The New Euclideans: Architecture Since the Crisis

Presenter: Christopher Hawthorne, Chief Design Officer, for the City of Los Angeles

5.30 pm Refreshments

6.30 Presentation

Please RSVP by Sept 26!

Christopher Hawthorne is the Chief Design Officer for the city of Los Angeles, a position appointed by Mayor Eric Garcetti. Prior to joining City Hall, Hawthorne was architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to early 2018. He is Professor of the Practice at Occidental College, where since 2015 he has directed the Third Los Angeles Project, a series of public conversations about architecture, urban planning, mobility, and demographic change in Southern California. He has also taught at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. A frequent collaborator with KCET-TV, the PBS affiliate in Los Angeles, Hawthorne wrote and directed the hour-long documentary “That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles,” which had its broadcast debut earlier this year, and received an L.A.-area Emmy Award as Executive Producer for the 2016 KCET program “Third L.A. with Architecture Critic Christopher Hawthorne.” He has been a Mid-Career Fellow at Columbia University’s National Arts Journalism Program and a Resident in Criticism at the American Academy in Rome. Hawthorne grew up in Berkeley and holds a bachelor’s from Yale College, where he studied political science and architectural history.

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Christopher Hawthorne will offer a visual tour and critical overview of buildings by an emerging generation of firms working in a post-digital, post-starchitecture vein.

Objective One: Attendees will gain architectural history relative to the digital age of design

Objective Two: Attendees will gain an understanding of post-star architect designing in the digital age where anyone can be an author or designer.

Objective Three: Attendees will gain a sense of the evolution of architectural practice in the digital age

Objective Four: Attendees will engage in a conversation about architectural practice in the digital age

Off-Street parking is available and after 5 pm the parking lot by Panino (834 Santa Barbara Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101) is the open corner of Canon Perdido & Santa Barbara St.

This lecture is organized by the AD&A Museum, UCSB and the Santa Barbara AIA Chapter with the generous support of the Kitchell Architecture and Design Lecture Series.