The House I Grew Up In
Our first edition of Making Space, organized with the L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, took place in Los Angeles and brought the theme “The House I Grew Up In” to life. Journalist Frances Anderton, artist Kenturah Davis, director Erich Joiner, designer Sam Klemick, and architects Annie Chu and Joe Dangaran reflected on lessons learned from their childhood homes. Transcripts of their presentations are available above.
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Making Space L.A.: “The House I Grew Up In”
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Annie Chu
The architect reflects on her childhood home in Hong Kong by writing a story about it.The House I Grew Up InSam Klemick
“The forms I build now cradle the structures above them in the way my childhood furniture once held me,” the designer says.The House I Grew Up InFrances Anderton
“Our interiors were an ongoing adventure,” says the journalist of her family’s residences in Bath, England.The House I Grew Up InKenturah Davis
Despite losing her childhood home to the Eaton Fire, the artist says, “Altadena remains my anchor.”The House I Grew Up InJoe Dangaran
“We’re all products of our environment, our experiences,” the architect says.The House I Grew Up InErich Joiner
Home is “an environment that shapes our lives—and not just the architecture and the design of it,” the director says.The House I Grew Up InJonathan Nesci
“The materials in that house were good in 1923,” the designer says, “and more than a hundred years later, they still look good.”The House I Grew Up InDavid Michon
The FOR SCALE founder and writer’s childhood dreams, set in an imaginary suburban house, shaped his view of home as a personal mythology.The House I Grew Up InJulia Gamolina
Summers of her childhood in Russia were spent at the family’s self-sufficient dacha.The House I Grew Up InTal Schori
The architect lived in Usonia, a cooperative housing community with a masterplan designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.The House I Grew Up InLittle Wing Lee
“I want to create spaces that put people at ease,” says the interior designer. “Spaces where you can relax and take in the important moments in our lives.”The House I Grew Up InGabriel Hendifar
“Home is about the energy: the life you breathe into it,” says Apparatus’s artistic director.The House I Grew Up InEdra Soto
The artist has dedicated her practice to documenting houses in working-class communities like the one she lived in as a child.The House I Grew Up InKellie Riggs
“You got integrity, usefulness, and beauty in the most compact of gestures,” the curator and jeweler says of her childhood home.The House I Grew Up InWalter Hood
“People are not going to see the things you care about the way you see them,” the landscape designer says. “So you are responsible in the end.”The House I Grew Up InEva LeWitt
“It was just space, table,” the artist says of her father, Sol LeWitt’s, studio. “Do with it what you want.”The House I Grew Up InMark Grattan
“It’s important to sit in your home,” the designer says, “and identify things that will make you feel better in it.”The House I Grew Up InLoren Daye
“The modesty of that era felt so expansive,” says the designer of her youth. “You didn’t need a lot in it.”The House I Grew Up InJames Wines
“[Its] impression was convention, and my increasing awareness of it,” the architect says of his childhood home.The House I Grew Up In
