Category Archives: Urban Design Studies

Interview : Takako Tajima pt. 1

     Video is after the jump… Prior to founding Bureau E.A.S.T. with Aziza Chaouni, Takako was senior designer at Urban Studio in Los Angeles. At Urban Studio she worked on urban design projects including design reviews of major projects

Interview : Takako Tajima pt. 1

     Video is after the jump… Prior to founding Bureau E.A.S.T. with Aziza Chaouni, Takako was senior designer at Urban Studio in Los Angeles. At Urban Studio she worked on urban design projects including design reviews of major projects

Interview : Valerie Watson pt. 1

        Valerie Watson is an Urban Designer with Meléndrez, a Landscape Architecture, Planning, and Urban Design firm located in Los Angeles. Currently,  she serves as At-Large Director of the Parks, Recreation & Open Space Committee for the Downtown Los

Interview : Valerie Watson pt. 1

        Valerie Watson is an Urban Designer with Meléndrez, a Landscape Architecture, Planning, and Urban Design firm located in Los Angeles. Currently,  she serves as At-Large Director of the Parks, Recreation & Open Space Committee for the Downtown Los

Site Studies

Westlake / Alvarado Study:              Park View & Wilshire Study:          7th & Westlake Study:       

Site Studies

Westlake / Alvarado Study:              Park View & Wilshire Study:          7th & Westlake Study:       

Parking Day 2011

For Parking Day LA 2011, twenty-seven locations around the greater Los Angeles area were temporary instillation of pocket parks in metered parking stalls. Park[ing] Day originated in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco based art and design collective, transformed a

Parking Day 2011

For Parking Day LA 2011, twenty-seven locations around the greater Los Angeles area were temporary instillation of pocket parks in metered parking stalls. Park[ing] Day originated in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco based art and design collective, transformed a