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To read Anton Wagner reflexively means to engage with his Los Angeles not as a product of its historical context, but a refraction of our own.
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What is it that we want from Ruscha? What does New York want from the idea of LA?
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For the team behind this eco-futures festival, optimism is radical. But is it enough?
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Here’s another thing about gamification: It doesn’t work.
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Without its umbilical connection to the Venetian Expo, at any time this Sphere might just roll away.
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An exhibition’s celebration of Helena Arahuete’s draftsmanship reiterates the incredible technical facility and breadth of knowledge required to be a good architect.
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I can’t disentangle dingbat apartments from the memories of the years I have spent in Los Angeles.
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But if models are a myriad of things and also not those things, what is a hefty volume full of discourse-heavy texts and chockablock with photographs of models?
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A lone chroma-key green structure appeared down the slope at 6101 Mulholland Highway.
Is this mélange giving Hot Girl Western, Italian futurism, or ’60s psychedelia?
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In Los Angeles, the fantasy and the reality of the movies live side by side.
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