Restoration & Resilience: A Discussion on Art and Architecture
February 20 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
Free
In the wake of the immense personal and community losses caused by Los Angeles’ wildfires, our city’s art and architectural communities are grappling with critical questions of conservation and restoration.
Restoration & Resilience is a unified response—a conversation that brings together experts to address the loss of California’s cultural heritage and to explore how art and design communities can collaborate effectively in times of crisis. This discussion emphasizes the importance of supporting those who are creatively engaged and in immediate need, highlighting the value of partnering with cultural preservationists.
Our panel features leading voices including:
- Thom Mayne, FAIA – Internationally acclaimed Architect and Founder of Morphosis
- Brian Butterfield – Design Director, WHY Architecture
- Adrian Scott Fine – President and CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy
- Dr. Angie Kim – President and CEO of the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)
AIA|LA and the Interior Architecture Committee (IAC) are thrilled to be collaborating with Boffi for this important and timely discussion. Please join us as we delve into the challenges of restoration and examine how creative resilience can guide us in rebuilding what has been lost. Venue and refreshments generously provided by Boffi LA.
EVENT DETAILS:
Location: Boffi LA showroom, 8775 Beverly Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90048
Welcome & Refreshments: 6:00PM
Panel Talk: 1HR (6:30PM to 7:30PM)
Networking: 7:30PM – 8:00PM
Thom Mayne, FAIA – Internationally acclaimed Architect and Founder of Morphosis
Mayne cofounded the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 1972. He has held teaching positions at UCLA, Columbia, Yale, the Harvard GSD, the Bartlett School of Architecture and many other institutions. He co-heads the NOW Institute, a division of Morphosis that collaborates with communities, cities, and academic institutions to research and enhance urban environments.
Mayne’s was awarded the Pritzker Prize (2005) and the AIA Gold Medal (2013). He served on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities under President Obama from 2009 to 2016. With Morphosis, he has been the recipient of over 120 AIA Awards and other design recognitions. Morphosis been the subject of various exhibitions, including a solo show at Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2006, and over 30 monographs. His book Combinatory Urbanism (Stray Dog Café, 2012) provides an overview of Morphosis’ planning work and their strategic approach to urban projects.
Brian Butterfield – Design Director, WHY Architecture
Brian joined the interdisciplinary architecture firm WHY in 2019 as the Director of the then newly formed Museums Workshop. He is leading WHY’s expanding architecture portfolio of museum and arts projects; and in strategic consulting for new and evolving museums, rethinking the relationship between the hardware of the museum’s physical form, and the software of its operations, programming, and visitor experience on-site and online.
Brian’s current institutional clients include The Met, The Louvre, The Getty, The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, The Harvard Libraries, The Walker Art Center, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, The San Diego Museum of Art, Frieze Art Fair, and DIB – a new contemporary art center in Bangkok Thailand.
Before joining WHY, Brian was the Senior Design Manager for Exhibitions and Capital Projects at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, he managed a team of architects, exhibition designers, producers, and lighting designers, executing over sixty temporary and permanent projects annually, including all exhibitions at the Met 5th Avenue and the Met Breuer.
He has held faculty positions at the Yale School of Architecture, where he was the Director of Exhibitions from 2011-2014. From 2004-2008 Brian was a lead designer at the award-winning firm Della Valle Bernheimer, now Bernheimer Architecture and Alloy Development respectively.
Brian and WHY are affiliate members of the Global Cultural District Network (GCDN).
Brian is on the advisory board of the global architecture non-profit The World Around and the artist residency Pocoapoco in Oaxaca Mexico.
Adrian Scott Fine – President and CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy
As President and CEO for the Los Angeles Conservancy, Adrian Scott Fine oversees the organization’s overall leadership for the organization within the greater Los Angeles region (serving 88 cities and unincorporated L.A. County, encompassing more than 4,000 sq. miles). The Conservancy is the largest local, nonprofit membership-based, heritage conservation organization in the U.S. Mr. Fine is a past President of the Board of Trustees for the California Preservation Foundation and currently chairs their Advocacy Committee; is a founding member of the Southern California chapter of Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement (DoCoMoMo); and teaches at the University of Southern California Heritage Conservation Summer Program, the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions CAMP program, and the Getty Conservation Institute’s (GCI) Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative. He previously worked for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Indiana Landmarks.
Dr. Angie Kim – President and CEO of the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)
Dr. Angie Kim (hear my name) has served as President and CEO for the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), a California-based knowledge and financial services incubator for individual artists, since 2014. She is also the founder of CCI’s national, pooled fund program, AmbitioUS, which invests in alternative economic paradigms of and federated infrastructure by those seeking financial self-determination. Angie has over 20 years of experience in the arts and in philanthropy having worked in various roles in grantmaking, public policy, evaluation, and communications at the Getty and Flintridge foundations, and as director of programs at Southern California Grantmakers. In addition, while successfully pursuing her doctorate on the topic of U.S. private philanthropy, she worked as a consultant helping arts and social justice foundations connect strategic program design with evaluation outcomes. She has been a lecturer on philanthropy at Claremont Graduate University and University of Southern California, and has served as an advisor of numerous arts, impact investing, and equity initiatives. She has served on the boards of California Humanities, Leveraging Investments in Creativity, and as vice-chair of Grantmakers in the Arts and council member of American Alliance Association of Museums Center for the Future of Museums. Kim received her B.A. in art history and English literature from Linfield College, M.A. in art history from University of Southern California, and Ph.D. in public policy from Walden University.
