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The Los Angeles Design Technology Forum is pleased to announce the seventh lecture in a series of monthly events focusing on the intersection of Design and Information Technology. Please forward this invitation to everyone who might be interested. Lecture by: Tuesday 11 December 2007, 7pm - 8pm, FREE Please RSVP to general@ladesigntech.org
Chuck Hoberman is the founder of Hoberman Associates, a multidisciplinary practice that is developing designs and technologies relating to transformability - the capacity to change size, shape and function. His clients range across sectors that include consumer products, medical instruments, deployable shelters and space structures. The firm is currently engaged in a series of architectural collaborations to create a new generation of adaptive buildings. Hoberman will present projects relating to retractable facades, responsive shading and ventilation, operable roofs and canopies that he is developing for architects including Foster + Partners, Kohn Pedersen Fox, SHoP, Nikken Sekkai and others.
Chuck Hoberman Nowhere do the disciplines of art, architecture and engineering fuse as seamlessly as in the work of inventor Chuck Hoberman who is well known internationally for his transformable structures. Through his products, patents and structures, Hoberman has demonstrated how objects can be foldable, retractable or shape-shifting. Such capabilities lead to functional benefits: portability, instantaneous opening and intelligent responsiveness within the built environment. Examples of his commissioned work include the Hoberman Arch in Salt Lake City, Utah, installed as the centerpiece for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Other noteworthy commissions include a retractable dome for the Worlds Fair in Hanover, Germany, the Expanding Hypar (1997) at the California Museum of Science and Industry, and the Expanding Sphere (1992) at the Liberty Science Center, Jersey City. His work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Event Information Tuesday 11 December 2007, 7pm - 8pm, FREE The event will start promptly at 7pm. Light food will be served from 6pm. Please arrive early so that we can ensure a prompt start. This event is free due to the generous support of USC School of Architecture and ABC Imaging. 1 AIA CEU credit provided by the AIA/LA CAD Committee.
Enter the campus at Gate 1 off Exposition Blvd at USC Watt Way (between Figueroa and Vermont Blvd). Parking on campus is $8. The parking attendant will direct you to the closest available parking. The Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center is located in Harris Hall just east of Gate 1.
The Los Angeles Design Technology Forum The Los Angeles Design Technology Forum is a collective organization representing a wide cross-section of architecture and engineering firms and academic institutions around the Los Angeles basin. It serves to increase awareness of technological innovations in design and construction, and to foster their application throughout the Los Angeles design community. By connecting a diverse audience of designers, engineers, builders and owners who have widely varying conceptions of technology in their work, we hope to create new opportunities for efficiency and creativity. The Los Angeles Design Technology Forum is coordinated by Marty Doscher and Reg Prentice. It is supported by ABC Imaging, a nation-wide reprographics company. The Forum wishes to thank Charity Craig, National Director of Sales, ABC Imaging. Charity M Craig is a 15 year veteran with ABC Imaging and the reprographics industry. She has been part of an implementation process that has opened ABC service bureaus across the country including Boston, Miami, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Houston. Charity's client base includes some of the most prestigious architectural and engineering firms. Her area of expertise is onsite outsourcing and color management solutions and her current focus is developing her client base on the West Coast. Charity Craig and ABC Imaging have been sponsoring the New York AIA Technology Forum for the past six years and are honored to be a partner in the Los Angeles lecture series. To subscribe to the The Los Angeles Design Technology Forum mailing list, visit us at ladesigntech.org
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