Don’t miss this fast-paced, design-inspired evening with FORT: LA featuring a sneak preview of Rebel Architects, episode 2 —Art and Rebellion in the ‘70s and ‘80s —before its official release! Join rebel architects Frederick Fisher and Thom Mayne in conversation with artist Chuck Arnoldi, moderated by Frances Anderton. More speakers to be announced! Sommelier India Mandelkern pairs perfect wines to match the rebel architect spirit.
Architecture Uncorked - August 9 - Barnsdall Gallery Theater
FORT: LA Presents Architecture Uncorked! Historic Homes, Hot Topics and Worldly Wine Don’t miss this fast-paced, design-inspired evening with FORT: LA featuring a sneak preview of Rebel Architects, episode 2 —Art and Rebellion in the ‘70s and ‘80s —before its official release! Join rebel architects Frederick Fisher and Thom Mayne in conversation with artist Chuck Arnoldi, moderated by Frances Anderton. More speakers to be announced! Sommelier India Mandelkern pairs perfect wines to match the rebel architect spirit.
Each month, Friends of Residential Treasures Los Angeles (FORT: LA) curates a new self-guided trail, inviting Angelenos to explore the city’s rich architectural heritage. These immersive experiences highlight significant homes, hidden gems, and the designers who have shaped Los Angeles' built environment.
The Los Angeles Design Festival (LADF) returns June 26-29, 2025 with a citywide celebration of community, creativity, and inspiring design. This year's theme, "Design Futurism," is a solution-oriented exploration of human potential. When envisioning the future, design is inherently a part of our collective imagination: a tool for reimagining how we connect, create, and challenge existing narratives. This concept expands beyond the exploration of technological spectacle. This year, LADF invites all to explore Design Futurism through various lenses of our collective human experiences.
Each month, Friends of Residential Treasures Los Angeles (FORT: LA) curates a new self-guided trail, inviting Angelenos to explore the city’s rich architectural heritage. These immersive experiences highlight significant homes, hidden gems, and the designers who have shaped Los Angeles' built environment.
Meljac North America celebrates the launch of the "LA Finish Collection"
Please join us for the launch of Meljac North America's exclusive collection of hardware finishes, crafted in Paris and hand-finished in Los Angeles. Enjoy food, cocktails and music to celebrate the "LA Finish Collection".
Don't miss this fast-paced, design-inspired evening with FORT: LA featuring architect Leo Marmol, FAIA, discussing historic houses and their timeless teachings, architectural writer Frances Anderton and a special guest tackling a controversial architecture topic, and sommelier India Mandelkern as she pairs perfect wines with iconic designs.
Each month, Friends of Residential Treasures Los Angeles (FORT: LA) curates a new self-guided trail, inviting Angelenos to explore the city’s rich architectural heritage. These immersive experiences highlight significant homes, hidden gems, and the designers who have shaped Los Angeles' built environment.
As Founding Partner of FF&P, Frederick Fisher, FAAR, AIA is a self-described “liberal arts guy.” He is an avid reader, traveler, and arts-lover, and his approach to architecture reflects his innate intellectual curiosity and broad cultural and social perspective. His list of projects includes the renovation of Princeton’s Firestone Library, MoMA/PS1 in New York, The Annenberg Community Beach House, Sunnylands Visitor Center and Gardens, Erburu and Fielding Galleries of the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, and numerous galleries, studios, and homes.
Ferda Kolatan is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design and Founding Director of su11. In this event, Kolatan presents new book "Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City." Contemporary cities are shaped, Kolatan observes, by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructure, and other urban components that over time accumulate into mismatched configurations. However, despite the ubiquity of these oddities and their impact on the city, we rarely give them much consideration. In Misfits & Hybrids, Kolatan explores the untapped potential in these unexpected conditions for a new kind of architecture. A diverse array of projects, developed in Kolatan’s design studios at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, illustrates how hybrid artifacts can reveal the often overlooked cultural, socio-political, and material histories of a site, fostering design tactics invested in reinventing the existing. Set within the cosmopolitan megacities of Istanbul, Cairo, and New York, the projects are conceived as real fictions, conjuring novel narrative, aesthetic, and representational forms to reflect the pluralistic postindustrial city
Alfredo Thiermann, architect and Assistant Professor for History and Theory of Architecture at the École polytechnique fédéralein Lausanne, presents new book Radio-Activities at UCLA AUD.
