Rhythm and Hues Cast Out to Sea
Yes, the costumes (Anna Karenina), the make-up and hairstyling (or unstyling) on Les Miserables and the production design (Lincoln) were all spectacular, but the visual design story of last night’s Oscars was the one…
Month: February 2013
Palm Springs’ Modernism Week: The Coachella for Architecture
Palm Springs’ Modernism Week, now in its 12th year and being referred to by some as the “Coachella for Architecture,” has grown into a 10-day week. KCRW’s “beat architect” Jason Groman…
Original Copies: Duplitecture in China; with Bianca Bosker, Qingyun Ma, Marissa Gluck
[soundcloud id=88191507] Where do newly affluent Chinese want to live? In buildings modeled on the White House, Austrian villages and English towns. Bianca Bosker, Qingyun Ma and Marissa Gluck discuss copycat culture in China, from…
Pacific Standard Time Presents The Modern LA That Was, While “Neverbuilt” Shows the Future LA That Wasn’t
Last year the Getty shed its image as an aloof castle on the hill by bringing together 60+ LA Art museums and institutions in a region-wide celebration of the Southland’s…
You Know You Are on the Westside When. . . You Get a “Complete Green Street”
You know you’re on the Eastside when. . . “The hipster in the skinny jeans and ironic mustache falls off his fixie bike and spills his bag of kale and…
More Frank Gehry Than Formal Greek: Really?
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set the architecture world atwitter when she invoked Frank Gehry’s work as a new model for international relations: “We need a new architecture for this…