KCRW's DnA: Design & Architecture
Summary: From your iPod to the Freedom Chair to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, design and architecture shape our world. On DnA: Design and Architecture host Frances Anderton talks to design world leaders about the latest in products fashion graphics architecture and more in Los Angeles and beyond.
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Faraday Future, an electric car startup, looks to compete with Tesla. A graphic designer pays tribute to the Black Panthers. And a film about American road trips asks whether mobility is still a path to self-discovery.
Thousands bid farewell to the Sixth Street Bridge, a Pershing Square redesign competition moves ahead, aesthetics versus cost and energy savings with "ghoulish" LED streetlights, and inside the Art Deco hotel of American Horror Story.
A science writer says recycling is a form of "atonement" that makes no economic or environmental sense. DnA explores the business and emotion of waste. The City of LA is rolling out wired bus benches. Do they make streets "great?" What kind of city would Mark Watney live in if he stayed on Mars? Designers of Mars City share their thoughts.
The Broad is not the only new art museum. Why is there a global boom? Also, critics have extreme reactions to another LA building with a showy skin. Plus, Clifton's reopens, Whole Foods goes budget, and Paul Goldberger explains Frank Gehry.
The spotlight is on Frank Gehry and Eli Broad this month with the openings of LACMA?s Gehry retrospective and The Broad museum. Plus, a strange preservation story and an exhibition that aims to add flair to ?assisted mobility.?
The spotlight is on Frank Gehry and Eli Broad this month with the openings of LACMA’s Gehry retrospective and The Broad museum. Plus, a strange preservation story and an exhibition that aims to add flair to “assisted mobility.”
DnA explores Banksy?s dystopian theme park and a new exhibit at A D Museum examines the future of housing in LA. Plus, could an Olympic bid jumpstart ambitious plans for LA and its river?
Frank Gehry is masterplanning the LA River. Why? DnA explores the reaction at the selection as well the political, design and water reclamation stakes with Frank Gehry and others.
How can Angelenos break into the housing market -- and live alongside their peers? DnA explores a cohousing model in Berlin called ?Baugruppen? and asks whether they could work in L.A. Plus, a Cold War-themed board game pits East Germany vs. West Germany.
Turf: should it stay or go? Native plant advocate Charles Anderson adds his voice to the debate about landscaping during a drought. Plus, we explore the extreme shoe designs of Chris Francis, and Gideon Brower explores the labyrinths of LA.
As DnA heads to Berlin, Cameron Silver sings songs of longing for the Weimar era; and we visit the Culver City bunker that will house the Wende Museum. Plus, Caroline Chamberlain "plays" the California Water Crisis.
The Petersen Automotive Museum is getting a new facade, and DnA explores Corita Kent?s artistic and spiritual legacy. Plus, should you rip out your lawn after all?
Disneyland?s 60th birthday party attracts crowds while a huge world?s fair in Milan gets no love in the US. Why? Plus, filmmaker James Cameron creates solar Sun Flowers to power -- and educate -- a school.
Can small actions lead to big savings in water? DnA explores two apps that aim to help save and conserve water. Plus, does the traditional burial need to be redesigned?
Simon Doonan says the 2016 presidential candidates should provide more ?fash-tainment;? and a documentary pulls back the veil on the House of Dior. Plus, Joseph Giovannini questions the LACMA design by Peter Zumthor.