Episode 10
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.
Show notes and Julie’s five places:
This interview was recorded on March 30, 2023
Beach (ex: Santa Monica beach)
Topography of hills and plains (as you might see from the Griffith Observatory): a mythical place with elusive edges
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.
Strip malls, with their ephemeral signage, and Park’s barbecue in particular
Homeless encampments
Also mentioned in this episode/related links:
KoningEizenberg firm overview video
LA Times neighborhood mapping project - most of the distinctive and walkable neighborhoods mentioned by Julie are included in this project.
Eames House (Case Study House No.8)
Reyner Banham and Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
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!
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Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
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