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Michael Maltzan discusses the architect's role in negotiating complex scenarios and the potential of long-term client relationships to enable large-scale change.
In 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 Wheels
The 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 the psychological concerns of this interaction between the viewer and the work and what impact this has on their respective practices.Michael probes a constellation of ideas—timescales, permanence, ephemerality—and how their respective practices are often quite different in this regard. Both examine the paths their practices have taken toward the impacting social change, and Mary considers participation and the notion of the “expanded field” working as an artist out in the world as an architect does.
Prairie Design Lab takes an in-depth look at how Michael Maltzan Architecture beat out 63 other worldwide architecture firms to design Winnipeg's Inuit Art Centre — Quamajuq. Jury member Herb Enns explains. Michael Robertson of Winnipeg's Cibinel Architecture tells us how he brought Maltzan's incredibly complex vision to life by never “no”.Music snippet of “Inuusiq” provided by The Jerry Cans with permission.
On 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.
Prairie Design Lab takes an in-depth look at how Michael Maltzan Architecture beat out 63 other worldwide architecture firms to design Winnipeg's Inuit Art Centre — Quamajuq. Jury member Herb Enns explains. Michael Robertson of Winnipeg's Cibinel Architecture tells us how he brought Maltzan's incredibly complex vision to life by never “no”.Music snippet of “Inuusiq” provided by The Jerry Cans with permission.
Jörg Maltzan collects bikes. He has a very soft spot for the wheelie, known in Germany as a Bonanza. It was all the rage in the 1970s. Riding one as a kid, he felt like he was in Easy Rider. It still makes him feel good.
Jörg Maltzan collects bikes. He has a very soft spot for the wheelie, known in Germany as a Bonanza. It was all the rage in the 1970s. Riding one as a kid, he felt like he was in Easy Rider. It still makes him feel good.
Die Herrschaft der Algorithmen – Konferenz zur Interaktion von Mensch und KI | Interview [17.10.2019] Die Tagung des Karlsruher Forums beschäftigt sich fachübergreifend mit Künstlicher Intelligenz. Interessierte Gäste erfahren, wie Algorithmen Kulturschaffenden als Werkzeug dienen. Die Veranstaltung fragt unter anderem, welche Verantwortung Recht, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft tragen.
Michael 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 responsibility to try and meet the scale, the relationships and context in the future is something that is very difficult to talk about because we are trying to describe and anticipate a speculative vision of the city, but I think it’s incumbent in what we do”
Die Herrschaft der Algorithmen – Konferenz zur Interaktion von Mensch und KI | Vortrag [17.10.2019] Die Tagung des Karlsruher Forums beschäftigt sich fachübergreifend mit Künstlicher Intelligenz. Interessierte Gäste erfahren, wie Algorithmen Kulturschaffenden als Werkzeug dienen. Die Veranstaltung fragt unter anderem, welche Verantwortung Recht, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft tragen.
Die Herrschaft der Algorithmen – Konferenz zur Interaktion von Mensch und KI | Vortrag [17.10.2019] Die Tagung des Karlsruher Forums beschäftigt sich fachübergreifend mit Künstlicher Intelligenz. Interessierte Gäste erfahren, wie Algorithmen Kulturschaffenden als Werkzeug dienen. Die Veranstaltung fragt unter anderem, welche Verantwortung Recht, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft tragen.
Der Besuch im Fahrradfundus von Jörg Maltzan ist ein Kulturthema dieser Woche. Außerdem: "Funny Money" im Winterhuder Fährhaus und "Yesterday" im Kino.
Noblewoman, veterinarian, life-long nonconformist and determined defender of the oppressed. Just a few words to describe this episode's Person. Maria refused to allow the prejudice and complacence of her day to dictate her actions.
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 China’s ban on “weird” architecture for LA-architects practicing there. This episode originally aired on March 14, 2016.
This 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 the effect of China’s ban on “weird” architecture for LA-architects practicing there.
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 transformed the Hammer Museum’s courtyard into a more inviting and open space with the Billy Wilder Theater and café. Maltzan visited Zócalo to talk with KCRW’s Frances Anderton about his work, whether good design can be affordable, and how architecture shapes our lives. This event is made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
"En lejoninna i krigets Berlin" ingick i programserien Öden i vår tid. Ingrid Arvidsson berättar om den tyska grevinnan Maria von Maltzan som under andra världskriget hjälpte många judar att undkomma nazisterna och som deltog i den svenska församlingens hemliga räddningstjänst. Sänt: 1983-04-01.