KCRW's Design and Architecture Podcasts

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To some Los Angeles spells freeways and sprawl; to others it's a unique city whose climate, proximity to nature and liberating spirit have inspired the design of furniture, fashion, cars and architects from Greene and Greene to Frank Gehry. With the buzz Primary Format : Public Radio Also Listed as: Architecture Design NPR Public Radio City : Santa Monica State/Province : CA Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: NPR | Design | Fashion | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of KCRW's Design and Architecture Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of KCRW's Design and Architecture Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of KCRW's Design and Architecture Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Selling Architecture as Art; Disney's Small World Richard Neutra's famed Kaufmann House in Palm Springs goes on the block in May, to be auctioned off in Christie's Fine Art sale. What does this mean. Plus, an update on a classic Disneyland ride. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guerrilla Stores; Edible Estates Comme des Gar--ons has opened a temporary "guerrilla" store downtown. New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture is touching down on Sunset for a month. What's going on with high-style, low-impact design outlets. Plus, AD seeks new design talent, Fritz Haeg attacks the suburban front lawn, and California design goes on display. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BCAM Comes to Town It's by a blue-chip architect and filled with blue-chip contemporary art. So how is the new BCAM at LACMA. Find out when we talk to Renzo Piano, Michael Govan and others. Plus, where should you eat in LA if you want to be heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics Meets Design The message behind the architecture of America's new embassies, and the fashion industry's efforts to legislate against piracy. Plus, LA hardware stores and why women love them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Serious Business of Designing Toys Toys may be made in China but many are designed in Los Angeles. We visit the Otis College Department of toy design. Plus, a conversation with Thom Mayne and other LA architects who are "Making It Right" with Brad Pitt in New Orleans. We'll also go design shopping with "The Scout," David A. Keeps. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Romantic Spanish Meets Cool Modern Is your idea of California living Romantic Spanish or Cool Modern. Hear from Diane Keaton and others about the quintessential LA home. Plus, hot wheels at the LA Auto Show and hot colors at Wilshire and Vermont. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will LA Fashion Week Make Waves This Time. LA loves fashion but its Fashion Week rarely makes waves. Could this be the Week it does. Also, green machines for living in, design Japan-style, great houses of LA's Gilded Age, and a tribute to Herbert Muschamp. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Incredible Being of Lightness Can light be form or mass. We look at the art and architecture of light, with artist James Turrell and others. Plus, Hippy Modern Californian design, and a preservationist talks about falling in love with a building he fought against. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A School Even Teens Will Love Can a high school be as enticing to teens as an iPod or a shopping center. Should it. Plus, microcars and Sprinkles Cupcakes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wild West Meets the Wild East Much of US manufacturing is being outsourced to the Chinese, but when it comes to architecture, they are hiring -- from the US and beyond. Plus, the iPhone and the Dreamliner, the Santa Monica Swim Center and remembering the late George Yu. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Only in LA! A 'Green' Gas Station and Trash-as-Animals An eye-catching gas station at Olympic and Robertson has been certified as "green." Plus, a croc formed from a rubber tire and an old violin case, by a puppeteer who turns refuse into wildlife. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Architecture in the Shadow of Stalin The Los Angeles Philharmonic is revisiting the music of Stalin's Russia. We hear about Stalin's "Edifice Complex" and one American's experience as an architect working for the dictator. Plus, the Left Edge at New York's International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Los Angeles Furniture: A'Scout's'View Furniture designers are hard at work in LA, but where do you find their creations. Plus, what is enlightened development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Is Green Design'Greenwashing'. Will bamboo floors, denim insulation and solar power really make your house kinder to the earth. Hear what's really green and what's greenwashing in the growing business of sustainable design. While we are at it, we'll hear about the new"green"parking structure in Santa Monica, and plans for un-sustainable architecture in Abu Dhabi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Designer Gadgets for Rich and Poor The Apple iPhone and TV box, huge flat-screen TV's... it's been a good week for gadget-lovers. We hear about who's tops in the world of consumer electronics, and we'll hear from designer Yves Behar about the $100 laptop. Plus, Tijuana designers go on show, and a high quality building opens to SantaMonica's homeless. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website