The next guest speaker in the American Institute of Architects series, “What’s Where? Academia + Practice,” will be Pacific Palisades resident and renowned architect Eric Owen Moss.
This two-hour event on Thursday, June 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. will probe the relationship between academia and practice, investigate the interplay between theory and the production of buildings and question the evolving territories of research, design and construction.
The program is open to AIA/LA members on a first-come-first-serve basis for free, and will be held at the office of Johnson Fain, 1201 N. Broadway. Register at the AIA Web site.
Moss, who has been director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) since 2002, founded Eric Owen Moss Architects in 1973. Today, his Culver City office is staffed with 25 professionals designing and constructing projects in the United States and around the world.
In 1999, Moss won the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2001, his firm won the AIA/LA Gold Medal for Design, and in 2007 Moss received the Arnold Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for “a significant contribution to architecture as an art.”
In 2002, EOMA won two competitions in St. Petersburg, Russia, one for the New Mariinsky Theatre, the second for the redevelopment of New Holland. In 2006, the firm won the City of the Future competition—Los Angeles, New York and Chicago—sponsored by the History Channel.
Moss has held chairs at Yale and Harvard universities, and appointments at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
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