Design and Architecture
Connecting The Bloc, modernist art, mapping the heart
Retailers in LA have been slow to welcome transit riders into their stores, but that's changing: a new passageway connects The Bloc directly to the Metro. Will Angelenos use it? As Modernism Week kicks off in Palm Springs, we hear about two Los Angeles exhibitions of modernist art, design and architecture. And an engineer has created a 3D model of the human heart, inspired by his daughter's heart condition.
By Frances Anderton • • 28m ListenPhoto: An image from Susan Horowitz's Perspective - The White City photography series
In this episode
3 storiesConnecting The Bloc
A bird's eye view of The Bloc in downtown LA.
Read the story10 minBauhaus, modernism, Moholy-Nagy and the White City
If it's February, it must be time to head to Palm Springs for Modernism Week , an annual celebration of mid-century architecture and style.
Read the story13 minMapping the human heart
A heart heat map Courtesy of the Living Heart Project Steve Levine is a mechanical engineer with Dassault Systèmes, the company behind the software modeling used for designing curving metal forms from fighter jets to Frank Gehry buildings. Inspired by his daughter's rare heart condition, he's applied this technology to 3D-model the human…
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