If you haven’t been to LACMA to see
Levitated Mass by Michael Heizer it’s worth the trip. If you live in LA I am sure you heard of it
as it made its journey from Riverside to the museum (unless you’ve been living
under a rock and if there weren’t any guards there, you probably could live
under this rock). A good time to see it
is on a Wednesday when the museum is closed and there are few, if any, people
to block your field of vision. As the
original project manager during my time at AC Martin, I had an opportunity to
visit the boulder in its natural habitat at the quarry. At first viewing from afar, I was not
impressed since it was sitting in front of the mountain it had been blasted
from, but as I approached it, I realized what a challenge this was going to be
to move it and install it on-site in order to create Michael Heizer’s vision. One gets a similar sensation at the install, as large as the boulder is, it appears to pale by comparison to its surroundings.
Beginning of the month time, here
are a few going’s on at the A+D Museum during November.
November
1, 2012
A+D
SUGGESTS
Deborah
Sussman: "to be"
Deborah Sussman pioneered the field
called “Environmental Graphic Design.” Her contributions to “urban branding”
have been internationally applauded, and have influenced generations of
designers. Come learn more from Deborah’s experience and wisdom during this
fascinating presentation.
When: Thursday November 1st, 7.00PM
Where: Art Center College of Design-Hillside Campus
Los Angeles Times Media Center 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena
Admission: Free and open to the public
November
2, 2012
A+D
Event
A+D
+ CAFAM Joint Admission Day
A+D Museum and the Craft and Folk
Art Museum (CAFAM) would like to welcome you to join us for the A+D + CAFAM
Joint Admission Day! Visitors will be able to get their fill of craft,
architecture and design from two museums along the Miracle Mile every first
Friday of the month. Visit either institution and receive free admission at the
other!
November
3, 2012
PRIVATE
EVENT
A+D
CLOSED | Private Event
A+D Museum will be closed to the
public Saturday, November 3rd for a private event. A+D will reopen to the
public Sunday, November 4th. Questions: Please call 323.932.9393
November
9, 2012
PROGRAMS
In CONVERSATION | SEEING ARCHITECTURE
'SEEING ARCHITECTURE' with MINA
MAREFAT, PHD, AIA + ERIC SAARINEN
Eric Saarinen grew up in a household where “Art was God,” his father was Eero
Saarinen, his mother, Lily Swann Saarinen was a sculptor, his grandfather was
Eliel Saarinen, Finland’s famous architect and his grandmother Loja was an
accomplished artist and sculptor. His father’s best friend was Charles Eames.
Not surprisingly, Eric is a successful filmmaker and camera man with an eye for
architecture. Join A+D Museum for a special inCONVERSATION event Friday,
November 9th at 6pm with Eric Saarinen as the topics of architecture and film,
architecture as visual medium, and growing up under the influence of his
illustrious parents and grandparents are explored with exhibition curator Mina
Marefat, PhD, AIA.
Admission:
$15 indiviudal, $7 Student with valid ID, A+D Members FREE
November
13, 2012
PROGRAMS
In CONVERSATION | Grand Illusion Panel
On Tuesday, November 13th A+D will
host a panel discussion at 6pm about Grand Avenue, MOCA and new development in
downtown, with Dean Qingyun Ma, Frances Anderton, Sam Lubell and other guests.
The discussion takes off from a graduate studio, led by Frank Gehry and Frances
Anderton last year that analyzed MOCA Grand Avenue in relation to 60 years of
urban redevelopment on Bunker Hill. This was part of a series of research-based
studios, initiated by USC's Dean Ma, that examine the dynamics of the changing
city. Guests will also sign copies of the book that accompanied the studio,
Grand Illusion: A Story of Ambition, and Its Limits, on L.A.'s Bunker Hill. Drinks
will be served.
Admission: $15 Individual, $7
Student w/ valid ID, A+D Members FREE
November
15, 2012
PROGRAMS
SHELTER : Design for Good Screening and Panel Event
Join A+D Museum for a special in COLLABORATION
screening and panel event at the Room & Board showroom. The evening
sponsored by Room & Board will premiere new media from Shelter, a
documentary media project chronicling architects, designers, urban planners and
engineers who are using their design skills to create social change.
Following
the screening of Shelter, panelists, led by moderator Frances Anderton, will
discuss developments in public interest design, its relevance to the design and
architecture professions, and whether the practice and growing interest in
public interest design will result in lasting change in the way architecture is
practiced.
Panelists:
Eric Corey Freed, Principal, organic ARCHITECT
Eric Owen Moss, Director, SCI-Arc; Eric Owen Moss Architects
Robin Osler, Principal, EOA: Elmslie Osler Architect
Admission: $25 Individual, $15 Students and A+D Members, $30 at the door
This week I
am taking a little detour from my usual enlightenment about Architectural
events in Los Angeles to make note of the ongoing events at the Los Angeles
Museum of the Holocaust. I was recently
paging thru some family albums and came across a group of photographs taken by
my father at the Potsdam Conference in July of 1945. He was a photographer in the Signal Corps
during the war and was fortunate enough to attend the proceedings at the
conference where Churchill, Truman and Stalin divided up what was left of
Europe and the Far East at the end of the war. You can read more about this
at: http://bit.ly/XfAvuI 
The size of the press corps in 1945 stands in sharp contrast to how the media covers an international event in the current world of media frenzy! 
If you haven’t been to LACMA to see
Levitated Mass by Michael Heizer it’s worth the trip. If you live in LA I am sure you heard of it
as it made its journey from Riverside to the museum (unless you’ve been living
under a rock and if there weren’t any guards there, you probably could live
under this rock). A good time to see it
is on a Wednesday when the museum is closed and there are few, if any, people
to block your field of vision. As the
original project manager during my time at AC Martin, I had an opportunity to
visit the boulder in its natural habitat at the quarry. At first viewing from afar, I was not
impressed since it was sitting in front of the mountain it had been blasted
from, but as I approached it, I realized what a challenge this was going to be
to move it and install it on-site in order to create Michael Heizer’s vision. One gets a similar sensation at the install, as large as the boulder is, it appears to pale by comparison to its surroundings.
