This series of evenings, dealing with architecture in the newly transformed city, take place at Woodbury University’s Center for Community Research and Design 6518 Hollywood Blvd. Street parking or paid parking in rear lot. Admission $7, Forum members. The evenings are respectively titled “Los Angeles Before and After: A Discussion about Urban Growth,” “Los Angeles’s House, Housing, Home: The Next Domestic Design Challenge,” (see Jennifer Dunlop’s report on this in forum issue 2) and “School Work: Designing New Schools for the Los Angeles Unified School District.”

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 6:30 pm

Los Angeles Before and After: A Discussion about Urban Growth

Conversants:

Julius Shulman – Architectural Photographer
Norman Klein – Author, The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory
Kazys Varnelis – Faculty, History / Theory, SCI-Arc

Moderators: Paulette Singley and Kazys Varnelis

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 7 pm

Los Angeles’s House, Housing, Home: The Next Domestic Design Challenge

Conversants:

Jan Briedenbach – Executive Director, Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing
Sally Richman – Manager of Policy and Planning, City of Los Angeles Housing Department
Jay Stark – Director of Development, The Lee Group
Larry Scarpa – Architect, Pugh + Scarpa Architecture
Julie Eizenberg – Architect, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc.

Moderator: John Kaliski

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 7 pm

School Work: Designing New Schools for the Los Angeles Unified School District

Conversants:

Marvin L. Taff – Consulting Architect, Special Projects, Design, LAUSD
John Mutlow – Member, LAUSD Design Advisory Group
Alice Kimm – Architect, Aragon Elementary School, Cypress Park
Stephen Kanner – Architect, Nevin Avenue Elementary School, South Central LA

Moderators: Julie Silliman and Alice Kimm