Big City Forum #9
Otis Art Institute – Los Angeles
11/12/09

An event featuring Monica Nouwens, Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich, and Ted Kane in a conversation about shaping and mapping the urban landscape.

Monica Nouwens is an L.A.-based photographer whose work has been exhibited at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Stedelijk Museum Helmond on Trafalgar Square for World Aids Day and Gallery Paul Andriesse in Amsterdam with her mentor Marlene Dumas. Nouwens is a lecturer at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and the University of California, Irvine. Monica Nouwens was born in the Netherlands. She completed a postgraduate fellowship in Art Media Studies at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and ultimately attended the California Institute of the Arts exchange program for film and photography where she acquired a fascination with California’s urban landscapes.

PATTERNS is a global design and research architectural practice based in Los Angeles. Founded in 1999 and headed by Co-Principals Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich, PATTERNS work has gained international recognition for its innovative approach to design and architecture that fuses advanced computation with an extensive understanding of form, tectonics and materials. PATTERNS’ vision is to generate innovative spatial forms that actively engage, enhance and influence the body, constantly challenging its relationship to the built environment akin to the complexity of contemporary life. PATTERNS Co-Principal Marcelo Spina is one of the nominees for the Prestigious Ordos Prize, the most important architectural prize for an emergent architect to from Asia.

Ted Kane is an architect, photographer, and writer working between Los Angeles and Shanghai. He holds a Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Kentucky and a Masters of Architecture from UCLA. Ted is the founder and editor of Polar Inertia, an online journal devoted to urban and nomadic and research that is published three times per year. Ted’s urban research and photographs have been recently featured in the journal 306090 Dimension, as well as the book The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles, and his own book Polar Inertia: Migrating Urban Systems published in 2008. Ted is also a licensed architect at the firm Morphosis, where he is the project architect for the Giant Headquarters Building in Shanghai, China.

Big City Forum is an interdisciplinary project and collective network of leaders formed to sustain efforts in the creative community that promote the civic and cultural vitality of metropolitan and urban communities. Through various formats such as gatherings, symposiums, exhibitions, and special events, Big City Forum fosters dialogue and engagement around capacity-building approaches that engender cultural growth and community transformation, Ultimately, Big City Forum functions as an “idea lab” to develop new solutions to key problems that impact contemporary urban centers.

Thursday, Nov. 12th, 2009
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Otis College of Art & Design
9045 Lincoln Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(310) 665-6800

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