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Movable Parts: Rebuilding the Paper Brick by Brick
Editors Note: There has been a lot of chatter this week about the Los Angeles Times’ recent state of turmoil. And as the goliath paper turns to the Web, we thought it would be interesting to highlight the history of the LA Times through a different lens.
Greg Smith is currently working towards his architecture masters with a project called Movable Parts, which he describes as “an architectural and social reconstruction of the daily newspaper as a key civic space within American life.”
It will use the current crisis facing newspaper production and distribution as an opportunity to speculate potential spatial solutions as well as new business models. Looking back on the historical role of the newspaper in American life, this research venture will attempt to revitalize the spatiality of the press, and export this arena for discourse and participatory politics from paper space into public space reconstituting the newspaper as a town hall for the 21st century.
The following comes from Smith – as he describes the history of the Times in Los Angeles. His architectural prescriptions are forthcoming.
The Los Angeles Times has an extremely rich past that is woven into the fabric of L.A. history. Historically, the capital behind The Times was involved in the construction of the Owens river aqueduct, helping to lure the film industry to Southern California, and spearheading the development of a large portion of the downtown L.A. arts infrastructure.
