Architecture

Left Ruth and Rick in Rome, in their twenties, right Bruno Zevi

ZEVI – Our Story

  Bruno Zevi (1918-2000) NOW – WHY? This is a time of major transformations: scientifically, technologically, demographically, and politically. Climate change has already reached a point where the question is not if but how we will cope. Professor Bruno Zevi, an architect, historian, critic of architecture, writer, publisher, and politician, continues to be a source …

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Shows a traditional store front window

Inside-Outside: Notes on the Treatment of the Storefront

Basic observation Summer is the season when we enjoy doing our own food shopping, particularly when fruits and vegetables are on display inside and outside the storefront of food stores along our main streets I noted a variety of ways of treating that display, whether the store belongs to a chain of the supermarket type …

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Ukrainian Bullets

With the war in Ukraine entering most people’s lives worldwide, Ukrainian Bullets shows creative alternatives from life before the beginning of the war. In delineating a short documentary, I focused on contemporary young artists at the forefront of art, music, and architecture. The artists Daria Marchenko graduated from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design. She …

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L.A.’s New Icon – Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Los Angeles has a new icon: the spherical Geffen Theater, a state-of-the-art place for film projections designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. It is part of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, inaugurated last September. The City of Angels is not short of icons, but few have visual clarity. The most …

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The Wende — Art and Culture Behind the Iron Curtain

The Wende Museum is a unique depository of memories from the Eastern European countries beyond the Iron Curtain that endured Communism-labeled fascism during the Cold War. It is dedicated to preserving this period’s art, culture, and stories. When my friend Elisa Leonelli sent me a recent article she wrote about her visits to The Wende, we followed after her …

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Exploring the spaces in-between-buildings

The spaces in-between-buildings, usually referred to as “yards” at the scale of the small residential building, became a subject of interest, as urban experience, because of their quirks and variety at the scale of the apartment/condominium blocks in my immediate neighborhood. My daily walks allowed me to examine these spaces, from the sidewalk, in terms …

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The Ford Theater in Hollywood

The Ford from Rick Meghiddo on Vimeo. When you go to the Long Beach Opera, expect the unexpected. The program fitted our expectations: Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (1912) and Kate Soper’s Voices from the Killing Jar (2012.), an all-women performance. Jenny Wong directed the music, the choreography was directed by Danielle Agami, and the singing …

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SHARING AIR: Post pandemic thoughts on art, LACMA, and The Green New Deal

Spring is here—resurrection, liberation, vaccination. We re-emerge from the rubble of quarantine into fresh air—a little tentative and rattled. The breeze feels good against our unmasked faces. Landscapes have been leveled and reshuffled. There is lots more empty space, between people, on streets, in buildings, in communities. We are beamed photos from Mars and they …

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