program of talks\, tours\, and popups\, featuring some of LA’s leading landscape designers and thinkers. \nSee a full schedule of events here: https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/seeding-the-city/ \nThank you to our media sponsor\, KCRW. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/seeding-the-city/ LOCATION:Helms Design District\, 8800 Venice Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90034\, United States CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Logo-Final.jpg GEO:34.0306792;-118.3851538 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design District 8800 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90034 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8800 Venice Blvd.:geo:-118.3851538,34.0306792 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T200000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20220301T002300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T002300Z UID:10000309-1646330400-1646337600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:deCoding Asian Urbanism: A Discussion DESCRIPTION:Inside the Helms Design Center\n8745 Washington Blvd\, Culver City\nThursday\, March 3rd\, 6:00 to 8:00 PM\nFree \nRegister for the discussion\, as seating is limited. \nREGISTER FOR TICKETS\ndeCoding Asian Urbanism is a timely book and exhibition about the unprecedented\, meteoric growth of Asian cities\, and the “urban acupuncture” projects that are making them more liveable. This Thursday\, March 3\, Helms invites you for a reception and conversation about the issues raised by DAU. What happens to cultural identity in the face of such extreme change and what can designers do to recreate a sense of place? Does the extreme density of Asian cities represent the future for all growing cities? \nFrances Anderton will lead a dialogue with Farooq Ameen\, Bangladesh-born architect\, planner and creator of DAU; Astrid Haryati\, Indonesian-born architect\, planner and past deputy on public policy for Indonesia’s Minister of Trade; and Kulapat Yantrasast\, Thailand-born architect and thought-leader in the fields of architecture\, art\, and sustainable design. \nWhile there\, visitors can tour the DAU exhibition. Ameen\, designer Caglar Gokbulut\, filmmaker Miriam Kuhlmann\, Swinerton construction and other talents have transformed a showroom at the design center at Helms Bakery District into a maze of tight spaces\, containing vivid photographs\, visualizations of stunning population growth data\, kaleidoscopic films of Dhaka\, Bangladesh\, Hong Kong and Tokyo by Kuhlmann\, as well as moments of respite from the chaos in depictions of ancient culture and in new developments aimed at reconnecting residents to cultural touchpoints and to nature. \nThe exhibition’s relevancy is expansive. By exploring this exponential growth and its impact worldwide\, deCoding Asian Urbanism seeks to stimulate a dialogue between policymakers\, designers\, and public officials shaping cities in today’s multilayered paradigm.\nA book signing will follow the discussion. \nSpeakers\nFarooq Ameen is the founding principal of City Design Studio\, an architecture and urban design practice based in Los Angeles\, with projects in Asia\, Europe and the US. He has held academic appointments at SCI-Arc (LA /Lugano) and Cal Poly among others. Ameen is a Board Member at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum and the Council for Open Building. He received a Master of Architecture from UCLA. He is co-curator of the DAU exhibition and the related publication with Kenneth Frampton and Ken Yeang. \nKulapat Yantrasast is a thought-leader in the fields of architecture\, art\, and sustainable design. Originally from Thailand and now based in Los Angeles and New York\, he is the founding partner and Creative Director of WHY\, a multidisciplinary design practice. WHY\, an AD100 Firm since 2019\, has engaged in major museum projects including the Rockefeller Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\, the expansion of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco\, and the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. In 2009\, Yantrasast received the Silpathorn Award for Design from Thailand’s Ministry of Culture for outstanding achievement and notable contributions to Thai contemporary arts and culture. \nAstrid Haryati is an architect\, planner and the founder of TERRA LUMEN\, an architecture studio based in Jakarta\, Bandung\, and Beverly Hills with a focus on placemaking in urban and natural settings. She previously served as deputy on sustainable strategies for the Mayors of Chicago and San Francisco and as deputy on public policy for Indonesia’s Minister of Trade. Her commercial and non-profit initiatives include award-winning nationwide and community-based projects in the US\, Indonesia\, and Turkey among others such as for sea turtle beach communities in the coral triangle region and Indonesia’s informal STEAM education. \nThe DAU project’s decade-long effort and research are memorialized in an accompanying 458-page publication that includes the work of prominent sociologists\, architects\, historians\, urban designers\, and activists from across the globe\, each providing a unique perspective on the complexity of the contemporary city. Extensively illustrated with project images\, analytical diagrams\, maps\, and selected photographs\, it includes excerpts of spirited panel discussions from a symposium at Harvard University. \nThe project is curated by British historian Professor Kenneth Frampton\, Malaysian ecologist and architect Ken Yeang\, and Los Angeles-based urban designer Farooq Ameen. It builds on multi-year collaborations with the Art Center College of Design\, the Bengal Foundation\, and Harvard University. The exhibition is made possible by the very generous support of Walter N. Marks\, Inc. and the Helms Bakery District. A+D is also indebted to Swinerton Builders\, Crisp Imaging\, City Design Studio\, Francis Krahe & Associates\, S2N Technology Group\, and others who partnered with the institution to realize the show’s installation. \nIf you are unable to join us for the discussion\, please register for tickets to see the exhibition before it closes on March 12th. \nEXHIBITION TICKETS\nLet’s all stay safe! Proof of vaccination will be required to enter the exhibition. Thank you for helping us to continue hosting in-person events. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/decoding-asian-urbanism-a-discussion/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/updated-cover-image-002.jpeg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211209T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211209T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20211102T004943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T202954Z UID:10000452-1639074600-1639081800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Nature\, Art and Habitat Residency 2022 | SOIL: The Critical Zone DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Thursday\, December 9th from 6:30 to 9:00 pm\, please join us in welcoming Nature\, Art and Habitat for their 2022 Residency\, “Soil: The Critical Zone”\, an evening conversation focusing on the role of soil as a foundational ecosystem. \nRSVP HERE\nMore than 75% of the earth’s living soil is substantially depleted\, while the remaining 25% is of inestimable value. We will discuss and imagine future scenarios about this critical zone. \nHead of Ceremony: Deborah Weintraub\, AIA\, LEED AP \nModerator:\nFrances Anderton\, Design Journalist \nInterlocutors:\nJose Herrasti\, AIA\nRichard Molina\, Designer \nSCHEDULE\nWhat is NAHR |Past Program Overview | Introduction and Workshop on SOIL – NAHR’s residency topic for 2022 | Drinks and snacks \nLet’s all stay safe! We ask that you provide proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test result within 72 hours of the event upon arrival. Thanks for helping us to continue to host in-person events. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/nature-art-and-habitat-residency-2022-soil-the-critical-zone/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NAHR-21.12.09-Invite.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20211103T020338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211103T145018Z UID:10000453-1637260200-1637267400@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Li Wen | Lessons from a Career of City-Building in Los Angeles DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Thursday\, November 18th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm\, AIA Los Angeles and Helms Bakery District invite you to hear Li Wen\, in conversation with Frances Anderton at the Helms Design Center. \nRSVP HERE\nLi Wen\, AIA\, is one of L.A.’s most insightful thinkers about the urban condition and our region. What can he impart to fellow designers and those interested in city-making\, as he leaves his position as design director and Principal at Gensler? \nWen will sit down with Frances Anderton to reflect on an architectural journey\, from a boutique office to the top of a corporate firm that has played a large role in shaping contemporary Los Angeles; and a personal journey from the hills of Santa Barbara to the Hollywood Hills\, via China\, Yale\, New York\, London\, and Paris. \nIn a wide-ranging conversation\, Wen will address the politics of land-use and making an impact as an architect; his thoughts for the future; and how he reconciles his love of driving with his passion for a dense urban life. \nLi will also share details of a design project he is still involved with: the master plan for the future of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. \nThe event will open with a reception. \nLet’s stay safe! We ask that all guests provide proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test result within 72 hours of the event at check-in. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/li-wen-lessons-from-a-career-of-city-building-in-los-angeles/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Li-Wen-headshot1Crop_1200px.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20210821T190537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T221739Z UID:10000445-1636052400-1636057800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:A Conversation with Architect-Filmmaker-Futurist Liam Young DESCRIPTION:Free\nPlanet City — a Radical Solution to Climate Destruction \nOn Thursday\, November 4th from 7:00 to 8:30 pm\, Textile Arts | Los Angeles and Helms Bakery District invite you to hear Liam Young\, in conversation with Frances Anderton and Benjamin Bratton at the Helms Design Center. \nRSVP HERE\nForget carbon taxes and global commitments to use renewables. Climate change demands bigger solutions\, like moving all ten billion people on earth to one giant city\, leaving the rest of the world to return to the wild\, free from human predation. That’s the vision laid out by Liam Young\, architect-filmmaker-futurist\, in his new film and book\, Planet City\, showcasing a future world in which flora\, fauna and humankind coexist in the Anthropocene\, divided between an uber-megalopolis and a “new national park of the world.” \nYoung will talk about his visionary thought experiment — and the questions it poses about the environment and our place in it — with Frances Anderton\, design reporter and curator\, and Benjamin Bratton\, founder of the design research program The Terraforming\, Professor of Visual Arts at UC San Diego\, and contributor to the Planet City book. \nA meet and greet with Young and Bratton will follow the talk. \nPlanet City was commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria for the NGV Triennial. Catch Liam’s TEDMonterey Talk here. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/frances-anderton-in-conversation-with-liam-young/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/liamyoung_zerowasteweavers_1200px.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211028T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211028T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20211013T235641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211025T204633Z UID:10000451-1635445800-1635453000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:A Book Signing + Conversation with ArtCenter's Lorne Buchman and Frances Anderton DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Thursday\, October 28th from 6:30 – 8:30 pm\, please join us in welcoming Lorne M. Buchman to the Helms Design Center\, in conversation with Frances Anderton about his new book on creativity\, Make To Know: From spaces of uncertainty to creative discovery. \nMichelangelo is said to have seen “the angel in the stone” before he started chipping away at a mute block of marble. Most artists are not blessed with such creative clarity. Rather\, they discover their work – art\, design\, writing\, music – as they make it. \nIn his new book\, Make To Know\, Lorne M. Buchman\, president of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena\, draws from interviews with artists\, entrepreneurs\, innovators and designers—Chris Kraus\, Frank Gehry\, Zack Snyder\, Aimee Bender\, Diana Thater\, and many others–to demonstrate that creativity is almost always a process\, not a lightbulb moment\, that creative geniuses are truly few\, and that everyone from students to professionals can “make to know” their own ability to create. \n​​“This is a book of stories of writers filling blank sheets of paper\, designers solving complex problems\, installation artists engaging space and materials\, and musicians and actors improvising composition and performance. It explores how artists talk about what the creative process itself might reveal\,” says Buchman. \nBuchman will share some of these stories with Frances Anderton\, longtime design journalist. He will also address how design education is meeting a moment of radical social change\, and what is next for himself and for ArtCenter College of Design\, following Buchman’s retirement in 2022. \nA book signing with Lorne Buchman will follow the talk.  Arcana: Books on the Arts will provide copies of the book for purchase during the event. \nWe ask all guests to provide proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test result within 48 hours of the event date during check in. Thanks for keeping everyone safe! \n \nAbout Lorne\nLorne M. Buchman is president of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena\, California\, and an international leader in art and design education. He is also a theater director\, dramatic literature professor\, and the author of a book on filmic adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. He hosts Change Lab: Conversations on Transformation and Creativity\, a podcast in which he conducts interviews with leading artists\, designers\, and cultural innovators. Buchman previously served on the faculty of University of California\, Berkeley. He left that position to become president of California College of the Arts and later Saybrook University. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Drama and Humanities. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/a-book-signing-conversation-with-artcenters-lorne-buchman-and-frances-anderton/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Make-to-Know-web.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210708T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210708T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20210624T173037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210625T211128Z UID:10000435-1625769000-1625776200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Book Signing + Talk with April Greiman DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Thursday\, July 8th from 6:30 to 8:30 PM\, please join us for a conversation with April Greiman on the launch of her latest book\, WhiteSpace: April Greiman Photography\, an arresting collection of 34 digital photographs and short writings by 25 women in design\, art\, architecture and poetry\, on the abstract subject of whitespace. “WhiteSpace is like a trip to the desert with April and her wonderful colleagues. A master class in shadow and light\,” writes Laurie Haycock Makela in the foreword.  During the evening\, April will be joined by contributors to the book\, including Frances Anderton\, for a series of readings and insights into April’s use of bold color and negative space\, breaking boundaries in art\, design\, and architecture throughout her career. \nREGISTER HERE \nWith an international reputation in art and design spanning decades\, Greiman’s WhiteSpace is her first self-published book of photography\, and as a result\, is impeccably designed using a variety of papers and textures. This intimate book not only reveals her personal vision of space and light\, but highlights her deep friendships with creative women colleagues. Their extraordinary insights\, combined with Greiman’s sublime imagery\, create a rhythmic meditation on emptiness\, openness\, beauty\, fear\, and a multitude of provocative perceptions. \nWritten contributions by : Lita Albuquerque\, Frances Anderton\, Jan Angevine\, Marian Bantjes\, Lyn Bradford\, Judith Cahen Crouwel\, Donatella Cusmá\, Andrea Dietz\, Tibbie Dunbar\, Kristin Feireiss\, Karin Fong\, Carolien Glazenburg\, Nikki Gonnissen\, Jia Yi Gu\, Karin Hibma\, Gere Kavanaugh\, Suzanne Lacy\, Anette Lenz\, Laurie Haycock Makela\, Ilaria Mazzoleni\, Jennifer Morla\, Kali Nikitas\, Louise Paradis\, Paulette Singley\, Elisabeth Workman \nABOUT APRIL\nTransmedia designer April Greiman has pushed graphic design into new dimensions\, from the built environment to augmented reality (AR). Greiman’s designs are among the first digital graphics ever made\, and her innovative use of advanced digital technology has made her a leader in the design world. \nApril Greiman is a thinker\, designer\, and artist whose transmedia work addresses all areas and scales of design from communications to textiles\, architecture\, and new media. Greiman’s design studio Made in Space is a unique contributor to the design world that challenges interdisciplinary boundaries and investigates the intersection between art and design. Greiman’s publication\, ‘WhiteSpace’ includes her photography and important pieces of written work from 25 women contributors. \nGreiman is currently a tenured professor at University of Southern California (USC) Roski School of Art and Design. \n@aprilgreiman (instagram) URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/book-signing-talk-with-april-greiman/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AGreiman-Bio-500-x750-web.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210706T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210730T160000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20210706T195548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210729T191217Z UID:10000438-1625572800-1627660800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Extended Studio Exhibition Hours - Low Rise\, Mid Rise\, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today DESCRIPTION:Free\nDue to the overwhelming response\, the Low Rise\, Mid Rise\, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today\, an in-person pop-up exhibition of residential buildings in the pipeline taking place at the Helms Design Center will remain open through the month of July. \nWHEN:  \nOpen Studio Hours: \nFriday\, July 9th from 12:00 to 2:00 PM\nThursday\, July 15th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM\nFriday\, July 16th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM\nThursday\, July 22nd from 1:00 to 4:00 PM\nFriday\, July 23rd from 1:00 to 4:00 PM\nFriday\, July 30th 1:00 to 4:00 PM (Closing Day) \nWhile life slowed down for many Angelenos\, the L.A. cityscape did not stay still. For the past year\, architects and builders have been busy\, working on designs to address L.A.’s biggest need: Housing. And they are doing so in multi-unit buildings\, at multiple scales\, that advance the idea of home. \n30+ design teams will display Low Rise dwellings from ADUs to four-story multifamily dwellings; Mid Rise affordable and market rate housing on transit corridors; High Rise towers for downtown\, Hollywood and the Miracle Mile.  The show is presented by Helms Bakery District in partnership with Cal Poly\, San Luis Obispo LA Metro Program. It is organized by Frances Anderton and Stephen Phillips (Director\, Cal Poly LA Metro). \nWHAT: \nMuch of the public dialogue around housing in Los Angeles today has to do with the politics around it\, and the crisis of homelessness. But while these debates continue\, housing is being built\, in a patchwork of starkly different scales and styles. It is shaped in part by zoning\, code\, and parking requirements\, costly land\, construction and materials\, as well as competing development and neighborhood pressures. Yet despite this web of constraints\, designers are building on the tradition of innovative SoCal living. \nAt Low Rise\, Mid Rise\, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today visitors will see dense\, high\, multi-unit housing with apartments filled with natural light\, flowing space and a taste of the outside. Projects will demonstrate planning for sociability\, as well as new material and structural solutions to housing affordability. They will show how new developments can still express the distinct and eclectic Los Angeles character. Finally\, visitors will see how the pandemic may have altered planning priorities in the homes of tomorrow. The exhibition will feature models and renderings of projects in design or under construction. Displayed alongside these real-world schemes will be an exhibition of designs by Cal Poly LA Metro students. \nThe pop-up explores what these buildings say about how we live in Los Angeles today. \nWHERE: Studio A\, Helms Design Center at Helms Bakery District\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, 90232. \nCOVID RESTRICTIONS: To comply with State and County guidelines for public gatherings\, please provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination(s) or mandatory masks will be required upon entry. \nBIG THANKS to the participating architects and designers:\nBaumgartner + Uriu; Bestor Architecture; Brooks +Scarpa Architects & Plant Prefab; Bureau Spectacular; Byben; City Design Studio; Clive Wilkinson Architects; Connect Homes; Design\, Bitches; Egan / Simon Architecture; Eric Owen Moss Architects; Gensler; Keating Architecture; kdA Kevin Daly Architects; KFA Architecture; Koning Eizenberg; Lance Collins (Partner Energy); LA Más; Lehrer Architects; Lorcan O’Herlihy (LOHA); Michael Anderson (Anderson-Barker); Michael W. Folonis Architects; Michael Maltzan Architecture; Mighty Buildings; Neil M. Denari Architects; P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S; Patrick Tighe Architecture; Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS); Studio Antares A+E; THECALIFORNIAOFFICE; Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] \nSpecial Thanks to our sponsors AVRP Studios and ARC Document Solutions. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/low-rise-mid-rise-high-rise-housing-in-l-a-today-an-exhibition-helms-2/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Housing-Exhibition-2160x1080-web.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210624T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210624T200000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20210616T004120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210616T004120Z UID:10000433-1624557600-1624564800@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Treehouse and the Building of Community with Prophet Walker\, Jason E.C. Wright and Frances Anderton DESCRIPTION:Free\nWith the 2019 opening of Treehouse Hollywood\, a lush\, urban oasis with eclectic interior design\, co-founder Prophet Walker set a high bar for co-living in Los Angeles. But this is only the start of big plans for development aimed at building a sense of community\, in Los Angeles and beyond. \nOn Thursday\, June 24th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM\, please join us in conversation with Prophet Walker\, Jason E.C. Wright and Frances Anderton where we will talk about Treehouse Hollywood\, the rollout of more locations and future concepts for multifamily living. \nSharing the stage with Walker will be Treehouse resident Jason E.C. Wright\, founder of Burntsienna Research Society\, a design research consultancy. Wright will talk about his experience building “family” at Treehouse during the pandemic\, and will answer your questions about what it’s like to share a house with 60 people! \nWalker will also talk about how growing up in public housing informed his thinking about residential design\, and his work on the redesign of Jordan Downs\, the public housing apartment complex in Watts\, Los Angeles\, currently undergoing a $1 billion redevelopment. \nTreehouse Koreatown is currently on display at Low Rise\, Mid Rise\, High: Housing in LA Today inside the Helms Design Center. It is designed by The California Office with creative direction by Sean Knibb. \n \nABOUT PROPHET\nProphet Walker\, Co-Founder and CEO of Treehouse\, grew up in South LA\, where amidst poverty\, violence\, and homelessness in his neighborhood\, community was always at its core. \nProphet is deeply involved with both criminal justice and education reform and served on multiple non-profit and civic boards. In 2014\, Prophet ran for the California State Assembly\, coming in second. This passion for reform was triggered by his personal experience of being incarcerated at 16 and sentenced to spend six years within an adult prison. While incarcerated\, he started a state-wide program that allowed inmates to earn a two-year college degree\, and today thousands of inmates participate in the program. Prophet was one of the program’s first graduates to come home and he attended Loyola Marymount University\, where he received a degree in Civil Engineering. In 2015\, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama invited Prophet to attend the State of the Union to honor his efforts to reform our criminal justice system and for his commitment to our children. \nProphet’s experiences surrounding community strength and human connectedness inspired him to create Treehouse\, recognizing the power of community in proximity and shared humanity. Prophet leads the company day to day\, with a focus on acquisitions research\, property selection\, and investor relations. \n \nABOUT JASON \nJason E.C. Wright is the Founder of Burntsienna Research Society\, a critical-thinking research consultancy for design histories\, intangible culture\, and reference materials. Jason is Indiana born and raised\, who now considers Los Angeles home. Jason is an accomplished designer\, researcher\, writer\, with 20+ years as a retail and fashion professional\, who takes his love of books seriously\, serving as librarian-in-residence at home in Treehouse Hollywood. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/treehouse-and-the-building-of-community-with-prophet-walker-jason-e-c-wright-and-frances-anderton/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PWalker-500x750-web-1.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210621T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210701T160000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20210609T015756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210625T223146Z UID:10000431-1624276800-1625155200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Open Studio Exhibition Hours - Low Rise\, Mid Rise\, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today DESCRIPTION:Free\nJoin us at Low Rise\, Mid Rise\, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today\, an in-person pop-up exhibition of residential buildings in the pipeline taking place at the Helms Design Center through June 27th from 12:00 to 4:00 PM daily and by Appointment Only until July 1st. \nWhile life slowed down for many Angelenos\, the L.A. cityscape did not stay still. For the past year\, architects and builders have been busy\, working on designs to address L.A.’s biggest need: Housing. And they are doing so in multi-unit buildings\, at multiple scales\, that advance the idea of home. \n30+ design teams will display Low Rise dwellings from ADUs to four-story multifamily dwellings; Mid Rise affordable and market rate housing on transit corridors; High Rise towers for downtown\, Hollywood and the Miracle Mile.  The show is presented by Helms Bakery District in partnership with Cal Poly\, San Luis Obispo LA Metro Program. It is organized by Frances Anderton and Stephen Phillips (Director\, Cal Poly LA Metro). \nWHAT: \nMuch of the public dialogue around housing in Los Angeles today has to do with the politics around it\, and the crisis of homelessness. But while these debates continue\, housing is being built\, in a patchwork of starkly different scales and styles. It is shaped in part by zoning\, code\, and parking requirements\, costly land\, construction and materials\, as well as competing development and neighborhood pressures. Yet despite this web of constraints\, designers are building on the tradition of innovative SoCal living. \nAt Low Rise\, Mid Rise\, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today visitors will see dense\, high\, multi-unit housing with apartments filled with natural light\, flowing space and a taste of the outside. Projects will demonstrate planning for sociability\, as well as new material and structural solutions to housing affordability. They will show how new developments can still express the distinct and eclectic Los Angeles character. Finally\, visitors will see how the pandemic may have altered planning priorities in the homes of tomorrow. The exhibition will feature models and renderings of projects in design or under construction. Displayed alongside these real-world schemes will be an exhibition of designs by Cal Poly LA Metro students. \nThe pop-up explores what these buildings say about how we live in Los Angeles today. \nWHEN:  \nOpen Studio Hours: Monday\, June 21st to Sunday\, June 27th; 12:00 to 4:00 PM \nBy Appointment Only: Monday\, June 28th to Thursday\, July 1st by contacting Angela Anthony. \nWHERE: Studio A\, Helms Design Center at Helms Bakery District\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, 90232. \nCOVID RESTRICTIONS: To comply with State and County guidelines for public gatherings\, please provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination(s) or mandatory masks will be required upon entry. \nBIG THANKS to the participating architects and designers:\nBaumgartner + Uriu; Bestor Architecture; Brooks +Scarpa Architects & Plant Prefab; Bureau Spectacular; Byben; City Design Studio; Clive Wilkinson Architects; Connect Homes; Design\, Bitches; Egan / Simon Architecture; Eric Owen Moss Architects; Gensler; Keating Architecture; kdA Kevin Daly Architects; KFA Architecture; Koning Eizenberg; Lance Collins (Partner Energy); LA Más; Lehrer Architects; Lorcan O’Herlihy (LOHA); Michael Anderson (Anderson-Barker); Michael W. Folonis Architects; Michael Maltzan Architecture; Mighty Buildings; Neil M. Denari Architects; P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S; Patrick Tighe Architecture; Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS); Studio Antares A+E; THECALIFORNIAOFFICE; Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] \nSpecial Thanks to our sponsors AVRP Studios and ARC Document Solutions. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/low-rise-mid-rise-high-rise-housing-in-l-a-today-an-exhibition-helms/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Housing-Exhibition-2160x1080-web.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210619T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210619T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20210609T010448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210618T231255Z UID:10000430-1624107600-1624122000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Low Rise\, Mid Rise\, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today\, an Exhibition + Conversation DESCRIPTION:Free\nJoin us for a public viewing and conversation at Low Rise\, Mid Rise\, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today\, an in-person\, pop-up exhibition of residential buildings in the pipeline taking place at the Helms Design Center on June 19th. The exhibition will remain open to the public through June 27th from 12:00 to 4:00 PM daily and by Appointment Only until July 1st. \nWhile life slowed down for many Angelenos\, the L.A. cityscape did not stay still. For the past year\, architects and builders have been busy\, working on designs to address L.A.’s biggest need: Housing. And they are doing so in multi-unit buildings\, at multiple scales\, that advance the idea of home. \n30+ design teams will display Low Rise dwellings from ADUs to four-story multifamily dwellings; Mid Rise affordable and market rate housing on transit corridors; High Rise towers for downtown\, Hollywood and the Miracle Mile.  The show is presented by Helms Bakery District in partnership with Cal Poly\, San Luis Obispo LA Metro Program. It is organized by Frances Anderton and Stephen Phillips (Director\, Cal Poly LA Metro). \nWHAT: \nMuch of the public dialogue around housing in Los Angeles today has to do with the politics around it\, and the crisis of homelessness. But while these debates continue\, housing is being built\, in a patchwork of starkly different scales and styles. It is shaped in part by zoning\, code\, and parking requirements\, costly land\, construction and materials\, as well as competing development and neighborhood pressures. Yet despite this web of constraints\, designers are building on the tradition of innovative SoCal living. \nAt Low Rise\, Mid Rise\, High Rise: Housing in L.A. Today visitors will see dense\, high\, multi-unit housing with apartments filled with natural light\, flowing space and a taste of the outside. Projects will demonstrate planning for sociability\, as well as new material and structural solutions to housing affordability. They will show how new developments can still express the distinct and eclectic Los Angeles character. Finally\, visitors will see how the pandemic may have altered planning priorities in the homes of tomorrow. The exhibition will feature models and renderings of projects in design or under construction. Displayed alongside these real-world schemes will be an exhibition of designs by Cal Poly LA Metro students. \nPublic Opening and Conversation Schedule\n1:00 – 2:00: Meet + Mingle with the Architects \n2:00: Welcome with Frances Anderton + Stephen Phillips\n2:05: ADUs (Custom) Ben Warwas founder of Byben and Elizabeth Timme\, of LA Más\n2:20: ADUs (Factory) with Natalya Dobrinyna of Mighty Buildings\, Gordon Stott of Connect Homes and Steve Glenn of Plant Prefab\n2:35: Low Rise and Zoning with Barbara Bestor of Bestor Architecture and Angela Brooks of Brooks Scarpa\n2:50: Low Rise as Equity Opportunity in South LA with Michael Anderson\, author of “Urban Magic: Vibrant Black and Brown Communities Are Possible”\n3:05: Mid Rise\, 5 Over 2s and How to Make Them Lovely with Lance Simon of Egan Simon\, Herwig Baumgartner and Scott Uriu of B+ U and Patrick Tighe or Patrick Tighe Architecture\n3:20: High Rise\, Can we Build an LA-specific Tower? with Farooq Ameen and Pariya Mohammaditamar of City Design Office\, Lorcan O’Herlihy of LOHA\, Marcello Spina of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S\, and Li Wen of Gensler \n3:40: Finale – Collapsing Boundaries with Eric Owen Moss \nThe exhibition will remain open until 5:00 PM. \nWHEN:  \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, June 17th; 6:00 to 8:30 PM (Invite Only) \nPublic Opening and Conversations: Saturday\, June 19th; 1:00 to 5:00 PM; TICKETS are Free to the public \nOpen Studio Hours: Monday\, June 21st to Sunday\, June 27th; 12:00 to 4:00 PM \nBy Appointment Only: Monday\, June 28th to Thursday\, July 1st by contacting Angela Anthony. \nWHERE: Studio A\, Helms Design Center at Helms Bakery District\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, 90232. \nCOVID RESTRICTIONS: To comply with State and County guidelines for public gatherings\, please provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination(s) or mandatory masks are required at the door. \nBIG THANKS to the participating architects and designers:\nBaumgartner + Uriu; Bestor Architecture; Brooks +Scarpa Architects & Plant Prefab; Bureau Spectacular; Byben; City Design Studio; Clive Wilkinson Architects; Connect Homes; Design\, Bitches; Egan / Simon Architecture; Eric Owen Moss Architects; Gensler; Keating Architecture; kdA Kevin Daly Architects; KFA Architecture; Koning Eizenberg; Lance Collins (Partner Energy); LA Más; Lehrer Architects; Lorcan O’Herlihy (LOHA); Michael Anderson (Anderson-Barker); Michael W. Folonis Architects; Michael Maltzan Architecture; Mighty Buildings; Neil M. Denari Architects; P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S; Patrick Tighe Architecture; Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS); Studio Antares A+E; THECALIFORNIAOFFICE; Warren Techentin Architecture [WTARCH] \nSpecial Thanks to our sponsors AVRP Studios and ARC Document Solutions. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/low-rise-mid-rise-high-rise-housing-in-l-a-today-an-exhibition-conversations-helms/ LOCATION:Helms Design Center\, 8745 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232 CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Graphic-Final.jpg GEO:34.0286594;-118.3857496 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8745 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3857496,34.0286594 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210506T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210506T173000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20210501T021007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210512T212028Z UID:10000261-1620316800-1620322200@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:A lecture and live Q+A discussion with Michael Anderson and Frances Anderton DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 6th\, for a lecture and live Q+A discussion with Michael Anderson and Frances Anderton\nHow to Create Accelerated Equity Housing and Transit Communities\nIn collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design \nLecture is Free and Open to the Public \nRegister for the  Zoom Webinar\n\nMichael Anderson \nMichael Anderson is a principal architect of Anderson Barker\, an architecture\, urban economic development firm in Los Angeles. His expertise is transit stations\, communities\, aviation\, civic\, commercial\, residential\, and municipal infrastructure projects such as streetscapes\, parking structures\, community centers\, and parks. He focuses to aid municipalities to modernize underserved communities and increase ownership utilizing business strategies that are mutually beneficial to all parties. \nHe is currently working on a pilot project for accelerated equity housing and transit-oriented community (TOC) solutions by collaborating with public funding\, private capital sources\, and real estate development companies. He is currently completing a book\, Urban Magic: Vibrant Black and Brown Communities Are Possible. \nAnderson Barker’s Notable Projects include:\n· LA Clippers Arena Plaza Buildings and Parking Garages\, Inglewood\, CA\n· Hollywood Park\, Inglewood\, CA\n· Tom Bradley Terminal West\n· Martin Luther King Jr. Transit Center\, Compton\, CA\n· Compton Senior Center\, Compton\, CA \n\nFrances Anderton \nFrances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print\, radio\, podcasts\, and public events. She is currently writing a book\, Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles\, for Angel City Press. She produced and co-hosted the radio series Wasted: Neat Solutions to the Dirty Problem of Waste. It recently aired on KCRW’s Greater LA. For many years she hosted DnA: Design and Architecture radio show\, and before that Warren Olney’s current affairs show Which Way\, LA? and To the Point\, all broadcast on KCRW public radio station. \nAnderton also programs talks\, exhibitions\, and events at Helms Bakery District. She previously curated the exhibition Sink or Swim: Designing for a Sea Change\, about resilient architecture\, shown at the Annenberg Space for Photography. Honors include the 2020 ICON Award for the Los Angeles Design Festival. \n\nIntroduced 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) \nFree Parking is available at the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Blvd. \nPhotos (Left to Right): Image of Michael Anderson; Image of Crenshaw/LAX Light Rail Transit Corridor; Image of Frances Anderton. URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/michael-anderson-and-frances-anderton/ LOCATION:Zoom\, CA CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/EblastTemplate_MichaelAnderson.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T193000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20210202T182700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210202T184535Z UID:10000410-1613673000-1613676600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Architecture is a Social Act with Lorcan O'Herlihy + Frances Anderton DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Thursday\, February 18th from 6:30 to 7:30PM\, please join Lorcan O’Herlihy\, FAIA\, and Frances Anderton for a livestream discussion about LOHA’s latest monograph Architecture Is a Social Act. Lorcan and Frances will talk about his work\, and how he navigates tight budgets and stakeholder needs to integrate common space. He will also share insights into 410 Rossmore\, his latest Los Angeles project\, where he will add five new floors of co-living space to the 90-year-old apartment building in Hancock Park. \nRegister here. Once you register\, a Zoom link will be emailed prior to the event date. \nTo purchase a signed copy of the book\, please visit Arcana: Books on the Arts. \n \nLorcan O’Herlihy is the founder and design principal of Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects [LOHA]\, a Los Angeles/Detroit based architecture and urban design firm. \nLorcan O’Herlihy spent his childhood as a thespian’s son. His father Dan O’Herlihy was an actor and took his family on overseas shoots. From time spent hanging out in Rome\, London and other great urban cities\, Lorcan developed a deep appreciation for social space. \nHe has since made his mark as an architect with housing\, workplaces and cultural buildings that put human connectivity at their center\, while emphasizing bold design. Formosa 1140 in West Hollywood\, for example\, connects residents and neighbors in a pocket park\, and it bursts with the color and spirit of the nearby Formosa Cafe\, a one time drinking haunt of Dan O’Herlihy and his buddy Orson Welles. O’Herlihy has tackled social inequity in Detroit with a conversion of the African Bead Museum\, new housing and neighborhood plans. At Isla Intersections in South LA\, he has put supportive housing in a complex of prefabricated structures attached to a paseo. These are just some of the projects featured in his latest monograph\, Architecture Is a Social Act published by Frame\, with an introduction by Frances Anderton. \n \nFrances Anderton covers design and architecture in Los Angeles for radio\, podcast and print. A series she co-produced\, Wasted: Neat Solutions to the Dirty Problem of Waste\, is currently airing on KCRW public radio station. She is writing a book entitled Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles; and she is working with Helms Bakery District on the programming of events and talks about design\, architecture and art. \n  \n  URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/architecture-is-a-social-act-with-lorcan-oherlihy-frances-anderton/ LOCATION:Zoom\, CA CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LOHA-Book-Cover-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200611T173000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20200518T193519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200610T165710Z UID:10000399-1591891200-1591896600@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:SoCalNOMA and KCRW DnA - Building Equity: Space\, Place\, and Race\, Panel Talk and Live Q+A DESCRIPTION:A Panel Talk and live Q+A discussion with Angela Brooks\, Lance Collins\, Alvin Huang\, Roger Sherman\, and Lance Simon\nModerated by Frances Anderton and Eletrice Harris\nBuilding Equity: Space\, Place\, and Race\nOrganized in collaboration with the Southern California National Organization of Minority Architects (SoCalNOMA)\, KCRW Design and Architecture\, the Cal Poly Los Angeles Metropolitan Program in Architecture and Urban Design\, and the Helms Design Center \nLecture is Free and Open to the Public \nRegister for the  Zoom Webinar\n\nAngela Brooks\, FAIA\, LEED Accredited Professional\, BD+C\, ENV SP and Principal\, Brooks +Scarpa is a recognized leader in the field of environmental and social-equity design and is responsible for firm development in the area of housing and policy\, leading the firm’s sustainable initiatives and overall design staff management. Angela received the USA Network “Character Approved” Award for her innovative work in the field of architecture in 2010. Ms. Brook’s firm has received over fifty major design awards\, including the National and State Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects in 2010 and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture in 2014. \nLance Collins is a Director at Partner Energy with over twenty years of experience in architecture\, urban design\, and sustainable design consulting including LEED\, GreenPoint Rated\, ENERGY STAR\, Green Globes\, and NGBS. In addition to his professional experience\, Mr. Collins is the President of the Southern California Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects\, a member of the AIA-LA committee on Affordable Housing\, and a guest lecturer at USC Viterbi School of Engineering\, USC School of Architecture\, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)\, Cal Baptist University\, Santa Monica College\, California State University at Long Beach\, and Mt. San Antonio College. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Long Beach City College and holds an MArch Degree from UCLA\, and a BArch from Cornell. \nAlvin Huang\, AIA\, NOMA is a Los Angeles based architect with a global profile. He is an award-winning architect\, designer\, and educator specializing in the integrated application of material performance\, emergent design technologies and digital fabrication in contemporary architectural practice. He is the founder and principal of Synthesis Design + Architecture and an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California\, where he is also the Director of Graduate and Post-professional Architecture. Huang’s design work has been published and exhibited widely and has gained international recognition with over 40 distinctions at local\, national\, and international levels including being selected as one of 50 global innovators under the age of 50 by Images Publishing in 2015\, being featured as a “Next Progressive” by Architect Magazine in 2014\, and being named one of Time Magazine’s 25 Best Inventors of 2013. \nRoger Sherman FAIA\, leads the permanent supportive and affordable housing initiative at Gensler. He brings over 30 years of residential experience\, beginning with the exhibition and book he authored\, “Re American Dream: Six New Housing Prototypes for Los Angeles” in 1995. Also Founder and Co-Director of acclaimed UCLA urban thinktank cityLAB\, Roger’s group at Gensler is currently at work on over 800 units of housing ranging from workforce to moderate income\, transitional to family\, permanent supportive to emergency shelters. Clients include private developers (Gilmore Associates); non-profits (Skid Row Housing Trust\, Downtown Womens Center\, American Family Housing\, FlyAway Homes); and government agencies (City of L.A.\, County of L.A.\, City of Santa Monica). Sherman has also led Gensler’s housing group into creative collaborations with a wider range of partners such as the National Carpenters’ Union (Foundation); L.A. County Fairplex; Woodbury University School of Architecture; and service providers The People Concern and ImagineLA. \nLance Simon is a Principal of Egan/Simon architecture and is a leader in transforming neighborhood design. After receiving his degree from the University of Southern California\, Lance moved to Kentucky and joined Richardson Associates Architects (RAA)\, a regional leader in improving quality of rural life. Lance later moved to the urban scene of Miami\, Florida. Working for world-renowned firms\, including Arquitectonica\, he focused on transforming neighborhoods into new urban landscapes with iconic architectural design. His award-winning design and project management vision continues to contribute to this internationally recognized architectural mecca. In 2013 Lance was invited by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) to present at Dwell on Design. The presentation PRO Bono: How Design is Reinventing Los Angeles encouraged designers to “do something bigger” than their own interests in order to improve their communities. He is a member of the Shelter Partnership Board of Directors\, Southern California Association on Non-Profit Housing; the U.S. Green Building Council; and the Herman Miller Advisory Council. \nModerated by: \nFrances Anderton is host of DnA: Design and Architecture\, a weekly radio show broadcast on KCRW NPR station in Los Angeles. Anderton also curates events and exhibitions. She has served as correspondent for the New York Times and Dwell magazine. Her books include Grand Illusion: A Story of Ambition\, and its Limits\, on LA’s Bunker Hill (UCS School of Architecture\, 2011)\, and her honors include the Esther McCoy 2010 Award for educating the public about architecture and urbanism. \nEletrice Harris is a proud native Chicagoan. With high energy\, enthusiasm\, and passion she practices\, mentors\, and teaches Architecture. Eletrice has over 20 years of experience as a Project Manager\, administrator\, and architect and has a true passion for the development of young minority students interested in architecture and architectural studies. Eletrice is the Director of the Southern California NOMA Chapter Summer Camp and the SoCal Student Chapter Liaison. She dedicates her time and talent to making sure that every student from middle school all the way through grad school not only knows about architecture\, and that they can become an architect\, but that they can excel at it. Eletrice Harris holds a Masters in Architecture degree from the Pratt Institute in New York and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago. \n\nIntroduced 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) \ncalpolylametro.com \nPhotos (Left to Right): Image of Angela Brooks\, Lance Collins\, Eletrice Harris\, Alvin Huang\, Roger Sherman and Lance Simon URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/building-equity/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/BuildingEquityPanel_800px.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190919T063000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190919T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T031204 CREATED:20190903T222537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190925T204226Z UID:10000325-1568874600-1568925000@helmsdesigndistrict.com SUMMARY:Special Poster Installation Honoring the 100th Anniversary of Bauhaus DESCRIPTION:Free\nOn Thursday\, September 19th from 6:30 – 8:30 pm\, please join us for Bauhaus 100\, a poster installation and reception honoring the work of this important art movement. We are pleased to welcome KCRW host of Design and Architecture Frances Anderton and Art Center’s Gloria Kondrup\, for a discussion highlighting the legacy and practices of the school\, with a Q & A to follow. \nThe posters will be on display until Friday\, October 4th during the hours of 10:00 am to 3:00 pm\, Monday through Friday. Please enter through the interior parking garage located at 8711 Washington Boulevard. \nOriginally an avant-garde art school founded by Walter Gropius\, the Bauhaus name soon became synonymous with revolutionary ideas and techniques that found their way into nearly every aspect of arts\, crafts\, typography\, architecture\, and design. Belief in harmony of form and function over the traditional notion of art emerged from the academic circles of Bauhaus\, bringing about unprecedented change to the contemporary art world of the early 20th century and whose ripple effects are felt one hundred years after the birth of this historic movement. \nBauhaus 100 is a poster campaign illustrative of the impact Bauhaus has had on modern\, creative society. This commemorative project has produced a growing collection of more than 400 posters made by designers from all over the globe who have one thing in common — a desire and willingness to experiment with their art\, connecting them directly to the groundbreaking principles and practices of Bauhaus. Just as in 1919\, when Bauhaus’s revolutionary doctrines first brought together artisans and craftsmen from different parts of the world\, today’s global design community joins forces in an expressive celebration of the unique phenomenon that is Bauhaus. \nThis exhibit evolves and grows with each new artwork that is added to the collection. The deadline has been postponed twice\, and we hope that the new deadline of March 31\, 2020 will allow more and more artists to participate in this poster action. Organized by PosterTerritory\, the Helms Bakery exhibition presents more than 70 posters created by a variety of worldwide artists and designers. \nThe Bauhaus 100 poster campaign is curated by Serge Serov\, AGI\, Golden Bee Global Biennale President. \nSupported by BrandCulture. \nThe Corridor Gallery\, 8723 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City \nFree Valet Parking is located at 8711 Washington Boulevard\, the interior garage adjacent to the venue. \n\nABOUT BRANDCULTURE\nBrandCulture is a brand\, organizational and design consultancy that builds strong brands and cultures. They combine insightful strategy\, inspired design\, leading technologies\, and rigorous execution to create significant brands. BrandCulture is proud to support artistic design initiatives and be a part of the Bauhaus 100 Posters Show. \n\nABOUT FRANCES ANDERTON\nFrances Anderton is host of DnA: Design and Architecture\, broadcast weekly on KCRW public radio station and podcast at kcrw.com/dna. For many years Anderton produced KCRW’s acclaimed current affairs shows\, To The Point\, and Which Way\, LA?\, hosted by Warren Olney. Anderton is a regular public speaker and moderator\, and she curates events and exhibitions; these include “Sink Or Swim: Designing For a Sea Change”\, a critically received exhibition about resilient architecture for vulnerable coastlines at the Annenberg Space for Photography. She has written extensively about West Coast design for publications including the New York Times. Her books include Grand Illusion: A Story of Ambition\, and its Limits\, on LA’s Bunker Hill\, based on a studio she co-taught with Frank Gehry and partners at USC School of Architecture. \n\n \nABOUT GLORIA KONDRUP\nGloria Kondrup’s professional career spans the fields of art\, design\, and education. As a design consultant she has helped evolve extensive branding\, identity\, and packaging systems. Companies benefiting from her expertise include Aon\, Avon\, and Goodwill Industries. As a full-time professor at ArtCenter College of Design\, Gloria has been a dedicated design educator for over two decades\, shaping and inspiring future generations of designers. She instills in her students the importance of ethical design practices\, fairness and equality\, and respect for our natural environment. As the Director of Archetype Press\, ArtCenter’s unique and vibrant letterpress studio\, she redefined the value of typography and analog technology in the digital landscape. \n  URL:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/event/join-us-for-a-special-poster-installation-honoring-the-100th-anniversary-of-bauhaus/ LOCATION:Washington Corridor Gallery\, 8723 Washington Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90232\, United States CATEGORIES:News ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://helmsdesigndistrict.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Bauhaus-Invite-600sfw.jpg GEO:34.0315037;-118.3774661 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Washington Corridor Gallery 8723 Washington Boulevard Culver City CA 90232 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=8723 Washington Boulevard:geo:-118.3774661,34.0315037 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR