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Design and Architecture
Design and Architecture

Architecture of Air, and Aluminum

Hosted by Frances Anderton Jul. 09, 2013
On today’s DnA, Neil Denari talks about his futuristic architecture and the music that inspires it, and David Weinberg revisits Wallace Neff’s bubble house dream.

On today’s DnA, architecture of air, and of aluminum. David Weinberg tells the story of the bubble houses that Wallace Neff dreamed would solve a housing crisis. Neil Denari talks about his futuristic architecture and the music that has inspired it with Eric J. Lawrence.

Banner image: New Keelung Harbor Service Project, won by NMDA in September, 2012; Aerial view from the northeast, in rendering by NMDA

From this Episode:

Neil Denari, His Futuristic Architecture and the Music That Inspires It

Another – contemporary – architect with dreams of changing the world is Neil Denari. He is an educator, writer and creator of buildings.

17 min

Wallace Neff's Bubble Houses

One of the founding builders of Los Angeles was Wallace Neff, an architect based in Pasadena who built houses for LA's rich and famous in the Spanish Colonial Revival...

9 min

Credits

Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, David Weinberg

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