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In this episode, Christian sits down with Lise Bornstein, AIA, Partner at KFA Architecture. Lise has devoted her architectural design career to creating spaces and opportunities where people and communities thrive. She was previously President of the Association for Women in Architecture Foundation. She is committed to the advancement of people and the profession.

The project from Pinyon Group, now rising from a former industrial site at 141 Avenue 34, calls for a total of 468 studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments above roughly 16,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and parking for 311 vehicles.

The Crenshaw Lofts, now rising at 4611 S. Crenshaw Boulevard, will eventually consist of a seven-story building featuring 195 studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments above subterranean parking.

A project of Hollywood Community Housing Corporation, the four-story building has two street frontages, spanning the project between two blocks. The development will include one-, two-, and three-bedroom units in two buildings.

Building is one of the biggest tools in our arsenal to fight to provide affordable housing and give residents equal access to establishing a household, stability, independence, and a chance to thrive in our cities. And yet, efforts to build affordable housing in our city usually meet the same fight. Whether infill housing projects are market rate or affordable, for families, the formerly homeless, veterans, seniors, or young professionals, the response is almost always NIMBYism.

The project – a joint venture with Sundance Bay and Geolo Capital – will rise from a .75-acre property at 3768 E. Colorado Boulevard.  Plans call for a five-story edifice containing 100 apartments – including five affordable units – above 4,500 square feet of ground-floor retail space and two levels of subterranean parking.

Those standard design requirements for public, commercial and government facilities were a critical step for the ADA, governing such elements as wheelchair lifts, curb ramps and handrails. But as designers have begun to understand the vast — and growing — demand for accessible living, the concept has evolved from a practical matter to a complex idea about beauty, equity and what it means to live well.

The project, located just north of Beverly Boulevard between Madison and Westmoreland Avenues, consists of three six-story buildings attached to an existing facility operated by PATH.  The current construction will yield 122 apartments for low-income and homeless persons, in addition to on-site supportive services and amenities.

As a founding partner of KFA, Barbara Flammang, FAIA, has overseen the design and construction of housing and community projects for nearly 40 years, from the adaptive reuse of historic buildings in downtown Los Angeles to the recently completed Los Angeles LGBT Center Anita May Rosenstein Campus in Hollywood.