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May 2024
Urban Design Review Session 5.21.24
The 2024 AIA|LA and LACP Urban Design Review Sessions Architects & designers passionate about improving the design quality of newly proposed projects throughout the City of Los Angeles are encouraged to participate in the AIA|LA & Los Angeles City Planning (LACP) Professional Volunteer Program (PVP). PLEASE REGISTER HERE. WHAT: In 2024, we will be coordinating thirt-six urban design review sessions, which will serve as opportunities for leading design talent to help the Los Angles City Planning's Urban Design Studio critically review upcoming projects throughout…
Find out more »An evening with Christian Flindt
Additional information regarding the tour and check-in process will be emailed directly to registrants 24 hours before the event. An evening with Award-winning Danish designer Christian Flindt Followed by Happy Hour! Christian Flindt (1972-) Lighting, furniture and industrial designer based in Copenhagen Denmark. Graduated with an MAA and MDD from Aarhus School of Architecture in 2002. He then started his own design company in 2003. Christian Flindt’s fresh and daring designs in conventional constructions prove that he is a designer…
Find out more »AIA|LA & LACP Roundtable Discussion: Landscape and Site Design Ordinance
AIA|LA & LACP Roundtable Discussion: Landscape and Site Design Ordinance Los Angeles is at a critical juncture, as the City strives to meet ambitious housing production targets established by the State while streamlining City processes. Thinking about design holistically is of paramount importance and has the potential to create a new chapter for design in Los Angeles, leaving a legacy of complete, healthy, and sustainable communities in the process of meeting these targets. Last month LA City Planning released a…
Find out more »Powerful XI Volunteer Kick-off Meeting
Powerful XI Volunteer Kick-off Meeting Our first Powerful XL Conference planning session! Come join us - This year, we're going EXTRA LARGE and all are welcome! Powerful XL is only 5 months away, and we couldn't be more excited! The theme for this year's conference grows out of the focus from past years. In 2023, we focused on lifting up our voices, becoming advocates for ourselves and our work. This year, we turn our collective "Me" into "We", highlighting the…
Find out more »Small & Emerging Business Quarterly Gathering
Small & Emerging Business Quarterly Gathering This is a first of a possible quarterly get together for small businesses to discuss relevant issues that impacts small/emerging practices. This can serve as a future platform for AIA engagement with smaller practitioners and to provide a collective voice. Moreover, a CA AIA representative will be there to provide insights on what AIA is doing for small businesses. This is the first of this concept! We have invited AAa/e (Asian American architects/engineers) and…
Find out more »Submission Clinic for Design Awards
Join us for this year's Design Awards Submission Clinic. Led by Ismar Enriquez, AIA, George Reilly AIA and Anthony Brower, AIA. If you have questions about how to submit your project in Submittable, this is the place!
Find out more »Breakfast w/ Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum – CEO, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA)
AIA|LA City Leaders Breakfast Reception w/ Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum - CEO, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) 2024 City Leaders Breakfast Series Presented By: Gannett Fleming The 2024 AIA|LA City Leaders Breakfast Series serves as an opportunity for architects & designers and other community stakeholders to meet directly with key individuals transforming Los Angeles in a roundtable setting to discuss innovative ideas that will ensure a healthy, sustainable, and economically competitive future. Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum -…
Find out more »Live Online Class: Better Freehand Perspective Sketching
Live Online Class: Better Freehand Perspective Sketching + Q&A Session at Conclusion Recording of class available to watch June 20 – September 20, 2024 Photo: Richard E Scott A MORE ENJOYABLE WAY TO SKETCH IN PERSPECTIVE If I asked you to accurately sketch a bustling cityscape in your sketchbook, could you do it? Perspective is the Achilles' heel for many designers and artists. Trying to untangle the distorted proportions and skewed lines can be mystifying. I’ve learned after 50 years…
Find out more »Breakfast w/ Alberto M. Carvalho – Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District
AIA|LA City Leaders Breakfast Reception w/ Alberto M. Carvalho - Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District 2024 City Leaders Breakfast Series Presented By: Gannett Fleming The 2024 AIA|LA City Leaders Breakfast Series serves as an opportunity for architects & designers and other community stakeholders to meet directly with key individuals transforming Los Angeles in a roundtable setting to discuss innovative ideas that will ensure a healthy, sustainable, and economically competitive future. Alberto M. Carvalho - Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School…
Find out more »June 2024
Capturing Communities: ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN
Image Credit: Ed Ruscha, Standard Station, 1966, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Acquisition Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN is co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. PLEASE CLICK TO REGISTER FOR ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN Organized in conjunction with ED RUSCHA/NOW THEN, this program will begin with a presentation by one of the exhibition curators followed by a walking tour…
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