Category: Postopolis LA
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Bryan Boyer (Postopolis! LA)
File under 'better late than never'. NB: This is a write-up of a talk that took place at Postopolis! LA during April 2009. Notes are taken in real-time, with editing and context added afterward so reader beware. All Postopolis! LA entries are gathered here. I’ve known Bryan for a few years, so it was a…
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Michael Downing, Deputy-Chief of Counter-Terrorism for LAPD (Postopolis! LA)
File under 'better late than never'. NB: This is a write-up of a talk that took place at Postopolis! LA during April 2009. Notes are taken in real-time, with editing and context added afterward so reader beware. All Postopolis! LA entries are gathered here. Bryan’s pulled off a real coup here. He’s only invited the…
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Freya Bardell and Brian Howe (Postopolis! LA)
File under 'better late than never'. NB: This is a write-up of a talk that took place at Postopolis! LA during April 2009. Notes are taken in real-time, with editing and context added afterward so reader beware. All Postopolis! LA entries are gathered here. Freya Bardell and Brian Howe (of Greenmeme) presented several projects centred…
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Johnston Marklee (Postopolis! LA)
NB: This is a write-up of a talk that took place at Postopolis! LA during April 2009. Notes are taken in real-time, with editing and context added afterward so reader beware. All Postopolis! LA entries are gathered here. Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, principals of Johnston Marklee, were interviewed by David A and David B of…
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Whitney Sander (Postopolis! LA)
NB: This is a write-up of a talk that took place at Postopolis! LA during April 2009. Notes are taken in real-time, with editing and context added afterward so reader beware. All Postopolis! LA entries are gathered here. Another interview by David A and David B of ArchDaily, this time with Whitney Sander of Sander…
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David Gissen (Postopolis! LA)
David Gissen delivered one of my favourite talks at Postopolis! LA, for sure. Gissen is a historian – yet lest that conjure up a certain image – an AJP Taylor, EP Thompson, or Eric Hobsbawm, bless ‘em – he actually cuts a very different kind of figure: exploratory, intrinsically multidisciplinary, and given to speculative imagination.…
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Mary-Ann Ray / Studio Works (Postopolis! LA)
Mary-Ann Ray has worked with Michael Graves, James Turrell and Richard Meier. She is now principal, along with Robert Mangurian, of the firm Studio Works in Los Angeles. She, they, also teach at SCI-Arc. I like that her CV includes several schools in the USA, and would like to hear more about the process of…
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Jeffrey Inaba / C-LAB + Volume (Postopolis! LA)
We may have a soft spot for architects and designers working directly with media as a way to influence architecture and urbanism. Perhaps this is partly given the heritage of Archigram, Superstudio, Cedric Price, Reyner Banham, Yona Friedman et al, but also due to us ‘curators’ all being bloggers, at least to some degree. So…
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Austin Kelly/XTEN Architecture (Postopolis! LA)
Next up, Austin Kelly, one of the principals of the firm XTEN Architecture, as interviewed by David A and David B of ArchDaily/Plataforma Arquitectura. Intriguingly, the two principal architects at XTEN are Kelly and Monika Häfelfinger, who come from very different backgrounds: Los Angeles and Switzerland respectively. In responding to the Davids’ question as to…
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Postopolis! LA, day five / SYNTHe green roof project / Los Angeles
Final day of Postopolis! LA. On the one hand, it’s difficult to believe that the end is in sight (and sad, too); on the other, my tiredness is an indication that, yes, we have been doing this for almost a week now. But the exhilaration associated with the event carries us through the finale and…