Building Blade Runner: How UCLA's IDEAS Lab Envisions the Future
PC Magazine visited the UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) department.
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design students and faculty talk with PC Magazine about their work and how UCLA A.UD is shaping the future.
"When PCMag interviewed Ridley Scott at the Toronto Film Festival last year, our conversation eventually turned to Blade Runner, and the well-known director explained the famous title sequence that flashed "Los Angeles, November 2019" over a dystopian cityscape.
"I was going to put 'San Angeles,'" Scott told PCMag. "But the partners at the time said 'What do you mean, San Angeles?' 'It means when the suburbs of San Francisco join with Los Angeles.' 'Do you really think that's going to happen?' and I said, 'Are you kidding me? It's already happening!' But they thought that was too negative. So they went with 'Los Angeles, November 2019' instead."
It started us thinking: that's only three years away. Will Los Angeles look like Blade Runner by 2019? And who are the people planning the future cityscape today?"— Sophia Stuart, July 21, 2016
Read the full article at the PC Magazine website.