Neil Denari Architects
Founder in the architecture and design firm Neil Denari Architects, which designed the Endeavor Talent Agency’s new headquarters in Beverly Hills, California
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Design and Architecture
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. Denari was one of the pioneers of applying computers to architecture – not just the process of design, but metaphorically. He talked to DJ Eric J Lawrence about the music that has inspired his architecture for KCRW's Guest DJ project . Listen to Neil talk about songs and pieces of music as varied as the Isaac Hayes' "Theme from Shaft," Brian Eno's "Kurt's Rejoinder," Glen Branca's "2nd Movement, Symphony No. 5," Lee Ranaldo's "The Bridge" and Suicide's "Keep Your Dreams" (from the First Album).
Design and Architecture
A Taste of the Future at 'A New Sculpturalism' A New Sculpturalism will show models, sketches and photographs of buildings constructed by more than 30 of LA’s leading and lesser-known architects. But, knowing that architecture is best experienced at human scale, MOCA also commissioned walk-in pavilions designed by young architects -- Elena Manferdini, Georgina Hujlich and Marcelo Spina of the firm Patterns, and Tom Wiscombe. In addition they asked Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues of Ball-Nogues to create a custom gateway (as we air, their participation is still being negotiated.) DnA visited each of the designers in their studios to get a sense of what they are building, and got a taste of the digital design and materials research that might inform buildings of the future.
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