In 2015, Los Angeles TimesÌýarchitecture critic Christopher Hawthorne and swagÍâÁ÷ launched an ambitious series of conversations about the future of Los Angeles.
On this archive page, you can review event descriptions and view video footage of most events from 2015-19.
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A walking tour along the Bowtie Project in the Glendale Narrows section of the Los Angeles River was followed by a discussion of the river’s emerging role as public and park space for Los Angeles.Ìý
At once vulnerable and inviolate, aÌýdisappearing architectural species and the most protected building type in theÌýcity, the single-family house continues to play an outsize role in debates overÌýarchitecture, planning and growth in Los Angeles.
Architect Peter Zumthor’s plan to radicallyÌýredesign the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has divided critics and architectsÌýin L.A. like no other proposal in recent memory.
Arguably the most important book written about LosÌýAngeles in the last four decades—and easily the most controversial—City of Quartz is about toÌýturn 25.
Immigration to Southern California peaked inÌý1990, and we’ve now entered a post-immigrant phase, with foreign-born residents likely to be more financially and culturally stable and betterÌýconnected than they were a generation ago.
An introduction to the series and discussion of L.A.’s renewed attention to its public realm, and how that shift relates to the architectural, urban and political history of Los Angeles.ÌýWith UCLA’s Dana Cuff, REDCAT Gallery Director Ruth Estevez, Occidental’s Mark Vallianatos.