Design & Architecture on KCRW.com Vox 2009-07-02T22:22:03Z Frances Anderton http://designandarchitectureonkcrw.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00fa96792b050002/ A thoughtful look at architecture and design in the modern age. Sparky and Me: PURE EE tag:vox.com,2009-07-02:asset-6a00fa96792b0500020110166c43f0860c 2009-07-02T22:16:23Z 2009-07-02T22:22:03Z Frances Anderton http://designandarchitectureonkcrw.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Sandra Kulli, Sparky and an approving granddaughter

BMW is at work on the production of a 100% electric, zero electric MINI, and they are calling on 500 people in the LA and New York areas to field test the cars. The company says it wants to find out how well the "limited range of such a vehicle" ...

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]]> Be DnA's Guest at Dwell on Design! tag:vox.com,2009-06-24:asset-6a00fa96792b050002011016a139b5860d 2009-06-24T21:04:44Z 2009-06-24T21:04:44Z Frances Anderton http://designandarchitectureonkcrw.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Join us at Dwell on Design!

We've just received word that we can take five friends with us to this weekend's Dwell on Design, which we went into plenty of detail about in yesterday's post. Be our guest for three days of panels, speakers and demonstrations, including access...

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]]> Join DnA at Dwell on Design This Weekend! tag:vox.com,2009-06-24:asset-6a00fa96792b05000201101665c953860c 2009-06-24T03:06:41Z 2009-06-24T20:26:04Z Frances Anderton http://designandarchitectureonkcrw.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Dwell on Design is this weekend!

Yes, it's that time of year again, when Dwell's San Francisco-based editors make their annual pilgrimage to the frontline of progressive design, Los Angeles. Dwell on Design is this Friday, June 26 through Sunday, June 28 at the downtown L.A. Con...

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]]> The New Public Spaces in LA: Where are They? tag:vox.com,2009-06-18:asset-6a00fa96792b0500020110183ca55f860f 2009-06-18T22:00:20Z 2009-06-19T18:38:42Z Frances Anderton http://designandarchitectureonkcrw.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The children's adventure area in Vista Hermosa Park The soccer field at Vista Hermosa Park Aromatic plants line a snaking pathway through Vista Hermosa Visitors Center by Safdie Rabines at Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook

Politics, money, ecology. . . and design -- those are just some of the complex considerations in a public park project that, says LA Times critic and DnA guest Christopher Hawthorne, make landscape design one of the most compelling design disci...

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]]> In Memoriam: Maloof and Zimmerman; Brooke Hodge Leaves MOCA tag:vox.com,2009-06-06:asset-6a00fa96792b050002011017d2933f860e 2009-06-06T19:41:34Z 2009-06-08T05:45:30Z Frances Anderton http://designandarchitectureonkcrw.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Bernard Zimmerman Sam Maloof (Image from UCR Art History Association) Skin and Bones

Part and parcel of the privilege of hosting a show on KCRW is now maintaining a blog relating to it. If you happen to read the DnA blog you may have noticed it refreshes itself rather sporadically and that is because I confess I belong to the c...

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]]> Art and Design this Weekend tag:vox.com,2009-05-29:asset-6a00fa96792b0500020110168e147e860d 2009-05-29T23:23:32Z 2009-05-31T23:15:48Z Frances Anderton http://designandarchitectureonkcrw.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Art and Design Walk

It's an art and design weekend coming up with artwalks tomorrow in both Culver City and West Hollywood (see poster, left). Check out what's au courant, and support local designers, artists and retailers. Also, in the evening a show opens at the P...

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]]> Waste Not, Want Not tag:vox.com,2009-05-12:asset-6a00fa96792b05000201101822ad9e860f 2009-05-12T13:53:51Z 2009-05-14T18:02:58Z Frances Anderton http://designandarchitectureonkcrw.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Billboard "blight" at Highland and Franklin (photo by Dennis Hathaway)

The messy vitality of urban life, or "visual pollution?That's a question we'll ask on today's DnA when I talk with Dennis Hathaway, president of the Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight. The show airs on the day an LA City Council's landuse committe...

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]]> Slow Food Decorating on La Cienega This Weekend tag:vox.com,2009-05-07:asset-6a00fa96792b050002011016464aa5860c 2009-05-07T23:44:51Z 2009-05-11T18:11:24Z Frances Anderton http://designandarchitectureonkcrw.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Dining room, designed by David Phoenix Bathroom, designed by David Phoenix

Many of the region's top furniture and decor stores serving the high-end interior design community are to be found on or near La Boulevard. This weekend they've pooled their energies to throw a three day festival: "Legends of La Cienega...

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]]> See new Experiments in LA Residential Design tag:vox.com,2009-05-01:asset-6a00fa96792b050002011015feffa3860b 2009-05-01T19:08:46Z 2009-05-08T19:47:57Z Frances Anderton http://designandarchitectureonkcrw.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Picture 7

Probably LA's biggest contribution to architectural history is its residential design (think Irving Gill, Rudolf Schindler, Greene and Greene, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wallace Neff, Gerard Colcord, John Lautner, Cliff May, Frank Gehry, the list goes o...

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]]> Catch Kit Hinrichs at Art Center This Weekend tag:vox.com,2009-05-01:asset-6a00fa96792b0500020110167e6e0e860d 2009-05-01T00:07:21Z 2009-05-01T00:23:48Z Frances Anderton http://designandarchitectureonkcrw.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Photo by Barry Robinson; Illustrator: John Hersey Photo by Terry Heffernan Kit Hinrichs

If there were two words we'd pick to describe Kit Hinrichs, one would definitely be artist—the talented graphic designer has over 40 years of acclaimed work under his belt—and the other would certainly be storyteller—his melodic inflection and he...

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