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Design and Architecture
Design and Architecture
KCRW

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

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Episodes

LA architect rebuilds after Woolsey Fire and reflects on living in the wildland-urban interface

Geoffrey von Oeyen completed a dream house for his brother, only to see it destroyed by the Woolsey Fire two... more

06 Nov 2020 · 24 minutes
Roman Mars turns ‘99% Invisible’ city into a 100% visible book

Roman Mars has spent 10 years using his radio show “99% Invisible” to reveal the everyday quirks and delights of... more

08 Oct 2020 · 25 minutes
In an age of loneliness, Treehouse offers community that’s carefully curated and designed

Americans are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness. A coliving project in Hollywood was designed to remedy it. Then came a... more

23 Sep 2020 · 31 minutes
Air conditioning becomes a weapon against infection, D.J. Waldie finds the soul in Los Angeles

Ventilation has become a life or death issue as as experts find that COVID-19 infections increase in poorly ventilated interiors.... more

28 Aug 2020 · 29 minutes
How Bill English helped create the computer mouse, and the effort to change the face of architecture

California has around 21,000 licensed architects, and 300 of them are Black. SoCalNOMA (National Organization of Minority Architects) hopes to... more

12 Aug 2020 · 29 minutes
City of Santa Monica lets restaurants serve in parking lanes, taking on the primacy of the automobile

The restaurants on Santa Monica’s Main Street took a huge hit from the COVID-19 shutdown. So the city government, restaurant... more

03 Aug 2020 · 19 minutes
XPRIZE’s $1 million face mask contest, and the link between urban design and immunity

XPRIZE is offering $1 million to designers of a protective face mask that people will actually want to wear. Also,... more

17 Jul 2020 · 32 minutes
For an art conservator, it's hard to say goodbye to Confederate statues

Statues of slave traders and Confederate leaders are being toppled or defaced during protests following the killing of George Floyd.... more

25 Jun 2020 · 19 minutes
How structural racism shaped LA, and what developers can do about it

Redlining, restrictive covenants, urban renewal, and building freeways through  communities of color are all ways Los Angeles was shaped by... more

19 Jun 2020 · 17 minutes
Google and Twitter tell staff to keep working from home. What will happen to creative offices?

Big tech companies have remade the workplace in recent years with creative offices designed to stimulate disruption. Now Google and... more

21 May 2020 · 17 minutes
Design and Architecture
LA architect rebuilds after Woolsey Fire and reflects on living in the wildland-urban interface
Design and Architecture