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Monday, September 13, 2004
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Los Angeles is known as much for its glorious landscape as for its obliteration of it. Frances Anderton speaks with designer Fritz Haeg about an unusual program of installations and talks at Art Center in Pasadena. Photographer Erica Lennard has details on this weekend's tour of Hollywood's most sumptuous and widely inventive gardens. Finally, a conversation with LA-based architect George Yu, who's rethinking of the suburban mall as he prepares to represent the US at the Venice Architecture Biennale, a prestigious international exhibition of architecture.

Todays Guests:

FRITZ HAEG

Designer, teacher and co-creator, with Francois Perrin, of the GardenLAb Experiment, on show at Art Center's South Campus in Pasadena

ERICA LENNARD

Photographer and author of Secret Gardens of Hollywood and Private Oases in Los Angeles, as well as several other books. Some of these gardens will be featured on a Secret Gardens of Hollywood Tour this weekend to raise money for African charities

GEORGE YU

Teacher at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, founder of George Yu Architects, which designs installations, residences as well as shops and shopping centers. He was selected, along with five other US firms, to represent this country at the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, a prestigious international architecture exhibition, which runs through November 7. His installation, Shoplift, reconsiders the shopping mall.

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