The Los Angeles Design Technology Forum is pleased to announce the next event focusing on the intersection of Design and Information Technology.

Please forward this invitation to everyone who might be interested.

Office Visit to:
Grant Architects

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 6pm food, 7pm lecture and discussion,   FREE
  at the offices of Grant Architects
1551 S. Robertson Boulevard, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90035

Please RSVP to general@ladesigntech.org
This event qualifies for 1 CEU credit.

 
America's Car Museum, Tacoma WA

Grant Architects is a young architecture firm with 7 staff. Learning from design disciplines other than architecture, they are using technology to develop a methodology that is focused on solution rather than process. They seek to reduce design cycle time, allowing them to explore more design iterations per project and therefore test and understand a larger variety of potential solution directions. This has lead them to parametric design software and rapid prototyping.

Grant Architects will present recent work showing how parametrics and rapid prototyping are allowing them to engage more fully in the design process, then lead a discussion on integrating these technologies into architectural practice.

Come and see Grant Architects new space! Food and beverages will be served from 6pm (generously provided by ABC Imaging).

 
America's Car Museum, Tacoma WA

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 event series.