DESIGN STUDIO 4B

THE GEOLOGICAL ATLAS OF BUILT LOS ANGELES
INSTRUCTOR: JOSHUA STEIN
SPRING 2021

The Geological Atlas of Built Los Angeles project will reimagine the metropolis as a continuous geological landscape that traces material lines to suture together the city with sites and populations it has historically attempted to push outside its identity. The research project will produce a digital geospatial database of the mineralogical and geological connections between Los Angeles and its hinterlands as well as a physical stratigraphic model of this same information. The Atlas will then be used to document some of the sources of the urban inequities inherent in marginalized communities as trapped within the “invisible” zones of the larger metropolis.