LAB A/U by Orhan Ayyüce

Orhan Ayyüce

Ole Bouman

Aris Janigian

is a senior editor for Archinect and writes about architectural and urbanistic themes often engaging people in his articles. He is a practicing licensed architect in California and teaches architecture and urban design at East Los Angeles College where most of his students are first and second generation immigrants intimately familiar with the city. The first Los Angeles Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism was originally initiated by Orhan while talking with Ole Bouman in Shenzhen, China and since joined by other collaborators who launched it in Value Factory.

is creative director at the Shenzhen Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism and founder of the Value Factory. Before, he acted as the director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, globally the largest institute of its kind. Prior to that, he was the editor-in-chief of Volume, the independent magazine for architecture, for pushing its limits and finding© new roles in society. Volume is a project by Archis Foundation, think tank AMO and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. He also was the director of Archis Foundation, active in publishing, consultancy and, as NGO, establishing connections between local design communities in need of expertise and the Archis global knowledge network. In 2007 he founded the Studio for Unsolicited Architecture, starting at MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts.

is author of three novels, Bloodvine, Riverbig, and This Angelic Land. He is also co-author along with April Greiman of Something from Nothing, a book on the philosophy of graphic design. A Ph.D. in psychology, from 1993 to 2005 he was senior professor of Humanities at Southern California Institute of Architecture. He has published in genres as diverse as poetry, social psychology, and design criticism. He was a contributing writer to West, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, and currently writes for the literary website thenervousbreakdown.com.

is an artist.

Karen Lohrmann

Contributors

is an artist, urbanist and writer. She monitors, depicts and interprets landscape from terrain to territory, from premise to significance. She studied art history, scenic design and architecture in Aachen, Zurich and Berlin, worked on documentary and genre films, and practices, writes and teaches across the arts, cultural production, landscape and urbanism (University of Innsbruck, Harvard, UCLA, TU Berlin). Together with Stefano de Martino she started the practice Lorma Marti, the edition Correspondents, and the platform Urban States. She is coeditor of Clear Skies with Patches of Grey, editor of Midsize America, and coauthor of Update: All Possible Worlds, How we spent it, and the forthcoming Waiting Land. Aram Guiragozian Graduate of SCI-Arc, is a film documentarian, photographer and designer based in Los Angeles, CA. Currently working on his own short film project named Dede in Glendale, CA. The short film describes the significance of the urban social interaction of immigrated Armenian communities juxtapose to the reality’s they face and their American dreams.

Amelia Taylor-Hochberg

is a writer living in Los Angeles. She covers architecture and urbanism as Editorial Manager for Archinect, while writing about art, film, food and radio on the periphery. She received a BA with Honors in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley, Sarah Lorenzen with a thesis on the aesthetics of molecular gastronomy. She has is an architect, Chair of Architecture produced audio work for Bay Area at Cal Poly Pomona, and Director of radio stations and original sound art the Neutra VDL Research House. pieces, and co-created “As It Lays”, Some of her projects include a video a board game about the creation installation for the Palm Springs of a New Los Angeles. Be in touch Museum, a documentary film about through: longhyphen@gmail.com. the Los Angeles River, a video on Informal Urbanism in Mexico City Paul Petrunia for the Rotterdam Biennale, a film/ research project about the film started Archinect in the summer industry in downtown LA, and a of 1997, in his underwear, in his 4500sf temporary exhibition space childhood bedroom at his parents for the AEC expo in Mumbai, India. house in Victoria, BC, Canada, while She studied fine arts at Smith / on break from architecture school Atlanta College of Art (BFA), then at SCI-Arc. He now works mostly went on to study architecture at clothed, with the rest of his staff, Georgia Tech (M.Arch) and at SCIat the Archinect headquarters in Arc (M.Arch MR+D.) Pasadena, California. His wife, two kids, dog, and scuba diving keep Anthony Carfello him (relatively) sane.

Brian Mann is an artist. Paperbacks selected by Orhan Ayyuce and Eric Chavkin. Design: Pacific Design Solutions Pacific-Design-Solutions.com