Extended Programs and Community Events

Silver Lake Film Festival
Architecture and Film: Cinema, Landscape and the Built Environment

Films and a panel discussion with James Clyne, Ryan Church, Mark Goerner and Ben Procter

The use of cinematic design tools to create architecture has risen dramatically throughout the architectural profession. The language of cinema is already deeply integrated into almost every level of contemporary social experience; cities today are often experienced virtually, via films and television, and even videogames. Architects have become capable filmmakers because of this convergence, while filmmakers themselves have begun to produce imaginative architectural backdrops of their own. This program will explore the collision of cinematic and architectural space.

Clyne, Church, Goerner and Procter are independent production designers and concept artists who have worked on films such as Minority Report, The War of the Worlds, the X-Men series, the Spiderman series, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Constantine, Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith. Their discussion will revolve around artistic and conceptual crossovers between architectural design and cinematic science fiction. Following this discussion will be approximately 30 minutes' worth of short films about architecture, landscape and the built environment.

Curated by:
BLDGBLOG (bldgblog.blogspot.com) and Materials & Applications

For more information, visit: materialsandapplications.org
and see:
jamesclyne.com
ryanchurch.com
grnr.com
benprocter.com

Toyota Lecture Series:
2027: A (Domestic) Space Odyssey

Featured architects Hitoshi Abe, Joel Sanders, Craig Scott and Karen van Lengen discuss their OPEN HOUSE projects.  A roundtable on the research and design process will follow, moderated by OPEN HOUSE co-curator Dana Hutt.

OPEN HOUSE – Designing the Exhibition Experience

UeBERSEE, the exhibition designers for the OPEN HOUSE installation, and the project curators give a behind-the-scenes “tour” into the making of the exhibition. The program will focus on the challenges of the installation space and the collaboration between content and design.  Highly recommended for students, faculty and professionals interested in exhibition design, architecture and environmental graphic design.

New Housing Then Film Series

The mid-twentieth century was an extremely fertile time for architects and developers to shape the course of the post-World War II building boom. They created a widespread acceptance of modern architecture that offered technology-based, affordable, new housing. The architectural pioneers of this era helped to change the perception of the traditional home and responded to new lifestyle parameters that included more leisure time, increased affluence and new transportation initiatives.

Encompassing a cross section of work from across the United States, and including many iconic examples from the period, “New Housing Then” gives a post-war perspective on the housing boom—its triumphs as well as pitfalls. Each film in the series documents a particular architect or group and addresses the inspirations and challenges that have made contemporary American housing what it is today.

Film screenings will be followed by Q&A architects and filmmakers.

New Housing Then
Film Series Evening I: Suburban Dreams

Leisurama – The story of the summer beach house that Macy’s in New York City sold in the late 1950s, furnished with everything you would need, down to the toothbrush. It is a story of ambition, creative marketing and a post-war nation searching for peace and diversion on the home front.

Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow
The International space-age craze of the 1960s stirred interest among Finnish architects, but there was only one Finnish project that can be regarded as a bona fide sample of space-age architecture: the Futuro house designed by Matti Suuronen. Its design encapsulated the distinctive themes of 1960s Utopian architecture: mobility, increased leisure time and new materials.

Monsanto – House of the Future
Straight from 1957, a very rare film on the fantastic, all-plastic Monsanto House of the Future. Erected in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, the Monsanto house was designed by MIT engineers and was a showcase for the use of man-made materials in every aspect of domestic living.

Shades of Green: Design Roads to a One Planet Economy

John Thackara, author of In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World, addresses how European and American approaches to green design differ and what they should learn from each other. Thackara is director of Doors of Perception, a design futures network that involves visionary designers, business, the public sector and grassroots innovators in collaborative projects.

The Spark Design Awards Ceremony and Reception

This innovative New Design Award celebrates design in all disciplines from experimental to mainstream, from product to print. Event attendance is by invitation.
For details and entry information, please visit sparkawards.com

New Housing Then
Film Series Evening II: Visions of Utopia

Desert Utopia
Highlighting Palm Springs, the city with the highest concentration of mid-century modern architecture in the country, this film weaves architectural images, vintage photography, classic film clips and interviews, including rare archival footage of Albert Frey, John Porter Clark, Raymond Lowey and Richard Neutra.

The Spirit in Architecture: John Lautner
One of the great mid-century modernist architects, John Lautner practiced for more than 55 years, designing unusual and unique residences in and around Los Angeles, including Silvertop and the Chemosphere, as well as innovative restaurant designs, such as Googies and Tiny Naylor’s

New Housing Then
Film Series Evening III: Future Systems

Case Study House Program 1945-1966: An Anecdotal History & Commentary
This Program, initiated by John Entenza of Arts & Architecture magazine in 1945, attempted to shape the course of the post-WWII building boom away from traditional housing and toward progressive modern design by using new technologies to produce well-designed affordable housing. The magazine commissioned 36 designs for experimental modern housing prototypes by some of the most important architects of the region at that time. Of these, 25 were built. This film includes ten of the houses, along with commentary by the architects and original clients.

Special guest: Eames Demetrios – filmmaker, writer, grandson of Charles and Ray Eames, and principal of the Eames design office in Los Angeles.

Toyota Lecture Series:
SUPERordinary: Constructive Meddling, or Plucking Invention from Convention

Julie Eizenberg is co-founder of Koning Eizenberg Architecture. The practice, based in Santa Monica, California, is widely recognized for refocusing attention on marginalized projects through innovative designs for affordable housing and community buildings. The firm’s work has been published extensively in the United States and abroad, and has received over 60 awards for design and innovation in environmental sustainability. Ms. Eizenberg is an astute observer and institutional iconoclast leading investigations into the interplay of invention and convention. Her work demonstrates how – by tweaking the familiar – buildings of everyday living can create extraordinary experiences. She teaches and lectures around the world, is currently a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University, a frequent advisor to the US Mayor’s Institute on City Design, and has recently completed a book titled Architecture Isn’t Just for Special Occasions.

Doors open at 7pm
Performance at 7:30

BIAS 2/INTELLIGENT Living: IS THE PORCH LIGHT ON?
A performance event of visual experiences, music, and dancetheater

Presented by efg multimedia
Gayle Fekete and JonMarc Edwards
Sound and Lighting Design by Dave Mickey
Tickets will be sold at the door:
$20 general/$10 Students with ID and Seniors
loomingbias.com