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    Design and Architecture

    Wilshire Boulevard

    PSTP has sponsored another exploration of a defining Los Angeles boulevard, but it's one you'll be able to take in outside of the museum space, and not at the speed or kind of mobility it was built for.

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    By Frances Anderton • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    PSTP has sponsored another exploration of a defining Los Angeles boulevard, but it's one you'll be able to take in outside of the museum space, and not at the speed or kind of mobility it was built for. We are talking Wilshire Boulevard and on June 23, bikers and walkers are invited to join in CicLAvia: Modern Architecture on Wilshire Boulevard. Part of the project is an accompanying series of stories, about Wilshire's iconic buildings, produced by veteran radio producer and architecture writer Edward Lifson. We are airing some of them on DnA, starting today with "Tar Pit Death Trip," told by memoirist D.J. Waldie, set against original music by Steve Wight. Waldie takes us back to the primordial ooze of LACMA's tarpits, a reminder that despite Angelenos conviction to the contrary, death is not an option and we will be one day replaced by new generations who will have stories to tell about us.

    The full episode

    4 of 5
    Architecture in Pacific Standard Time
    1. 0:00Modern LA
    2. 3:51Overdrive
    3. 12:56Windshield Perspective
    4. 18:23Wilshire BoulevardYou’re reading this
    5. 26:41Venice
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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Edward Lifson

      USC School of Architecture

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      D.J. Waldie

      KCET

      Culture

    The full episode

    4 of 5
    Architecture in Pacific Standard Time
    1. 0:00Modern LA
    2. 3:51Overdrive
    3. 12:56Windshield Perspective
    4. 18:23Wilshire BoulevardYou’re reading this
    5. 26:41Venice
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