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Building on Brilliance: TMA's StoryDesigning for the FutureGo behind the scenes with architect Michael Maltzan and Dungjai Pungauthaikan from Once-Future, plus Toledo Museum of Art staff members Crystal Phelps and Jason DePriest, as they discuss reimagining the museum for today's visitors and the next generation.2025-05-0830 min
Unfrozen98. Crisis & Criticism with Christopher HawthorneOur guest on this episode is Christopher Hawthorne, the Senior Critic at Yale University’s School of Architecture. His previous roles include architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times, and Chief Design Officer of the City of Los Angeles. His current mission is to assemble the Speaker’s Corner at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Unfrozen hears his unique perspective as both critic and exhibitor.
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Intro/Outro: “Elevator,” by The Cooper Vane
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Discussed:
2025 Venice Architecture Biennale: “Inteligens: Natural, Artificial, Collective” – Carlo Ratti
Speakers’ Corner / Re-staging Criticism series, part of...2025-05-0750 min
California DreamingEp.25 Los Angeles Places to Go Pt 1Intro - Hey Guys and Dolls!Positive Quote of the Week & author California Miscellaneous Just the facts, ma’am - Useless, but interesting stuffDream a little dream - A dream from my 30-year-old dream journal, Listeners dreams, or Your dreams in life that have come trueOutro - “You are loved. Everything that happens is for a reason. This too shall pass.”AcknowledgementsThank you, Listeners. Dream “Missing Truck” by Loretta J.Contact me at -themoodyredhead@yahoo.com Instagram: @themoodyredheadTikTok: @themoodyredhead GoodReads...2024-11-2534 min
J.T. the L.A. StorytellerDESIGNING FOR THE REALITIES WITH ERIC SOLIS
The return of J.T. the L.A. Storyteller Podcast features Eric Solis, an L.A. born architect and designer now living and consulting in Mexico City, where the rise of a new, international gentrification has pushed residents like himself to fight back and organize. Solis’s roots in Los Angeles also run deep, however, especially given his time with HNTB Corporation in collaboration with Michael Maltzan Architecture, or the firm behind the already world-famous 6th Street Bridge, which officially reopened in June 2022. Solis and I discuss his upbringing through Greater Los Angeles, as well as his unique position as...2024-09-1342 min
Design for an Agile WorldCollaborative Design and Social Impact: A Conversation with Michael Maltzan, Design Principal, FAIA, NCARB CertifiedWe're excited to have Design Principal Michael Maltzan, FAIA, NCARB Certified - the architect behind Star Apartments, a project so innovative it was featured in Time Magazine's "25 Best Inventions" for its transformative approach to housing solutions, talk with Joe as they break down the agile design methodology, architectures role in pushing society boundaries, and the power behind generational creativity.Key Takeaway 1: The importance of design collaboration: The episode emphasizes the significance of collaboration in design, highlighting the need for guidance, active listening, and trust to foster receptiveness to new ideas. Key elements such as honesty, openness, and...2023-11-1549 min
I Would Prefer Not ToMichael Maltzan ArchitectureMichael Maltzan discusses the architect’s role in negotiating complex scenarios and the potential of long-term client relationships to enable large-scale change.2023-03-1047 min
FIVE PLACES L.A.07: Frances AndertonShow notes and Frances’ five places:This interview was recorded on December 29, 20221. The Sixth street replacement viaduct2. Santa Monica Pier3. Gabrielino-Tongva Springs Foundation4. Schindler House5. Outdoor dining in Los Angeles Also mentioned in this episode:April GreimanDeborah SussmanTo The Point hosted by Warren Olney on KCRWWhich Way L.A. hosted by Warren Olney on KCRWMichael Sorkin, the architecture critic who was originally assigned to the project that brought Frances to...2023-01-1938 min
76 Small RoomsEpisode 041 - InSitu2022 - Michael MaltzanIn our second interview from this year's New Zealand Institute of Architects Mini In:Situ Conference, we chat with Los Angeles based architect Michael Maltzan about housing as infrastructure and why he believes that the practice of architecture can provide solutions to complex environmental and social problems.
Cover Photo via Columbia GSAPP (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsapponline/18323955376)
Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels2022-09-1532 min
FIVE PLACES L.A.02: Lizzie ArmantoLizzie Armanto’s Five Places:The Cove skatepark: Official website / IG page, with announcements about girls sessionsGalco’s soda pop stop. If you know about the “atom” drink that was Lizzie’s favorite, please reach out to us!The bridges over the LA river and the tunnels, in particular the 2nd street tunnel where many movies were filmed. Note that this episode was recorded before the 6th street viaduct opened on July 09, 2022. Thenew viaduct was designed by architect Michael Maltzan and engineer Deborah Weintraub to be not only functional and beautiful, but become a public space in its own right. Fr...2022-08-1138 min
Exquisite Corpse: Contemporary ConversationsMichael Maltzan NA + Mary Miss NAThe final episode of Exquisite Corpse’s second season features a conversation between LA-based architect, Michael Maltzan, who chose to speak with an artist who had an impact on his work, Mary Miss, who is based in New York.Mary speaks about her early career as an artist during the 1960s, the influences of minimalism and landscape on her practice, and how these influences pushed her closer to architecture. The two National Academicians discuss the ways in which their work is, in part, concerned with the interaction between a viewer and the work itself. They both discuss th...2022-05-171h 09
Scaffold53: William Scott & Sarah Galender MeyerWilliam Scott is a self-taught artist based in Oakland, California. Scott works out of a gallery and studio called Creative Growth that advances the inclusion of artists with developmental disabilities. (Scott was born schizophrenic and is also on the autistic spectrum.) Scott Frequently describes himself as an architect, reinventing the social topography of a gentrified San Francisco, as a utopian city he calls ‘Praise Frisco’ in works that combine architectural design with civic responsibility to describe his desire for a more equitable society. The first significant survey of Scott’s 30–year practice was recently exhibited at Studio Voltaire - a London...2022-01-0659 min
rizdeologyS1E5: Michael MaltzanOn this episode, I sat down with Michael Maltzan, RISD Architecture Alumni and founder of Michael Maltzan Architects in Los Angeles, California. We discussed how RISD taught him the fundamentals of how to see, his interest in the formation of The United States of America, and how growing up in the post war suburb of Levittown, Long Island led him to yearn for a life out west. Reach us on Instagram @rizdeologySeason 3 produced by Olivia Schroder and Zora Gamberg. Sound editing by Harry Pont. Graphic design by Aanya Arora.Produced in...2021-04-1837 min
Future of the American CityCity of Many CulturesMichael Maltzan is an architect and educator whose work focuses on affordable urban housing, infrastructure, and the public realm. His most recent projects in Los Angeles demonstrate the importance of architectural legibility and bridging communities within a city of many cultures.
2020-04-0255 min
ScaffoldEp 33: Michael MaltzanMichael Maltzan is an architect based in Los Angeles. "I think it’s important to try to anticipate the city in the future […] to speculate about how scale and density is going to change, because architecture not only takes a long time to get built, but it exists for a long time as well, and it’s very likely that if you try to build a building that relates to a rapidly changing context, by the time it’s built it’s already out of scale – it’s already a part of the past […] The idea that we as architects have a responsib...2020-02-201h 06
Archinect Sessions'Next Up: The LA River' Mini-Session #4: Deborah Weintraub, LA Chief Architect and Chief Deputy City EngineerAs Chief Architect and Chief Deputy City Engineer presiding over a group of 800+ architects and engineers, Deborah Weintraub has a big picture of LA infrastructure in mind when it comes to the river. She also has a fair amount of historical perspective, having overseen the implementation of the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan after it first issued RFPs in December of 2004. Additionally, she oversaw the design and construction of the river's new 6th Street Viaduct by Michael Maltzan's office, which recently broke ground. Nicholas Korody spoke with Deborah about her role as the most senio...2016-11-1910 min
Archinect'Next Up: The LA River' Mini-Session #4: Deborah Weintraub, Chief Deputy City EngineerAs Chief Architect and Chief Deputy City Engineer presiding over a group of 800+ architects and engineers, Deborah Weintraub has a big picture of LA infrastructure in mind when it comes to the river. She also has a fair amount of historical perspective, having overseen the implementation of the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan after it first issued RFPs in December of 2004.
Additionally, she oversaw the design and construction of the river's new 6th Street Viaduct by Michael Maltzan's office, which recently broke ground.
Nicholas Korody spoke with Deborah about her role as the most senior architect in the Bureau...2016-11-1910 min
Archinect Sessions One-to-One15 – Michael Maltzan (REBROADCAST)Los-Angeles based architect Michael Maltzan may be best known for his multiple residential projects with the Skid Row Housing Trust, and the longer-than-the-Empire-State-Building-is-tall residential mixed user, One Santa Fe. But Maltzan’s office is also designing Los Angeles’ new Sixth Street Viaduct, a since-demolished infrastructural icon of the city that bridged the Los Angeles River between downtown and Boyle Heights. Michael shares his relationship with the growing identity of downtown Los Angeles, and his perspective on the style of urbanism arising on LA’s westside in the “Silicon Beach” neighborhood of Playa Vista. We also discuss the effect of Chin...2016-08-2933 min
ArchinectOne-To-One #15 with Michael MaltzanThis week's One-to-One guest, the Los-Angeles based architect Michael Maltzan, may be best known for his multiple residential projects with the Skid Row Housing Trust, and the longer-than-the-empire-state-building-is-tall residential mixed user, One Santa Fe. But Maltzan’s office is also designing Los Angeles’ new Sixth Street Viaduct, a since-demolished infrastructural icon of the city that bridged the Los Angeles River between downtown and Boyle Heights. Michael shares his relationship with the growing identity of downtown Los Angeles, and his perspective on the style of urbanism arising on LA’s westside in the “Silicon Beach” neighborhood of Playa Vista. We also discuss th...2016-03-1433 min
Archinect Sessions One-to-One15 – Michael MaltzanThis week's One-to-One guest, the Los-Angeles based architect Michael Maltzan, may be best known for his multiple residential projects with the Skid Row Housing Trust, and the longer-than-the-Empire-State-Building-is-tall residential mixed user, One Santa Fe. But Maltzan’s office is also designing Los Angeles’ new Sixth Street Viaduct, a since-demolished infrastructural icon of the city that bridged the Los Angeles River between downtown and Boyle Heights. Michael shares his relationship with the growing identity of downtown Los Angeles, and his perspective on the style of urbanism arising on LA’s westside in the “Silicon Beach” neighborhood of Playa Vista. We also discuss t...2016-03-1433 min
This is the cityArt, Architecture and Urban PlanningOn this episode architect Michael Maltzan, artist Heath Satow, and Chris Loos of Urbanize.LA talk about the art, architecture, and urban planning in ever changing Los Angeles.
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Design and ArchitectureHaunted Screens, Birdman Costumes, The Future of AuschwitzMichael Maltzan and Amy Murphy take on anxiety in the city in their installation design for LACMA’s Haunted Screens. Birdman’s costume designer discusses an outfit choice for maximum embarrassment. Plus, Avishay Artsy explores a provocative plan for the future of Auschwitz II.
2014-11-0433 min
Zócalo Public SquareHow to Imagine a More Integrated L.A.For 80 years the Los Angeles River has been less a river than a flood control channel winding from Simi Valley to Long Beach. Its concrete-lined course seemingly carries little more than a trickle of water, and its banks lie largely fallow and off limits despite long-running efforts to restore public access to and green spaces along its edges. Now, an ambitious plan to turn 125 acres of an under-utilized downtown rail yard into a thriving public space could transform not just the river but the entire city, uniting its residents as well as its urban and natural environments. As architects and...2010-09-201h 13Zócalo Public SquareMichael Maltzan, Is Good Architecture a Luxury?After launching his architecture career in Los Angeles over 20 years ago, Michael Maltzan quickly distinguished himself with socially conscious buildings that depart from the hulking luxury structures of celebrity architects. His housing projects for the homeless – including the Rainbow Apartments on San Pedro, the recently completed New Carver Apartments on 17th and Hope, and the forthcoming Star Apartments at Sixth and Maple – provide protection, beauty, and services for a community more accustomed to unadorned and blocky shelter. His Inner-City Arts campus, designed inventively and built cost-effectively, provides children a place to learn in the heart of Skid Row. And he tran...2010-07-051h 15