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KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture explores who and what matters in our designed world – on air, online and at public events. Host Frances Anderton talks to designers, users and experts about products, fashion, buildings and more, in Los Angeles and beyond –revealing how we shape today’s world and how it shapes us.

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Episodes

  1. Mobile Village: Kitchen Brings Nutrition and Good Design To Foster Kids

    So often architecture is associated with high price custom homes and fancy institutional buildings. But many designers are also helping shape the city with pro bono work for nonprofits in less affluent neighborhoods. One in the news recently is the Campus For At-Risk Children in Watts being...

  2. Recycling

    Recycling by KCRW: DnA

  3. Mars City

    Mars City by KCRW: DnA

  4. Bus Benches

    Bus Benches by KCRW: DnA

  5. Whole Foods 365

    Whole Foods 365 by KCRW: DnA

  6. Museums

    Museums by KCRW: DnA

  7. Clifton's Cafeteria

    Clifton's Cafeteria by KCRW: DnA

  8. DNA Opulent Mobility

    DNA Opulent Mobility by KCRW: DnA

  9. DNA Schloss

    DNA Schloss by KCRW: DnA

  10. DNA Frank Gehry and Eli Broad

    DNA Frank Gehry and Eli Broad by KCRW: DnA

  11. Olympics

    Olympics by KCRW: DnA

  12. Shelter

    Shelter by KCRW: DnA

  13. Dismaland

    Dismaland by KCRW: DnA

  14. Does Frank Gehry Have the Answers for the LA River?

    Does Frank Gehry Have the Answers for the LA River? by KCRW: DnA

  15. Does Germany Have the Answer to Affordable Living?

    Berliners are facing many of the same challenges as Angelenos in terms of affordable living space, as well as coming to grips with changing family structure; but, they have come up with an intriguing solution. Baugruppen, meaning building groups, are cohousing communities where you choose who you...

  16. German Board Game Designers Find Fun in the Pool and the Cold War

    While in Berlin, DnA’s producer Caroline Chamberlain visited the world’s first board game cafe called Spielwiese. She met with the designers of some games dealing with some very German challenges. “Cool am Pool” is a board game coming soon by Hartwig Jakubik that has players compete over the best...

  17. Hollyhock House Reopens Friday

    Frank Lloyd Wright’s first L.A. commission, the Hollyhock House, opens once more to the public after a lengthy restoration. Alan Hess, an architect and preservationist who has written five books on Frank Lloyd Wright, talks about why he can’t wait for the building’s opening and what we can learn...

  18. Everything Talks: Who Killed the Plastic Bag?

    Everything Talks let us know what our objects really think. In this episode Tom Saunders channels a paper and a Wholefoods reusable bag bickering over who killed the plastic bag. Shockingly, however, "plasty" makes a comeback.

  19. Plastic Bags Ban Angers Huntington Beach Residents

    Huntington Beach approved a reusable bag ordinance last month. Channel 2 reports, while many agree with the goal to cut down on the 123 thousand tons of discarded plastic bags in the state every year, a lot of residents in HB are hot under the collar that the ban wasn’t put on the ballot. They…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture explores who and what matters in our designed world – on air, online and at public events. Host Frances Anderton talks to designers, users and experts about products, fashion, buildings and more, in Los Angeles and beyond –revealing how we shape today’s world and how it shapes us.

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KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture explores who and what matters in our designed world – on air, online and at public events. Host Frances Anderton talks to designers, users and experts about products, fashion, buildings and more, in Los Angeles and beyond –revealing how we shape today’s world and...

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