We're thrilled to present this year's exceptional lineup of speakers at Design for Dignity. While we eagerly anticipate a future where discussions about the housing crisis and homelessness are no longer necessary, as long as these issues persist, it remains our responsibility to come together and seek solutions. We invite you to join us and lend your support to this critical cause - hosted by Studio MLA

The focus this year will be “Making It Happen”. 

Design for Dignity will serve as a forum to leverage the expertise of architects to achieve cost-containment, neighborhood engagement/ community buy-in, and insight about how to best overcome specific regulatory and procedural hurdles, hardships, and ‘red-tape’.

There's still much work ahead to transform Los Angeles into the equitable and vibrant city we all dream of. We can't do it alone; we need your expertise and collaboration. Join us, and let's embark on this transformative journey together.

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The Design Awards party enables AIA|LA to offer an extraordinary array of programming, from advocacy issues, sustainability, professional development, fostering the next generation of design professionals, and much more!

Gather with colleagues, reconnect with lifelong peers, and make new connections as we celebrate the 2022 Design Award winners and Presidential Honorees.

Join us for a virtual conversation with winners of the 2022 AIA|LA Design Awards one week after the in-person awards ceremony, on 11/3. This event includes one-minute talks on the architecture of each project and highlights how the designers resolved challenges, elevated sustainability goals, fulfilled societal aspirations, and achieved design excellence. More info HERE.

As one of the most prestigious awards an architect and designer can win in the Los Angeles design community, AIA Los Angeles goes to great lengths to make the Awards as celebrated as possible.

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Please join us for a Roundtable Discussion on the "Future of Work" as part of Woodbury School of Architecture's Year of Intelligence.

We will be joined by panelists German Aparicio, a Project Manager at Trimble Consulting; Wayne Thomas, Senior Associate at Gensler Los Angeles; Eera Babtiwale, and Director of Sustainability at Mount San Antonio College. The discussion will be moderated by Kishani Da Silva, Chair of Woodbury's new Construction Management program.

Drawing from their expertise in the technology, architecture and construction industries, the panelists will discuss what the ‘future of work’ could look like with the rise of automation, the use of big data, AI, mixed reality, and other forms of technology.

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A Lecture Series Presented by the UCLA Division of Humanities and the Berggruen Institute

Speakers:

Alejandro Aravena

Aravena is an architect and founder and executive director of the firm Elemental. His works include the “Siamese Towers” at the Catholic University of Chile and the Novartis office campus in Shanghai. In 2016, the New York Times named Aravena one of the world’s “creative geniuses” who had helped define culture. He and Elemental have received numerous honors, including the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2015 London Design Museum’s Design of the Year award and the 2011 Index Award. Aravena currently serves as the president of the Pritzker Prize jury.

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Join us for Toward an Anti-Racist Architecture, a panel hosted and moderated by UCLA Architecture and Design PhD students.

How do we interrogate the architectural discipline and promote an anti-racist approach to the discourse?

This panel will begin a discussion on building an anti-racist discourse into architectural practice and architectural history. The intent is not simply to highlight or reify the concept of race or racism in architectural practice and history but to begin to build a language to dismantle and advance beyond these destructive forces. The ambition is to create a platform for exchanges and to link with other arenas that are already undertaking this anti-racist work and suggest how students can apply this practice in their futures. This panel will bring together four professionals and scholars in various fields of overlapping design practice and study, asking them to speak not only about how they have integrated an anti-racist discourse into their work but also about how they have transformed their respective practices into moments of self-criticality in order to build an equtible and just future for design.

Panelists include:

• Tsione Wolde-Michael, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University

• Germane Barnes, Assistant Professor and the Director of The Community Housing & Identity Lab (CHIL), University of Miami School of Architecture, Founder of Studio Barnes

• Amber Wiley, Assistant Professor, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Art History Department

• Sara Zewde, Assistant Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD

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