Maura Lucking is a historian and independent curator interested in the intersections of art, architecture, technology and object cultures.
Some of you may remember when Memphis furniture and Charles Moore’s Piazza d’Italia (above) bounced into the world, reminding designers steeped in Braun-era minimalism and high-minded Modernist architecture that design could be…
On this week’s show, DJ (design journalist) Maura Lucking interviews fashion designer Bryan Sanderson. Walking down the sunny, tree-lined stretch of Vermont Avenue in Los Feliz near Barnsdall Park, you…
It has been a monumental, and monumentalizing, year for SCI-Arc, Los Angeles’ famed experimental architecture school. The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year, with…