Formation Association

Happy Lunar New Year from Formation Association!!!

Celebrating the Year of the Horse and embracing freedom, high-energy change, and
bold, decisive action!

Galloping forward, glimpse over our shoulder with us to see some of the journey that
brought us here. We thank all of our incredible collaborators, clients, and partners for
riding with us! Some images and highlights from the upper left:

1. Bronze Celestial Horse, Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 CE), China
2. Atwater Canyon recognized with AIA Los Angeles Design Award in Adaptive Reuse /
Renovation category, 2024
3. Zócalo Public Square publishes Formation Association Design Director John K
Chan’s article on Wildfire Recovery,
‘How Altadena Can Rebuild Smarter’
, emerging from
his work in the Wildfire Recovery Think Tank (WRTT).
4. Studio City residential project, interior rendering for Phillips auction house Gallery
Manger, Alexis Chompaisal
5. Parker Gallery, Formation Association’s latest commercial gallery project, opened for
Frieze, 2025. Definitely visit this amazing gallery program and building if you haven’t yet!
6. Grace U. Oh, Formation Association’s Managing Director, delivering opening remarks
at the Hammer Museum last weekend for Voices of the Diaspora, the third installation of
AAPI Arts Network’s annual symposium – bringing together diasporic and Indigenous
artists and cultural workers of color to challenge colonial legacies and reimagine art
histories by exploring the complexities of migration.

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Formation Association Design Director John K Chan’s recent essay for Zocalo Public Square explores how neighborhood culture can inspire transformative solutions for wildfire recovery. Read “How Altadena can Rebuild Smarter” — via link in bio.

Drawing from John’s work with the Wildfire Recovery Think Tank (WRTT), an interdisciplinary volunteer network advancing culturally responsive wildfire recovery for Altadena and other wildland-urban interface communities, the essay challenges California to “Ditch ‘Suburbrain’ Logic and Embrace Design That Puts Community First’.

Article excerpt: “Expanding our urban and social imaginations, we might activate new California housing policies, in combination, to help communities flourish after fire. We also might mitigate our widespread housing crises, and fight back against an epidemic of loneliness—manifestations of our rush toward the three-bedroom, two-bath pinnacle of the American Dream”.

Concept illustrations created by Formation Association for the WRTT.

Many thanks to , , , & for amplifying these ideas on such an exceptional platform for public conversation! The article can be found at the Zocalo Public Square website: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/how-altadena-can-rebuild-smarter/

Stay tuned for more collaborations between Formation Association and the WRTT! Follow to join the growing WRTT activism!

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Atwater Canyon nominated U.S. ‘Building Of The Year’ by World-Architects!

See link in bio to vote for Atwater Canyon!
Voting ends Sunday, January 28.

Attaining a World-Architect’s ‘Building Of The Week’ earlier in 2023, Atwater Canyon now contends with 39 other buildings for Building Of The Year in their American-Architects poll! Thanks for supporting Atwater Canyon!

https://www.american-architects.com/en/building-of-the-year
Photos by the amazing

Special thanks to our partners for making this all happen! .richardson

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