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Design and Architecture

Hello to Berlin

Los Angeles is officially a sister city with Berlin. Unofficially, it's a city that shares tight bonds with LA; for starters both are highly attractive to designers, artists and musicians.

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By Frances Anderton • Jun 22, 2015 • 1 min read

Los Angeles is officially a sister city with Berlin. Unofficially, it's a city that shares tight bonds with LA; for starters both are highly attractive to designers, artists and musicians.

DnA is going to Berlin with KCRW's Madeleine Brand and Jason Bentley. Before heading there we heard about Berlin from LA's vantage point.

Decades founder Cameron Silver revisits his album of torch songs celebrating Weimar era Berlin; Justin Jampol toured us around the 1949 Culver City bunker that will be the new home of the Wende Museum, an archive of Cold War era artifacts.

And, Germany's Deputy Consul General Stefan Biedermann shares just what makes LA and Berlin natural “sisters.”

Also featuring: Pae White, Jennifer Marmon.

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    Frances Anderton

    architecture critic and author

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    Frances Anderton

    architecture critic and author

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    Caroline Chamberlain

    KUOW

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    Cameron Silver

    Decades

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    Justinian Jampol

    Executive Director and Founder of The Wende Museum in Culver City

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    Stefan Biedermann

    German Consulate General in Los Angeles

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