https://simplecast.com FIVE PLACES L.A. 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 en Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:00:12 +0000 https://five-la-places.simplecast.com FIVE PLACES L.A. https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/48974a2c-e173-43aa-9391-593b76abf5ec/36b19698-432a-4b9b-b77c-a9fc98cc1429/3000x3000/logo-for-social-and-podcast-use-v1.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://five-la-places.simplecast.com episodic 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. Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Emmanuelle Bourlier false https://feeds.simplecast.com/4CwvQxSk architecture, cities, los angeles, travel, urban design, urban history Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com 50806c58-9d71-4cd6-9c66-f953888f3d1d 16: Barbara Bestor Show notes and Barbara’s Five Places:

1. Port of Los Angeles and  Terminal Island (see also: Tuna St. buildings on Terminal Island, which are in danger of demolition pending action to designate them as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments; and a book on the History of Terminal Island: Terminal Island - Lost Communities on America's Edge

2.Wayfarer’s Chapel by Lloyd Wright, and a June 4, 2025 LA Times article by (Episode 3 guest!) Sam Lubell on the chapel’s rescue from its unstable site: Lloyd Wright’s Wayfarers Chapel: Inside the rescue of a national landmark

3. Mattachine Steps in Silverlake and the Mattachine Society

4.  Musso + Franks (and a sidebar about the Schindler house in the background of a Buster Keaton movie)

5. The Blue Ribbon Garden at Disney Hall, designed by Melinda Taylor, more here, and a story about the secret edible garden.

Who would you choose to ask about their Five Places? Artist Lauren Halsey

Interview Date: 02-28-24

Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode (PLEASE VISIT fiveplaces.la FOR FULL SHOW NOTES)

Bestor Architecture website, Instagram, and news

LA Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and truck electrification

Frank Gehry obituaries in the New York Times (by Nicolai Ouroussof) and the Guardian (by Charles Jencks and Oliver Wainwright)

History of trolley lines in Silverlake by Eric Brightwell. See also: Secret Stairs A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles, by Charles Fleming

Bohemian Modern: Living in Silver Lake, by Barbara Bestor

Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics, by Daniel Hurewitz

The Black Cat on Sunset: The 1967 Black Cat Demonstration marks one of the earliest moments in US history that the LGBTQ community organized and gathered publicly to peacefully protest the harassment, brutality, and persecution they were suffering for being queer.

Mike Davis, beloved writer, activist, and theorist, profiled here in The New Yorker by Hua Hsu, and remembered here by (Episode 14 guest!) Mike Sonksen, aka Mike The Poet, and other key voices.

Robert Moses and the Power Broker book. Also, a new podcast series on Moses and The Power Broker, by 99% Invisible.

The American Bar in Vienna by Adolf Loos (wiki, American Bar home page)

Los Angeles Plays Itself by Thom Andersen

Theme building at LAX – and Bestor Architecture’s winning proposal to redesign the LAWA train wrap!

Pulitzer Prize-winning L.A. food critic Jonathan Gold, and his article The Year I Ate Pico Boulevard

The Quilts of Gee’s bend

Grand Central Market and California Plaza by Arthus Erickson

Moneo Cathedral in DTLA and Coop Himmelblau High School

Sunshine & smog: Barbara Bestor at TEDxOlympicBlvdWomen

Lauren Halsey’s Summaeverythang community Center website

Summaeverythang Community Center in the Art Newspaper and In the LA Times.

(PLEASE VISIT fiveplaces.la FOR FULL SHOW NOTES)

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Barbara Bestor, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/16-barbara-bestor-UnzPJmi7 Show notes and Barbara’s Five Places:

1. Port of Los Angeles and  Terminal Island (see also: Tuna St. buildings on Terminal Island, which are in danger of demolition pending action to designate them as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments; and a book on the History of Terminal Island: Terminal Island - Lost Communities on America's Edge

2.Wayfarer’s Chapel by Lloyd Wright, and a June 4, 2025 LA Times article by (Episode 3 guest!) Sam Lubell on the chapel’s rescue from its unstable site: Lloyd Wright’s Wayfarers Chapel: Inside the rescue of a national landmark

3. Mattachine Steps in Silverlake and the Mattachine Society

4.  Musso + Franks (and a sidebar about the Schindler house in the background of a Buster Keaton movie)

5. The Blue Ribbon Garden at Disney Hall, designed by Melinda Taylor, more here, and a story about the secret edible garden.

Who would you choose to ask about their Five Places? Artist Lauren Halsey

Interview Date: 02-28-24

Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode (PLEASE VISIT fiveplaces.la FOR FULL SHOW NOTES)

Bestor Architecture website, Instagram, and news

LA Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and truck electrification

Frank Gehry obituaries in the New York Times (by Nicolai Ouroussof) and the Guardian (by Charles Jencks and Oliver Wainwright)

History of trolley lines in Silverlake by Eric Brightwell. See also: Secret Stairs A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles, by Charles Fleming

Bohemian Modern: Living in Silver Lake, by Barbara Bestor

Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics, by Daniel Hurewitz

The Black Cat on Sunset: The 1967 Black Cat Demonstration marks one of the earliest moments in US history that the LGBTQ community organized and gathered publicly to peacefully protest the harassment, brutality, and persecution they were suffering for being queer.

Mike Davis, beloved writer, activist, and theorist, profiled here in The New Yorker by Hua Hsu, and remembered here by (Episode 14 guest!) Mike Sonksen, aka Mike The Poet, and other key voices.

Robert Moses and the Power Broker book. Also, a new podcast series on Moses and The Power Broker, by 99% Invisible.

The American Bar in Vienna by Adolf Loos (wiki, American Bar home page)

Los Angeles Plays Itself by Thom Andersen

Theme building at LAX – and Bestor Architecture’s winning proposal to redesign the LAWA train wrap!

Pulitzer Prize-winning L.A. food critic Jonathan Gold, and his article The Year I Ate Pico Boulevard

The Quilts of Gee’s bend

Grand Central Market and California Plaza by Arthus Erickson

Moneo Cathedral in DTLA and Coop Himmelblau High School

Sunshine & smog: Barbara Bestor at TEDxOlympicBlvdWomen

Lauren Halsey’s Summaeverythang community Center website

Summaeverythang Community Center in the Art Newspaper and In the LA Times.

(PLEASE VISIT fiveplaces.la FOR FULL SHOW NOTES)

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 16: Barbara Bestor Barbara Bestor, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design 00:58:00 Barbara Bestor, FAIA is the principal and founder of Bestor Architecture, recognized for the inventive integration of architecture, urbanism, infrastructure and landscape at multiple scales. Bestor Architecture has designed a number of award-winning projects —homes, restaurants, technology and fashion headquarters, and community arts buildings, such as the Silverlake Conservatory of Music and Ashes & Diamonds Winery. Recent projects include the upcoming Summaeverythang Community Center, re-envisioning the ICA LA, and a number of custom residences in Southern California, Seattle, and beyond. Bestor Architecture is also one of ten of Los Angeles’ leading architecture firms joining the Case Study: Adapt initiative to develop build-ready, stylish, and sustainable residential designs that merge timeless design with climate resilience. The program is a response to the January 2025 wildfires in Altadena and Pacific Palisades. Barbara received her undergraduate degree at Harvard University, studied at the Architectural Association in London England and earned a Master of Architecture at SCI-Arc. She is the author of Bohemian Modern, Living in Silver Lake. Though this episode was recorded in February of 2024, Barbara’s viewpoint on the city is timeless. Show notes, below, are extensive and in many cases provide updates on the people and places discussed. Barbara Bestor, FAIA is the principal and founder of Bestor Architecture, recognized for the inventive integration of architecture, urbanism, infrastructure and landscape at multiple scales. Bestor Architecture has designed a number of award-winning projects —homes, restaurants, technology and fashion headquarters, and community arts buildings, such as the Silverlake Conservatory of Music and Ashes & Diamonds Winery. Recent projects include the upcoming Summaeverythang Community Center, re-envisioning the ICA LA, and a number of custom residences in Southern California, Seattle, and beyond. Bestor Architecture is also one of ten of Los Angeles’ leading architecture firms joining the Case Study: Adapt initiative to develop build-ready, stylish, and sustainable residential designs that merge timeless design with climate resilience. The program is a response to the January 2025 wildfires in Altadena and Pacific Palisades. Barbara received her undergraduate degree at Harvard University, studied at the Architectural Association in London England and earned a Master of Architecture at SCI-Arc. She is the author of Bohemian Modern, Living in Silver Lake. Though this episode was recorded in February of 2024, Barbara’s viewpoint on the city is timeless. Show notes, below, are extensive and in many cases provide updates on the people and places discussed. los angeles, stories of places, silverlake, california, stories of cities, stories of los angeles, california modernism, city planning, bestor architects, architecture, urbanism, modern design, barbara bestor false full 16 395ff204-f7e8-4fdb-be6e-b00689f521f1 15: J. Yolande Daniels 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 Owens

Whom 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 Technology

Crystal 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 Mason

What’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.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Monica Lamela, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2024 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/15-j-yolande-daniels-m_KilzsB 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 Owens

Whom 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 Technology

Crystal 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 Mason

What’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.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Monica Lamela, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2024 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 15: J. Yolande Daniels Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design 00:42:01 J. Yolande Daniels is an Associate Professor in Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture and a fellow of the Independent Study Program of the Whitney American Museum of Art in studio practice and cultural studies. Daniels’ practice combines independent design-research and architecture and design in studioSUMO, which she co-founded in 1995. Daniels’ work explores the spatial effects of race and gender in the built environment by revealing spatial narratives of resistance and autonomy. Daniels’ work has been exhibited widely including most recently in the 18th Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition. In 2021 her project Black City: the Los Angeles Edition was featured in the exhibition, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Along with her fellow Reconstructions exhibitors, she is a cofounding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective. This is an evergreen conversation, focusing on Yolande’s Los Angeles based research. We recorded in 2021 when Yolande was living in L.A. before moving to teach at MIT and shortly before the opening of her show at the MoMA. Yolande’s Black City project continues to expand. Learn more about the project here and follow on Instagram for upcoming venues. “As I started to do research, the narratives that I found had to do with the agency of the inhabitants and how they built community focusing on their power to shape the spaces around them. … African Americans are often made to feel that we have no history or that our history is only sorrow, but the people who were making the history, they were fighting all the time to realize good things for themselves and for their family and for others. That's what I see in these stories and I want others to see them too.” - J. Yolande Daniels, MoMA, 2020 J. Yolande Daniels is an Associate Professor in Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture and a fellow of the Independent Study Program of the Whitney American Museum of Art in studio practice and cultural studies. Daniels’ practice combines independent design-research and architecture and design in studioSUMO, which she co-founded in 1995. Daniels’ work explores the spatial effects of race and gender in the built environment by revealing spatial narratives of resistance and autonomy. Daniels’ work has been exhibited widely including most recently in the 18th Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition. In 2021 her project Black City: the Los Angeles Edition was featured in the exhibition, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Along with her fellow Reconstructions exhibitors, she is a cofounding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective. This is an evergreen conversation, focusing on Yolande’s Los Angeles based research. We recorded in 2021 when Yolande was living in L.A. before moving to teach at MIT and shortly before the opening of her show at the MoMA. Yolande’s Black City project continues to expand. Learn more about the project here and follow on Instagram for upcoming venues. “As I started to do research, the narratives that I found had to do with the agency of the inhabitants and how they built community focusing on their power to shape the spaces around them. … African Americans are often made to feel that we have no history or that our history is only sorrow, but the people who were making the history, they were fighting all the time to realize good things for themselves and for their family and for others. That's what I see in these stories and I want others to see them too.” - J. Yolande Daniels, MoMA, 2020 false full 15 c1b20a4b-f2c7-4087-927e-9dcdbf9c6bd5 BONUS: Mike the PoeT reads Los Angeles A to Z 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.”

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Mike the PoeT, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Mike Sonksen, Quynh Nguyen) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/bonus-mike-the-poet-reads-los-angeles-a-to-z-_R_nJrK_ 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.”

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> BONUS: Mike the PoeT reads Los Angeles A to Z Mike the PoeT, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Mike Sonksen, Quynh Nguyen 00:04:02 This is a special bonus clip excerpted from EPISODE 14 in which art critic Shana Nys Dambrot interviewed poet, historian, and writer Mike Sonksen, aka Mike the Poet. Their full conversation, which is linked in the show notes, is wide ranging and beautiful, and we highly recommend listening to the entire thing, or watching it on YouTube, but we couldn’t resist pulling out Mike’s poem as a stand-alone. Mike and Shana's full bios, as well as Shana's five places interview, are linked in the show notes. This is a special bonus clip excerpted from EPISODE 14 in which art critic Shana Nys Dambrot interviewed poet, historian, and writer Mike Sonksen, aka Mike the Poet. Their full conversation, which is linked in the show notes, is wide ranging and beautiful, and we highly recommend listening to the entire thing, or watching it on YouTube, but we couldn’t resist pulling out Mike’s poem as a stand-alone. Mike and Shana's full bios, as well as Shana's five places interview, are linked in the show notes. los angeles history, beat poetry, los angeles, stories of places, stories of the city, poetry, los angeles forum for architecture and urban design, spoken word, spoken word poetry false bonus 46b26ad6-a835-490a-8867-9212c9a84e5d 14: (+2) Mike the PoeT by Shana Nys Dambrot 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 Village

Suehiro restaurant in Little Tokyo and Robert Vargas mural

Cerritos Library

Spoon 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 Didion

Robert Arenevar – muralist

The 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 Sonksen

Memorial to the Victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre

Glenn Kaino’s show, Aki’s Market, at the Japanese American Museum

The Hood Historian

Huell Howser, as Mike says “respected human dignity. He let others shine.”

bell hooks’ book  All About Love

Marugame Monzo Japanese fusion restaurant

Page Against the Machine bookstore

D. J. Waldie

Julia Cameron and The Artist’s Way

Natalie Goldberg

Lynell George

Ruben Martinez

Brian Cross

 

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2024 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 18 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Mike Sonksen, Mike the PoeT, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/14-2-mike-the-poet-by-shana-nys-dambrot-4WEeVl7G 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 Village

Suehiro restaurant in Little Tokyo and Robert Vargas mural

Cerritos Library

Spoon 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 Didion

Robert Arenevar – muralist

The 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 Sonksen

Memorial to the Victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre

Glenn Kaino’s show, Aki’s Market, at the Japanese American Museum

The Hood Historian

Huell Howser, as Mike says “respected human dignity. He let others shine.”

bell hooks’ book  All About Love

Marugame Monzo Japanese fusion restaurant

Page Against the Machine bookstore

D. J. Waldie

Julia Cameron and The Artist’s Way

Natalie Goldberg

Lynell George

Ruben Martinez

Brian Cross

 

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2024 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 14: (+2) Mike the PoeT by Shana Nys Dambrot Mike Sonksen, Mike the PoeT, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen 01:06:20 Mike Sonksen, aka Mike the PoeT, is an acclaimed poet, professor, journalist, historian and tour guide. He teaches at Woodbury University, where he serves as the Coordinator of the school’s First Year Experience Program. He has published over 500 essays and poems, most recently two excerpts in Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters, edited by David Kipen (Stanford University Press, September 2023). He has delivered over 2,000 poetry readings, served as guest speaker at over 100 academic institutions, appeared on radio and television and hosted events in locations like Grand Performances and Getty Center. The second edition of his latest book, Letters To My City was just published by Writ Large Press in Summer 2023. Watch to the end to hear Mike speak one of his extraordinary original poems on Los Angeles, “Los Angeles A to Z”. Mike Sonksen, aka Mike the PoeT, is an acclaimed poet, professor, journalist, historian and tour guide. He teaches at Woodbury University, where he serves as the Coordinator of the school’s First Year Experience Program. He has published over 500 essays and poems, most recently two excerpts in Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters, edited by David Kipen (Stanford University Press, September 2023). He has delivered over 2,000 poetry readings, served as guest speaker at over 100 academic institutions, appeared on radio and television and hosted events in locations like Grand Performances and Getty Center. The second edition of his latest book, Letters To My City was just published by Writ Large Press in Summer 2023. Watch to the end to hear Mike speak one of his extraordinary original poems on Los Angeles, “Los Angeles A to Z”. poet, beyond baroque, mike davis, beat poets, urban history, los angeles, driving around the city, california, long beach, stories of the city, urban design, poetry, los angeles forum for architecture and urban design, spoken word, dtla, cities, leimert park, judy baca, cascades park, los angeles city hall, architecture, city of quartz false full 14 30541ea6-22bd-4eb2-bb3b-97d1a3cee0db 13: Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter Show notes and Ingalill’s Five Places:

1.10,000ft above LA (preferably in a small aircraft, but also in a commercial plane)

2. Grand Park, designed by Deborah Sussman / SussmanPrejza

3. Angel City Football Club games at Gensler-designed BMO stadium, and the walk from Metro, through Exposition Park with the Rose Garden, the CAAM, the upcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and the Coliseum.

4. The back yard, in general, Ingalill’s family’s back yard in particular, and the view from her deck which includes the DWP Building, the  Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles City Hall, and Dodger Stadium.

5. Community colleges in general, ELAC in particular, whose campus includes the Vincent Price Art Museum by Arquitectonica, EYRC student center building. HGA, house & Robertson. Los Angeles Mission renovation by W-ROAD.Downtown Library Art (Docent Tours).

Honorable Mentions: The Downtown Public Library, The Whiskey a Gogo, Busch gardens, Hollywood Blvd.

Whom would you choose to ask about their Five Places? Ingalill’s students, and also: Barbara Bestor, Doris Sung, Carmen Suero, Demar Matthews.

Interview Date: 08-08-23 

Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode:

Lawrence Weschler, “L.A. Glows,” The New Yorker, February 15, 1998.

Rebecca Ellis, Julia Wick, “Downtown L.A.’s Grand Park to be renamed in honor of longtime Supervisor Gloria Molina,” The Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2023.

Alissa Walker, “The Designer Who Helped Give LA its Look,” The New York Times’ T Magazine, December 17, 2013

Christopher Hawthorne, “Deborah Sussman Loves L.A. (and She Always Has),” Metropolis, March 12, 2014.

Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter, “DEBORAH SUSSMAN (1931–2014),” ARTFORUM, October 15, 2014

Oliver Wainwright, “More is More: The Gaudy Genius of the Late Deborah Sussman,” The Guardian, August 27, 2014.

Diana Budds, “The Woman Who Made The 1984 Olympics A Masterpiece Of Design,” Fast Company, May 18, 2016.

The Los Angeles Olympics project overview, Sussman Prejza.

Emma Kemp, “Meet Angel City FC, the women’s team owned by Natalie Portman and a host of stars,” The Sydney Morning Herald, August 5, 2023.

HBO special on Angel City Football https://www.hbo.com/angel-city

Jen Carlson, “Photos: The Charming Mid-Century Dingbats Of Los Angeles,” LAist, Sep 7, 2015.


DINGBAT 2.0: THE ICONIC LOS ANGELES AS A PROJECTION OF METROPOLIS, a Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design publication

M. Nolan Gray, “The UCLA Students Who Live in Their Cars,” The Atlantic, August 3, 2023.

Liam Dillon, “‘Gimme Shelter’: California’s housing crisis forces college students into homelessness,” The Los Angeles Times, Nov 17, 2022.

Visual Intelligence by Amy Sherman, with a Deborah Sussman graphic design on the cover

KCRW Sounds LA

 

Credits:

Ingalill’s headshot photo: Monica Nouwens (graphic treatment by Anali Gharakhani)

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 2 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Ingalill Wahlroos_Ritter, Quynh Nguyen, Emmanuelle Bourlier) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/13-ingalill-wahlroos-ritter-Hhlje9O1 Show notes and Ingalill’s Five Places:

1.10,000ft above LA (preferably in a small aircraft, but also in a commercial plane)

2. Grand Park, designed by Deborah Sussman / SussmanPrejza

3. Angel City Football Club games at Gensler-designed BMO stadium, and the walk from Metro, through Exposition Park with the Rose Garden, the CAAM, the upcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and the Coliseum.

4. The back yard, in general, Ingalill’s family’s back yard in particular, and the view from her deck which includes the DWP Building, the  Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles City Hall, and Dodger Stadium.

5. Community colleges in general, ELAC in particular, whose campus includes the Vincent Price Art Museum by Arquitectonica, EYRC student center building. HGA, house & Robertson. Los Angeles Mission renovation by W-ROAD.Downtown Library Art (Docent Tours).

Honorable Mentions: The Downtown Public Library, The Whiskey a Gogo, Busch gardens, Hollywood Blvd.

Whom would you choose to ask about their Five Places? Ingalill’s students, and also: Barbara Bestor, Doris Sung, Carmen Suero, Demar Matthews.

Interview Date: 08-08-23 

Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode:

Lawrence Weschler, “L.A. Glows,” The New Yorker, February 15, 1998.

Rebecca Ellis, Julia Wick, “Downtown L.A.’s Grand Park to be renamed in honor of longtime Supervisor Gloria Molina,” The Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2023.

Alissa Walker, “The Designer Who Helped Give LA its Look,” The New York Times’ T Magazine, December 17, 2013

Christopher Hawthorne, “Deborah Sussman Loves L.A. (and She Always Has),” Metropolis, March 12, 2014.

Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter, “DEBORAH SUSSMAN (1931–2014),” ARTFORUM, October 15, 2014

Oliver Wainwright, “More is More: The Gaudy Genius of the Late Deborah Sussman,” The Guardian, August 27, 2014.

Diana Budds, “The Woman Who Made The 1984 Olympics A Masterpiece Of Design,” Fast Company, May 18, 2016.

The Los Angeles Olympics project overview, Sussman Prejza.

Emma Kemp, “Meet Angel City FC, the women’s team owned by Natalie Portman and a host of stars,” The Sydney Morning Herald, August 5, 2023.

HBO special on Angel City Football https://www.hbo.com/angel-city

Jen Carlson, “Photos: The Charming Mid-Century Dingbats Of Los Angeles,” LAist, Sep 7, 2015.


DINGBAT 2.0: THE ICONIC LOS ANGELES AS A PROJECTION OF METROPOLIS, a Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design publication

M. Nolan Gray, “The UCLA Students Who Live in Their Cars,” The Atlantic, August 3, 2023.

Liam Dillon, “‘Gimme Shelter’: California’s housing crisis forces college students into homelessness,” The Los Angeles Times, Nov 17, 2022.

Visual Intelligence by Amy Sherman, with a Deborah Sussman graphic design on the cover

KCRW Sounds LA

 

Credits:

Ingalill’s headshot photo: Monica Nouwens (graphic treatment by Anali Gharakhani)

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 13: Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter Ingalill Wahlroos_Ritter, Quynh Nguyen, Emmanuelle Bourlier 00:53:58 Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter is an architect, educator and community leader advocating for architecture to advance environmental and social justice. She currently serves as President of Architecture for Communities Los Angeles (ACLA), a non-profit organization launched by AIA LA to focus on education and community outreach. She also serves as Chair of the Education Committee for the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), and is Professor in the Architecture Department at East Los Angeles College, California’s largest community college. In partnership with Roland Wahlroos-Ritter, her architectural practice, W-ROAD, navigates transdisciplinary territory in the diverse type and scale of projects, and she has collaborated on multiple award-winning projects as architect and façade consultant. One of their latest projects is the renovation of the Los Angeles Mission, at 156,000 sf, one of the nation’s largest service providers of the unhoused. Ingalill has forged educational pathways and launched programs that support her vision of education for all. She served as Dean of Woodbury School of Architecture from 2016-2021, and has taught at Yale, Cornell, the Bartlett (UCL), and SCI-Arc. As founder and Director of WUHO, the Woodbury University Hollywood gallery, she produced over 100 exhibitions celebrating social justice-focused design. She was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2018, received the 2018 AIA|LA Presidential Educator of the Year Award, the 2016 AIA California Council Educator Award, and was recognized by DesignIntelligence as one of the nation’s Most Admired Educators in Architecture and Design in 2018 and 2019. Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter is an architect, educator and community leader advocating for architecture to advance environmental and social justice. She currently serves as President of Architecture for Communities Los Angeles (ACLA), a non-profit organization launched by AIA LA to focus on education and community outreach. She also serves as Chair of the Education Committee for the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), and is Professor in the Architecture Department at East Los Angeles College, California’s largest community college. In partnership with Roland Wahlroos-Ritter, her architectural practice, W-ROAD, navigates transdisciplinary territory in the diverse type and scale of projects, and she has collaborated on multiple award-winning projects as architect and façade consultant. One of their latest projects is the renovation of the Los Angeles Mission, at 156,000 sf, one of the nation’s largest service providers of the unhoused. Ingalill has forged educational pathways and launched programs that support her vision of education for all. She served as Dean of Woodbury School of Architecture from 2016-2021, and has taught at Yale, Cornell, the Bartlett (UCL), and SCI-Arc. As founder and Director of WUHO, the Woodbury University Hollywood gallery, she produced over 100 exhibitions celebrating social justice-focused design. She was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2018, received the 2018 AIA|LA Presidential Educator of the Year Award, the 2016 AIA California Council Educator Award, and was recognized by DesignIntelligence as one of the nation’s Most Admired Educators in Architecture and Design in 2018 and 2019. los angeles, architects, stories of the city, architectural education, cities, architecture false full 13 83476ab2-60a0-4936-823c-cd21ecee4611 12: (+1) Shana Nys Dambrot by Laurie Lipton This is our third “plus-one” 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 08 guest, chose art critic Shana Nys Dambrot as her plus one, and this is their wonderful conversation.

Show notes and  Shana’s five places:

1. Chateau Marmont (in the 80s and 90s). 

2. Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine (Palisades). 

3. Downtown Library Art (Docent Tours). 

4. Getty Villa (and Getty Center).

5. L.A. Flower Mart, and Shana recommends the Poppy and Rose cafe next door. 

Honorable Mention: Tales of the American (documentary on the American Hotel). 

 

Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode:

William Douglas Lee, architect of the Chateau Marmont

Art and Architecture of the Downtown Central Library and Maguire Gardens

Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his wife, famed choreographer Anna Halprin

The Mark Taper Forum at the Downtown Central Library

Fountain Design at the Downtown Central Library

 

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Creator and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

 

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 21 Sep 2023 07:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Shana Nys Dambrot, Laurie Lipton, Emmanuelle Bourlier) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/12-1-shana-nys-dambrot-by-laurie-lipton-8yh_vGNF This is our third “plus-one” 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 08 guest, chose art critic Shana Nys Dambrot as her plus one, and this is their wonderful conversation.

Show notes and  Shana’s five places:

1. Chateau Marmont (in the 80s and 90s). 

2. Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine (Palisades). 

3. Downtown Library Art (Docent Tours). 

4. Getty Villa (and Getty Center).

5. L.A. Flower Mart, and Shana recommends the Poppy and Rose cafe next door. 

Honorable Mention: Tales of the American (documentary on the American Hotel). 

 

Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode:

William Douglas Lee, architect of the Chateau Marmont

Art and Architecture of the Downtown Central Library and Maguire Gardens

Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his wife, famed choreographer Anna Halprin

The Mark Taper Forum at the Downtown Central Library

Fountain Design at the Downtown Central Library

 

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Creator and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

 

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 12: (+1) Shana Nys Dambrot by Laurie Lipton Shana Nys Dambrot, Laurie Lipton, Emmanuelle Bourlier 00:46:07 Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown LA. She is the Arts Editor for the L.A. Weekly, and a contributor to Flaunt, Artillery, and other culture publications. She studied Art History at Vassar College, curates and juries exhibitions, writes prolifically for exhibition catalogs and monographic publications, and speaks at galleries, schools, and cultural institutions nationally. She is the author of the surrealist novel Zen Psychosis. She is the recipient of the 2022 Mozaik Future Art Writers Prize, the 2022 Rabkin Prize for Art Criticism, and the LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Critic of the Year award for 2022. Shana called in from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where she was on a writing retreat, so you may notice that the audio and video are just slightly choppier than usual. If you watch on YouTube you’ll catch a sneak peek of Laurie Lipton’s current project, a nearly 7ft x 20ft triptych aptly titled SMOKE. Watch to the end to see some of Osceola Refetoff’s gorgeous photography for Zen Psychosis and to learn Shana’s plus one choice. Discover more of Shana’s work on her website, instagram, and @shananys on every social media platform. Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown LA. She is the Arts Editor for the L.A. Weekly, and a contributor to Flaunt, Artillery, and other culture publications. She studied Art History at Vassar College, curates and juries exhibitions, writes prolifically for exhibition catalogs and monographic publications, and speaks at galleries, schools, and cultural institutions nationally. She is the author of the surrealist novel Zen Psychosis. She is the recipient of the 2022 Mozaik Future Art Writers Prize, the 2022 Rabkin Prize for Art Criticism, and the LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Critic of the Year award for 2022. Shana called in from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where she was on a writing retreat, so you may notice that the audio and video are just slightly choppier than usual. If you watch on YouTube you’ll catch a sneak peek of Laurie Lipton’s current project, a nearly 7ft x 20ft triptych aptly titled SMOKE. Watch to the end to see some of Osceola Refetoff’s gorgeous photography for Zen Psychosis and to learn Shana’s plus one choice. Discover more of Shana’s work on her website, instagram, and @shananys on every social media platform. los angeles, stories of the city, cities, art in los angeles true full 12 cc4355ff-5929-49dd-8ae8-80dc40d4f963 11: Gary Baseman Watch this episode on YouTube  |follow us on instagram

Los Angeles native Gary Baseman is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the human condition through fine art, illustration, performance, film, fashion, and toy design. Known for his raw style and humor, his art has appeared in international publications (The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, TIME, Rolling Stone), games and toys (Cranium), digital collectibles (VeVe), and in the ABC/Disney animated series and feature film “Teacher’s Pet,” for which he was creator and executive producer. Baseman’s awards include multiple Emmys, a British Academy of Film & Television Arts award, and Fulbright and Sundance New Frontier fellowships. His many brand collaborations include COACH, Lladro, and Dr. Martens. His fine art has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America.  

We highly recommend watching this episode on our YouTube channel, as Gary shows several of his extraordinary drawings onscreen, his cat Bosko drops in several times, and we have embedded photographs from Gary’s long history in LA into the video. Big thanks to Gary for sharing his art, his photos, and his stories so generously.  

Show notes and  Gary ’s five places 

  1. Canter’s Deli
  2. Fairfax district: Pan Pacific auditorium, Pan Pacific movie theatre, and bowling alley. Gilmore drive in, Kiddieland, Tail o’ the Pup, Original Farmer’s Market, CBS Studios. Many of the buildings Gary remembers no longer exist. This neighborhood guide and this post by The Hundreds dig into the history.
  3. La Brea Tar Pits
  4. The Witch’s House aka the Spadena House (though Gary nearly chose “his hill” in Griffith Park)
  5. Musso + Frank

Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode

Discover more of Gary’s work on his website and instagram

Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall”: The New Yorker’s view of Los Angeles

Remembering Beverly Park and Kiddieland

Beverly Park and Ponyland: The 'Kiddieland' that Inspired Walt Disney

The Carol Burnett show, and The Price is Right. 

The Formosa Café

Genghis Cohen

Chateau Marmont

The Griffith Observatory

The Mamas & The Papas

Jim Heimann and his many books on California

History and photos of the Pan Pacific Auditorium (1935, architects Wurdeman & Becket) and Pan Pacific Movie Theatre (opened 1942, architect William L. Pereira).

A Pan Pacific history from the perspective of Scotty Moore, studio and touring guitarist for Elvis Presley between 1954 and 1968.

Annie Hall driving scene in which the Gilmore drive-in appears at timestamp 1:06

CBS television City (1952, architects Pereira & Luckman) 

The tastes that define LA for Gary Baseman: The martini at Musso &Frank; the potato knish with gravy, or the chocolate rugelach at Canter's, the enchiladas Howard at El Coyote. 

 

Credits:

All photos © Gary Baseman 2023 unless otherwise noted

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Creator and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 17 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Gary Baseman, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/11-gary-baseman-pEh_6MaX Watch this episode on YouTube  |follow us on instagram

Los Angeles native Gary Baseman is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the human condition through fine art, illustration, performance, film, fashion, and toy design. Known for his raw style and humor, his art has appeared in international publications (The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, TIME, Rolling Stone), games and toys (Cranium), digital collectibles (VeVe), and in the ABC/Disney animated series and feature film “Teacher’s Pet,” for which he was creator and executive producer. Baseman’s awards include multiple Emmys, a British Academy of Film & Television Arts award, and Fulbright and Sundance New Frontier fellowships. His many brand collaborations include COACH, Lladro, and Dr. Martens. His fine art has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America.  

We highly recommend watching this episode on our YouTube channel, as Gary shows several of his extraordinary drawings onscreen, his cat Bosko drops in several times, and we have embedded photographs from Gary’s long history in LA into the video. Big thanks to Gary for sharing his art, his photos, and his stories so generously.  

Show notes and  Gary ’s five places 

  1. Canter’s Deli
  2. Fairfax district: Pan Pacific auditorium, Pan Pacific movie theatre, and bowling alley. Gilmore drive in, Kiddieland, Tail o’ the Pup, Original Farmer’s Market, CBS Studios. Many of the buildings Gary remembers no longer exist. This neighborhood guide and this post by The Hundreds dig into the history.
  3. La Brea Tar Pits
  4. The Witch’s House aka the Spadena House (though Gary nearly chose “his hill” in Griffith Park)
  5. Musso + Frank

Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode

Discover more of Gary’s work on his website and instagram

Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall”: The New Yorker’s view of Los Angeles

Remembering Beverly Park and Kiddieland

Beverly Park and Ponyland: The 'Kiddieland' that Inspired Walt Disney

The Carol Burnett show, and The Price is Right. 

The Formosa Café

Genghis Cohen

Chateau Marmont

The Griffith Observatory

The Mamas & The Papas

Jim Heimann and his many books on California

History and photos of the Pan Pacific Auditorium (1935, architects Wurdeman & Becket) and Pan Pacific Movie Theatre (opened 1942, architect William L. Pereira).

A Pan Pacific history from the perspective of Scotty Moore, studio and touring guitarist for Elvis Presley between 1954 and 1968.

Annie Hall driving scene in which the Gilmore drive-in appears at timestamp 1:06

CBS television City (1952, architects Pereira & Luckman) 

The tastes that define LA for Gary Baseman: The martini at Musso &Frank; the potato knish with gravy, or the chocolate rugelach at Canter's, the enchiladas Howard at El Coyote. 

 

Credits:

All photos © Gary Baseman 2023 unless otherwise noted

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Creator and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 11: Gary Baseman Gary Baseman, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design 00:49:45 Los Angeles native Gary Baseman is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the human condition through fine art, illustration, performance, film, fashion, and toy design. Known for his raw style and humor, his art has appeared in international publications (The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, TIME, Rolling Stone), games and toys (Cranium), digital collectibles (VeVe), and in the ABC/Disney animated series and feature film “Teacher’s Pet,” for which he was creator and executive producer. Baseman’s awards include multiple Emmys, a British Academy of Film & Television Arts award, and Fulbright and Sundance New Frontier fellowships. His many brand collaborations include COACH, Lladro, and Dr. Martens. His fine art has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America. We highly recommend watching this episode on our YouTube channel, as Gary shows several of his extraordinary drawings onscreen, his cat Bosko drops in several times, and we have embedded photographs from Gary’s long history in LA into the video. Big thanks to Gary for sharing his art, his photos, and his stories so generously. Los Angeles native Gary Baseman is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the human condition through fine art, illustration, performance, film, fashion, and toy design. Known for his raw style and humor, his art has appeared in international publications (The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, TIME, Rolling Stone), games and toys (Cranium), digital collectibles (VeVe), and in the ABC/Disney animated series and feature film “Teacher’s Pet,” for which he was creator and executive producer. Baseman’s awards include multiple Emmys, a British Academy of Film & Television Arts award, and Fulbright and Sundance New Frontier fellowships. His many brand collaborations include COACH, Lladro, and Dr. Martens. His fine art has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America. We highly recommend watching this episode on our YouTube channel, as Gary shows several of his extraordinary drawings onscreen, his cat Bosko drops in several times, and we have embedded photographs from Gary’s long history in LA into the video. Big thanks to Gary for sharing his art, his photos, and his stories so generously. los angeles, stories of the city false full 11 3772ed65-5892-4b66-b5a5-c6a8c464beb5 10: Julie Eizenberg 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 on instagram

KoningEizenberg firm overview video

LA Times neighborhood mapping project - most of the distinctive and walkable neighborhoods mentioned by Julie are included in this project.

Disney Concert Hall

Eames House (Case Study House No.8)

Reyner Banham and Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies

Jonathan Gold

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

Five Places L.A. LISTENER SURVEY!

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 18 May 2023 07:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Julie Eizenberg, Koning Eizenberg, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/10-julie-eizenberg-bGZjvqVr 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 on instagram

KoningEizenberg firm overview video

LA Times neighborhood mapping project - most of the distinctive and walkable neighborhoods mentioned by Julie are included in this project.

Disney Concert Hall

Eames House (Case Study House No.8)

Reyner Banham and Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies

Jonathan Gold

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

Five Places L.A. LISTENER SURVEY!

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 10: Julie Eizenberg Julie Eizenberg, Koning Eizenberg, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen 00:42:07 Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, FRAIA, Founding partner of KoningEizenberg Architecture has given visibility to the design value and potential of community projects and people-oriented practice. Under her leadership, Koning Eizenberg has earned over 200 design and sustainability awards and been widely published in the US and abroad. The practice has been honored as AIA California’s Firm of the Year and, together with Hank Koning, Julie was recognized with the AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal, the Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award and, in 2022, inducted into the National Academy of Design. Julie teaches and lectures around the world and has shared the practice’s interests in influential monographs including “Architecture isn’t just for special occasions” which highlights the value of social engagement and ’Urban Hallucinations” which examines how the idyll of local shapes neighborhoods. Julie Eizenberg, FAIA, FRAIA, Founding partner of KoningEizenberg Architecture has given visibility to the design value and potential of community projects and people-oriented practice. Under her leadership, Koning Eizenberg has earned over 200 design and sustainability awards and been widely published in the US and abroad. The practice has been honored as AIA California’s Firm of the Year and, together with Hank Koning, Julie was recognized with the AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal, the Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award and, in 2022, inducted into the National Academy of Design. Julie teaches and lectures around the world and has shared the practice’s interests in influential monographs including “Architecture isn’t just for special occasions” which highlights the value of social engagement and ’Urban Hallucinations” which examines how the idyll of local shapes neighborhoods. atwater village, ocean, los angeles, arts district, mid-wilshire, architects, beach, outsider perspective, california, stories of the city, urban design, santa monica, sierra madre, boyle heights, neighborhoods, dtla, cities, lincoln heights, architecture false full 10 53e811bd-a217-49cc-acee-37f7b000cc1f 09: (+1) Ron Athey by Lisa Teasley (Note: "Athey" is pronounced with a long "A", as in "āi", as opposed to Emmanuelle's short "a" pronunciation in the intro. The episode was recorded in Dec. 2020 and includes mention of recent closings due to the pandemic.) 

Show notes and Ron ’s five places

  1. Grand Central Market
  2. Griffith Park, with its archery range, zoo, and Autry Museum
  3. Huntington Library and Gardens
  4. Silverlake and Sunset Junction, Tabasco’s, Cliff’s Edge (closed but maybe reopening), Catch one, Pacific Dining Car
  5. Farther afield: The unincorporated community of Zzyzx, California.

Also mentioned in this episode/ related links

Five Places L.A.  LISTENER SURVEY!

The Grapes of Wrath

Hemet and Pomona

Mark Steger

John Rechy

James Ellroy

Guardian article on the 2028 Olympics by Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin: Los Angeles has already ceded too much power to the Olympic machine

Versailles Cuban chicken

The unincorporated community ofZzyzx, California.

Rita D’Albert

Christopher Knight’s LA Times review of Athey’s 2012 show “Queer Communion: Ron Athey” at ICA LA: Review: ‘Queer Communion’ and the engrossing, squirm-inducing world of Ron Athey

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:36:55 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Lisa Teasley, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Ron Athey) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/09-1-ron-athey-by-lisa-teasley-jI8lG20V (Note: "Athey" is pronounced with a long "A", as in "āi", as opposed to Emmanuelle's short "a" pronunciation in the intro. The episode was recorded in Dec. 2020 and includes mention of recent closings due to the pandemic.) 

Show notes and Ron ’s five places

  1. Grand Central Market
  2. Griffith Park, with its archery range, zoo, and Autry Museum
  3. Huntington Library and Gardens
  4. Silverlake and Sunset Junction, Tabasco’s, Cliff’s Edge (closed but maybe reopening), Catch one, Pacific Dining Car
  5. Farther afield: The unincorporated community of Zzyzx, California.

Also mentioned in this episode/ related links

Five Places L.A.  LISTENER SURVEY!

The Grapes of Wrath

Hemet and Pomona

Mark Steger

John Rechy

James Ellroy

Guardian article on the 2028 Olympics by Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin: Los Angeles has already ceded too much power to the Olympic machine

Versailles Cuban chicken

The unincorporated community ofZzyzx, California.

Rita D’Albert

Christopher Knight’s LA Times review of Athey’s 2012 show “Queer Communion: Ron Athey” at ICA LA: Review: ‘Queer Communion’ and the engrossing, squirm-inducing world of Ron Athey

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 09: (+1) Ron Athey by Lisa Teasley Lisa Teasley, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Ron Athey 00:21:36 Ron Athey, born 1961, is a Los Angeles-based self-taught artist performing since 1981’s Premature Ejaculation noise/action collaboration with the late Rozz Williams. Influenced by the bands Christian Death, and Nervous Gender, Athey came into his own forming a performance troop in the 90s, making the so-called torture trilogy, 3 works that addressed the HIV/AIDS crisis in ritualistic, philosophical, and mythological stage scenes. Martyrs & Saints and 4 Scenes In a Harsh Life were development scene by scene in nightclubs, Deliverance (1995) was an ICA London commission. These works toured internationally including CCA Glasgow, Gallerija Kapelica Ljubljana, Eurokaz Zagreb, Inteatro XX Polverigi, Ex-Teresa CDMX, and Kampnagel Hamburg. In 1998 Athey began making solo work, premiering The Solar Anus at Galleria Kapelica Ljubljana, onwards through 20 cities until the pivotal Undercover Surrealism show at the Hayward Gallery in London, 2006. Since then Athey has moved between solos, opera collaborations, and a post-porn video project with Hermes Pittakos titled Pasiphäe, Witch Queen of Crete: A Gloryhole Origin Story, which showed in 2022 at the Long Beach Opera Film Festival via Dirty Looks. Two monographs have been printed on Intellect Press: Pleading in the Blood (2013) and Queer Communion (2021) to accompany the same-named Amelia Jones curated retrospective showing that year at Participant Inc. NYC and ICA-LA. Athey is a 2023 Creative Capital “Wild Futures” grant recipient, for The Asclepeion, a live art installation. April 19 Athey is facilitating Darkness Visible, a weeklong immersive 30 person performance workshop at Communitism in Athens, Greece, and has collaborated with Carmina Escobar on her sound recording concept, Vox Claimants, a non-lingual vocal duet filmed inside and out locations in California high desert locations. This is the second “plus-one” episode of Five Places Los Angeles. In each episode, we ask our interviewee to name someone whom they would choose to ask about the five places that define Los Angeles for them. As each interviewee invites a plus-one, our living documentary of the city grows and evolves. Author and artist Lisa Teasley, whom we interviewed in Episode Five, chose Ron Athey as her plus-one. To hear Lisa Teasley’s interview and read her bio, see E05. Ron Athey, born 1961, is a Los Angeles-based self-taught artist performing since 1981’s Premature Ejaculation noise/action collaboration with the late Rozz Williams. Influenced by the bands Christian Death, and Nervous Gender, Athey came into his own forming a performance troop in the 90s, making the so-called torture trilogy, 3 works that addressed the HIV/AIDS crisis in ritualistic, philosophical, and mythological stage scenes. Martyrs & Saints and 4 Scenes In a Harsh Life were development scene by scene in nightclubs, Deliverance (1995) was an ICA London commission. These works toured internationally including CCA Glasgow, Gallerija Kapelica Ljubljana, Eurokaz Zagreb, Inteatro XX Polverigi, Ex-Teresa CDMX, and Kampnagel Hamburg. In 1998 Athey began making solo work, premiering The Solar Anus at Galleria Kapelica Ljubljana, onwards through 20 cities until the pivotal Undercover Surrealism show at the Hayward Gallery in London, 2006. Since then Athey has moved between solos, opera collaborations, and a post-porn video project with Hermes Pittakos titled Pasiphäe, Witch Queen of Crete: A Gloryhole Origin Story, which showed in 2022 at the Long Beach Opera Film Festival via Dirty Looks. Two monographs have been printed on Intellect Press: Pleading in the Blood (2013) and Queer Communion (2021) to accompany the same-named Amelia Jones curated retrospective showing that year at Participant Inc. NYC and ICA-LA. Athey is a 2023 Creative Capital “Wild Futures” grant recipient, for The Asclepeion, a live art installation. April 19 Athey is facilitating Darkness Visible, a weeklong immersive 30 person performance workshop at Communitism in Athens, Greece, and has collaborated with Carmina Escobar on her sound recording concept, Vox Claimants, a non-lingual vocal duet filmed inside and out locations in California high desert locations. This is the second “plus-one” episode of Five Places Los Angeles. In each episode, we ask our interviewee to name someone whom they would choose to ask about the five places that define Los Angeles for them. As each interviewee invites a plus-one, our living documentary of the city grows and evolves. Author and artist Lisa Teasley, whom we interviewed in Episode Five, chose Ron Athey as her plus-one. To hear Lisa Teasley’s interview and read her bio, see E05. los angeles, performance artist, ron athey, lisa teasley, stories of the city, cities, performance art true full 9 716cd9e5-4029-4825-9d9d-b16f2a25de5b 08: Laurie Lipton Show notes and Laurie’s five places:

This interview was recorded on December 22, 2022

  1. The Getty Museum
  2. LACMA
  3. Pacific Coast Highway aka California State Route 1 and 3b. Hummingbirds
  4. The Pacific Ocean, the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. And that famous L.A. light quality, as described by Patt Morrison in the L.A. Times: You’ve noticed it, right? There’s just something about L.A.’s light
  5. Trader Joe’s (and fresh produce in general, especially avocados!)

Also mentioned in this episode:

The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck

Art for art’s sake

“Happy”, the painting behind Laurie during the interview

Shayna Nys Dambrot

Related Links

Love Bite: Laurie Lipton and Her Disturbing Black & White Drawings, a documentary film by James Scott

Newest Book: LAURIE LIPTON drawing

Website: www.laurielipton.com

On instagram: @laurieliptondrawings

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

Special thanks to: Monica Lamela for her extraordinary video editing skills

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2023 Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, and FIVE PLACES L.A.

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 16 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Laurie Lipton, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen, Anali Gharakhani) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/08-laurie-lipton-VAzCYF_8 Show notes and Laurie’s five places:

This interview was recorded on December 22, 2022

  1. The Getty Museum
  2. LACMA
  3. Pacific Coast Highway aka California State Route 1 and 3b. Hummingbirds
  4. The Pacific Ocean, the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. And that famous L.A. light quality, as described by Patt Morrison in the L.A. Times: You’ve noticed it, right? There’s just something about L.A.’s light
  5. Trader Joe’s (and fresh produce in general, especially avocados!)

Also mentioned in this episode:

The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck

Art for art’s sake

“Happy”, the painting behind Laurie during the interview

Shayna Nys Dambrot

Related Links

Love Bite: Laurie Lipton and Her Disturbing Black & White Drawings, a documentary film by James Scott

Newest Book: LAURIE LIPTON drawing

Website: www.laurielipton.com

On instagram: @laurieliptondrawings

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

Special thanks to: Monica Lamela for her extraordinary video editing skills

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2023 Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, and FIVE PLACES L.A.

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 08: Laurie Lipton Laurie Lipton, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen, Anali Gharakhani 00:37:57 Laurie Lipton was born in New York in 1953 and began drawing at the age of four. Lipton was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honors). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, London and has recently moved back to the USA after 36 years abroad. She currently resides in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA. Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. "It's an insane way to draw", she says, "but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort. My drawings take longer to create than a painting of equal size. You can’t really experience the impact of the detail & intensity of one of my larger pieces on a computer screen. They have to be seen in the flesh.” Laurie Lipton was born in New York in 1953 and began drawing at the age of four. Lipton was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honors). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, London and has recently moved back to the USA after 36 years abroad. She currently resides in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA. Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. "It's an insane way to draw", she says, "but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort. My drawings take longer to create than a painting of equal size. You can’t really experience the impact of the detail & intensity of one of my larger pieces on a computer screen. They have to be seen in the flesh.” lacma, pacific coast highway, los angeles, artist, drawing, stories of the city, contemporary artist, getty museum, cities, dutch masters true full 8 501a0a69-1ba0-4b2f-844e-8040e6559588 07: Frances Anderton Show notes and Frances’ five places:

This interview was recorded on December 29, 2022

1. The Sixth street replacement viaduct

2. Santa Monica Pier

3. Gabrielino-Tongva Springs Foundation

4. Schindler House

5. Outdoor dining in Los Angeles

 

Also mentioned in this episode:

April Greiman

Deborah Sussman

To The Point hosted by Warren Olney on KCRW

Which Way L.A. hosted by Warren Olney on KCRW

Michael Sorkin, the architecture critic who was originally assigned to the project that brought Frances to L.A., and who died of the coronavirus in 2020.

From the L.A. Times: 6th Street bridge: A civic wonder that reflects L.A.'s promise and its simmering problems

From the L.A. Times: More than a bridge: Michael Maltzan’s 6th Street Viaduct addresses mistakes of L.A.'s past

From the New York Times: Los Angeles Enjoys Its New Bridge a Little Too Much

Patti Smith at the Santa Monica Pier (one of many appearances).

“‘Rewilding’ the land brings back birds, bees, butterflies” by Frances Anderton on KCRW.com

An L.A. Times piece on the surge in outdoor dining brought on by the pandemic: The year of the party tent: What the age of COVID taught us about architecture in 2021

 

Related links:

Read: Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, Frances’ redefinition of "home" in the Southland.

Watch: 40 Years of Building Community, a short film Frances co-produced about Community Corp of Santa Monica.

Listen: Audio tour of buildings in Common Ground, with KCRW's Steve Chiotakis; Q + A with KPCC's Larry Mantle about Common Ground and why he loved apartment living in L.A..

 

Credits:

This podcast is produced by a small team of volunteers at the LA Forum. To keep us going and growing, we’d greatly appreciate your support! Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you listen, and share with friends and colleagues. Or, make a donation at www.fiveplaces.la. Thank you for listening.

All images of “Common Ground: Multi-family Housing in Los Angeles © Angel City Press 2022

Opening video © Emmanuelle Bourlier 2023

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2023 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Anali Gharakhani, Frances Anderton) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/07-frances-anderton-ongZ8dPm Show notes and Frances’ five places:

This interview was recorded on December 29, 2022

1. The Sixth street replacement viaduct

2. Santa Monica Pier

3. Gabrielino-Tongva Springs Foundation

4. Schindler House

5. Outdoor dining in Los Angeles

 

Also mentioned in this episode:

April Greiman

Deborah Sussman

To The Point hosted by Warren Olney on KCRW

Which Way L.A. hosted by Warren Olney on KCRW

Michael Sorkin, the architecture critic who was originally assigned to the project that brought Frances to L.A., and who died of the coronavirus in 2020.

From the L.A. Times: 6th Street bridge: A civic wonder that reflects L.A.'s promise and its simmering problems

From the L.A. Times: More than a bridge: Michael Maltzan’s 6th Street Viaduct addresses mistakes of L.A.'s past

From the New York Times: Los Angeles Enjoys Its New Bridge a Little Too Much

Patti Smith at the Santa Monica Pier (one of many appearances).

“‘Rewilding’ the land brings back birds, bees, butterflies” by Frances Anderton on KCRW.com

An L.A. Times piece on the surge in outdoor dining brought on by the pandemic: The year of the party tent: What the age of COVID taught us about architecture in 2021

 

Related links:

Read: Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, Frances’ redefinition of "home" in the Southland.

Watch: 40 Years of Building Community, a short film Frances co-produced about Community Corp of Santa Monica.

Listen: Audio tour of buildings in Common Ground, with KCRW's Steve Chiotakis; Q + A with KPCC's Larry Mantle about Common Ground and why he loved apartment living in L.A..

 

Credits:

This podcast is produced by a small team of volunteers at the LA Forum. To keep us going and growing, we’d greatly appreciate your support! Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you listen, and share with friends and colleagues. Or, make a donation at www.fiveplaces.la. Thank you for listening.

All images of “Common Ground: Multi-family Housing in Los Angeles © Angel City Press 2022

Opening video © Emmanuelle Bourlier 2023

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2023 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 07: Frances Anderton Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Anali Gharakhani, Frances Anderton 00:38:14 Frances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print, broadcast media and public events. She is the author of the book “Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles,” published in 2022 by Angel City Press. Also in 2022, she co-produced 40 Years of Building Community, a short film about the influential affordable housing developer Community Corp of Santa Monica; and she co-organized Art for Earth’s Sake, a series at MOCA about the art world and its environmental footprint. For many years Anderton hosted KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture radio show, and produced Warren Olney’s current affairs shows Which Way, LA? And To The Point. Honors include the Esther McCoy Award, from the Architectural Guild of USC School of Architecture, for her work educating the public about architecture and urbanism. Frances Anderton covers Los Angeles design and architecture in print, broadcast media and public events. She is the author of the book “Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles,” published in 2022 by Angel City Press. Also in 2022, she co-produced 40 Years of Building Community, a short film about the influential affordable housing developer Community Corp of Santa Monica; and she co-organized Art for Earth’s Sake, a series at MOCA about the art world and its environmental footprint. For many years Anderton hosted KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture radio show, and produced Warren Olney’s current affairs shows Which Way, LA? And To The Point. Honors include the Esther McCoy Award, from the Architectural Guild of USC School of Architecture, for her work educating the public about architecture and urbanism. sixth street bridge, los angeles, rm schindler, urban design, stories of cities, city dwellers, rewilding, cities, gabrielino tongva springs, architecture, santa monica pier false full 7 b00ad64a-101b-438d-b2b6-89a322f6c356 06: (+1) Carribean Fragoza by Carolina Miranda Carribean Fragoza is a fiction writer and journalist from South El Monte, CA. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published in 2021 by City Lights and was a finalist for a 2022 PEN Award. Her co-edited compilation of essays, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte was published by Rutgers University Press and her forthcoming collection of essays Writing Home: New Terrains of California will be published by Angel City Press in 2023. She has published in Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, Zyzzyva, Alta, BOMB, Huizache, KCET, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtNews, and Aperture Magazine. She is the Prose Editor at Huizache Magazine and Creative Nonfiction and Poetry Editor at Boom California, a journal of UC Press. Fragoza is the founder and co-director of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective. She lives in the San Gabriel Valley in Greater Los Angeles.

Carribean’s five places

  1. The Starlite swap meet (reached via Rush Street in El Monte)
  2. Legg lake in Whittier Narrows Park. A hike and a fishing guide.
  3. Los Callejones and Santee Alley
  4. Car wash taco eateries. We were unable to find links to the El Monte place referenced by Carribean, but here are Deliciosas Pupusas in El Sereno, and other car wash tacos are discussed by L.A. Taco (Macho’s tacos), and LA eater.
  5. The warehouse district, now known as the (ahem) Arts District. More here, by the L.A. conservancy. 

 

Also Mentioned in this episode

Designer Miguel Barragan

Carolina Miranda’s LA Times piece on Rafa Esparsa’s callejones performance

Carribean’s books:

Eat the Mouth That Feeds You 

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte

 

Credits:

This podcast is produced by a small team of volunteers at the LA Forum. To keep us going and growing, we’d greatly appreciate your support! Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you listen, and share with friends and colleagues. Or, make a donation at www.fiveplaces.la. Thank you for listening.

Opening video © Emmanuelle Bourlier 2022

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadupabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

 

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:55:15 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Carribean Fragoza, Anali Gharakhani, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Carolina Miranda, Quynh Nguyen) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/06-1-carribean-fragoza-by-carolina-miranda-GmvvQ7NH Carribean Fragoza is a fiction writer and journalist from South El Monte, CA. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published in 2021 by City Lights and was a finalist for a 2022 PEN Award. Her co-edited compilation of essays, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte was published by Rutgers University Press and her forthcoming collection of essays Writing Home: New Terrains of California will be published by Angel City Press in 2023. She has published in Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, Zyzzyva, Alta, BOMB, Huizache, KCET, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtNews, and Aperture Magazine. She is the Prose Editor at Huizache Magazine and Creative Nonfiction and Poetry Editor at Boom California, a journal of UC Press. Fragoza is the founder and co-director of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective. She lives in the San Gabriel Valley in Greater Los Angeles.

Carribean’s five places

  1. The Starlite swap meet (reached via Rush Street in El Monte)
  2. Legg lake in Whittier Narrows Park. A hike and a fishing guide.
  3. Los Callejones and Santee Alley
  4. Car wash taco eateries. We were unable to find links to the El Monte place referenced by Carribean, but here are Deliciosas Pupusas in El Sereno, and other car wash tacos are discussed by L.A. Taco (Macho’s tacos), and LA eater.
  5. The warehouse district, now known as the (ahem) Arts District. More here, by the L.A. conservancy. 

 

Also Mentioned in this episode

Designer Miguel Barragan

Carolina Miranda’s LA Times piece on Rafa Esparsa’s callejones performance

Carribean’s books:

Eat the Mouth That Feeds You 

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte

 

Credits:

This podcast is produced by a small team of volunteers at the LA Forum. To keep us going and growing, we’d greatly appreciate your support! Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you listen, and share with friends and colleagues. Or, make a donation at www.fiveplaces.la. Thank you for listening.

Opening video © Emmanuelle Bourlier 2022

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadupabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

 

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 06: (+1) Carribean Fragoza by Carolina Miranda Carribean Fragoza, Anali Gharakhani, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Carolina Miranda, Quynh Nguyen 00:34:37 This is the first “plus-one” episode of Five Places Los Angeles. In each episode, we ask our interviewees to name someone whom they would choose to ask about the five places that define Los Angeles for them. As each interviewee invites a plus-one, our living documentary of the city grows and evolves. Carolina Miranda, the arts and urban design columnist for the Los Angeles Times, whom we interviewed in Episode One, chose Carribean Fragoza as her plus-one. To hear Carolina Miranda’s interview and read her bio, check out her interview and show notes at fiveplaces.la. This is the first “plus-one” episode of Five Places Los Angeles. In each episode, we ask our interviewees to name someone whom they would choose to ask about the five places that define Los Angeles for them. As each interviewee invites a plus-one, our living documentary of the city grows and evolves. Carolina Miranda, the arts and urban design columnist for the Los Angeles Times, whom we interviewed in Episode One, chose Carribean Fragoza as her plus-one. To hear Carolina Miranda’s interview and read her bio, check out her interview and show notes at fiveplaces.la. swap meet, warehouse district, los angeles, whittier narrows, arts district, el monte, car wash tacos, legg lake, stories of cities, callejones, dtla, cities, authors, short story writer false full 6 f12d48c1-0248-4e49-a5ae-23d0a02a32a2 05: Lisa Teasley Lisa ’s five places

  1. Adams district and the Golden State Life Insurance Building by Paul R. Williams, who was also featured in Episode 01 with Carolina Miranda. 
  2. Laurel Canyon and its music history. 
  3. Venice and the Venice Canals.
  4. Baldwin Hills with its scenic overlook and steps and Kenneth Hahn State Park, adjacent to the Crenshaw District and Leimert Park.
  5. Downtown LA, with Chinatown, Union Station, The Flower Market, and adjacent Silverlake/Echo Park.

Also Mentioned in this episode

Canter’s Deli on Fairfax

Gorky’s – now closed

Hank’s bar – now closed

Musso and Frank’s – still open!

The Frolic Room – temporarily closed

Books mentioned in this episode:

available through Eso Won bookstore: Instagram @esowonbooks / Email to place orders: esowonbooks@yahoo.com

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davis

After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame, by Lynell George

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the sixties, by Mike Davis and Jon Weiner

Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era, by Alison Rose Jefferson

Glow in the Dark, by Lisa Teasley

Dive, by Lisa Teasley

Heat Signature, by Lisa Teasley

 

Related links:

A Place at the Table in Echo Park, Alta Journal, September 29, 2022. Author and artist Lisa Teasley looks at Natalia Molina’s A Place at the Nayarit, through her own experience of Echo Park over the years.

Glossolalia, by Lisa Teasley, Kweli Journal, August 30, 2022.

The Only Black Person in the Room, by Lisa Teasley, Parabola Journal, July 28, 2022. 

The Castle in the Trees, August 2020, for the L.A. Forum’s Every.Thing.Changes exhibition. 

Credits:

This podcast is produced by a small team of volunteers at the LA Forum. To keep us going and growing, we’d greatly appreciate your support! Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you listen, and share with friends and colleagues. Or, make a donation at www.fiveplaces.la. Thank you for listening.

All images © Lisa Teasley 2022

Opening video © Emmanuelle Bourlier 2022

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadupabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Quynh Nguyen, Anali Gharakhani, Lisa Teasley, Emmanuelle Bourlier) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/05-lisa-teasley-0m_T0ePV Lisa ’s five places

  1. Adams district and the Golden State Life Insurance Building by Paul R. Williams, who was also featured in Episode 01 with Carolina Miranda. 
  2. Laurel Canyon and its music history. 
  3. Venice and the Venice Canals.
  4. Baldwin Hills with its scenic overlook and steps and Kenneth Hahn State Park, adjacent to the Crenshaw District and Leimert Park.
  5. Downtown LA, with Chinatown, Union Station, The Flower Market, and adjacent Silverlake/Echo Park.

Also Mentioned in this episode

Canter’s Deli on Fairfax

Gorky’s – now closed

Hank’s bar – now closed

Musso and Frank’s – still open!

The Frolic Room – temporarily closed

Books mentioned in this episode:

available through Eso Won bookstore: Instagram @esowonbooks / Email to place orders: esowonbooks@yahoo.com

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davis

After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame, by Lynell George

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the sixties, by Mike Davis and Jon Weiner

Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era, by Alison Rose Jefferson

Glow in the Dark, by Lisa Teasley

Dive, by Lisa Teasley

Heat Signature, by Lisa Teasley

 

Related links:

A Place at the Table in Echo Park, Alta Journal, September 29, 2022. Author and artist Lisa Teasley looks at Natalia Molina’s A Place at the Nayarit, through her own experience of Echo Park over the years.

Glossolalia, by Lisa Teasley, Kweli Journal, August 30, 2022.

The Only Black Person in the Room, by Lisa Teasley, Parabola Journal, July 28, 2022. 

The Castle in the Trees, August 2020, for the L.A. Forum’s Every.Thing.Changes exhibition. 

Credits:

This podcast is produced by a small team of volunteers at the LA Forum. To keep us going and growing, we’d greatly appreciate your support! Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you listen, and share with friends and colleagues. Or, make a donation at www.fiveplaces.la. Thank you for listening.

All images © Lisa Teasley 2022

Opening video © Emmanuelle Bourlier 2022

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadupabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 05: Lisa Teasley Quynh Nguyen, Anali Gharakhani, Lisa Teasley, Emmanuelle Bourlier 00:45:04 Lisa Teasley is a writer and an artist, a graduate of UCLA and Los Angeles native. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, GLOW IN THE DARK, won numerous awards. Her novels HEAT SIGNATURE and DIVE have been praised in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her new story collection FLUID is forthcoming, September 2023. See more of Lisa's work at www.lisateasley.com. Lisa Teasley’s last solo retrospective exhibition, Paintrospective, was at the Marie Baldwin Gallery in Spring 2019; her last group show was LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design’s Every.Thing.Changes, Summer 2020. Lisa was a member of the former art collective HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN, who debuted the opera “Good Stock on the Dimension Floor” at the Whitney Biennial 2014. She was also the writer and host of the BBC Television documentary “High School Prom.” Lisa is an editor-at-large for Los Angeles Review of Books. Lisa Teasley is a writer and an artist, a graduate of UCLA and Los Angeles native. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, GLOW IN THE DARK, won numerous awards. Her novels HEAT SIGNATURE and DIVE have been praised in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her new story collection FLUID is forthcoming, September 2023. See more of Lisa's work at www.lisateasley.com. Lisa Teasley’s last solo retrospective exhibition, Paintrospective, was at the Marie Baldwin Gallery in Spring 2019; her last group show was LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design’s Every.Thing.Changes, Summer 2020. Lisa was a member of the former art collective HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN, who debuted the opera “Good Stock on the Dimension Floor” at the Whitney Biennial 2014. She was also the writer and host of the BBC Television documentary “High School Prom.” Lisa is an editor-at-large for Los Angeles Review of Books. storytelling, venice ca, los angeles, urban design, santa monica, dtla, urban justice, cities, architecture false full 5 5e91c4f9-9cbb-4566-bdbc-af07fae41646 a short message from Emmanuelle Thu, 6 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Sam Lubell) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/a-short-message-from-emmanuelle-BTrnSdte a short message from Emmanuelle Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Sam Lubell 00:02:26 A short message from Five Places host Emmanuelle Bourlier, including an even shorter clip from Episode Three with Sam Lubell, executive editor of Metropolis magazine. A short message from Five Places host Emmanuelle Bourlier, including an even shorter clip from Episode Three with Sam Lubell, executive editor of Metropolis magazine. false bonus b98cb2e6-92bf-42ab-87ff-0a996ba77bcd 04: Natasha Case Natasha ’s five places

  1. L.A. Birria, West Adams
  2. Bluffs Park in Malibu
  3. Musso and Frank
  4. Dodger Stadium
  5. The Cornfield Park

Also Mentioned in this episode

D.J. Waldie on the history of the term Angeleno

Lobster rolls at Broad Street Oyster Co. in Malibu

Dodgers Stadium becomes a site for mass vaccinations

Highland Park Brewery

Common Space Brewery

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Anali Gharakhani, Natasha Case, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-four-natasha-case-Ddbnm6cp Natasha ’s five places

  1. L.A. Birria, West Adams
  2. Bluffs Park in Malibu
  3. Musso and Frank
  4. Dodger Stadium
  5. The Cornfield Park

Also Mentioned in this episode

D.J. Waldie on the history of the term Angeleno

Lobster rolls at Broad Street Oyster Co. in Malibu

Dodgers Stadium becomes a site for mass vaccinations

Highland Park Brewery

Common Space Brewery

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 04: Natasha Case Anali Gharakhani, Natasha Case, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen 00:31:06 Natasha Case and her partner Freya Estreller founded Coolhaus ice cream in 2009 from a barely drivable postal van at the Coachella Music Festival, where the brand went viral. Coolhaus then scaled to a national fleet of trucks in LA and NYC, a flagship store in Culver City, and a national grocery business of ice cream products in stores ranging from Whole Foods to Sprouts to Kroger. Natasha led Coolhaus as CEO until its acquisition in 2021 by The Urgent Company, a family of brands focused on creating a more sustainable food system. Natasha has joined The Urgent Company as its new President of Brand Experience. Natasha Case and her partner Freya Estreller founded Coolhaus ice cream in 2009 from a barely drivable postal van at the Coachella Music Festival, where the brand went viral. Coolhaus then scaled to a national fleet of trucks in LA and NYC, a flagship store in Culver City, and a national grocery business of ice cream products in stores ranging from Whole Foods to Sprouts to Kroger. Natasha led Coolhaus as CEO until its acquisition in 2021 by The Urgent Company, a family of brands focused on creating a more sustainable food system. Natasha has joined The Urgent Company as its new President of Brand Experience. los angeles, female ceo, stories of places, lgtbq+ business leader, city guides, cities, ice cream false full 4 c07c4d5f-5011-49bb-a605-68ffdbcc6650 03: Sam Lubell Sam ’s five places

  1. Bahooka and Rufus the fish. Bahooka closing, and video tour. Rufus the Pacu fish eating a carrot. 
  2. Carousel restaurant and Sam’s New York Times piece about amazing food in strip malls.
  3. Elysian Park, Griffith Park, and the LA Police Academy Garden
  4. The Bonaventure Hotel
  5. The Magic Castle

Also Mentioned in this episode

“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

Watts Towers

Farnam House Santa Monica

Slab City and Salvation Mountain near Salton Sea

Hollywood vibe restaurants: Musso & Frank, Clifton’s, The Dresden

Los Angeles City Hall

The Broad Museum

Also see: “Elizabeth Diller’s designs on the Broad draw from architect’s avant-garde eye” by Episode One guest, LA Times Art & Architecture writer Carolina Miranda

Walt Disney Concert Hall and Frank Gehry on the Architecture of LA's Disney Concert Hall

Guggenheim Bilbao

Centre Pompidou, and the Kandisky Library

Sixth Street Viaduct

Sam Lubell’s LA Times piece about SoFi stadium. Episode One guest Carolina Miranda wrote about SoFi Stadium’s 5 best places and also about the stadium’s lack of representation of Black artists. 

The LACMA debate covered by the LA Times

Books authored by Sam Lubell

 

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 1 Sep 2022 07:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Sam Lubell, Quynh Nguyen, Anali Gharakhani, Emmanuelle Bourlier) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-three-sam-lubell-K0paa3DF Sam ’s five places

  1. Bahooka and Rufus the fish. Bahooka closing, and video tour. Rufus the Pacu fish eating a carrot. 
  2. Carousel restaurant and Sam’s New York Times piece about amazing food in strip malls.
  3. Elysian Park, Griffith Park, and the LA Police Academy Garden
  4. The Bonaventure Hotel
  5. The Magic Castle

Also Mentioned in this episode

“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

Watts Towers

Farnam House Santa Monica

Slab City and Salvation Mountain near Salton Sea

Hollywood vibe restaurants: Musso & Frank, Clifton’s, The Dresden

Los Angeles City Hall

The Broad Museum

Also see: “Elizabeth Diller’s designs on the Broad draw from architect’s avant-garde eye” by Episode One guest, LA Times Art & Architecture writer Carolina Miranda

Walt Disney Concert Hall and Frank Gehry on the Architecture of LA's Disney Concert Hall

Guggenheim Bilbao

Centre Pompidou, and the Kandisky Library

Sixth Street Viaduct

Sam Lubell’s LA Times piece about SoFi stadium. Episode One guest Carolina Miranda wrote about SoFi Stadium’s 5 best places and also about the stadium’s lack of representation of Black artists. 

The LACMA debate covered by the LA Times

Books authored by Sam Lubell

 

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 03: Sam Lubell Sam Lubell, Quynh Nguyen, Anali Gharakhani, Emmanuelle Bourlier 00:58:09 Sam Lubell is the Executive Editor of Metropolis Magazine. He has written more than ten books about architecture for Phaidon, Rizzoli, The Monacelli Press, Metropolis Books, and Oro Editions. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Architectural Digest, Wallpaper, Dwell, Wired, Architectural Record, The Architect’s Newspaper, Architect Magazine, and other publications. Lubell co-curated the exhibitions Never Built New York at the Queens Museum; Never Built Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum; Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum; and Sacred Spaces, a traveling exhibition created with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture and Columbia University GSAPP. Sam Lubell is the Executive Editor of Metropolis Magazine. He has written more than ten books about architecture for Phaidon, Rizzoli, The Monacelli Press, Metropolis Books, and Oro Editions. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Architectural Digest, Wallpaper, Dwell, Wired, Architectural Record, The Architect’s Newspaper, Architect Magazine, and other publications. Lubell co-curated the exhibitions Never Built New York at the Queens Museum; Never Built Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum; Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum; and Sacred Spaces, a traveling exhibition created with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture and Columbia University GSAPP. los angeles, urban design, cities, architecture false full 3 ffe778bd-7d9e-461f-a5a1-5ed0f040b541 02: Lizzie Armanto Lizzie Armanto’s Five Places:

  1. The Cove skatepark: Official website / IG page, with announcements about girls sessions
  2. Galco’s soda pop stop. If you know about the “atom” drink that was Lizzie’s favorite, please reach out to us!
  3. The bridges over the LA river and the tunnels, in particular the 2nd street tunnel where many movies were filmed. Note that this episode was recorded before the 6th street viaduct opened on July 09, 2022. Thenew viaduct was designed by architect Michael Maltzan and engineer Deborah Weintraub to be not only functional and beautiful, but become a public space in its own right. From the Metropolis article: “ When the City of Los Angeles officially opened the new 6th Street Viaduct on July 9, a crowd of Angelenos swarmed the bridge deck, much the way New Yorkers had celebrated John A. Roebling’s Brooklyn Bridge in 1883. It’s rare for a piece of civic infrastructure to get such a welcome. But the original 1932 6th Street Bridge was the most revered of the fourteen historic bridges crossing the Los Angeles River, and the new bridge, called the “Ribbon of Light” by its architect Michael Maltzan, came to embody a feeling of communal pride during the years of waiting for the span to reappear. “
  4. The original Farmer’s Market, with its annual Mardi Gras celebration.
  5. El Coyote Café, built in 1931.

 

Other links:

Lizzie on instagram

You may notice a pair of crutches behind Lizzie in the podcast video. Two months before, in October 2020, she had broken her femur during a devastating slam. She kept it quiet during her recovery and spoke about it in an exclusive on the Hawk v. Wolf podcast:Lizzie Armanto on her Devastating Slam, the Path to Recovery, & Overcoming Adversity

Thrasher magazine “cold call” video: “Lizzie’s got a green thumb and a deep bag of moves on her backyard ramp. Check the session with Burman, Ronnie, Axel and Allysha joining the jam.”

We very briefly touched on the complex issue of the unhoused. A few LA-based information and action resources: the Skid Row Housing Trust, which “provides permanent supportive housing so that people who have experienced homelessness, prolonged extreme poverty, poor health, disabilities, mental illness and/or addiction can lead safe, stable lives in wellness.” And The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, which “advances radical democracy in an unequal world through research, critical thought, and alliances with social movements and racial justice activism”, and provides research and resources on housing justice.

Skateboarding and Precalculus: An Unlikely Pairing Made Possible by Olympian Lizzie Armanto

Vanguards | Style, Creativity and Skateboarding Their Own Way (VANS): Featuring Vans skateboarders Lizzie Armanto, Yndiara Asp, Mami Tezuka and Brighton Zeuner

Lizzie Armanto is the first female skater to complete Tony Hawk’s 360 loop. More on the loop and the events of that day here. 

Dogtown, the birthplace of skating

Rip city skate shop: Santa Monica’s classic skate shop since 1978

 

Show credits

Videos of Lizzie skating (all videos except our intro video): courtesy of @LizzieArmanto

Special thanks to Brian Adams and Rick Boisdeau for making the Cove skatepark such an amazing place, and for putting us in touch with Lizzie. 

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com/)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadupabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Jayna Zweiman

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 11 Aug 2022 07:00:00 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Quynh Nguyen, Lizzie Armanto, Anali Gharakhani, Emmanuelle Bourlier) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-two-lizzie-armanto-CKy68loe Lizzie Armanto’s Five Places:

  1. The Cove skatepark: Official website / IG page, with announcements about girls sessions
  2. Galco’s soda pop stop. If you know about the “atom” drink that was Lizzie’s favorite, please reach out to us!
  3. The bridges over the LA river and the tunnels, in particular the 2nd street tunnel where many movies were filmed. Note that this episode was recorded before the 6th street viaduct opened on July 09, 2022. Thenew viaduct was designed by architect Michael Maltzan and engineer Deborah Weintraub to be not only functional and beautiful, but become a public space in its own right. From the Metropolis article: “ When the City of Los Angeles officially opened the new 6th Street Viaduct on July 9, a crowd of Angelenos swarmed the bridge deck, much the way New Yorkers had celebrated John A. Roebling’s Brooklyn Bridge in 1883. It’s rare for a piece of civic infrastructure to get such a welcome. But the original 1932 6th Street Bridge was the most revered of the fourteen historic bridges crossing the Los Angeles River, and the new bridge, called the “Ribbon of Light” by its architect Michael Maltzan, came to embody a feeling of communal pride during the years of waiting for the span to reappear. “
  4. The original Farmer’s Market, with its annual Mardi Gras celebration.
  5. El Coyote Café, built in 1931.

 

Other links:

Lizzie on instagram

You may notice a pair of crutches behind Lizzie in the podcast video. Two months before, in October 2020, she had broken her femur during a devastating slam. She kept it quiet during her recovery and spoke about it in an exclusive on the Hawk v. Wolf podcast:Lizzie Armanto on her Devastating Slam, the Path to Recovery, & Overcoming Adversity

Thrasher magazine “cold call” video: “Lizzie’s got a green thumb and a deep bag of moves on her backyard ramp. Check the session with Burman, Ronnie, Axel and Allysha joining the jam.”

We very briefly touched on the complex issue of the unhoused. A few LA-based information and action resources: the Skid Row Housing Trust, which “provides permanent supportive housing so that people who have experienced homelessness, prolonged extreme poverty, poor health, disabilities, mental illness and/or addiction can lead safe, stable lives in wellness.” And The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, which “advances radical democracy in an unequal world through research, critical thought, and alliances with social movements and racial justice activism”, and provides research and resources on housing justice.

Skateboarding and Precalculus: An Unlikely Pairing Made Possible by Olympian Lizzie Armanto

Vanguards | Style, Creativity and Skateboarding Their Own Way (VANS): Featuring Vans skateboarders Lizzie Armanto, Yndiara Asp, Mami Tezuka and Brighton Zeuner

Lizzie Armanto is the first female skater to complete Tony Hawk’s 360 loop. More on the loop and the events of that day here. 

Dogtown, the birthplace of skating

Rip city skate shop: Santa Monica’s classic skate shop since 1978

 

Show credits

Videos of Lizzie skating (all videos except our intro video): courtesy of @LizzieArmanto

Special thanks to Brian Adams and Rick Boisdeau for making the Cove skatepark such an amazing place, and for putting us in touch with Lizzie. 

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com/)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadupabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Jayna Zweiman

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 02: Lizzie Armanto Quynh Nguyen, Lizzie Armanto, Anali Gharakhani, Emmanuelle Bourlier 00:38:54 There have always been amazingly talented women skateboarders but there's no denying that Vans Pro and Tony Hawk protégé, Lizzie Armanto, is one of the most groundbreaking ladies in skateboard history. Pouring sweat, skill, and creativity into full parts for both Thrasher Magazine and Birdhouse in 2017, she also became the first female to be featured on the cover of Transworld Skateboarding in addition to Thrasher cover honors. Armanto is also one of the leaders of a new onslaught of fierce women skaters making names for themselves in the Vans Park Series circuit. If that's not enough, she's also the first female skater to successfully complete Tony Hawk's 360 Loop, in addition to being featured as a primary character in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 video game. With over 30 awards on her mantle, along with the first-ever Gold in X-Games Womens Park competition in 2013, Lizzie's path is paved in milestones and setting the tone for generations of women in skateboarding. (Bio via VANS.) There have always been amazingly talented women skateboarders but there's no denying that Vans Pro and Tony Hawk protégé, Lizzie Armanto, is one of the most groundbreaking ladies in skateboard history. Pouring sweat, skill, and creativity into full parts for both Thrasher Magazine and Birdhouse in 2017, she also became the first female to be featured on the cover of Transworld Skateboarding in addition to Thrasher cover honors. Armanto is also one of the leaders of a new onslaught of fierce women skaters making names for themselves in the Vans Park Series circuit. If that's not enough, she's also the first female skater to successfully complete Tony Hawk's 360 Loop, in addition to being featured as a primary character in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 video game. With over 30 awards on her mantle, along with the first-ever Gold in X-Games Womens Park competition in 2013, Lizzie's path is paved in milestones and setting the tone for generations of women in skateboarding. (Bio via VANS.) los angeles, lizzie armanto, cities, skateboarding, pro skater false full 2 7233509a-b738-4a46-9414-ee16bdddb231 01: Carolina A. Miranda Show notes and Carolina’s five places:

Carolina’s article on the “Low Rise: Housing Ideas for Los Angeles” competition, referencing Panorama City.

1. The Psychic Center of LA. Its proximity to the freeway, and LA’s freeways in general. Carolina references Reyner Banham, whose book “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies”  and the accompanying documentary “Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles” are referenced in her article “Drive-throughs and drive-ins were fading. Coronavirus made them a lifeline”.

Also mentioned are Lisa Anne Auerbach’s photos of psychic establishments, in particular this one of the Psychic Center abutting the freeway.

2. La Brea Tar Pits, and the mammoths. (Also, Carry that Weight by the Beatles is mentioned.)

3. LAX theme building (and the now-defunct Nude Nudes). Sam First jazz bar is also mentioned.

4. Improvised drive throughs and snack-shacks (and a less improvised drive-in church.) Special mentions:

Chano’s Mexican drive through in Lincoln heights, where the machaca con huevo burrito is Carolina’s favorite in Los Angeles.

Christ Cathedral complex, and related places: Neutra’s Garden Grove community church,  Isamu Noguchi gardens, the Hour of Power opening sequence on YouTube and Taco Maria. 

5. The Stahl House by Pierre Koenig. Carolina Miranda’s piece on Paul Revere Williams, and on his archive being acquired by the Getty. The Golden State life insurance building. 

Also mentioned in this episode:

Carolina’s piece on Chilean architecture.

Avila adobe house on Olvera street

Piece by Alexandra Lange on declaring this the summer of play

East of East collection

Caribbean Fragoza

Outtake: The work of Carolina Miranda’s husband, painter El Celso is discussed. Instagram: @elcels0

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com/)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadupabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Jayna Zweiman

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Thu, 7 Jul 2022 14:27:23 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Carolina Miranda, Emmanuelle Bourlier) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-one-carolina-a-miranda-08NUUTjq Show notes and Carolina’s five places:

Carolina’s article on the “Low Rise: Housing Ideas for Los Angeles” competition, referencing Panorama City.

1. The Psychic Center of LA. Its proximity to the freeway, and LA’s freeways in general. Carolina references Reyner Banham, whose book “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies”  and the accompanying documentary “Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles” are referenced in her article “Drive-throughs and drive-ins were fading. Coronavirus made them a lifeline”.

Also mentioned are Lisa Anne Auerbach’s photos of psychic establishments, in particular this one of the Psychic Center abutting the freeway.

2. La Brea Tar Pits, and the mammoths. (Also, Carry that Weight by the Beatles is mentioned.)

3. LAX theme building (and the now-defunct Nude Nudes). Sam First jazz bar is also mentioned.

4. Improvised drive throughs and snack-shacks (and a less improvised drive-in church.) Special mentions:

Chano’s Mexican drive through in Lincoln heights, where the machaca con huevo burrito is Carolina’s favorite in Los Angeles.

Christ Cathedral complex, and related places: Neutra’s Garden Grove community church,  Isamu Noguchi gardens, the Hour of Power opening sequence on YouTube and Taco Maria. 

5. The Stahl House by Pierre Koenig. Carolina Miranda’s piece on Paul Revere Williams, and on his archive being acquired by the Getty. The Golden State life insurance building. 

Also mentioned in this episode:

Carolina’s piece on Chilean architecture.

Avila adobe house on Olvera street

Piece by Alexandra Lange on declaring this the summer of play

East of East collection

Caribbean Fragoza

Outtake: The work of Carolina Miranda’s husband, painter El Celso is discussed. Instagram: @elcels0

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com/)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadupabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Jayna Zweiman

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> 01: Carolina A. Miranda Carolina Miranda, Emmanuelle Bourlier 00:42:50 Carolina A. Miranda is the arts and urban design columnist for the Los Angeles Times where she covers art and architecture as well as broader cultural stories. Prior to this, she was a long-time independent journalist contributing stories to Time magazine, ARTnews, Fast Company, Architect, Art in America and National Public Radio. She is a regular contributor for KCRW’s “Press Play” and a winner of the 2017 Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism. She served as founding co-chair of the Los Angeles Times Guild, The Times’ employee union. Find her on twitter @cmonstah and on instagram @cmonstah, and view her most recent LA Times articles here. Carolina A. Miranda is the arts and urban design columnist for the Los Angeles Times where she covers art and architecture as well as broader cultural stories. Prior to this, she was a long-time independent journalist contributing stories to Time magazine, ARTnews, Fast Company, Architect, Art in America and National Public Radio. She is a regular contributor for KCRW’s “Press Play” and a winner of the 2017 Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism. She served as founding co-chair of the Los Angeles Times Guild, The Times’ employee union. Find her on twitter @cmonstah and on instagram @cmonstah, and view her most recent LA Times articles here. carolina miranda, los angeles, pierre koenig, paul revere williams, drive-throughs, cities true full 1 84ad19e1-81aa-4e0a-ab9b-c446d2cfe9c8 TRAILER : FIVE PLACES L.A. Interviewees featured in the trailer, in order of appearance:

CAROLINA A. MIRANDA, journalist, LA Times |  instagram  twitter

FRANCES ANDERTON, journalist, author, radio host | instagram   twitter

ANTONIO X. PACHECO, writer, editor, historian | instagram  twitter

SOURIS HONG, author, co-founder Creative Cabal | instagram  twitter

LIZZIE ARMANTO, professional skateboarder | instagram

NATASHA CASE, founder and CEO, Coolhaus | instagram

LISA TEASLEY, artist, author | instagram twitter

RON ATHEY, performance artist | instagram   twitter

J. YOLANDE DANIELS, architect, historian | instagram 

JAYNA ZWEIMAN, artist, activist, Pussyhat, Welcome Blanket | instagram   twitter  

LAUREN DANDRIDGE GAINES, educator, co-founder Chromatic | instagram

CREDITS:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com/)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadupabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Jayna Zweiman

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier 

Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land. 

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES L.A.

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:37:22 +0000 emmanuelle.bourlier@gmail.com (Emmanuelle Bourlier, Lizzie Armanto, Lisa Teasley, J. Yolande Daniels, Carolina Miranda, Ron Athey, Natasha Case, Souris Hong, Antonio X. Pacheco, Frances Anderton, Carolina A. Miranda, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Jayna Zweiman) https://five-la-places.simplecast.com/episodes/trailer-five-places-los-angeles-5AUX_gY6 Interviewees featured in the trailer, in order of appearance:

CAROLINA A. MIRANDA, journalist, LA Times |  instagram  twitter

FRANCES ANDERTON, journalist, author, radio host | instagram   twitter

ANTONIO X. PACHECO, writer, editor, historian | instagram  twitter

SOURIS HONG, author, co-founder Creative Cabal | instagram  twitter

LIZZIE ARMANTO, professional skateboarder | instagram

NATASHA CASE, founder and CEO, Coolhaus | instagram

LISA TEASLEY, artist, author | instagram twitter

RON ATHEY, performance artist | instagram   twitter

J. YOLANDE DANIELS, architect, historian | instagram 

JAYNA ZWEIMAN, artist, activist, Pussyhat, Welcome Blanket | instagram   twitter  

LAUREN DANDRIDGE GAINES, educator, co-founder Chromatic | instagram

CREDITS:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com/)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadupabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Jayna Zweiman

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier 

Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land. 

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES L.A.

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

]]> TRAILER : FIVE PLACES L.A. Emmanuelle Bourlier, Lizzie Armanto, Lisa Teasley, J. Yolande Daniels, Carolina Miranda, Ron Athey, Natasha Case, Souris Hong, Antonio X. Pacheco, Frances Anderton, Carolina A. Miranda, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Jayna Zweiman 00:04:12 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. 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. los angeles, city guide, architecture, urbanism true trailer