Zoom Out #1 with Stan Allen

Interview by:

Farnoosh Farmer

Edited by Marissa Gluck and Danielle Rago

Stan Allen is an architect and George Dutton ’27 Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. His practice, Stan Allen Architect, has designed buildings and urban projects in the United States, South America, and Asia. Responding to the contemporary city in creative ways, Allen has developed an extensive catalogue of innovative design strategies, looking at field theory, landscape architecture, and ecology as models to revitalize design practice.

Stan is the first guest in the L.A. Forum’s “Zoom Out” series, which offers a broader perspective on Los Angeles and explores the intellectual exchanges between the two American coasts– New York and L.A.

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Mapping Consciousness, an interview with Gong Jie Xi 龔捷西 (Jessica Kung) 

Interview by:

El Larson

Donatella Cusmá

Bojána Bányász (guest interviewer)

Gong Jie Xi 龔捷西 (Jessica Kung) is an international cross-disciplinary artist, designer, teacher, and writer. Her art practice maps consciousness through large scale ink drawings, ritual activations of museums, spiritual reckonings with architectural ornament, and journeys through ancient language. She is also the founder of Make Conscious. a cross-disciplinary design studio and consultancy that works directly with leaders to consciously consider the impact of their work on humanity. 

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