Show notes and Julie’s five places:
This interview was recorded on March 30, 2023
1. Beach (ex: Santa Monica beach)
2. Topography of hills and plains (as you might see from the Griffith Observatory): a mythical place with elusive edges
3. Distinctive and walkable neighborhoods (Santa Monica, Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights, Arts District, Atwater Village, mid-Wilshire, pockets of the Valley, Sierra Madre, West Ventura) Cuernavaca café on Ventura avenue.
4. Strip malls, with their ephemeral signage, and Park’s barbecue in particular
5. Homeless encampments
Also mentioned in this episode/related links:
KoningEizenberg firm overview video
LA Times neighborhood mapping project - most of the distinctive and walkable neighborhoods mentioned by Julie are included in this project.
Eames House (Case Study House No.8)
Reyner Banham and Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Joan Didion on Driving as Secular Worship and Self-Transcendence (The Marginalian)
Julie Eizenberg interviewed in Madame Architect
The Right Touch, article on KoningEizenberg by Christopher Hawthorne in Metropolis Magazine
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