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Sunday, March 7th

10 am- 5 pm [LA]
exhibit: 'Traces of India: 1850-1900'
UCLA Fowler (UCLA; Westwood)
info: 310-825-4361; fowlerws@arts.ucla.edu
detail: Photography, architecture, and the politics of representation. More than 200 photographs taken by travelers, surveyors, and others, portray some of the greatest sites of the Indian subcontinent. Through June 20th, 2004.

7 pm [LA]
lecture: 'Los Angeles Islands'
CLUI (9331 Venice Boulevard; LA)
info: 323-651-1510 [LA Forum]; info@laforum.org
detail: lecture by architects and artists from AKAD (Art-based Research in Architecture and Design), Malmo, Sweden.The research project "Los Angeles Islands" is a collaboration between architects, researchers and artists at the School of Architecture, Lund University, Sweden. The project investigates and problematizes American architectural influences in the Malmo region, defining a set of selected utopias and dystopias as Los Angeles Islands within an expansive Swedish region. The city of Malmö is approached through a co-reading of Los Angeles, using models, exhibitions, photographs, and bus tours. The City of Los Angeles has certain resemblances to the Malmö region in south Sweden. Both cities host a dense (and ethnically diverse) population located politically and geographically, at the "other end" (west coast) of the country from the capitol and economic centers. On a smaller scale, Los Angeles is invoked in redevelopment schemes around the newly finished Oresundsbron bridge leading from Sweden to Denmark, including a Gehry building and a new theme park being planned by a Los Angeles-based company. A recent exhibition, "As Safe As Houses," examines the architecture and meaning of the new police station in Malmo, and examines possible influences by American security policies. In the exhibition, and a preliminary comparison is made between the Malmo Police department Building and two police stations in LA: the Parker Center and Central Station. The exhibition also reflects other urban changes affected by current ideas of security, secrecy, and fear.