Podcasts Arts Archinect Sessions Session 23: "The Erection, the Inkblot, and the RFRA Riff-Raff"

Session 23: "The Erection, the Inkblot, and the RFRA Riff-Raff"

Published: April 2, 2015, 7:55 p.m.

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It\\u2019s been a strange week, especially in Indiana. On this episode, before getting to the RFRA-ff, we hit on a neat architectural inversion: LA-heavyweight\\xa0Morphosis designs a "middle-finger" luxury tower in the quaint mountain town of Vals, Switzerland, while the subtly grand Swiss museum-master\\xa0Peter Zumthor pushes a calligraphic inkblot for LACMA\\xa0on LA\'s Miracle Mile. Vals is already home to Zumthor\'s Therme Spa. It\\u2019s like Trading Spaces, but with starchitects!

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On the latter-half of our show, Amelia, Donna and Ken talk with Brian Newman, Archinect Sessions\\u2019 legal correspondent, about\\xa0Indiana\\u2019s controversial revisions to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act\\xa0\\u2013 with our own Donna Sink on the ground in Indianapolis, we dig into how this national and local issue would affect architects and the profession.

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Paul is away this week, on vacation in the outer reaches of Peru, blissfully out of Skype\'s reach. He\'ll be back as soon as he re-enters the connected world.

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