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Host Frances Anderton looks at design and architecture from a Los Angeles perspective.


Episode Date
LA architect rebuilds after Woolsey Fire and reflects on living in the wildland-urban interface
Nov 06, 2020
Roman Mars turns ‘99% Invisible’ city into a 100% visible book
Oct 08, 2020
In an age of loneliness, Treehouse offers community that’s carefully curated and designed
Sep 23, 2020
Air conditioning becomes a weapon against infection, D.J. Waldie finds the soul in Los Angeles
Aug 28, 2020
How Bill English helped create the computer mouse, and the effort to change the face of architecture
Aug 12, 2020
City of Santa Monica lets restaurants serve in parking lanes, taking on the primacy of the automobile
Aug 03, 2020
XPRIZE’s $1 million face mask contest, and the link between urban design and immunity
Jul 17, 2020
For an art conservator, it's hard to say goodbye to Confederate statues
Jun 25, 2020
How structural racism shaped LA, and what developers can do about it
Jun 19, 2020
Google and Twitter tell staff to keep working from home. What will happen to creative offices?
May 21, 2020
Can LA be greener, cleaner, slower following COVID-19?
May 07, 2020
Coronavirus tests the values of global cities like LA
Apr 30, 2020
Based on past pandemics, coronavirus will bring changes to buildings and cities
Apr 23, 2020
Interior designer Kelly Wearstler can help make your home work for you
Apr 15, 2020
Kelly Wearstler shares tips from her interior design MasterClass
Apr 09, 2020
Construction continues as coronavirus grinds economy to a halt
Apr 02, 2020
White House urges Americans to wear face masks in public. Here’s how to make your own
Apr 02, 2020
Long-time champion of public space reflects on impact of coronavirus on city life
Mar 27, 2020
Do handsewn face masks protect against coronavirus?
Mar 26, 2020
With spring design fairs and travel on hold, LA designers get creative with constraints
Mar 12, 2020
Redesigning the California dream
Mar 05, 2020
Paula Benson, movie design detective
Feb 26, 2020
Daniel Libeskind at the ‘Edge of Order,’ Sunset Magazine, and Sound Baths
Feb 19, 2020
Frieze and the art fair effect; Lita Albuquerque at Desert X Al Ula
Feb 11, 2020
Architecture in Parasite; Movie villain homes
Feb 04, 2020
Setting up shop at the Bradbury Building and Beverly Center
Jan 28, 2020
Cross Colours; Fast fashion’s hidden costs
Jan 22, 2020
New Hollywood royalty; Netflix goes solar; Santa Monica and well-being
Jan 14, 2020
Remembering “visual futurist” Syd Mead; hunting for vintage clothing at ThriftCon LA
Jan 07, 2020
Can you design your way out of smartphone addiction?
Dec 31, 2019
Dar Williams on how to rebuild small town America
Dec 22, 2019
La Brea Tar Pits; Cinderella Homes; General Hospital
Dec 17, 2019
UCLA’s graduate art studios; Where stuff goes after the thrift store
Dec 10, 2019
More housing for rich LA cities; West Coast Craft
Dec 03, 2019
Ray Kappe; LA Auto Show colors; Le Corbuffet
Nov 26, 2019
Streetlight competition; WALLS
Nov 19, 2019
Marciano and ‘art labor’; Shortlisted!
Nov 12, 2019
Creating buzz in the city: Ian Schrager; Horton Plaza
Nov 05, 2019
Fighting the Getty Fire; the science of scary; Sneakertopia
Oct 29, 2019
Saudi Arabia invites dialogue with American artists and designers, but there’s pushback
Oct 22, 2019
Building housing affordably; drag through the ages
Oct 15, 2019
Cross Colours; Fast fashion’s hidden costs
Oct 08, 2019
Coworking after WeWork; Autographs of LA
Oct 01, 2019
Huntington at 100, Notes on Decor
Sep 17, 2019
Climate activism goes mainstream, from Porsche to porn
Sep 10, 2019
Promenade 3.0; Kunlé Adeyemi
Sep 03, 2019
Music Center Plaza; LA’s new tree czar
Aug 27, 2019
Fifteen strangers share a house; Bird’s sustainability pitch
Aug 20, 2019
Reimagining Museum Row; upending the general contractor industry
Aug 13, 2019
Sumptuous swimming pools; AfriCOBRA’s black power art
Aug 06, 2019
Dodger Stadium upgrades; an ADU is born
Jul 30, 2019
Remembering César Pelli; Sowden House parties on
Jul 23, 2019
Hollyhock House; Space Age Design; Guo Pei
Jul 16, 2019
Crystal Cathedral’s resurrection; billboards on the Sunset Strip
Jul 09, 2019
Jony Ive leaves Apple; LA’s time capsule
Jul 02, 2019
Selgascano in LA; The Weather Machine
Jun 25, 2019
Flying taxis coming to LA; fining landlords for vacant units
Jun 18, 2019
Santa Monica Airport’s future; fashion designer Halston
Jun 11, 2019
Taking pride in LA’s LGBT Center; getting the goods at LACMA
Jun 04, 2019
Digital billboards resurface in fight over visual blight
May 30, 2019
A turf war in Westwood; climate change at the Aquarium
May 28, 2019
Shade; Cey Adams; Jason Wu
May 21, 2019
LA’s dirty air; Lovell Health House
May 14, 2019
Historic neighborhoods and SB50; fashion designer Rudi Gernreich
May 08, 2019
Feminist design at The Wing; A Time Capsule for 2019 LA
Apr 30, 2019
Rebuilding Notre Dame; Bauhaus in Israel; Klaus Frahm
Apr 23, 2019
Art installations provide celebratory places at Coachella
Apr 16, 2019
Make or break for LACMA redesign; Sterling Ruby on Specter
Apr 09, 2019
Destination Crenshaw was a Nipsey Hussle dream
Apr 04, 2019
Sun Seekers in SoCal; Kurt Cobain’s fashion legacy
Apr 02, 2019
LACMA shrinks its Zumthor-designed expansion
Mar 28, 2019
Campaign logo design; Bauhaus turns 100
Mar 26, 2019
Hollywood’s long-dormant Target may finally be completed
Mar 20, 2019
Downtown dog owners; Soul of a Nation
Mar 19, 2019
LA County pushes for pet-friendly housing
Mar 13, 2019
New life for old buildings: MOCA, a Hollywood library, Target Husk
Mar 12, 2019
Pritzker winner Arata Isozaki’s MOCA to be revamped, with water feature
Mar 06, 2019
Can you design your way out of smartphone addiction?
Mar 05, 2019
Metro eyes fees on ride-hailing services
Feb 27, 2019
Frank Gehry turns 90, Metro considers congestion pricing
Feb 26, 2019
Is California ready for an autobahn?
Feb 20, 2019
The costume, hair and makeup artists that make Hollywood sparkle
Feb 19, 2019
Is California’s bullet train still on track?
Feb 13, 2019
Frieze LA; Modernism Week
Feb 12, 2019
An art bonanza in Los Angeles and beyond
Feb 07, 2019
Velvet Buzzsaw; USC’s architecture heist
Feb 05, 2019
Rams head to Super Bowl as stadium rises up
Jan 30, 2019
Destination Crenshaw; LA Art Season
Jan 29, 2019
Construction worker shortage poses obstacle to building new housing
Jan 23, 2019
Charging LA drivers; Monocle eyes LA
Jan 22, 2019
Preparing LA buildings for the Big One
Jan 16, 2019
A radical act of rezoning; UK prepares for Brexit
Jan 15, 2019
A “Marshall Plan” for homelessness
Jan 09, 2019
Energy use and CES, Hip Hop Architecture
Jan 08, 2019
The uncertain future of California’s bullet train
Jan 01, 2019
Home in LA, from the tent to the gigamansion
Dec 25, 2018
Tunnel vision: separating hype from reality at Elon Musk's big reveal
Dec 19, 2018
Reviving ‘Roma’; Film and Furniture
Dec 18, 2018
Metro considers “congestion pricing” to pay for mass transit
Dec 12, 2018
Cher, fashion icon; Designing RBG’s early career; a Culver City mystery
Dec 11, 2018
Rethinking homes in fire-prone areas
Dec 06, 2018
Malibu rising from the ashes; LA Auto Show
Dec 04, 2018
At the LA Auto Show, the future of cars is “not a car”
Nov 28, 2018
Design in Dubai, Mobility in LA
Nov 27, 2018
Can we design homes to withstand wildfires?
Nov 21, 2018
Rem Koolhaas in LA, Restoring Formosa Cafe
Nov 20, 2018
Jim Carrey’s cartoons, real estate love letters
Nov 13, 2018
Downtown to get another Frank Gehry project and maybe a Jenga-like tower
Nov 07, 2018
Workplace innovation, Otis centennial
Nov 06, 2018
Fighting for the soul of Day of the Dead
Oct 31, 2018
Capturing LA’s water, Day of the Dead
Oct 30, 2018
XPrize-winning team sources fresh water from the air
Oct 24, 2018
Voting rights, art and the market, Public Sculpture Archive
Oct 23, 2018
Remembering Palm Springs fashion icon Jonathan Skow, aka Mr. Turk
Oct 17, 2018
Scooter wars, gifting houses, puppets on the move
Oct 16, 2018
Rethinking mobility with “Flipping the Bird!” design jam
Oct 10, 2018
Flipping the Bird, co-buying a house
Oct 09, 2018
As storm clouds gather, LA County prepares
Oct 03, 2018
Ai Weiwei, social infrastructure, marketing luxury real estate
Oct 02, 2018
Historic Lincoln Heights church competes for preservation funds
Sep 26, 2018
Home share, Concorde, WDCH Dreams
Sep 25, 2018
Gigamansions and the new Gilded Age
Sep 18, 2018
How clean are E-cars?
Sep 12, 2018
Megamansions, Tower of Voices
Sep 11, 2018
Two Bit Circus Micro-Amusement Park Opens in DTLA
Sep 05, 2018
Modernist homes, Hollywood veterans
Sep 04, 2018
Suburban ‘Centennial’ mega-project moves forward
Aug 30, 2018
Small-lot homes, Santa Monica mobility
Aug 28, 2018
Silver Lake service station becomes a preservation flash point
Aug 22, 2018
YOLA in Inglewood, living above the store
Aug 21, 2018
Santa Monica weighs e-scooter future
Aug 15, 2018
Living Small: Micro-Units and Podshare
Aug 14, 2018
Living sky-high in downtown LA
Aug 08, 2018
Metropolis: Selling the downtown high-rise dream
Aug 07, 2018
The high cost of affordable housing
Jul 31, 2018
Rethinking the box, Jonathan Gold
Jul 24, 2018
LA removes street trees to repair sidewalks
Jul 18, 2018
Paradise of the Ordinary, steel tariffs
Jul 17, 2018
Steel tariffs are impacting LA construction
Jul 11, 2018
Liveaboards, Emory Douglas
Jul 10, 2018
Backyard homes, John Parkinson
Jul 03, 2018
New homeless housing complex a sign of things to come
Jun 27, 2018
Tents offer a model for LA housing
Jun 26, 2018
Morphosis designs OCMA, is childhood overdesigned?
Jun 19, 2018
Orange County Museum of Art gets a Morphosis-designed home
Jun 13, 2018
Big dreams for North Korea, Santa Monica takes on e-scooters
Jun 12, 2018
Celebrating LA’s “crazy, weird” design community
Jun 06, 2018
Kate Spade, Santa Monica’s little secret, Ruth E. Carter
Jun 05, 2018
Plastic straw ban takes effect in Malibu
May 30, 2018
Interview Magazine folds, Soviet Hippies
May 29, 2018
The creative economy rises in California
May 23, 2018
Electric Jaguar, Venice Biennale, rethinking Yamashiro
May 22, 2018
A car-free bridge over the LA River
May 16, 2018
Homeless in Koreatown, Deconstructing Kanye
May 15, 2018
Solar panel installations will soar under new rules
May 09, 2018
Baja Funk, Women Cyclists
May 08, 2018
Could an aerial tram solve Dodger traffic jams?
May 02, 2018
LAFC’s new stadium, Roma Agrawal
May 01, 2018
A new home for LA’s new soccer team
Apr 25, 2018
SCI-Arc in Mexico City, Identity in Design
Apr 24, 2018
The density bill is dead. What's next for housing?
Apr 18, 2018
Will SB 827 smash local control?, Boyle Heights artists
Apr 17, 2018
The challenge of building new housing in density-resistant Los Angeles
Apr 11, 2018
Zuckerberg Testifies, House of Dust, Bombay Beach Biennale
Apr 10, 2018
Driverless Cars, LA’s Chief Design Officer
Apr 03, 2018
Self-driving cars move forward, with roadblocks
Mar 28, 2018
Bridges and Walls: The Fourth Border
Mar 27, 2018
Fixing Westside traffic with a ferry service
Mar 22, 2018
Bridges and Walls: The Future of Freeways
Mar 20, 2018
Lucas Museum lifts off in Expo Park
Mar 14, 2018
Bridges and Walls: Invisible Walls
Mar 13, 2018
Dying mall Westside Pavilion to have new life as offices
Mar 07, 2018
Bridges and Walls: LA River, part 2
Mar 06, 2018
Visual design in this year's Oscar nominees
Feb 28, 2018
Bridges and Walls: LA River, part 1
Feb 27, 2018
Orange bridge over trickling water
Feb 21, 2018
Bridges and Walls: Wildlife Crossing
Feb 20, 2018
Bridges and Walls: High Speed Rail
Feb 13, 2018
Bridges and Walls: The Border Wall
Feb 06, 2018
Rebuilding infrastructure and the border wall
Jan 31, 2018
IKEA’s success, North Westlake Design District, Joel Chen
Jan 30, 2018
Angelenos innovate as mass transit use falls
Jan 24, 2018
The new company towns, AIA awards, federal courthouse
Jan 23, 2018
Could there be new uses for city-owned land?
Jan 17, 2018
Catherine Opie's "The Modernist," Mike Kelley’s “Kandors”
Jan 16, 2018
Can we better protect ourselves from mudslides?
Jan 10, 2018
Bird scooters, Metro innovation, road diets
Jan 09, 2018
Pot shops bet on high design
Jan 03, 2018
Bonaventure's architect, changing Culver City
Jan 02, 2018
Dar Williams on how to rebuild small town America
Dec 26, 2017
Selfie Museums, Chicago Architecture Biennial
Dec 19, 2017
The rise of selfie museums
Dec 13, 2017
Designing in the fire zone, LACMA's bridge
Dec 12, 2017
Skirball Fire threatens Getty Center
Dec 07, 2017
Wedding cake, Museum of Failure, Syd Mead
Dec 05, 2017
Lights out for Vermonica
Nov 30, 2017
KCRW's new building, modest fashion
Nov 28, 2017
Wende Museum, Beautify Earth
Nov 21, 2017
Meet Gita and 'Dirty Girl' Joan Barton
Nov 14, 2017
A step up for Culver City
Nov 09, 2017
Tunnels, planes, and art and architecture in the desert
Nov 07, 2017
LA's historic Lincoln Heights Jail to be repurposed
Nov 02, 2017
Border wall, Renzo Piano, densifying the dead
Oct 31, 2017
The land deal that brought the Dodgers to LA
Oct 26, 2017
The birth of Dodger Stadium, 'Design, Bitches'
Oct 24, 2017
Cities finalize bids for Amazon's HQ2
Oct 19, 2017
How Amazon changed Seattle, Lawrence Halprin
Oct 17, 2017
Can a linkage fee solve LA's housing woes?
Oct 12, 2017
Guns and Hollywood, Institute of Mentalphysics
Oct 10, 2017
Another step back for road diet plan
Oct 05, 2017
Public safety, YIMBY activist, Academy Museum
Oct 03, 2017
The Academy Museum emerges
Sep 28, 2017
Smart nodes, CAFAM goes to the border, Crenshaw Cowboy
Sep 26, 2017
Silicon Valley disrupts cities, Stacy Michelson
Sep 19, 2017
Stormy connections, Amazon seeks city, 'Found in Translation'
Sep 12, 2017
The crosswalks of Bunker Hill are alive with color
Sep 07, 2017
Berggruen Institute, 'Condemned to Be Modern'
Sep 05, 2017
Angels Flight soars again
Aug 31, 2017
Harvey and Houston planning, road diets spark rage
Aug 29, 2017
Comparing LA's transit system to London and New York
Aug 24, 2017
Public art and politics, California design
Aug 22, 2017
Three changing waterfronts in Southern California
Aug 15, 2017
From acid to Apple: a survey of California design
Aug 09, 2017
Future Aleppo, Norman Bel Geddes
Aug 08, 2017
'Columbus' muses on modernism, David Hockney turns 80
Aug 01, 2017
Will Santa Monica's affordable housing goals backfire?
Jul 27, 2017
Designer Camp, Louis Kahn barge, Architectural Imagination
Jul 25, 2017
Border wall breakdown, David Adjaye
Jul 18, 2017
Is HHH housing getting built?
Jul 13, 2017
LA's electric bus future, construction giant Paul Matt
Jul 11, 2017
Proterra and the rise of electric buses
Jul 06, 2017
Freedom sculpture, Henry Rollins, surfboards
Jul 04, 2017
Should extremely creative CEOs get away with bad behavior?
Jun 27, 2017
The $1.2 billion Wilshire Grand finally set to open
Jun 22, 2017
Fire safety in towers, artists and developers, PetSpace
Jun 20, 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright's Los Angeles gems
Jun 15, 2017
Trump's American idea, LACMA's expansion, the idea of home
Jun 13, 2017
LACMA wants to expand into South LA
Jun 07, 2017
Securing Public Spaces, Super Wealthy Asians
Jun 06, 2017
Can driverless cars solve our traffic woes?
Jun 01, 2017
Farewell LA freeways, Peter Shire is back
May 30, 2017
Bus ridership declines in LA
May 25, 2017
The Art of Manufacturing, Apple's new headquarters
May 23, 2017
Border wall builders, private art museums, Stamen Design
May 16, 2017
Uber at the LA Times, Preserving LA, 'The Handmaid's Tale'
May 09, 2017
Ron Finley saves his garden
May 04, 2017
Michelle Obama, LA 2024, Vespertine
May 02, 2017
African-American architect Paul Revere Williams gets AIA's top honor
Apr 27, 2017
Neutra landmark, Thom Mayne's home, I.M. Pei turns 100
Apr 25, 2017
A new park springs from ancient soil
Apr 20, 2017
Symbols of protest, lighting up EDM festivals
Apr 18, 2017
Santa Monica's historic Sears store to be repurposed
Apr 13, 2017
LA cleantech's future, music photographer Mick Rock
Apr 11, 2017
Border wall designs pour in, but is the project even real?
Apr 06, 2017
Drought-friendly lawns, gangsta gardener, Aeron chair
Apr 04, 2017
Watergate Offices, Trump Hotel; 'The Price of Illusion'
Mar 28, 2017
Parker Center one vote away from demolition
Mar 23, 2017
Building homes near freeways, 'Rick Owens: Furniture'
Mar 21, 2017
How DC's post office became Trump Hotel
Mar 16, 2017
Big plans for tiny houses, homes for hope
Mar 14, 2017
Measure S was defeated. Now what?
Mar 09, 2017
Bidding on the border wall, new apartment architecture
Mar 07, 2017
Life's a game, 'Never Built New York'
Feb 28, 2017
A walking tour of Compton architecture
Feb 24, 2017
Production design, art and politics, the creative mind
Feb 21, 2017
Santa Monica leads the way in seismic retrofit plan
Feb 16, 2017
Connecting The Bloc, modernist art, mapping the heart
Feb 14, 2017
The Bloc, Metro open new portal to downtown transit riders
Feb 09, 2017
Measuring the impact of Measure S, Netflix on design
Feb 07, 2017
Elon Musk's plan to dig a tunnel under LA
Feb 02, 2017
Santa Monica Airport, Trump's border wall
Jan 31, 2017
Critics say Caruso development highlights need for planning reform
Jan 25, 2017
Pussyhat project, Ben Carson, building boom, Bjarke Ingels
Jan 24, 2017
Chargers logo electrifies social media
Jan 18, 2017
Trump's inauguration, developer donations
Jan 17, 2017
Lucas Museum to come to LA
Jan 11, 2017
Connected tech at CES, Battersea's future
Jan 10, 2017
CES preview, designing the golden arches
Jan 03, 2017
Year in review, Vern Yip, United Artists Theatre
Dec 27, 2016
Star architects come to LA, but will they get to build?
Dec 21, 2016
Artist evictions; should a mid-century bank be saved?
Dec 20, 2016
Seniors evicted in Westwood; 'I Hate the Internet'
Dec 13, 2016
'La La Land,' Mann house, underwater pavilions
Dec 06, 2016
A streetcar is desired in downtown LA
Nov 30, 2016
Cuban architecture, Lewis MacAdams
Nov 29, 2016
LA River's leading advocate Lewis MacAdams steps down
Nov 24, 2016
SUVs are back, the family behind Wilshire Grand
Nov 22, 2016
Wilshire Grand nears completion
Nov 17, 2016
Angelenos vote for density and transit
Nov 10, 2016
A new hope for Lucas Museum in LA, The Wangs vs. The World
Nov 09, 2016
Big pot embraces high design
Nov 03, 2016
Designing dispensaries, the southland's growing pains
Nov 01, 2016
Frank Gehry strips down on Sunset
Oct 27, 2016
Designing your life, ghostland
Oct 25, 2016
The problem with A/C, Neon City, Jewish LA
Oct 18, 2016
Police academy, smart gun, eat the river
Oct 11, 2016
The suburban home of tomorrow
Oct 06, 2016
Patrick Shearn, Greenbuild, cargo shorts
Oct 04, 2016
YIMBYs rise up to support development
Sep 29, 2016
The Europeans are coming! Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron in LA
Sep 27, 2016
Smithsonian's new African-American museum, YIMBY movement
Sep 20, 2016
Utopia and Arcosanti, Gemini G.E.L. and Mixografia
Sep 13, 2016
Santa Monica's Measure LV is being watched around the southland
Sep 08, 2016
Driverless cars, sitcom house plans
Sep 06, 2016
The struggle over growth, from Santa Monica to Boyle Heights
Aug 30, 2016
Will LACMA's new building win over the critics?
Aug 25, 2016
Saving Pereira's buildings, 'Wear and Tear'
Aug 23, 2016
Public swimming pools and the "mindscape" of Los Angeles
Aug 18, 2016
Swimming pools and public art
Aug 16, 2016
The streets are alive with public art
Aug 11, 2016
Tesla gigafactory, Whole Foods design, Ben Medansky
Aug 09, 2016
It's not all bad news in Rio
Aug 05, 2016
Building the Olympics, tropical modernism, egamer wear
Aug 02, 2016
Design for Skid Row, Politics as Spectacle, Sewing Machine Ravel
Jul 26, 2016
It's Not Your Grandparents' Political Conventions Anymore
Jul 20, 2016
Cleveland's Public Square, VR Coasters, Pokémon GO
Jul 19, 2016
Can Metro Boost Ridership with Transit-Oriented Development?
Jul 13, 2016
LA Sports Arena, Architecture’s Odd Couple, Aaron Axelrod, Prince of Venice
Jul 12, 2016
A Much-Needed Makeover for The Ford Theatre
Jul 07, 2016
Obama Library, Silver Lake Reservoir, Tes-Loop
Jul 05, 2016
Designing a Solution for Homelessness
Jun 30, 2016
Skyspace LA, Mini-Golf, Assemble Collective
Jun 28, 2016
Metro to Ask Voters for Another Sales Tax
Jun 23, 2016
Brexit's Impact on Design, Metro's Transit Funds, Saving The Smell
Jun 21, 2016
Public Space in a Time of Fear
Jun 16, 2016
Gay Spaces, FAB Park, LACMA Redesign, Ecocapsule
Jun 14, 2016
Connecting New and Old in Santa Monica
Jun 09, 2016
Ballot Design, Looff Hippodrome, Earthquake Preparedness
Jun 07, 2016
Grand Avenue Project May Get a Jumpstart
Jun 02, 2016
Facebook Compassion, Broken Relationships and Lonely Cities
May 31, 2016
Farewell, LA Memorial Sports Arena
May 26, 2016
WeHo's Sunset Spectacular, Megaships and Global Shipping
May 24, 2016
West Hollywood's Digital Billboard Design Competition
May 18, 2016
Light Rail, Hyperloop, High School Shop Returns as Career Tech
May 17, 2016
Riding the Expo Line, High Rise Horrors
May 10, 2016
Solar Training, Dream Cities, Hollywood Interiors
May 03, 2016
Pershing Square Renewed?
Apr 28, 2016
Pershing Square, Plastic Sculptures, William Wegman
Apr 26, 2016
Can "Modern Trades" Be an Alternative to College?
Apr 21, 2016
Community Plans, Ramiro Gomez, David Hockney
Apr 19, 2016
Who Speaks for the Los Angeles River?
Apr 13, 2016
Tomorrow's Electricians, Nkandla-gate, Hitler at Home
Apr 12, 2016
Clothes Make the Man
Apr 06, 2016
Zaha Hadid, Burglar's City, Men's Fashion
Apr 05, 2016
Bringing LA's Sidewalks into the 21st Century
Mar 30, 2016
Modern Trades, Build Better LA, TOM House
Mar 29, 2016
A Controversial LA Development Gets a Key Endorsement
Mar 23, 2016
Watson Mixes Drinks; Streetfight: Moses, Jacobs, Sadik-Khan
Mar 22, 2016
Engineers and Elections, Woody Guthrie in LA
Mar 15, 2016
Does Luxury Housing Trickle Down to Affordable Apartments?
Mar 08, 2016
The Design and Culture of Surveillance
Mar 01, 2016
The Power of Logos, Costume Design, LACMA's House
Feb 23, 2016
Stadium Rings Changes in Inglewood; Sturges House for Sale
Feb 09, 2016
A Citi Bike Goes West; Pritzker & Obama Library; Cool Cats
Jan 26, 2016
The Internet of Things; Bowie's Legacy; New Objectivity
Jan 12, 2016
The Metropolis Considered
Dec 22, 2015
Fear and Public Space; Can LA Be Water Self-Sufficient?
Dec 08, 2015
Getting High Speed Rail Right; What Makes a House a Home?
Nov 24, 2015
Electric Cars, Black Panthers and Road Trips
Nov 10, 2015
Farewell to a Bridge, Pershing Square, "Ghoulish" LED Lights
Oct 27, 2015
Is Recycling Rubbish? Is Mars Habitable? Great Bus Stops?
Oct 13, 2015
Beyond The Broad, Clifton's Returns, Goldberger on Goldberg
Sep 22, 2015
Spotlight on Frank Gehry and Eli Broad; Opulent Mobility; Berlin Palace
Sep 08, 2015
Dismaland, Shelter and Another LA Olympics?
Aug 25, 2015
Does Frank Gehry Have the Answers for the LA River?
Aug 11, 2015
Is Berlin’s Cohousing a Model for LA? A German Board Game Pits East and West
Jul 28, 2015
Flamboyant Shoes, Dying Trees and LA’s Labyrinths
Jul 14, 2015
DnA Goes to Berlin; Can California's Water Crisis Be a Game?
Jun 23, 2015
Corita’s Legacy; Does Ripping Out Lawns Mean Death to Trees?
Jun 09, 2015
Disneyland at 60 and the Decline of World’s Fairs, Solar Sun Flowers
May 26, 2015
New Meets the Ancient in Water Use and Burial
May 12, 2015
Simon Doonan on 2016, Dior and I, LACMA Update
Apr 21, 2015
Testing the Limits: The Panama Canal Expansion and the Mile-High Tower
Apr 07, 2015
Should Parker Center Be Saved?; Remembering Michael Graves
Mar 24, 2015
The Googleplex Expands; A Local Designer Meets Reality TV
Mar 10, 2015
Has 'Zombie Urbanism' Gripped the Global City?
Feb 24, 2015
A Valentine to The Southland
Feb 10, 2015
Thom Mayne Shares Plans for Bradbury's Former Home; Suburban LA Gets a Retrofit
Jan 20, 2015
2014 in Tech, Style and Architecture
Dec 30, 2014
‘Tis the Season for Buying Gifts that Do Good
Dec 16, 2014
L.A. Galleries Head to Art Basel; Pershing Square Redesign?
Dec 02, 2014
High Fidelity with Henry Rollins; Ma Yansong Comes to L.A.
Nov 18, 2014
Haunted Screens, Birdman Costumes, The Future of Auschwitz
Nov 04, 2014
The ‘Real L.A.’ in the Artist's Imagination
Oct 21, 2014
Is Grand Central Market Becoming Too Grand?; Goodbye Flat Top Towers
Oct 07, 2014
The “Crisis” of the Big Blue Bus Stops; Is D.C. Too Square for Frank Gehry?
Sep 16, 2014
Architects Vie To Design LGBT Campus; Los Angeles Plays Itself
Sep 02, 2014
Slide the City, or Not? Designing The Knick
Aug 19, 2014
Wearables and Drones – Tech for Tech’s Sake?
Jul 29, 2014
LACMA Redesigns Its Redesign, Builders Use Drones
Jul 15, 2014
Reclaiming Public Space-- at the Beach and at the River
Jul 01, 2014
Apple Buys Beats; Who Built the Beats Brand?
Jun 03, 2014
LA Reinvents the Wheel; Artists Honor a Utopian Architect
Apr 29, 2014
The Art of Ritual: Coachella, Passover, a Schindler Church
Apr 15, 2014
Silicon Valley Gets an Edifice Complex
Mar 18, 2014
Design and Architecture At – and In – the Movies; with Simon Doonan, Geoff McFetridge, Kyle Bergman
Feb 25, 2014
Designing for Showtime in Sochi and Hollywood: The Olympic Park, Her and Gravity
Feb 18, 2014
Can the Southland Grow in an Age of Drought?
Feb 04, 2014
The Fight to Save an Ice Rink -- And a Liveable LA
Jan 21, 2014
A Parking Structure For Pedestrians; Ace Hotel Hits LA
Jan 07, 2014
Holiday Time with Frozen, Minecraft, Ugly Sweaters, Muji
Dec 17, 2013
Has Obamacare Delivered a Gold Rush for Medical Devices?
Dec 03, 2013
Mobility Changes in the Capital of the Car
Nov 19, 2013
A Different Kind of 'American Beauty'
Nov 12, 2013
Obamacare, Creative Confidence, IDEO and the User Experience
Oct 29, 2013
Inside the Fashion Asylum; Is the Sun Shining on Solar?
Oct 15, 2013
Art Center, Caltech and Idealab Accelerate Design Biz
Oct 01, 2013
Why Identities Matter
Sep 17, 2013
Matthew Sullivan and Design that Doesn’t Save the World
Sep 03, 2013
Petersen Museum Sells Classic Cars
Aug 27, 2013
Should Architects Design for Solitary Confinement?
Aug 20, 2013
William Pereira: Who Was He?
Aug 13, 2013
A New Twist on Tie Dye; Never Built
Aug 07, 2013
Art and Architecture in 60s New York and 70s LA
Jul 30, 2013
Detroit No More; Neverbuilt Los Angeles
Jul 23, 2013
Google Glass: Our Cyborgian Future or Pointless Gizmo?
Jul 16, 2013
Architecture of Air, and Aluminum
Jul 09, 2013
Photography That Lasts in the Age of Instagram
Jul 02, 2013
Denise Scott Brown, and Designing Couples
Jun 26, 2013
Sculptural Architecture is in Full Flower
Jun 18, 2013
Michael Schmidt and a 3-D Printed Dress with Va-Va-Voom
Jun 11, 2013
Does Debt Shrink Designers' Dreams?
Jun 03, 2013
James Turrell: Shaper of Realities
May 28, 2013
MOCA, Drama and 'A New Sculpturalism'
May 21, 2013
SoCal Design: A New Age for Making?
May 14, 2013
Ten Buildings that Shaped the World?
May 07, 2013
All You Need Is Zip Ties; Talking Product Design
Apr 30, 2013
Transformations, in Wood; On Wilshire Boulevard
Apr 23, 2013
Architecture in Pacific Standard Time
Apr 16, 2013
SOLA Reinvents the City Souvenir
Apr 09, 2013
World Building; LA Designer Tanya Aguiniga
Apr 02, 2013
LA Fashion with a German Twist
Mar 25, 2013
What Will We Do with 3D Printers?
Mar 19, 2013
Original Copies: Duplitecture in China
Feb 19, 2013
Lethal Weapons
Jan 15, 2013
The Meaningful Object
Dec 18, 2012
The Tesla Model S and the Arrival of the All-Electric Car
Nov 20, 2012
Art and Architecture: A 'Cosmic' Fusion?
Oct 16, 2012
Indie Game Design at the 'Sundance' of Gaming Festivals
Sep 18, 2012
La Burbuja Has Landed
Aug 21, 2012
Design for the London 2012 Olympics: A Very British Story
Jul 17, 2012
Networks, Connections and a Sound Booth for Sonic Trace
Jun 19, 2012
Hats and High Culture, Reconsidered
May 15, 2012
A Bridge to the Imagination
Apr 17, 2012
Creative Meets Corporate in 'Delirious' LA
Mar 20, 2012
Swimsuits, Swimming Pools and the Birth of Modern Body Culture
Feb 21, 2012
Metropolis II: The City in Art
Jan 17, 2012
Holidays 2011: Keeping it Simple After a Turbulent Year
Dec 20, 2011
Building Their Dream: The Chinese Car Industry
Nov 15, 2011
From Calligraphy Buff to Design Guru: Steve Jobs Remembered
Oct 18, 2011
Back to the Future: Design in Pacific Standard Time
Sep 20, 2011
Preserving the Past without Losing the Future
Aug 16, 2011
Battle for the Bottom: TOTO, Kohler and the Luxury Toilet
Jul 19, 2011
A Field Operation in Santa Monica
Jun 21, 2011
L.A. Noire: The Game
May 17, 2011
Art in the Streets, In and Out of the Art World
Apr 19, 2011
Architecture and the BIG Idea
Mar 15, 2011
The Art of Rodarte: Black Swan and Design for the Movies
Feb 15, 2011
Grand Visions, Rare Earths and Design's Fictions
Jan 18, 2011
It Wasn't All Bad: Bright Spots in LA in 2010
Dec 21, 2010
The Cadillac Reconsidered; LAMOTH Re-rooted, Permanently
Nov 16, 2010
When Is a Logo a No-Go?
Oct 19, 2010
Piano's Resnick at LACMA; CicLAvia and Biking in LA
Sep 21, 2010
John Leighton Chase: Grand Poobah of West Hollywood
Aug 17, 2010
Action-Reaction: Design and Transformation
Jul 20, 2010
Let There Be Shade
Jun 15, 2010
Oil, Plastic and the Stuff that Surrounds Us
May 18, 2010
Apple Worship: Creating a Brand
Apr 20, 2010
Designing a 'Vibe'
Mar 16, 2010
Ebooks and the iPad: A Match for the Coffee Table Book?
Feb 16, 2010
Will Design and Architecture Help Haiti Rise Again?
Jan 19, 2010
From Hummers to Hybrids: Design in the Oughts Revisited
Dec 22, 2009
Welcoming Police Stations; A Sustainable Supersize House
Nov 17, 2009
Healing by Design
Oct 20, 2009
Does Creative Architecture Inspire Creativity?
Sep 15, 2009
When Architecture Met Pop Culture
Aug 18, 2009
Goodbye, Julius Shulman
Jul 21, 2009
Public Space Is the Happening Place in LA Design
Jun 16, 2009
Waste Not, Want Not
May 12, 2009
Is It Goodbye to Architectural Excess?
Apr 21, 2009
Surviving the Downturn, Creatively
Mar 17, 2009
Architect of Cinematic Cities Builds Home for Cinematic Arts
Feb 17, 2009
Design, Architecture and Inauguration Day
Jan 20, 2009
Back to the Handmade
Dec 23, 2008
The Metropolitan President and Architecture and Design
Nov 18, 2008
The Graphics of Political Protest
Oct 21, 2008
'Guerrilla' Designers Remake LA Public Space
Sep 23, 2008
All LA's a Stage
Aug 26, 2008
Landmark Architecture of LA's Past and China's Present
Jul 22, 2008
One-Seaters, Two-Wheelers and the Honda Fuel Cell Car
Jun 17, 2008
Design and the Elastic Mind; New Uses for Old Materials
May 20, 2008
Selling Architecture as Art; Disney's Small World
Apr 15, 2008
Guerrilla Stores; Edible Estates
Mar 18, 2008
BCAM Comes to Town
Feb 12, 2008
Politics Meets Design
Jan 15, 2008
The Serious Business of Designing Toys
Dec 18, 2007
Romantic Spanish Meets Cool Modern
Nov 20, 2007
Will LA Fashion Week Make Waves This Time?
Oct 16, 2007
The Incredible Being of Lightness
Sep 18, 2007
A School Even Teens Will Love
Aug 21, 2007
The Wild West Meets the Wild East
Jul 17, 2007
Only in LA! A 'Green' Gas Station and Trash-as-Animals
Jun 19, 2007
Architecture in the Shadow of Stalin
May 15, 2007
Garden Design in an Age of Drought
Apr 17, 2007
Los Angeles Furniture: A 'Scout's' View
Mar 20, 2007
When Is Green Design 'Greenwashing'?
Feb 20, 2007
Designer Gadgets for Rich and Poor
Jan 16, 2007
Los Angeles, 2106, and the Holiday Season 2006
Dec 19, 2006
Green Spaces, Bus Design and Radical Cars for LA
Nov 21, 2006
An LA Landmark Gets a Facelift
Oct 17, 2006
The Only Way Is Up: The Venice Biennale and Vertical Living
Sep 19, 2006
Transmaterials and Surfer-Chick Chic
Jul 18, 2006
Is Prefab Modern Taking Off in LA?
Jun 20, 2006
What Would Jane Jacobs Have Thought of Grand Avenue?
May 16, 2006