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Design and Architecture
Design and Architecture

Should Parker Center Be Saved?; Remembering Michael Graves

Hosted by Frances Anderton Mar. 24, 2015
Should Parker Center be preserved? We weigh the pros and cons. Plus, a look back at Michael Graves, prolific architect and designer whose late-life paralysis reshaped his work.

Should Parker Center be preserved? We weigh the pros and cons. Plus, a look back at Michael Graves, prolific architect and designer whose late-life paralysis reshaped his work.

Photo by Hunter Kerhart

From this Episode:

Should Parker Center Be Saved?

For more than a half a century, Parker Center in downtown Los Angeles served as the LAPD’s headquarters. And during that time it represented the best and worst of the Los...

18 min

Historic Places LA

For several years now the Office of Historic Resources has been making a survey of buildings and districts of note -- and now the findings are available to you at...

5 min

Remembering Michael Graves

Earlier this month, postmodernist architect and designer Michael Graves died at age 80. His Portland Building was a game changer when it appeared in 1982, and since fell...

5 min

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Host:
Frances Anderton

Producers:
Frances Anderton, Caroline Chamberlain

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