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Celebrate the publication of Log’s Spring/Summer 2014 issue, Log 31: New Ancients, guest-edited by SCI-Arc faculty Dora Epstein Jones and Bryony Roberts.

issue launch & discussion: Log 31: New Ancients, with Todd GANNON, Dora EPSTEIN JONES, Bryony ROBERTS, Anna NEIMARK, Jonah ROWEN, Andrew ATWOOD, Jason PAYNE, & Marc ERICSON.
Thursday, 07/17
7.00 p.m. / SCI-Arc Gallery
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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A general discussion on computation from different points of view with special guests Hernan Diaz Alonso, Marcelo Spina, Warren Neidich, Guvenc Ozel, Madeline Gannon and more.

book release & symposium: “EPFX symposium: REQUIRED misREADINGS” with Liss C. WERNER, Eric GOLDEMBERG, Amit WOLF, Juan AZULAY, & more. Moderated by Todd GANNON.
Monday, 03/10
5.00 p.m. / SCI-Arc Library
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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The research of John Southern and his office, Urban Operations, interrogates the sinister contradictions and utopian possibilities present in a world beset by environmental and social decline. Since 9/11, architecture has been distilled into a Supermodernist menu of recombinant formal and material outcomes, while global commerce has simultaneously produced savage anthropomorphic and sociological mutations, resulting in an ephemeral, yet domineering spatial praxis.

faculty talk: John SOUTHERN with intro by John ENRIGHT, moderated by Todd GANNON
Friday, 09/27
1.00 p.m. / The Steps
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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Commonly understood today as a set of beliefs or practices in conflict with prevailing dogma, the word “heresy” derives from the Greek “heiresis,” meaning “choice.” In classical antiquity, the term also signified a period during which a young philosopher would examine various schools of thought in order to determine his future way of life.

symposium: “Modern Architecture in L.A.: A Confederacy of Heretics” with Ewan BRANDA, Hernan DIAZ ALONSO, Todd GANNON, Wes JONES, Jeffrey KIPNIS, Thom MAYNE, Eric MOSS, Andrew ZAGO, & more.
Friday, 06/14, 3.00-9.00 p.m,
Saturday, 06/15, 10.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m.
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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The first to open in the Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. series, an initiative of the Getty, this SCI-Arc-hosted exhibition examines the pivotal role played by the temporary gallery held in the home of architect Thom Mayne for several weeks in 1979.

“Modern Architecture in L.A.: A Confederacy of Heretics: The Architecture Gallery, Venice, 1979”
Friday, 03/29 / Opening Reception w/ curators and SCI-Arc Director Eric OWEN MOSS
7.00 pm / SCI-Arc Gallery & SCI-Arc Library Gallery
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

Curators: Todd GANNON, Ewan BRANDA, & Andrew ZAGO
Exhibition design: Zago Architecture

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Todd Gannon is a registered architect and writer based in Los Angeles. Gannon’s research focuses on the history and theory of late 20th-century and contemporary architecture. His published books include The Light Construction Reader (2002) and monographs on the work of Morphosis, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, and others. His essays have appeared in Log, The SAGE Handbook for Architectural Theory (2012), and elsewhere.

Todd GANNON, “Prelude to the Confederacy”
intro. by Eric Owen MOSS
Wednesday, 03/27
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect and educator. He is the co-founder of Dogma, an architectural studio that focuses on the project of the city. He teaches at the AA and Yale SOA and is the author of The Project of Autonomy and The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture. Aureli’s lecture will trace the development of the architectural project, focusing on the relationship between social and political conflicts and the urge of architecture to tame these conflicts and reform the city. His lecture attempts to situate architecture beyond regressive or progressive terms, as material evidence that the evolution of design has been always the outcome of struggle.

Pier Vittorio AURELI, “Theory and Ethos”
intro. by Todd GANNON
Wednesday, 01/23
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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The LA Forum will host an event marking the publication of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S’s new book, EMBEDDED, bringing together authors, contributors, mentors and confabulators to discuss some of the most relevant issues haunting contemporary architectural practice and discourse today, such as the perceived divide between progressive design culture, the politics of form and social responsibility. EMBEDDED is P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S’s long awaited book that reflects on the evolution, actualization and conclusion of certain lineages of design and material research, while signaling the initial stages of others.

EMBEDDED: Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich, Marcelyn Gow, Michael Osman, and Todd Gannon
Thursday, 02/23
6.00–9.00 pm / LA Forum
Vitra Showroom
8753 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232