Urban Ambition: Assessing the Evolution of L.A.

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Symposium Schedule


Thursday and Friday, May 30–31, 2013
10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall, The Getty Center

Admission is free.
Separate reservations are required for each day of the conference.


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Thursday, May 30, 2013



9:00 a.m. Coffee

Part I: Architectural Discourse


10:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Welcome and introduction
Wim de Wit, Head, Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Getty Research Institute, and co-curator of Overdrive

10:15 a.m.–11:00 a.m. "Architectural Discourse"
Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times architecture critic



11:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m. "Rewriting the Past: Banham Redux"
Anthony Vidler, Dean, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union



11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. "Defining the Future"



Panel discussion with Christopher Hawthorne, Mia Lehrer, President, Mia Lehrer + Associates Landscape Architecture, and Anthony Vidler

Moderated by author and LA Observed editor Kevin Roderick

12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lunch

Part II: Professional Practice


2:00 p.m.–2:45 p.m. "Design: Shaping the City"



Conversation with David C. Martin, Design Principal, Co-Chairman, AC Martin Partners, and Martin Brower, former Vice President, Public Relations, Welton Becket & Associates

Moderated by Christopher James Alexander, Assistant Curator, Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Getty Research Institute, and co-curator of Overdrive

2:45 p.m.–3:15 p.m. Short film interlude

3:15 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Coffee break

3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. "The Vision of Conjunctive Points"



Panel discussion with Frederick and Laurie Samitaur Smith, Founders, Samitaur Constructs; Eric Owen Moss, Principal and Lead Designer, Eric Owen Moss Architects; and Hugh Milstein, Founder, DigitalFusion

Moderated by Christopher James Alexander

4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Exhibition visit with curators present


Friday, May 31, 2013



9:00 a.m. Coffee

Part III: L.A.'s Layered Built Environment


10:00 a.m.–Noon "L.A.'s Layered Built Environment"



Panel discussion with Cathy Gudis, Director, Public History Program, UC Riverside; Matthew W. Roth, archivist for the Automobile Club of Southern California; photographer Don Normark; and Los Angeles Dodgers historian Mark Langill

Moderated by Eric Avila, Associate Professor, Chicano Studies and Urban Planning, UCLA

Noon–1:30 p.m. Lunch

Part IV: Artistic Interpretations of L.A.


1:30 p.m.– 3:15 p.m. "Site Unseen: L.A. on Film"



Film presentations and discussion with filmmaker and critic Thom Andersen, director Allison Anders, and film historian and archivist Marc Wanamaker.

Moderated by Rani Singh, Senior Research Associate, Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Getty Research Institute, and co-curator of Overdrive

3:15 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Coffee break

3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. "Paradise Lost and Found"
Conversation with artists Peter Alexander, Judy Fiskin, John Humble, Michael Light, and Tim Street-Porter

Moderated by Rani Singh

4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Exhibition visit with curators present

 
This event is part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., a Getty initiative that brings together local cultural institutions for a wide-ranging look at the postwar built environment of Los Angeles, from its famous residential architecture to its vast freeway network, revealing the city's development and ongoing global impact in new ways.

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