LA Little Island
Los Angeles Has a Housing Crisis. Can It Design Its Way Out?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/arts/design/los-angeles-housing-crisis.html
Bright, airy, vegetated, wholesome, a tad too much must-have wood flaunted, these are magical almost Hollywoodish (pardon pun) in happy families leading safe and wonderful lives (nod to Jimmy Stewart).
Our late friend architecture critic Michael Sorkin bemoaned his years of climbing six flights to reach a multi-thousand dollar ancient squat, claiming it kept him healthy if feeling robbed by a mean-hearted land-monster never satisfied that his tenants were not sufficiently suffering under draconian rules and mandates of the Real Estate Board, the Mayor, the Board of Estimate, the City Council, the City Planning Department, the Building Department, the Landmarks Preservation Commission and broad cult of property worship in fealty to gods of profiteering of limited 5-boro landscape and glorification of high-rises ever more vulgar and outsized for their same qualified inhabitants, designers, builders, and daresay, museums and critics.
No holds barred visual architectural critic Lebbeus Woods parodied the grotesqueries of jack-leg, thuggish, uglifying planners, architects and professors with meticulous renderings of horrific distortion, terrifying calamities, tortures, hangings, bestialities which made Frank Gehry's contortions appear to be child-like, again LA filmic of pretend ghastliness which never left the surreal of make believe.
LA not want to be an NYC, come on now. The art of cheat began on this rock of fellers and shifted to Left Coast for cheap space to build foo bar.