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SOM\u2019s HI  Hospitality Design World Wonder.  The hosts for this show are Martin Despang and DeSoto Brown.  The guest is Ronald Lindgren.  
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\nThe Big Island of Hawaii was mainly untouched in the early 1960\u2019s when Laurence S. Rockefeller had its Mauna Kea Beach Hotel like fall from the skies like a meteorite which since then is a legendary  icon of tropical brutalism.
\nSOM\u2019s project architect Edward Charles Bassett was successful to give the resort a tropical exotic easy breezy gestalt.
\nThe show describes and discusses its historic zeitgeist context as the project itself along with material from the architects, hotel and Bishop Museum\u2019s DeSoto Brown.
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\nThe ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6kDcGh5KYsLd28-x3DBXGjI