Episode 03
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.
Show notes and Sam’s five places:
This Interview was recorded on August 16, 2022
Bahooka and Rufus the fish. Bahooka closing, and video tour. Rufus the Pacu fish eating a carrot.
Carousel restaurant and Sam’s New York Times piece about amazing food in strip malls.
Elysian Park, Griffith Park, and the LA Police Academy Garden
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
Slab City and Salvation Mountain near Salton Sea
Hollywood vibe restaurants: Musso & Frank, Clifton’s, The Dresden
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
Centre Pompidou, and the Kandisky Library
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 art plan leaving Black artists in limbo.
The LACMA debate covered by the LA Times
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, Jayna Zweiman
Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier
Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock
This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.
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