The City Lost and Found Film Series: Driving Los Angeles

Title

The City Lost and Found Film Series: Driving Los Angeles

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 @ 6:00 pm

Location

Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture

The Great Wall of Los Angeles (1978)

A short film on the making of the iconic mural designed by Judith F. Baca and executed by the Social and Public Art Resource Center

Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (1972)

Architectural historian Reyner Banham gives a tour of what he describes as the “four ecologies” of Los Angeles: Surfurbia, Foothills, The Plains of Id, and Autopia (beach, basin, foothills, freeways)

Discussants:

Jenny Price, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities of Lewis Center for the Arts and the Princeton Environmental Institute

Alison Isenberg, Professor of History, Co-Director, Program in Urban Studies, Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities