Design and Architecture

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Design and Architecture episodes

November 15, 2011 Building Their Dream: The Chinese Car Industry
The biggest hybrid and electric car company you've never heard of has put down a beachhead in Los Angeles. Plus, are you ready to have your car parked by a robot?
31 min
October 18, 2011 From Calligraphy Buff to Design Guru: Steve Jobs Remembered
We honor Steve Jobs with a look at how the Apple Mac changed lettering, and hear what "design" meant to him and his chief collaborator, Jonathan Ive.
30 min
September 20, 2011 Back to the Future: Design in Pacific Standard Time
When experimental art was "happening" in post-war LA, so too was design, craft and architecture. Pacific Standard Time is showcasing it all....
31 min
August 16, 2011 Preserving the Past without Losing the Future
Chris Nichols and Christopher Hawthorne on preservation and the fight over Richard Neutra's Kronish House. Plus, Jonathan Louie and others "Rethink LA."
20 min
July 19, 2011 Battle for the Bottom: TOTO, Kohler and the Luxury Toilet
"Is the world ready for a toilet with its own foot warmer, heated seat, bidet washlet and built-in music system, all controlled by a touch-screen remote?"
30 min
June 21, 2011 A Field Operation in Santa Monica
Can you design a great park by committee? Also, Japanese design, on display at Dwell on Design and Little Tokyo Design Week. Plus, the new Los Angeles Design Festival.
30 min
May 17, 2011 L.A. Noire: The Game
Rockstar's newest video game turns the gamer into a methodical detective in a hyper-realistic recreation of L.A. in 1947. How did they do it and will they please fans?
31 min
April 19, 2011 Art in the Streets, In and Out of the Art World
Street art gets the spotlight in a huge MOCA show. Also, Artecnica-Homeboy Industries' "quote" bag collaboration to give a voice to the graffiti work of ex-gang members.
31 min
March 15, 2011 Architecture and the BIG Idea
A wow factor without waste, SF MOMA's How Wine Became Modern, Facebook's design "hackathon," and engineering to withstand catastrophe.
31 min
February 15, 2011 The Art of Rodarte: Black Swan and Design for the Movies
What’s in a frock? Schlock, horror, and much more, when it’s designed by the Mulleavy Sisters of Rodarte. Join Kate and Laura Mulleavy as they discuss creating the ballet costumes for Oscar-nominated Black Swan, their upcoming MOCA show and their fall line. Also, Cathy Whitlock on the sets that tell a story and Nick Verreos on the movie costumes you can see in the flesh. And a visit with Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman, on a life of love and creativity, now on display in the Craft and Folk Art Museum's Marriage of Craft and Design.

30 min