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Design and Architecture
Design and Architecture

Border wall, Renzo Piano, densifying the dead

Hosted by Frances Anderton Oct. 31, 2017
The prototypes for the new US-Mexican border wall are now built, but will President Trump's dream of a big, beautiful wall materialize? Or will it be just a beautiful patch? Architect Renzo Piano takes a cinematic approach to designing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. And as cities change, so too do their cemeteries, with suburban lawns giving way to tall and dense mausoleums.

Photo: Inside the mausoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. (Avishay Artsy)

From this Episode:

The US-Mexican border wall prototypes: a beautiful patch?

This is one of the three border wall prototypes constructed that people are able to see through because at least the bottom half is made of spaced steel bars. Photo by...

10 min

Renzo Piano's cinematic design for the Academy Museum

Architect Renzo Piano, speaking to journalists at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Photo by Avishay Artsy.

6 min

In cemeteries, densifying the dead

USC professor David Sloane at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. Photo by Frances Anderton.

11 min

Credits

Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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