Architectural historian and curator
Architectural historian, curator and author; co-curator of Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner, which opened at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2008
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Film Reviews
First Man Here’s the radical notion behind Damien Chazelle’s “First Man”: Tell the story of mankind’s boldest adventure thus far, the Apollo 11 mission that reached the moon nearly a half-century ago, but tell it through a taciturn, emotionally closed-off hero, Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the lunar surface.