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Frances Anderton

Los Angeles, Santa Monica
As seen in: The New York Times, Yahoo Life, Color Research & Application, The Toronto Star, ArchDaily, KCRW-FM (Santa Monica, CA), Dwell Magazine, Sierra Magazine, The Architect's Newspaper, Metropolis Magazine and
Writer, editor, curator, broadcaster, convener -- at the intersection of design, architecture and life, aka DnA.
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Housing for All

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By Frances Anderton
| BuildingGreen
Feature Where Affordability, Justice and Sustainable Design Intersect Isla Intersections by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, located in South Los Angeles, includes 53 one-bedroom permanent supportive housing units built around a breeze-cooled central courtyard. Photo by Eric Staudenmaier. Here is a thought experiment: What would California’s great cities be like if they had built housing at density levels commensurate with the state’s economic trajectory over the past 50 years?
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From the Archive: The Condo Generation

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By Frances Anderton
| Dwell Magazine
As a part of our 25th-anniversary celebration, we’re republishing formative magazine stories from before our website launched. This story previously appeared in Dwell’s October 2007 issue. Stan Bochniak was raised in the planned suburban middle-class community of Thousand Oaks, located 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles. This was quintessential postwar Southern California living: a single-family tract home with a large yard, a two-car garage, and a short drive to the nearest store.
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Altadena homeowners move old house instead of building new

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By Frances Anderton
| KCRW-FM (Santa Monica, CA)
Jacques Laramee stands in the front yard of an old craftsman house on St George Street in Los Feliz, and displays a tattoo on his forearm of the recycling symbol: three arrows for reduce, reuse, recycle. It is an apt image. Laramee, a mechanical engineer and hobbyist carpenter, and his wife, Gwen Sukeena, an interior designer, lost their home to the Eaton Fire.
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