[Update] Heritage and Hope at the Mafundi Building in Watts Trudi Sandmeier 0:00Hey, Save As listeners, co-host Trudi Sandmeier here. We’re bringing you another encore episode from our first season, this one on the Mafundi Building in Watts. It’s had……
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[Update] Heritage and Hope at the Mafundi Building in Watts After the Watts Rebellion of 1965, Black architects Art Silvers and Robert Kennard designed a Late Modern building for the Mafundi Institute, a cultural organization. The Watts Happening Cultural Center
[Update] Bunker Hill Refrain: Resurrecting a Lost Community From 1930s census cards to virtual reality, the Bunker Hill Refrain project just keeps getting cooler. This multi-year effort is using data to reimagine downtown L.A.’s Bunker Hill—a historic, vibrant neighborhood razed
[Update] Bunker Hill: Resurrecting a Lost Community Cindy Olnick 00:00 Hello, Save As listeners. Cindy Olnick here. We’re bringing you another Encore episode from our very first season. This one’s about a project called Bunker Hill Refrain. It’s super cool.……
Architecture + Advocacy in L.A.’s Sugar Hill A group of architecture students at the University of Southern California wants to do more than just design buildings. They want to work with communities to “un-design” spatial injustice and leverage the power
Architecture + Advocacy in L.A.’s Sugar Hill Trudi Sandmeier 0:00Today on Save As … Kianna Armstrong 0:01It was powerful to know that in the past there were people that looked like me that were living in these spaces and they……
Valuing the Vernacular in Beaufort, SC When Emily Varley arrived in Beaufort, SC for a summer internship, she had no idea she’d make a discovery that would change the course of her studies at USC. Her research for the Reconstruction
Allensworth: The Past and Future of a Black Agrarian Utopia Allensworth is a tiny town with a big history—and its residents are grappling with some very big issues. The only town in California founded and governed by African Americans, the
Allensworth: The Past and Future of a Black Agrarian Utopia Trudi Sandmeier 00:00Today on Save As: Nina Weithorn 00:02Something that’s really important to them is kind of honoring this history of Black agrarianism and resilience and leveraging resources within a community and……
Mysteries of Modernism at Schindler’s Buck House One of the many great things about Los Angeles is its unrivaled legacy of modern residential architecture. Students in @peytonhall’s Materials Conservation class got to do their case study at the John J.