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Design and Architecture

Connecting The Bloc, modernist art, mapping the heart

Hosted by Frances Anderton Feb. 14, 2017
Retailers in LA have been slow to welcome transit riders into their stores, but that's changing: a new passageway connects The Bloc directly to the Metro. Will Angelenos use it? As Modernism Week kicks off in Palm Springs, we hear about two Los Angeles exhibitions of modernist art, design and architecture. And an engineer has created a 3D model of the human heart, inspired by his daughter's heart condition.

Photo: An image from Susan Horowitz's Perspective - The White City photography series

From this Episode:

Connecting The Bloc

A bird's eye view of The Bloc in downtown LA.

10 min

Bauhaus, modernism, Moholy-Nagy and the White City

If it's February, it must be time to head to Palm Springs for Modernism Week , an annual celebration of mid-century architecture and style.

13 min

Mapping the human heart

A heart heat map Courtesy of the Living Heart Project Steve Levine is a mechanical engineer with Dassault Systèmes, the company behind the software modeling used for...

6 min

Credits

Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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