Simon Rodia was born in Italy, and immgirated to California. In 1921 he moved to the small town of Watts and began working on a strange project that would consume the next thirty-four years of his life. Spending what little money he earned as a construction worker on cement and steel, he worked ni
Cyprien Gaillard's work explores the effect of architecture on human life, using techniques borrowed from Land Art and Minimalism. He treats modernist buildings as romantic ruins, and aestheticizes their destruction. Gaillard films the demolition of housing projects and the explosions that carve away
Dr. Eugene Tsui is an internationally renowned visionary architect and urban planner, as well as an accomplished clothing designer and Olympic gymnast. He has developed a unique theory of architecture based on organic forms, and creates unusual designs drawn from natural structures like nests, webs,