Design and Architecture
Detroit No More; Neverbuilt Los Angeles
Detroit shaped America and is now on its knees. Andrew Zago considers what comes next. Matt Holzman reports on the neverbuilt visions of Frank Lloyd Wright and son Lloyd.
By Frances Anderton • • 34m ListenMad Men dismissed LA as Detroit with Palm Trees. Now the city that gave us car culture is on its knees. LA-based, Detroit native Andrew Zago talks about Motor City’s role in American culture, and where the fallen metropolis might go now. Plus, Neverbuilt exhibit shows the LA that never was. Matthew Holzman tells the stories behind unbuilt visions, starting with the thwarted dreams of Frank Lloyd Wright, and his son Lloyd.
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2 storiesMotor City, Out of Gas?
On this DnA, we talk at length about Detroit with Andrew Zago, starting with its outsize cultural contribution: a car culture whose twenty year output of desirable cars equated, in his view, to Jobs' years of productivity at Apple; astonishing music; car culture's close relation, the midcentury Modern architecture, planning and related crafts,…
Read the story21 minNeverbuilt: Frank Lloyd Wright
Matthew Holzman tells the stories behind visionary and mad schemes that didn’t happen, starting with the thwarted dreams of Frank Lloyd Wright, and his son Lloyd.
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