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Los-Angeles based architect\\xa0Michael Maltzan\\xa0may be best known for his multiple residential\\xa0projects with the Skid Row Housing Trust, and the longer-than-the-Empire-State-Building-is-tall residential mixed user, One Santa Fe. But\\xa0Maltzan\\u2019s office is also designing Los Angeles\\u2019 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\\u2019s westside in the \\u201cSilicon Beach\\u201d neighborhood of Playa Vista. We also discuss the effect of China\\u2019s ban on \\u201cweird\\u201d architecture for LA-architects practicing there.

This episode originally aired on March 14, 2016.