Publications - LA Forum

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LA Forum Newsletter

The premiere issue of the newly relaunched newsletter, debuting in March 2013, features articles by Frank Escher and Simon Reynolds, as well as an interview with Radio Iris author Anne-Marie Kinney and a centerfold by James Michael Tate.

Pamphlet 6: Meet the Nelsons, by Wes Jones

Meet the Nelsons documents “The Nelsons,” Wes Jones’s notorious comic strip that appeared in ANY Magazine (Architecture New York) from 1994 to 2001. Pamphlet 6 in our pamphlet series follows the LA Forum exhibition of the same name held in Summer 2009.

Pamphlet 5: Pendulum Plane, by Oyler Wu Collaborative

This Pamphlet documents the design, fabrication, and installation of Oyler Wu Collaborative’s Pendulum Plane, their bold, competition-winning intervention at the L.A. Forum’s new gallery in Hollywood.

08.01.2009 Liner|Oyler Wu Collaborative|Pamphlet series|Pendulum Plane|Todd Gannon

Pamphlet 4: After The City, This (Is How We Live), by Tom Marble

Using the structure of a screenplay to tell the story, architect Tom Marble takes the reader inside the minds of the people on both sides of the development conflict – those seeing land as a commodity for profit, and those who see it as a valued resource for all to enjoy.

The Infrastructural City, by Kazys Varnelis

This provocative collection of photography, essays, and maps looks at infrastructure as a way of mapping our place in the city and affecting change through architecture.

Pamphlet 3: Polar Inertia, by Ted Kane

Architect Ted Kane takes a critical look at how city life predicated on total mobility and utterly dependent upon the corporate-controlled wireless world is expanding the meaning of urbanity while constricting the bedrock virtue of citizenship.

Pamphlet 2: Out the Window (LAX)

In Forum Pamphlet 2, contemporary artist Zoe Crosher takes the viewer on an exploratory journey inside the impersonal and transient travel world surrounding the mega international airport, LAX.

07.01.2007 hotel|LAX|Pamphlet series|photography|Zoe Crosher

Forum Portfolio 2 – 2006

By reviewing Los Angeles through Banham’s now historic ecological categories (Autopia, Surfurbia, the Foothills, and the Plains of Id: each coined to lend clarity to an undefined, post-urban city), this year’s Portfolio artists present the ecologies one generation later, how both the city and the word “ecology” itself have evolved since the 1970s.

Forum Annual 2004

The inaugural issue of Forum Annual is now available. It marks the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design’s first print periodical after a five-year absence. Forum Annual is our reaction to a void we perceive in the city. … | +

Mary Hodson, Marcarthur Park #9 (Habitar)

Portfolio – 2003

The LA Forum Portfolio is a limited edition series of prints by contemporary artists. By engaging in the local art community, the LA Forum takes a step back to view architecture from a conceptual and visual perspective. The resulting prints … | +

Pamphlet 1: Dead Malls

The Forum announces a return to its printed pamphlet series, beginning with a pamphlet for the Dead Malls competition. Featuring the work of all five finalists in color as well as other entrants in the competition, this pamphlet critically investigates … | +

05.13.2003 Dead Malls|shopping mall|Stoner Meeks|typology|Central Office of Architecture

WRAPPER by Mary Ann Ray and Robert Mangurian

This book features a collection of drawings for the redesign of the facade of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.

Everyday Urbanism by Margaret Crawford, John Chase, and John Kaliski

“Everyday Urbanism” is based on the daily experience of the city – trips to supermarkets, the commute to work, the journey along the strip passing by the mini-mall, the carwash, and the franchise food emporium.

Building Paranoia: The Proliferation of Interdictory Space and the Erosion of Spatial Justice

Case studies documenting the privatization of what was once public space though methods such as street barricades, fortification, security systems, etc.

01.15.1994 case study|John Kaliski|public space|Steven Flusty

Los Angeles and the L.A. School by Marco Cenzatti

Los Angeles and the L.A. School by Marco Cenzatti accompanied by a reproductions of a painting series on Los Angeles, “Skycam,” by artist Peter Alexander. Designed by Christopher Vice. Cenzatti introduces the work of a group of urban theorists known … | +

Arch Info by Douglas MacLeod

Arch Info (Architecture and Information) addresses architecture as information and takes the form of a HyperCard Stack for the Macintosh computer. Includes a computer diskette with all required software, duly licensed for personal use. Also included are 40 printed 4 … | +

02.15.1992 Aaron Betsky|Christian Hubert|Douglas MacLeod|Hypertext|Sanford Kwinter

Experimental Architecture in Los Angeles by Leon Whiteson, John Chase, and Aaron Betsky

This book features the work of 22 architecture firms, including Michele Saee, AKS Runo, Josh Schweitzer, Guthrie + Buresh, Koning Eizenberg, and COA. The book is drawn from the work of participants in a series of lectures presented during the … | +

Los Angeles Boulevard: Eight X-Rays of the Body Public by Douglas R. Suisman

A 72-page pamphlet divided into eight in-depth analyses of Los Angeles’ Boulevards.

Recombinant Images in Los Angeles – Central Office of Architecture

A series of a dozen black-and-white photographs by COA “created through the super-imposition of found urban artifacts pulled from their functional context and treated as fragment and empty sign” with accompanying text.

35mm Works by Photographer Grant Mudford

A book of twenty of Mudford’s black and white photographs of every day architecture in several American cities, including Los Angeles. The book was designed and handbound by architect Gary Paige. Released in Spring, 1988. Both photos: Los Angeles, … | +

04.01.1988 architectural photography|Gary Paige|Grant Mudford

The Ecology of Fantasy by Margaret Crawford

An essay describing the relationship between theme parks and modern American urbanism. This essay discusses how Reyner Banham’s autopia acts as a device for facilitating the melding of Jean Baudrillard’s hyper-reality, as embodied by themed environments such as Disneyland’s Main Street, into the true reality of urban Los Angeles.

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