Architect geeks and other assorted party-goers descended on the A+D Architecture and Design Museum last weekend for the opening reception of Crosswired, a performance and installation series featuring design, motion visual art and experimental electronic music. We didn’t really hear anything too experimental, unless it was the deafening “rave” music that was possibly experimenting to see how much pressure our eardrums could take. We did elbow our way through a maze of Skyy 90... more ›

The Architecture and Design Museum continues to showcase Los Angeles’s finest with "34 Los Angeles Architects." The exhibition opens tomorrow with a reception at 7:00 PM, 8560 W. Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood (exhibition remains on view through February 22, 2005). According to the A + D Museum, the exhibition contains "a wide representation of an open-ended view of modernist architecture in the fertile architectural ground of Los Angeles – a cutting edge 21st Century City." Participants include local firms whose impact is beginning to register beyond Los Angeles, such as Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Michael Maltzan, Neil M. Denari, and Marmol Radziner. O’Herlihy created a diamond-shaped "tower" within which the presentations are installed. Hmm, it sounds like you gotta see it to understand how this scheme works. more ›

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