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Agenda AGENDA Symposium – November 11 WORKSHOPS Workshops – November 12 Symposium Times in PST Workshops Times in PST Held in person at the Sheraton Grand Downtown LA, participants will engage with the industry’s leading design professionals in an intimate, classroom-style setting. Select between three thematic tracks including: sustainability, detailing, and technology. Choose the Tracks

Methods & Materials Expo Grow your materials knowledge, get hands-on with new products and valuable face time with industry experts in the Methods & Materials Expo. Register Interested in Sponsoring? Participating Exhibitors Interested in Sponsoring? Facades+ conferences are prime informational and networking events for architects, general contractors, engineers, fabricators, material suppliers, building owners and developers,

Los Angeles December 11+12, 2025 Join us at the Sheraton Grand Los Angeles Earn up to 12 AIA HSW CEUs Sign up to be notified of this event! Sustainable and High Performance Building Enclosures Sustainable and High Performance Building Enclosures Sustainable and High Performance Building Enclosures Sustainable and High Performance Building Enclosures Sustainable and High

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WE ARE LIVE IN Los Angeles November 11-12 Sheraton Grand Los Angeles 16 AIA HSW CEUs PRESENTED BY We are back in person! Facades+ Portland will be The Architect’s Newspaper’s inaugural event in the city. The full-day conference will feature a morning of panel dialogue and presentations and an afternoon of manufacturer-led workshops. The program

The premier conference on high-performance building enclosures Los Angeles November 7+8 Join us at the Sheraton Grand Los Angeles Earn 6 OAA/AIA HSW CEUs This event has ended. Sign up to be notified of our upcoming events. Themes we’ll explore: Co-Chairs Featured Speakers What to Expect at Facades+ The Premier Conference for High-Performance Building Enclosures

On November 9 and 10, The Architect’s Newspaper will host the annual Facades+ Los Angeles conference. This year’s event will include an eight-session symposium on the first day followed by a day of workshops. For the first time since 2019, the workshop day will be held in person, a feature of the conference which was

The premier conference on high-performance building enclosures Los Angeles November 9+10, 2023 Join us at the Sheraton Grand Los Angeles 12 AIA HSW CEUs This event has ended. Sign up to be notified of our upcoming events. Facades+ continues to bring together the world’s most talented building professionals. 12 AIA HSW CEUs Event Overview Symposium

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Los Angeles November 3-4, 2022 | 12 AIA/OAA HSW CEUs Join us in person at the Sheraton Grand Los Angeles The premier conference on high performance building enclosures In its 10th year, Facades+ continues to bring together the world’s most talented building professionals. We return to Los Angeles with the help of HOK to discuss

From October 25 to 26, Facades+ will bring local and national leaders of the architecture, engineering, and construction industry to Los Angeles for the fourth year in a row. The first day of the conference features keynotes by Thom Mayne, founding principal of Morphosis Architects; and Heather Roberge, principal of Murmur. Founded in 1972, Morphosis has spread its distinctive presence internationally. In recent

Over sixty years ago the original Wilshire Grand Hotel opened as the Hotel Statler, thanks to the City of Los Angeles, which issued the largest single building permit in their history for the construction of the $15 million project. That landmark legacy continues today, as the new 1,100-foot-tall Wilshire Grand tower lays claim to being

  The Speed Art Museum, located in Louisville, Kentucky is the state’s oldest and largest art museum; it is a major cultural repository for the region. wHY Architecture’s concept to carefully and precisely intervene on the existing museum, described by the firm as “acupuncture architecture,” set the project apart from other proposals solicited by the

Kylie is a Project Designer at Populous where she focuses on complex modeling within high-profile sports and civic architecture. Her expertise centers on leveraging advanced digital tools to shape intricate geometries and realize innovative design intent across a wide range of projects. At Populous, Kylie plays a key role in guiding projects from early concept

Sagar has experience as a designer and project manager. Since joining the firm, he has worked on numerous projects for the County of Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles, Kaiser Permanente, University of Southern California, UCLA, City of Hope, Disney, Northrop Grumman and Mattel. Sagar’s experience includes recreation projects, medical office buildings, laboratories, academic buildings,

Adaeze Cadet AIA, NOMA, NCARB, LEED BD+C As design principal, Adaeze provides leadership for projects in HOK’s Los Angeles studio. She is a member of the firm’s board of directors and design board. Adaeze has 17 years of experience working in all phases of architecture on innovative projects throughout the West Coast. Before moving to

David Frey AIA, LEED AP B David leads the technical direction and development of projects designed in HOK’s Los Angeles studio. This includes initiating, developing and monitoring methods of technical production, technical content, quality assurance and construction phase services. He also is a member of the firm’s technical board working to improve project delivery standards

Nicholas Hofstede is Managing Director and Project Manager at Johnston Marklee leading the delivery of national and international projects. Originally from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Nicholas has been with JML since 2007, overseeing the management, design and development of projects including the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, Texas, the Museum of Contemporary Arts (MCA) in Chicago, the

Tom Wiscombe is Principal and Founder of Tom Wiscombe Architec- ture (TWA) in Los Angeles. Tom com- bines his renowned design expertise with a deep knowledge of construction and project de- livery– gleaned from a thirty-year professional career– to create projects with the highest level of care and craft. His recently released monograph Objects Models

Avideh Haghighi is an Associate Principal and Licensed Architect at ZGF where she dedicates herself to designing a regenerative built environment. As a firm-wide sustainability leader, she guides ZGF teams in discovering synergies between building, social, and ecological processes. With a career equally rooted in design and advocacy, Avideh’s long list of affiliations in the

At Behnisch Architekten, Michelle specializes in facade design, computational techniques, digital fabrication, building model simulation, and material research. Prior to joining Behnisch, Michelle worked at Morphosis Architects in Los Angeles and Gehry Technologies in Paris, France, where she worked on iconic cultural projects such as the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, National

David is an Architect with a passion for improving urban environments with experience in many project types – from masterplans to museums. His interests in higher education and urban design culminated in David’s graduate thesis completed at Rice University. Titled Public Infrastructure, this project proposed a partnership between two public entities- the Los Angeles Community

Northern Enclosure Multi-MaterialEnclosures & VentilatedFacades June 24, 2021 6 AIA HSW CEUs PRESENTED BY This June The Architect’s Newspaper will present Multi-Material Enclosures & Ventilated Facades. The conference, our first of the summer, is grounded in the city of Atlanta, and is co-chaired by HKS Director of Commercial, Atlanta, Shelby Morris. Although the Peach State