In collaboration with the Helms Bakery District and the Cal Poly L.A. Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design:
Craig Hodgetts, FAIA
Craig’s use of high technology and storytelling to invigorate his designs produces an architecture that embraces contemporary ideology, information culture, and evolving lifestyles. With a broad-ranging background in theater arts, automotive engineering, and architecture, Craig Hodgetts brings a singular synergy to the design of challenging environments. Craig has created legacy projects for the California Institute of the Arts, Art Center College of Design, and Occidental College. His creative direction on a celebrated exhibition showcasing the Case Study program was followed by a series of landmark civic and cultural facilities including the Hollywood Bowl and the UCLA Gateway.
Craig is a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and was a Founding Dean of the School of Design at the California Institute of the Arts. A prolific writer, he has contributed essays and observations to the
Los Angeles Times
and
Cosmopolitan Magazine
, as well as signature books on science-fiction icon Syd Mead and architect James Stirling. Craig has been granted patents for a mobile logistics center, a prefabricated classroom, and an evacuated tube structure for the hyperloop system.
Photos (Left to Right): Craig Hodgetts,
Hodgetts’ 1978 vision for the novel
"Ecotopia".
Please join us Thursday, February 21st for a reception, lecture, book launch, and discussion with
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