Join us on Friday Oct. 17 from 5-8 pm for a raffle with more than five amazing giveaways, including a premier ticket package to Palm Springs Modernism Week!

When this hotel opened in 1870, it was the most lavish and grand building in all of Los Angeles. This historic landmark was built in Italianate style and boasted indoor plumbing, gas-powered chandeliers, and a French restaurant. Which hotel is it?

> Figueroa Hotel

> Hotel Normandie 

> Pico House

> Hollywood Historic Hotel

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Answer to last weeks Trivia Question: 

> Griffith Observatory

Griffith Observatory was shaped not only by the minds of scientists but also by the times in which it was built. A major earthquake in Long Beach in March 1933 - just as construction plans were being finalized - led the architects to abandon the planned terra cotta exterior in favour of strengthening and thickening the building's concrete walls. Lower-than-usual prices caused by the Great Depression enabled the selection of the finest materials of the day for the interior walls, floors, and finishes, making the building both beautiful and durable. And a depression-era Federal public works program employed six sculptors to create a public sculpture at Griffith Observatory. The resulting Astronomers Monument, dedicated in November 1934, was hailed as one of the most important pieces of art to be completed by the program.

Brian Roettinger's work stretches from no-tech to super-high-tech. He is a multi-tasking artist whose work runs the gamut from painting to design and even making music.

North-East LA is the home of his 560m square industrial art studio. It is in this space that Roettinger moves from one project to the next every 2-6 hours. He may jump from working on a painting to designing books for museums and galleries, and is always teetering between high and low tech, from a xerox in one colour to a book that was generated by writing code.

Although he doesn't perform anymore, Roettinger still makes music. When he's really stressed with other work, he likes to give himself 24-hour deadlines to put out a record. This ability to jump from one medium to the next has led to creative musical collaborations, such as the Art Music Journal with No age.

Another collaboration developed after Roettinger was introduced to Hedi Slimane by a friend, Saint Laurent used several of his paintings as textiles in the 2013 winter collection, and the artworks also comprised a limited-edition book, which served as the invitation to the runway show. 

When thinking about all of his different projects and whether there is a similar thread of similarity running through them, Roettinger says "I like to think that everything I make is a cultural artifact and that these things exist, and will continue to exist."

QUESTION #2

Which L.A. landmark, whose architecture was shaped not only by the minds of scientists but also by the times in which it was built, appears in Rebel Without a Cause, Terminator, and Transformers?

> In-N-Out Burger

> Egyptian Theatre

> Griffith Observatory

> Getty Centre

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Answer to last weeks Trivia Question:

>The Ambassador Hotel

An Exhibition of Spatial Interventions Reflecting on the Inquiry of Scale

June 19th, 2014 - August 31st, 2014

Historically, Los Angeles as a city has been a site of inspiration and exploration for architects and designers alike. The city has been developed around and defined by a variety of large-scale urban planning prjects as well as medium and smaller sized residential and public work including housing, product design and technological innovations. Through these variation architecture and design projects, the city has nurtured experimental pursuits and critical inquiry and today it continues to expand in the contemporaneous city.

Projects are currently being developed at various scales all over L.A. from minuscule to monumental and everything in-between. SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE, EXTRA-LARGE LOS ANGELES takes Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Maus seminal text as a departure point and more importantly as an organizing principle to examine the production and discourse of architecture and design within todays city of L.A. bringing coherence to the body of work of an emergent group of Los Angeles based designers that span across multiple disciplines from architecture and graphics to digital media and sound art, to jewelry, landscape, lighting, product, and textile design; the show highlight the ways in which young practitioners are currently thinking and making in Los Angeles in addition to their impact on the present-day city and it's future. 

PARTICIPANTS

Natasha Bajc

Laurel Broughton, WELCOMEPROJECTS

Jae Won Cho, J1 studio

Steven Christensen and Mads Christensen, NO RELATION

Grey Crowell, Foundation of Architecture and Design

Bijan Fahimian, LAAC

Miao Miao and Scott Franklin, NONdesigns

Julia Koerner, Kais Al-Rawi, Marie Boltenstern, Cellular Complexity

Andrew Kovacs

Los Angeles Arts Collective

Jonathan Louie

Evan Mather

Alison Petty Ragguette

Matthew Rosenberg, M-Rad

Maya Santos and Rani de Leon, FIELDWORK

Lisa C Soto

Maxi Spina

James Michael Tate, T8projects

Filipa Valente, limiLab

Eduardo Viramontes

QUESTION #1

This hotel was one of Los Angeles' defining historic sites. Known for it's beauty and luxury, it was the site where multiple movies were filmed, and the site where a U.S. president was assassinated. What was the name of this hotel that was sadly demolished 9 years ago?

> The Regal Hotel

> The Palm Desert Hotel

> The Ambassador Hotel

> The Diplomat Hotel

CELEBRATE: GROUNDSWELL took place on the evening of Saturday, June 28th 2014. This year, A+D Museum CELEBRATED our California beach communities, which have for years been a mecca for - and inspiration to - artists, craftspeople, designers, and architects. 

Since the recent renaissance of redevelopment - from San Francisco to San Diego - California’s coastal cities are witnessing a groundswell of attention and design-focused redevelopment. For that - we CELEBRATE! We also celebrated A+D’s groundswell of support with more growth on the horizon as a result of the Museum’s ever-expanding programs and memberships.

It was a night of outstanding food and drink, another legendary A+D CELEBRATE runway show with custom surfboards, boogie boards and skateboards designed by returning participants like Karim Rashid, Richard Meier & Partners, Don Chadwick, Steven Ehrlich, David Hertz, and Gensler. A+D welcomed debuts by Arquitectonica, Michael Maltzen, Ogassian, Rios Clementi Hale Studios, and more! There was also a big swell’s worth of surf and sand silent auction items and a live art performance by Gregory Adamson - all of which were enjoyed by hundreds of CELEBRATE guests.

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ABOUT CELEBRATE

CELEBRATE is A+D Museum’s annual fundraising gala that brings together design leaders and creative thinkers from around Southern California.

ARkidECTURE is a public program in which A+D collaborates with architecture and design firms in the great Los Angeles area to host exceptional design-build workshops for kids!

>ARkidECTURE + design consists of a series of one-day workshops for children ages 7-12 hosted by A+D Museum. In each workshop ARkidECTS are able to explore these creative industries through hands-on projects. 

>Workshops take place on Saturdays from 10.00AM - 1.00PM. To receive updates on upcoming workshops, sign up for the A+D email list HERE. 

The Architecture and Design Museum>Los Angeles, isn't simply a museum about architecture and design. It is a multi-dimensional institution that pushes the limits of what a museum is and what it's role is in society.  

Traditionally speaking, a museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts of scientific, cultural, or historical importance, that serves researchers, specialists, and the general public. A+D goes completely against this definition because it does not collect or care for artifacts, nor is the process of knowledge making and disseminating one-sided. 

Instead, A+D acts as a forum for people to get together and discuss contemporary issues that helps shape our LA. It acts as a social space, an exhibit space, and an educational force for local architect, designers, and design enthusiasts.

A+D's purpose is to facilitate networking and interchange among a broad range of disciplines, from graphic design to product design, landscape architecture to interior design, urban design, and design in the entertainments industry. To top it off, A+D's innovative programming encourages fresh thinking among a broad and inclusive audience of design professionals, students of all ages and the general public.

All of these aspects are created and designed for the purpose of achieving the Museum's goal - which is to celebrate and promote an awareness of progressive architecture and design in everyday life.