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FIVE PLACES L.A.

FIVE PLACES L.A.

Written by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Emmanuelle Bourlier
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 FIVE PLACES L.A. is a living documentary of the city. In each episode we ask one inhabitant of Los Angeles about the five places that define the city for them. Each interviewee in turn chooses someone to interview about their five places. Through these interviews and plus-ones the project grows; as the city evolves, its past and present, real and remembered places are mapped.2022 Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Art Social Sciences
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  • 15: J. Yolande Daniels

    15: J. Yolande Daniels
    Apr 25 2024
    Learn more about J. Yolande Daniels' work at MIT, StudioSumo, and The Black City. Follow The Black City on instagram here. Show notes and Yolande’s Five Places:1. Biddy Mason Place (in today’s Downtown LA): more on Biddy Mason here.2. Brick Block (in today’s Downtown LA)3. Los Angeles Street (formerly Calle de Los Negros, near today’s Union Station)4. Azusa Street Mission (in today’s Little Tokyo)5. Bronzeville (in today’s Little Tokyo): How 'Little Tokyo' Of Los Angeles Changed Into 'Bronzeville' And Back Again (NPR); and Azusa Street to Bronzeville: The Black History of Little Tokyo (PBS SoCal)Honorable Mention: El Prieto Canyon—named after Robert OwensWhom would you choose to ask about their Five Places? Amy Murphy, Akira Mizuta Lippit Interview Date: 02-24-21 Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode:J. Yolande Daniels, Black City: the Los Angeles Edition, The Museum of Modern Art (2020).Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, The Museum of Modern Art (2020), Totem House by studioSUMO + Histories of Negation by J. Yolande Daniels, Architecture at Home, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art MIT Center for Art Media and TechnologyCrystal Bridges Museum debuts five house prototypes that take on Northwest Arkansas’s housing crisis (The Architect’s Newspaper)The Open Hand: A Conversation with the Descendants of Biddy MasonWhat’s in a street name? LA’s forgotten Calle de los Negros (KCRW) – refers to the 1871 anti-Chinese massacre in downtown Los Angeles and the forthcoming memorial designed by Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong and Judy Chui-Hua Chung. How Can We Create Communities of Care? Projects by architect Sekou Cooke and designer J. Yolande Daniels explore how architecture can nurture people and communities.A Glimpse of the Kingdom of Heaven: the Azusa Street Revival (PBS) Credits:Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.comProduced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban DesignProduction team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Monica Lamela, Quynh NguyenCreator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle BourlierThis podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.© 2024 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACESwww.laforum.org
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    42 mins
  • BONUS: Mike the PoeT reads Los Angeles A to Z

    BONUS: Mike the PoeT reads Los Angeles A to Z
    Feb 29 2024

    Discover more of Mike’s work via his instagram, and Linktree, and find other relevant links in the show notes for his original interview with art critic Shana Nys Dambrot (E14). For Shana’s bio and her Five Places L.A. interview, check out Episode 12, here. “Los Angeles A to Z” is a poem included in Mike Sonksen’s beautiful tribute to Los Angeles, “Letters to My City”, the second edition of which was just published by Writ Large Press in 2023. “The poems and essays in Letters to My City combine two decades of field experience, research, personal observations, and stories told to the author, Mike Sonksen, a third-generation Los Angeles native, by his grandfather and other family members, to interrogate all sides of Los Angeles, its streets, its people, its neighborhoods, as a means to examine the postmodern metropolis.”
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    4 mins
  • 14: (+2) Mike the PoeT by Shana Nys Dambrot

    14: (+2) Mike the PoeT by Shana Nys Dambrot
    Jan 18 2024
    Discover more of Mike’s work via his instagram, and Linktree, and find other relevant links below in the notes.This is our first “plus-two” interview! In each episode, we ask our interviewees to name someone whom they in turn would choose to ask about the five places that define Los Angeles for them. Artist Laurie Lipton, our episode 8 guest, chose art critic Shana Nys Dambrot as her plus one. To watch or listen to Laurie interview Shana about her five places, check out her interview and episode here. Shana then chose Mike, making this our first plus-two. Stay tuned for Mike’s extraordinary interviewee, who will be our first plus-three.Show notes and Mike’s Five Places:1.      Cascades park in Monterey park.2.      Beyond Baroque, Venice. Mike also mentions: the LA-founded punk band X, the extraordinary Wanda Coleman, aka “the L.A. Blueswoman”, Scott Wannburg, S.A. Griffin, Tom Waits, Allan Ginsberg, Michael C. Ford, and Jim Morrison.3.      Judy Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles, about which Mike has recorded this video: “Whose Story Do We Tell?”  Also mentioned: Stefano Block, the graffiti artist formerly known as CISCO, and the bell hooks book All About Love.4.      Los Angeles City Hall. Also mentioned, Phillipe’s restaurant, since 1908!5.      Rissho Kosei-kai Buddhist Temple in Boyle Heights. East First street. Brooklyn Avenue. Nisei week festival in Little Tokyo.Honorable mentions:Leimert Park VillageSuehiro restaurant in Little Tokyo and Robert Vargas muralCerritos LibrarySpoon House Japanese Italian restaurant in Gardena – whether you like Japanese Italian-food or not, this Jonathan Gold review is a joy to read.Whom would you choose to ask about their Five Places? The great Lynell George.Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode:Mike Sonksen’s prose poem: “For Mike Davis”Joan DidionRobert Arenevar – muralistThe Roots’ Illadelph Halflife album for sunset drives.“Seven Books to Help Understand Judith Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles and L.A. Itself”, by Mike SonksenMemorial to the Victims of the 1871 Chinese MassacreGlenn Kaino’s show, Aki’s Market, at the Japanese American MuseumThe Hood HistorianHuell Howser, as Mike says “respected human dignity. He let others shine.”bell hooks’ book  All About LoveMarugame Monzo Japanese fusion restaurantPage Against the Machine bookstoreD. J. WaldieJulia Cameron and The Artist’s WayNatalie GoldbergLynell GeorgeRuben MartinezBrian Cross Credits:Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.comProduced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban DesignProduction team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh NguyenCreator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle BourlierThis podcast was recorded on Chumash and Tongva land.© 2024 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACESwww.laforum.org
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    1 hr and 6 mins
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