Helms Design Center

Helms Design Center

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8745 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232 Get Directions
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  • A reception, lecture, and discussion with Nima Javidi and Behnaz Assadi of JA Architecture Studio

    Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

    Free
    JA Architecture Studio, a Toronto-based practice led by Iranian-Canadian architect Nima Javidi and landscape designer Behnaz Assadi, combines the rootedness of a local architecture firm with the broad interests of an international design studio. From small to medium sized buildings that confront detail-level building constraints to ambitious international competitions, the studio’s work tries to find meaningful tangencies between iconographic, geometrical and formal properties of architecture of different backgrounds and invests in inventing new architectural hybrids as responses to the diverse realities of 21st century cities.

  • A reception, lecture, and discussion with Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA

    Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

    Free
    Join renowned architect Lorcan O’Herlihy and Stephen Phillips, Director of Cal Poly Metro Program, for an innovative discussion about Architecture and Design. O’Herlihy has built a robust portfolio of work rooted in embracing architecture’s role as a catalyst for change. Enacting a powerful alliance of inventive designs with vigorous social ideals, O’Herlihy’s work prospers whether it is supportive affordable housing in South Los Angeles, working with grassroots neighborhood advocates in Detroit, or designing cultural institutions like Chapman University Dance School.

  • Westside Urban Forum Breakfast Talk: Mayor Bass’ State of the City

    Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

    On Thursday, April 27th at 7:45 am, please join Westside Urban Forum at the Helms Design Center for a breakfast reception and panel discussion about Mayor Bass's State of the City Address.

  • Small Infrastructures: Exhibition & Panel Discussion

    Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

    Free
    Small Infrastructures is an exhibition of ADU designs that uses the economics of building assembly as the groundwork for experimentation and addresses how cities can work with architects to build quality, affordable housing under the American Jobs Plan. Ten architects teaching at Harvard GSD and Berkeley CED consider the overlaps between academia, where cost is often external to conceptual work, and practice, where budgeting is an integral task.

  • Material and Mind: An Author Talk with Chris Bardt

    Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

    Material Encounters in partnership with PLP So Cal is delighted to welcome Christopher Bardt, AIA, to discuss his recent book, Material and Mind in which he delves deeply into the interaction of mind and material world, mediated by language, image, and the process of making.

  • Groundwork: So Cal Fibershed Symposium

    Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

    The inaugural Groundwork: So Cal Fibershed Symposium will bring together ranchers and farmers, designers, advocates, academics, and changemakers for a day of project presentations and networking. If you’re interested in regen ag and local fiber (or sheep and goat grazing for fire mitigation), please join us.

  • Path of Resistance Charity Event

    Helms Design Center 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA

    Free
    Support Ukraine! Path of Resistance is a pop-up exhibition and a silent auction featuring a selection of fine art pieces by contemporary Ukrainian artists that celebrate creative authenticity and share with the audience their vision of beauty, hope, freedom, and love.