Learn more about J. Yolande Daniels' work at MIT, StudioSumo, and The Black City. Follow The Black City on instagram here. 

Show notes and Yolande’s Five Places:

1.      Biddy Mason Place (in today’s Downtown LA): more on Biddy Mason here.

2.      Brick Block (in today’s Downtown LA)

3.      Los Angeles Street (formerly Calle de Los Negros, near today’s Union Station)

4.      Azusa Street Mission (in today’s Little Tokyo)

5.      Bronzeville (in today’s Little Tokyo): How 'Little Tokyo' Of Los Angeles Changed Into 'Bronzeville' And Back Again (NPR); and Azusa Street to Bronzeville: The Black History of Little Tokyo (PBS SoCal)

Honorable Mention: El Prieto Canyon—named after Robert Owens

Whom would you choose to ask about their Five Places? Amy Murphy, Akira Mizuta Lippit 

Interview Date: 02-24-21

Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode:

J. Yolande Daniels, Black City: the Los Angeles Edition, The Museum of Modern Art (2020).

Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, The Museum of Modern Art (2020), 

Totem House by studioSUMO + Histories of Negation by J. Yolande Daniels, Architecture at Home, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art  
MIT Center for Art Media and Technology

Crystal Bridges Museum debuts five house prototypes that take on Northwest Arkansas’s housing crisis (The Architect’s Newspaper)

The Open Hand: A Conversation with the Descendants of Biddy Mason

What’s in a street name? LA’s forgotten Calle de los Negros (KCRW) – refers to the 1871 anti-Chinese massacre in downtown Los Angeles and the forthcoming memorial designed by Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong and Judy Chui-Hua Chung. 

How Can We Create Communities of Care? Projects by architect Sekou Cooke and designer J. Yolande Daniels explore how architecture can nurture people and communities.

A Glimpse of the Kingdom of Heaven: the Azusa Street Revival (PBS)

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Monica Lamela, Quynh Nguyen

Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land.

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