Design and Architecture
A New Twist on Tie Dye; Never Built
Alissa Walker talks to Jennifer Parry Dodge about tie-dyeing. Matt Holzman reports on another LA project that was Never Built: Elysian Park housing by Richard Neutra.
By Frances Anderton • • 25m ListenJennifer Parry Dodge has brought tie-dyeing into the digital age, while continuing a regional tradition of coloring with natural indigo and cochineal, a dye made from insects who feast on prickly pear fruits. Alissa Walker reports. Plus, Matt Holzman reports on the “Never Built” Elysian Park Heights housing by Richard Neutra that crumbled on red-baiting, unfamiliar accents and fears of a community being destroyed.
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2 storiesLA Designer: Jennifer Parry Dodge
In early June KCRW DJ (Design Journalist) Alissa Walker attended CAMP, a business conference for creatives held at a summer camp in Big Bear, California.
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KCRW’s Matt Holzman has been going behind the scenes to report on some of the projects in the exhibit and why they never got built. One was a huge housing project designed by Austrian émigré Richard Neutra, that was intended for Elysian Park and is now the site of Dodger Stadium.
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