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HOW MANY BILLBOARDS? ART IN STEAD this large-scale urban exhibition debuts 23 new works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards throughout Los Angeles | exhibit | Friday 2/5 - Friday 3/26 | MORE »

WHAT REMAINS OF A BUILDING... asks each participating artist to focus on a specific built space, including the recent new headquarters of the LAPD, a domestic space in downtown, Hollywood motels, and the legendary Cadillac Cafe. Each site provides a generative platform for examining particular histories, cultures, and politics intertwined within the city of LA. Spatial interventions and inquiry, memory tracing and re-enactments, performative gestures and staged settings are featured as strategies to query what a building is and what it may become | exhibit at Gallery 727, 727 S Spring St, Los Angeles | Saturday 2/13 - Saturday 3/27 | MAP | MORE »

SAFE TRESTLES Design Competition to Create Safe, Low-Impact Access to Trestles | $20 res reqd due March 17 | competition | Friday 2/19 - Wednesday 3/17 | MORE »

FENCE DITCH REPEAT Iterations of the Border at Juarez / El Paso -a CLUI Independent Interpreter exhibit featuring the work of Sarah Cowles and Alan Smart with Sound by John Also Bennett | exhibit at CLUI - Center for Land Use Interpretation, 9331 Venice Blvd, Culver City, 310 839-5722 | Friday 3/5 | MAP | MORE »

Tuesday 3/9 PAUL LEWIS Principal, Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis | lecture 6:30pm at Woodbury University Architecture, 7500 Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank, 818 252-5121 | MAP | MORE »

Wednesday 3/10 RUSSELL THOMSEN and ERIC KHAN Principals, IDEA Office, Los Angeles on "Driven by Dilemma" | lecture 7:00pm at SCI-Arc, 960 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, 213 613-2200 | MAP | MORE »

Friday 3/12 AIA P&F FIRST FRIDAY FORUM $10-$22 req'd 7:30am at Brookside Country Club, 1133 N Rosemont, Pasadena, 626-796-7601 | MAP | MORE »

Friday 3/12 HOORAY FOR EDENDALE! a celebration of the birth and early growth of the movie industry in Los Angeles with award winning film editor, writer and film industry historian Robert S. Bichard | lecture 12:00pm at Farmlab, 1745 N Spring St, Los Angeles, 323 226-1158 | MAP | MORE »

Saturday 3/13 GROWTH, GRAFT, GRANDEUR: THREE LOS ANGELES MAYORS historian James Ingram on Mayor George E. Cryer, 1921 to 1929 | lecture 2:00pm at Los Angeles Central Library, 630 West 5th St, Los Angeles, 323 936-2912 | MAP | MORE »

Saturday 3/13 FENCE DITCH REPEAT Iterations of the Border at Juarez / El Paso - a CLUI Independent Interpreter exhibit featuring the work of Sarah Cowles and Alan Smart with Sound by John Also Bennett | exhibit talk with Sarah Cowles 7:30pm at CLUI - Center for Land Use Interpretation, 9331 Venice Blvd, Culver City, 310 839-5722 | MAP | MORE »

Saturday 3/13 ART DECO LOS ANGELES in downtown's Historic Core | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/13 BROADWAY'S NATIONAL REGISTER THEATRE DISTRICT the largest concentration of pre-World War II movie houses in America | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/13 THE HISTORIC CORE four decades of Los Angeles history, architectural styles from the Victorian to the Beaux Arts to the Art Deco | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/13 ANGELINO HEIGHTS one of Los Angeles' first suburbs, rich with history and Victorian architecture | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/13 DOWNTOWN RENAISSANCE: SPRING + MAIN the former financial district, once known as "Wall Street of the West" | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Sunday 3/14 LOS ANGELES RIVER stops include tat the gorgeous Sepulveda Basin, new parks in the Glendale Narrows, the historic Arroyo Seco confluence, the Los Angeles State Historic Park (aka the Cornfield), and the industrial downtown location that everyone's seen in movies and on TV led by environmental historian / writer Jenny Price | $20-$25 res reqd | carpool tour | 9:30am at LA State Historic Park, 1245 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, 323 223-0585 | MAP | MORE »

Sunday 3/14 BILTMORE HOTEL the architecture and history of this venerable hotel known as "The Host of the Coast" | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 2:00pm at Biltmore Hotel, 506 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, 213 623 2489 | MAP | MORE »

Tuesday 3/16 DnA: DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE hosted by Frances Anderton | radio broadcast on KCRW 89.9fm 2:30pm | MORE »

Wednesday 3/17 ZOE COOMBES and DAVID BOIRA Principals, Commonwealth, New York on "Agnus Dei and the Dirt of Tomorrow" | lecture 7:00pm at SCI-Arc, 960 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, 213 613-2200 | MAP | MORE »

Thursday 3/18 ULI URBAN MARKETPLACE "New Deals For a New Era" will explore the challenges, and more importantly, the opportunities of today's new economy. Keynote Speakers Stanley Ross, Chairman, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and Henry Cisneros, Executive Chairman, CityView, in addition to Panelists and Roundtable Discussions will examine the "new normal" in financing and drill down into what will get deals done in the next decade | res reqd | conference 7:00am at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles | MAP | MORE »

Thursday 3/18 PATRICIA L. SMITH landscape architect on urban design and streetscape improvements | lecture 6:45pm at Los Feliz Library, 1874 Hillhurst Ave, Los Angeles, 323 913-4710 | MAP | MORE »

Thursday 3/18 JANETTE SADIK-KHAN New York City Transportation Commissioner, about how new transportation policies and practices in New York are changing that city's streetscape to create a more walkable and bikeable environment | lecture 7:30pm at Occidental College, 1600 Campus Rd, Eagle Rock | MAP

Friday 3/19 DO LA'S NEW SCHOOLHOUSES ROCK? How do we determine the right price for new schools? What have been the greatest successes and mistakes in designing school buildings that support successful teaching and learning? Do Charter Schools require a different design approach from traditional schools? Should we continue building new schools or is it time to rebuild for the future? | $15-$45 res reqd | panel discussion 7:00am at The Regency Club, 10900 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 310 322-1520 | MAP | MORE »

Friday 3/19 LONDON EIGHT work by Marjan Colletti and Marcos Cruz, Yusef Al-Mehdari, CJ Lim, Pascal Bronner, Mark Smout and Laura Allen, John Hybschmann; curated by Peter Cook | panel discussion and opening reception for exhibit 6:00pm at SCI-Arc, 960 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, 213 613-2200 | MAP | MORE »

Saturday 3/20 LONDON EIGHT work by Marjan Colletti and Marcos Cruz, Yusef Al-Mehdari, CJ Lim, Pascal Bronner, Mark Smout and Laura Allen, John Hybschmann; curated by Peter Cook | exhibit at SCI-Arc, 960 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, 213 613-2200 | MAP | MORE »

Saturday 3/20 ART DECO LOS ANGELES in downtown's Historic Core | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/20 BROADWAY'S NATIONAL REGISTER THEATRE DISTRICT the largest concentration of pre-World War II movie houses in America | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/20 THE HISTORIC CORE four decades of Los Angeles history, architectural styles from the Victorian to the Beaux Arts to the Art Deco | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/20 UNION STATION the last great railway station built in America, an inspiring combination of Spanish Colonial revival and Art Deco styles | tour | $5-$10 res reqd 10:00am at Union Station, 800 N Alameda Street, Los Angeles, 213 623 2489 | MAP | MORE »

Saturday 3/20 ANGELINO HEIGHTS one of Los Angeles' first suburbs, rich with history and Victorian architecture | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/20 EVOLVING SKYLINE the architecture, open spaces and art of Bunker Hill | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Sunday 3/21 THE ENDURING CONTRIBUTION OF JULIUS SHULMAN with Philip Ethington, John Crosse, Steven Erlich, William Krisel, Wim de Wit, Mary Melton, and Rose Nielsen | $50 res reqd | panel discussion 5:30pm at MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House, 835 N. Kings Road, Los Angeles, 323 651-1510 | MAP | MORE »

Saturday 3/20 - Sunday 5/9 LONDON EIGHT work by Marjan Colletti and Marcos Cruz, Yusef Al-Mehdari, CJ Lim, Pascal Bronner, Mark Smout and Laura Allen, John Hybschmann; curated by Peter Cook | exhibit at SCI-Arc, 960 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, 213 613-2200 | MAP | MORE »

Sunday 3/21 BILTMORE HOTEL the architecture and history of this venerable hotel known as "The Host of the Coast" | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 2:00pm at Biltmore Hotel, 506 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, 213 623 2489 | MAP | MORE »

Tuesday 3/23 SEEKING SPATIAL JUSTICE with Ed Soja, Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA School of Public Affairs | seminar 12:15pm at USC SPPD Lewis Hall, 725 Childs Way, Los Angeles | MAP | MORE »

Tuesday 3/23 BUSTER SIMPSON Artist, Seattle | lecture 6:30pm at Woodbury University Architecture, 7500 Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank, 818 252-5121 | MAP | MORE »

Wednesday 3/24 MICHAEL KUBO PhD Program in History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, MIT on "Publishing Practices" | lecture 7:00pm at SCI-Arc, 960 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, 213 613-2200 | MAP | MORE »

Thursday 3/25 CALVIN R ABE Principal, AHBE Landscape Architects, Culver City | lecture 7:00pm at Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, 310 665-6867 | MAP | MORE »

Friday 3/26 VIVARIUM installation by Juan Azulay, Matter Management | exhibit at SCI-Arc, 960 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, 213 613-2200 | MAP | MORE »

Saturday 3/27 L.A. ZONING TURNS 100: NOW WHAT? the Los Angeles Region Planning History Group on zoning with Ken Bernstein, Office of Historic Resources, City of Los Angeles Planning Department is the moderator; panelists include D.J. Waldie, Stefanos Polyzoides, Greg Hise, and Jane Blumenfeld | $10 res reqd | panel discussion | 9:30am at The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, 818 769-4179 | MAP

Friday 3/26 - Sunday 5/9 VIVARIUM installation by Juan Azulay, Matter Management | exhibit at SCI-Arc, 960 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, 213 613-2200 | MAP | MORE »

Saturday 3/27 ART DECO LOS ANGELES in downtown's Historic Core | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/27 BROADWAY'S NATIONAL REGISTER THEATRE DISTRICT the largest concentration of pre-World War II movie houses in America | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/27 THE HISTORIC CORE four decades of Los Angeles history, architectural styles from the Victorian to the Beaux Arts to the Art Deco | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/27 ANGELINO HEIGHTS one of Los Angeles' first suburbs, rich with history and Victorian architecture | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/27 DOWNTOWN RENAISSANCE: SPRING + MAIN the former financial district, once known as "Wall Street of the West" | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 10:00am | MORE »

Saturday 3/27 UNION STATION FAMILY TOUR architecture and history come to life through an exploration of the shapes, colors, and stories of this beloved landmark | $5-$10 res reqd | tour 11:00am at Union Station, 800 N Alameda Street, Los Angeles, 213 623 2489 | MAP | MORE »

Friday 3/26 - Sunday 5/9 VIVARIUM installation by Juan Azulay, Matter Management | exhibit at SCI-Arc, 960 E 3rd St, Los Angeles, 213 613-2200 | MAP | MORE »

This calendar is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.