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Design and Architecture
Design and Architecture

A New Twist on Tie Dye; Never Built

Hosted by Frances Anderton Aug. 06, 2013
Alissa Walker talks to Jennifer Parry Dodge about tie-dyeing. Matt Holzman reports on another LA project that was Never Built: Elysian Park housing by Richard Neutra.
Jennifer Parry Dodge has brought tie-dyeing into the digital age, while continuing a regional tradition of coloring with natural indigo and cochineal, a dye made from insects who feast on prickly pear fruits. Alissa Walker reports. Plus, Matt Holzman reports on the “Never Built” Elysian Park Heights housing by Richard Neutra that crumbled on red-baiting, unfamiliar accents and fears of a community being destroyed.

From this Episode:

LA Designer: Jennifer Parry Dodge

In early June KCRW DJ (Design Journalist) Alissa Walker attended CAMP, a business conference for creatives held at a summer camp in Big Bear, California.

13 min

Never Built: Elysian Park

KCRW’s Matt Holzman has been going behind the scenes to report on some of the projects in the exhibit and why they never got built. One was a huge housing project designed...

25 min

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Frances Anderton

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