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The LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design has offered a critical look at the city of Los Angeles since the late 80's. The nonprofit has been providing public programming, exhibitions, and publications through its ever-shifting board of directors and volunteer contributors. To celebrate this 30-year milestone, the Forum has carefully selected a collection of pieces published from its origin to today, and has published these in a book under the themes of Experiments, Detours,\\xa0Hunches, and Santa Anas.

Today, Los Angeles is a major architectural and urban player, but for decades the city was dismissed\\xa0suburban and centerless. In republishing three decades of material on architecture and design in Los\\xa0Angeles, the LA Forum Reader reclaims and reconsiders the city\\u2019s architectural and discursive\\xa0histories. It establishes, or reestablishes, a textual context for critical experimentation and urban\\xa0investigation. This anthological volume includes essays, interviews, and reproductions of publications\\xa0that have long been out of print, including pamphlets by Craig Hodgetts and Margaret Crawford, as\\xa0well as early writings by Aaron Betsky and John Chase.

In this week's show I\\xa0invited editors Mimi\\xa0Zeiger, Chava Danielson and Michael Sweeney to Archinect's recording studio to discuss the history of the Forum and the process of putting together this anthology.\\xa0