GGA+ Speaker Series: Frances Anderton / "Common Ground"

Frances Anderton To Talk About Her New Book

Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles is about multifamily dwellings centered on shared social space and common amenities, from low to high rise, low cost to luxury, dating from 1910 to today and ranging from bungalow courts, courtyard housing, garden apartments and apartment-hotels to the lofts, coliving and courtyard-based, mid-rise affordable housing of today.

Sumptuously illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs, the book features designs by Irving Gill, R.M Schindler, Richard Neutra, Arthur and Nina Zwebell, Arthur and Alfred Heineman, Paul Williams, Brooks + Scarpa, Michael Maltzan, Koning Eizenberg, Lorcan O'Herlihy, Shin Shin, Elizabeth Timme and many more.

Copies of "Common Ground" will be available for purchase.

About Frances: I tell stories and make connections, mostly relating to LA design, architecture and the cityscape. I do this via print and broadcast media and public events. I host talks at Helms Design Center, and I co-organized Art for Earth's Sake, five public talks about art and its carbon footprint, currently running at MOCA. I spent 22 years at KCRW NPR station, first as producer for Warren Olney's current affairs shows "Which Way, LA?" and "To The Point;" then as host of "DnA: Design and Architecture." I produced "Wasted: Neat Solutions to the Dirty Problem of Waste," aired on Greater LA, and wrote about the "build nothing" movement for Sierra magazine. This year I produced Community Corp at 40, a short film about the Santa Monica-based affordable housing developer; and I scripted "Rodeo Drive: The Podcast," about the artisans behind high fashion. I teach at USC, and I am on the boards of Modernism Week and AIA/LA.

Additional event info:

Parking: there is metered parking on the street and closest parking structure is De Lacey Garage (on De Lacey between Green and Colorado)

NOTE: The event has been moved indoor and will take place in the GGA mezzanine; take elevator up to 3rd floor/mezzanine.

Light refreshments will be provided.

GGA Speaker Series is intended to highlight various thought leaders and issues based in or specific to LA, but applicable across the broader region, our State and even nationally or internationally. From housing to climate change, schools to the public realm, racial injustice to our civic institutions we will look to explore and discuss ideas through a multidisciplinary lens that impact the built environment (and the human race). The format is intended to be informal, conversational, and participatory, a dialogue if you will, with the hope that through these conversations we see the world, and the possibilities within it, a bit different than we did before.