Missed out on Next Up: The LA River, Archinect Sessions' podcasting event? Now you can listen to the whole thing, released in two parts on One-to-One. Last week, we released the first half of the interviews, and this week we've got the rest.
This week's playlist of live recordings features interviews with:
Lou Pesce (designer with Metabolic Studio)
Julia Meltzer (director and founder of Clockshop, a non-profit arts organization) and Elizabeth Timme (co-director of LA-Más)
Renee Dake Wilson (partner at Dake Wilson Architects and VP of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission) and Alexander Robinson (assistant professor of architecture at USC and principal at Office of Outdoor Research)
Mia Lehrer (founder and president at Mia Lehrer + Associates)
Individual episodes are available on Archinect Sessions. Listen and subscribe here.
Listen to One-to-One #48, featuring the last four interviews from Next Up: The LA River:
About Next Up: The LA River
When Frank Gehry's office was first attached to the L.A. River's master plan and redevelopment, the river began attracting fresh attention over a project that had already been evolving for decades. This October, in an attempt to do justice to the river's complexity and history (and the accompanying urbanist discourse), Archinect hosted 'Next Up: The LA River'—a live podcasting interview series with an array of architects, planners, artists, and journalists with varying perspectives on the subject.
We're now eager to share those conversations with everyone as eight Mini-Sessions, released as part of our Archinect Sessions podcast. Amelia Taylor-Hochberg, Paul Petrunia and Nicholas Korody moderated the conversations, which took place at the Los Angeles Architecture + Design Museum on October 29, 2016. While we reached out to them, unfortunately no representatives from Gehry's office were able to take part.
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One of the interesting parts about listening to the interviewees was ascertain their trust of the current plan and it's internal process. It seemed to me that the conversations did involve a spectrum of trust from Gehry is doing great things for the project even if process is behind closed doors to we can't let this opportunity serve as a way to maintain design practices in business as usual mode (It seemed to me that it leaned more to latter).
What was really interesting was the broader interpretation of the river. Alexander Robinson provided the only compelling suggestion that I have heard to keep the concrete in place (it's about the people who made the place along with the how and why), which was far better than Gehry's original argument "concrete is an architectural material." Elizbeth Timme's/LA-Más bottom-up approach was equally appreciated.
(And they're all wrong- design for when the river is a fullest and let the citizens celebrate at the waters edge).
In truth, one of the real tells is not how people within the circles related to the masterplans or engagement on the ground react. Instead it's the ripple effect of the original announcement. As demonstrated in other news on this site the concern of displacement is one that needs to be heeded.
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