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Los Angeles Volume #11
at pop-up/storefront for art & architecture LA
11 May 2008
START 20:20
DOOR Fee: femme fatale free(dom)
Hadley Arnold, Kara Bartelt, Berenica Boberska, Annie Chu, Renee Dake, Jenna Didier, Laura Hull, Alice Kimm, Gloria Lee, Sarah Lorenzen, Christine Magar, Pat Morton, Linda Pollari, Martha Read, Iris Regn, Stephanie Smith, Tracy Stone, Linda Taalman, Jenny Wu, Yi’hsiu Yeh. Femmes Fatales, an annual Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design special Pecha Kucha event, celebrates the vibrant and talented women architects in the Los Angeles area. From the emergence of feminism in the 1960s, to its arrival in architectural theory in the 1990s and the 2004 awarding of the Pri...
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Pecha Kucha reunites a family!
Martha Read, a British architect and recently elected board-member of the LA Forum that hosts Pecha Kucha, presented an elegant competition entry for the Freshkills landfill. She proposed a landscape that is both functional -- the plantings would serve as part of the site remediation effort -- as well as poetically legible.Using plants that luminesce according to the toxins in the landfill, Martha imagined nighttime spectacles filled with colors that map the subterranean composition of her park, which, once remediated, becomes a lucrative wheatgrass farm for New York City. On her birthday, American geographer Abigail Cooke presented to the Pecha Kucha audience a story of her family and from whence they came. Delivering an eloquent meta-narrative on family stories, family myths, and even some family skeletons, she tied these tales to varying landscapes: a wild modernity in the early 20th century Scottish countryside, a missionary stint in Hawaii, her own time growing up in New Hampshire, and most recently her move to LA with sister Emma. One of the old photos depicting her grandmother among siblings in the old country took the meta-narrative to another level. The photo also depicted Martha Read's grandmother; the two grandmothers were sisters, marking Martha as a cousin of Abigail and Emma. They each knew of the other's existence, and even knew they might all be in LA together, but it was only on this evening that the cousins met for the first time.
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LA Forum board
We have a couple of pk events coming up for May. The Forum board members will present in the space of what will become the Forum's new home at the Hollywood CCRD. Then, Femme Fatale will be back for another round, with 20 known and upcoming female practitioners. This one is being organized and we will soon have it posted with names and dates. We look forward to seeing you! love, laforum
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