Rethink LA Exhibit At The Architecture And Design Museum

Water treatment plants transform into surf wave pools. Freeway interchanges are scene-y hotspots. Dodger Stadium is now a transportation hub. Welcome to Los Angeles -- fifty years into the future.

Rethink LA, an innovative new exhibit at the Architecture & Design Museum, dares to envision a new metropolis where health, environmental consciousness, and community are the forces that shape LA's urban development. The organizers behind Rethink LA are visionaries, activists, artists, designers and architects asking two questions: "Where are we going?" and "how will we get there?"

The exhibit has sound installations, short films, 3D models, and interactive displays. Its showpiece, however, is a series of photographs that capture the city's most iconic locations. The photos are then transformed by artists and architecture firms into a collage that re-imagines the space fifty years into the future. Highways become grassy parks, the Sunset Strip has double monorails, and the Venice canals become a river village.

Visit Rethink LA to immerse yourself in a city that could be. Then get inspired to walk outside and take on the city as it is.

Rethink LA
August 4 - September 4, 2011
Tuesday-Friday: 11am-5pm, Saturday-Sunday: 12-6pm (closed Mondays)
(Architecture & Design Museum, 6032 Wilshire Blvd. at S. Orange Grove Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036. Call them at 323-932-9393)

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Photograph by Jaime Vazquez

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[fishinwithtom]

02:46 PM on 08/18/2011

OK, I get it. This is a kid's project. First off, are those supposed to be people in the water at Hyperion? Not in 50 years, probably not 100. The biggest problem with our treatment plans is prescription drugs. Effluent can be removed and bacteria can be neutralized, but all the Lipitor, Xanax, Hydrocodone, Ibuprophen, stay in the water along with 100s of other drugs. And that's not taking into consideration the disposal practices of your average home based meth labs. Until it's safe for kids to drink you cannot swim in it. These places have more
NON POTABLE WATER signs than Death Valley. Dream on, kids, dream on.

[Ari Sedona]

09:40 AM on 08/18/2011

LA 50 years from now... Where's the Mexican flag?

[skraeling]

12:01 AM on 08/18/2011

You want to see LA in 50 years? Drive down Van Nuys Blvd to Pacoima....sad...and danerous.

[revko]

07:07 PM on 08/17/2011

Forget 50 years, Jake.

It's Chinatown.

[tracymanner]

10:54 AM on 08/16/2011

Too old to care

[mlaiuppa]

12:56 AM on 08/16/2011

Can't say the Venice canals are an improvement.

Good luck reclaiming the freeways. Even in 50 years.

[Scott Zwartz]

12:31 AM on 08/16/2011

Those who live in LA and know about the corruption and incompetence realize that it is deteriorating in a huge slum with more and more tenement and a decaying infrastructure. Tax dollars are given to billionaires while the city titters on the brink of insolvency each year. Eli Broad gets $52 M for a "gold plated" parking garage next to his art museum but the kids in Hollywood don't get a park. $5 M is too expensive for kids but $52 M is find to squander on a billionaire. But this is LA where kids comes lat, especially if they're "illegal." 'illegal" is the word to describe anyone who is White or Black even if they are descended from Governor Pico.

One Million sq feet high rises (55, 49, and 20 stories tall) to hid the view of the Hollywood Sign, but no transportation infrastructure to service the hundreds of thousands people they think will come to Hollywood, even though their present buildings are almost empty.. They tell you there's a subway entrance, but forget to mention it covers about 1/100 of LA County.

People who want a good life for their family look around and say, "This dreck?" and move on. Fire stations are downsized, libraries closed, we have the worst streets in the nation, water main break constantly, the worse schools in the entire industrialized world, but they show us pretty pictures.

[skraeling]

12:05 AM on 08/18/2011

some truth in that for sure. However, all this can be easily avoided if the citizens of this city actually cared about anything other than pleasure. We could solve the corruption problem and a lot more if we would trash the present system of govt. and install a strong mayoral system, with expanded city council composed of aldermen that are responsive to the people in their district, much like NYC, and, dare I say it, Chicago....these cities are not corrupt free but they get the jobs done...corruption can be controlled by open govt and limits on influence. It could be done, but since there is more money to the pols and unions under the system we have..not likely to change.

[Ari Sedona]

09:44 AM on 08/18/2011

Look who's mayor. You can take that Latino out of Mexico, but you can't take the corruption out of the Latino politician.

[catcrazee]

08:49 PM on 08/15/2011

Sure and "they" said by the Year 2000 we would all have flying cars. LA in the near future will Blade Runner.

[RhiannonRings]

08:11 PM on 08/15/2011

Hmmmm...I would be 97 in fifty years. Probably won't live to see it. Yes!

[nomoredead]

03:50 PM on 08/15/2011

I spent the last month working on an upper floor of the Ritz Carlton, looking down everyday on the packed freeways of cars barely crawling along. I can only imagine the nightmare of a football stadium added to the mess. Hopefully I will be long gone by then.

[Scott Zwartz]

12:34 AM on 08/16/2011

LA is not a city, it's scam, where city tax dollars are funneled to real estate speculators who build junk and then move on.

If you want to know what LA is like, look at McCourt -- that's typical LA. What type of future do you think an entire city council of Frank McCourt's is building?

[Recalled]

03:46 PM on 08/15/2011

Los Angeles is a dump with the most uninspiring creative people around. Money will be spent on useless projects. Just look at its crappy airport. No upscale downtown. Out door beautification projects get spray painted. Yuck.

[OceanHunter]

03:40 PM on 08/15/2011

These designs are completely uninspired and hackneyed. Disneyland-ripoff Monorails over the Sunset Strip? buildings that look like cheap knock-offs of the Getty Center/Richard Myers designs? This project is another wasted opportunity. Where are the bold ideas? Where are the designs that really offer a startling new expression of what the future in LA could be?

[DavidATolucaLake]

03:35 PM on 08/15/2011

The problem with LA in 50 years is that you have a part of the community that is overpopulating in an irresponsible manner. This means the city and freeways will be even more crowded.

Crime will also increase.

[Sandmanj]

03:15 PM on 08/15/2011

I'm so glad I got out of L.A.

[ArChiMi]

02:36 PM on 08/15/2011

It will be more like "The Blade Runner" :-/

[catcrazee]

08:52 PM on 08/15/2011

Fanned...but I guess I should have read the comments before I posted my Blade Runner comment, too.