The Architecture and Design (A+D) museum in Los Angeles has announced The Los Angeles Schools, a forthcoming exhibition that highlights the student work and pedagogical approaches of some of Los Angeles’s leading architecture programs.
The exhibition surveys some of the cutting-edge architectural thinking taking place at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), University of Southern California, Cal Poly LA Metro, and UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, and seeks to position Los Angeles as “a center for architectural production, investigation, and research charged with producing tomorrow’s leaders in the world of architecture and design,” according to a press release.
In a press release announcing the exhibition, A+D Museum executive director and chief curator, Anthony Morey said, “Discovering, experimenting and facilitating the ability of the public to explore what makes Los Angeles a center for Architectural Education is an immense privilege for the museum. With a community as large and yet as small as architecture is, it is important for us to find ways to educate, connect, and disseminate our inclination and future trajectories to the public realm.”
Archinect is serving as a media partner for the exhibition, which opens on September 21, 2019. To complement the museum’s curatorial approach, Archinect will produce a series of public events hosted at the A+D Museum that seek to highlight the unique and powerful voices of each school while also aiming to broaden the audience for these messages.
Describing the partnership, Archinect’s founder, Paul Petrunia, added, “Los Angeles has long been admired, world-wide, for its progressive architecture and leading schools of architecture. We are excited to work with the A+D as we explore the work, people, and perspectives of LA’s academic institutions.”
The exhibition will be on view until November 24, 2019.
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more power to Archinect’s efforts in supporting the ‘cutting edge’ work done by LA’s schools, but why have articles bemoaning the fictional world that leaves many of the school’s graduates bitter and unemployable? Berkley school of music in Boston doesn’t ‘teach’ avant guard stuff, they teach the basics of music styles and composition, and the same is true of many other disciplines, creative and not. Imagine how much better our environment would be if the majority of architects have here prepared to handle realistic programs, zoning constraints, developer greed and our environmental emergency. Instead they work for (some) professors who turn their education into a platform for exploring ideas no one in their right mind would pay for.
ysoa / gsd are filled with bitter sci arc grads getting an m.arch ii, because they can't get a job with a sci arc portfolio
Wondering why Cal Poly Pomona Architecture is not participating?
Cal Poly Pomona is the reason why SCI-Arc exists today. Maybe Pomona still feels sour about their giant hindsight that lead to the exodus of trailblazers and bold thinkers (both students and teachers), including Ray Kappe, to start a revolution elsewhere. How many Pomona faculties are SCI-Arc graduate? But who knows really.
Cal Poly Pomona was invited but chose not to participate in the exhibition.
Why is Woodbury never invited to these things?
That said, the A+D museum is quite small, so people asking for more schools involvement will only limit what each school can display.
Woodbury was invited but couldn't participate
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