Here’s What You’re Missing At The First Los Angeles Architecture & Design Film Festival

The first Los Angeles edition of the Architecture & Design Film Festival is under way and if you affiliate with either industry, you should be paying attention to it.

"There is something for everyone who likes design at the festival," the festival's founder and director, architect Kyle Bergman, told the Los Angeles Times.

The festival, which runs through Sunday at the Los Angeles Theatre Center and includes 30 recent feature-length films about architecture and design as well as other themes. Art, fashion and urban planning are also topics of films.

Several documentaries focus on California specifically but the films transcend all areas within the topics and carry messages to viewers.

Kyung Lee directed a documentary on Eugene Tssui, who is considered a nature-based, eccentric architect, that she hopes with change the perception of what architecture should be.

"So many people have opinions about architecture and what they like and what they don't like," Lee told the Los Angeles Times. "I'd like people to come and see for themselves. Maybe it's not practical, but we should be able to extend our idea of architecture."

Her film, titled "TELOS: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui," will also have a question and answer session to follow with her and Tussi.

This is just one example of the festival's value.

There will be other panel discussions with publication editors and designers and lectures by professors in addition to the films.

The New York Edition of the Architecture & Design Film Festival is scheduled to be in October of 2014 and the Chicago Edition is to be announced.