Design and Architecture
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.
On July 6, as part of KCRW Presents Zócalo Public Square, Frances Anderton spoke with award-winning architect Michael Maltzan about his work, whether good design can be affordable, and how architecture shapes our lives.
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Program Details
Host
Frances Anderton along with hosting DnA, is a producer for Warren Olney's Which Way, L.A.? and To the Point on KCRW. In addition, Anderton is the L.A. Editor for Dwell magazine.
Tapes & Transcripts
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LA FAME
July 20-21: Join Frances and guest speakers Karim Rashid, Greg Lynn, Frank Gehry, Barbara Bestor and more at a two-day executive education program at USC focusing on design, fame and the media. USC, Exposition Park
Dingbat
2.0
Through July 27: Winning and selected entries from
a competition to reinvent the dingbat will be exhibited alongside
historic documentation of the ubiquitous Los Angeles buildings. LA Forum
Events at W.H.E., Hollywood
Lazy Haze: Living Amongst Greens
Through July 31: An exhibition of vintage and classic outdoor furniture at the venerable antiques dealer showroom. JF Chen, Hollywood
Through September: Found plastic children's toys make up Greg Lynn's pop-baroque summertime sculpture in the courtyard of the Hammer Museum. Westwood
Table
Cloth
Through September: Ball-Nogues' "cross-manufactured"
installation features over 500 unique tables and stools knit into a
tapestry. UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Schoenberg Hall, Westwood
California
Design Biennial
Through October 31: Frances Anderton co-curates
this biennial survey of design and architecture produced in California.
On August 1, 3pm is a panel discussion with all five curators. Pasadena
Museum of California Art, Pasadena
EATLACMA
Through November: A year-long series of events exploring food,
art, culture and politics, curated by the foraging collective Fallen
Fruit. LACMA, Miracle Mile
AIGA
AIA
Big City Forum
de LaB
Esotouric
Farmlab
ForYourArt
LA Forum
LA Conservancy
SCI-Arc
UCLA
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