Oscar Tuazon: Los Angeles Water School (LAWS) is the second catalogue in a series of three, that narrates the complete story of the making of Water School, a physical space created to connect people through the medium of water.

Los Angeles Water School (LAWS) is conceived as a how-to manual, a demonstration, a pragmatic test of the often utopian ideals associated with mobile architecture. As a study model at 1:1 scale, LAWS is not intended to ever be finished, but to act as a conceptual tool for all of the various participants to test ideas and practices of inhabitation, resistance, and public address. In this sense, architecture is an everyday activity, something we can all do together.

In late 2017, Oscar Tuazon’s studio in Los Angeles became a public space, hosting Voices of Water, a concert of artists from Standing Rock; and an exhibition of over 30 artists, L A N G U A G E (2018). From 2018-2020 Los Angeles Water School (LAWS) hosted a series of six public events with Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND). In 2019, Water School was exhibited at Michigan State University, the Chicago Architectural Biennial, and the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington. LAWS programming continued through Spring 2020 in a series of four public events online. Tomorrow Cedar Spring Water School will establish its permanent location at a site in Northeastern Nevada. In the coming year, construction will begin on the first of the Zome buildings at Cedar Spring in collaboration with the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation. The LAWS catalogue draws on photographic documentation, transcripts of round table conversations, and projects and texts produced specifically for this volume.

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