April 12, 2002
Contact: Ray Ladd
(805) 756-7432
rladd@calpoly.edu
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Los Angeles Architects Craig Hodgetts, Hsin-Ming Fung
To Speak at Cal Poly April 19
Los Angeles architect Craig Hodgetts and partner
Hsin-Ming Fung, principals in the firm now renovating the Hollywood
Bowl, will speak at Cal Poly April 19 about their vision of
architectural form and the challenges of cultural change, urban
evolution and developing technology.
The free, public lecture, titled "Renewal," will begin at 7 p.m. in
Chumash Auditorium in Cal Poly's University Union. The talk is part of
a special Centennial Hearst Lecture Series sponsored by the
university's College of Architecture and Environmental Design.
"With their many successful collaborative projects, Hodgetts and Fung
have proved their intuitive architectural designs to be works of art,"
said Architecture Professor Karen Lange, coordinator of the lecture
series.
Their numerous awards include the AIA Honor Award for their technically
innovative Towell Library at UCLA and the National Trust for Historic
Preservation Honor Award for their completed work on the American
Cinematheque in Hollywood.
Among their firm's current projects in addition to the Hollywood Bowl
renovation are a student lounge at Art Center College, Pasadena, the
1.5-million-square-foot Gateway to the Americas project between Tijuana
and San Diego, and an arts consortium campus at Pier 70 in San
Francisco.
The pair founded Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates in Los Angeles in
1984. They practice as architects, industrial designers, urban
scenarists and scholars.
Hodgetts, a professor at UCLA, earned his master's degree in
architecture with honors from the Yale University School of Art and
Architecture in 1966.
Fung is director of the graduate program at the Southern California
Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. She earned her master's in
architecture from UCLA in 1980. Former President Bill Clinton honored
Fung with an appointment to the National Arts Council.
Hodgetts and Fung served as distinguished visiting professors at Ohio
State University in 1996 and at Yale University in 1995 and 2000.
The Hearst Lecture Series brings internationally respected design
professionals to Cal Poly to give lectures, visit classrooms and
critique student design projects. The series is supported by a grant
from the Hearst Foundation.
For more information on the talk, call Cal Poly's College of
Architecture and Environmental Design at 756-1321.
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