Alissa Walker
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Alissa Walker is a writer, podcaster, and architecture critic who won the 2021 American Institute of Graphic Arts's Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary, and currently serves as the first-ever Urbanism Editor for Curbed. Walker also co-hosts the L.A. Podcast with Hayes Davenport and Scott Frazier.[1][2][3][4] She is an oft-quoted source in Los Angeles news media about urbanism issues, and her writing has appeared regularly in Los Angeles Magazine, LA Weekly, Dwell (magazine), Fast Company, GOOD, Gizmodo, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.[5][6][7] Walker is a former associate producer of KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture, hosted by Frances Anderton, and she is also author of CityWalks Architecture: New York, a walking guide organized into 25 itineraries. Walker is the co-founder of Design East of La Brea (de LaB), which is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that celebrates and supports local creatives in their efforts to enlighten, improve and engage the city.[8][7]
Awards and recognition
In 2021, Walker was honored with the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA),[9] with the AIGA recognizing her "for her writing on design and urbanism to promote design issues and thinking to a mass readership as well as her commentary on public transportation and walking to connect people with where they live."[10]
Non-profit transportation group CicLAvia honored Walker with its Spirit of CicLAvia Award alongside co-honoree AARP at a ceremony on Feb. 10, 2019.[11][12]
In 2015, the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects gave her its Design Advocate award.[13][14]
StreetsBlog LA named Walker as its 2013 Journalist of the Year, commending her as a "defender of the new Los Angeles and not the car-culture obsessed city of yesteryear."[15]
In 2012, her project "Good Ideas for Cities" was selected for inclusion in the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.[16][17]
Walker was a 2010 Fellow of the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program, one of seven honorees selected for their ability "to drive the global conversation about arts and culture."[18][8]
Criticism and journalism
Walker as written architectural and urban criticism for a wide range of publications, predominantly in the United States. At Curbed LA, she wrote a long-running column called Word on the Street.
References
- ↑ "Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary | AIGA". www.aiga.org. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
- ↑ "Home". LA Podcast.
- ↑ Keith, Kelsey (June 29, 2016). "Introducing Alissa Walker as Curbed's Urbanism Editor". Curbed.com. Vox Media. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ↑ "Alissa Walker Profile and Activity - Curbed". archive.curbed.com.
- ↑ "LA Metro has more money than expected. Where should it go? | Greater LA". KCRW.
- ↑ Radio, Southern California Public (February 14, 2020). "Should There Be A Car-Free Zone On Broadway In Downtown LA?". Southern California Public Radio.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Design East of La Brea: About". Design East of La Brea. Design East of La Brea. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Abraham, Melissa. "Seven Leading Arts Journalists Awarded Fellowships for the Ninth USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program". The Getty. The Getty. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ↑ "Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary". AIGA | the professional association for design. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
- ↑ Gwiazdowski, Amy. "Meet AIGA's Awards Recipients, representing the vibrant spectrum of design excellence". AIGA. AIGA. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ↑ "CicLAvia pLAyday in LA February 10, 2019 1-4 pm". ciclavia.org. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ↑ "Meet Our 'Spirit of CicLAvia' Honorees". ciclavia.org. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ↑ "Alissa Walker's LA, a Q&A with the 2015 Presidential Honoree Design Advocate Recipient". aialosangeles.businesscatalyst.com.
- ↑ Ellingson, Corrine. "LA Plays Itself". AIA Los Angeles. AIA Los Angeles. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ↑ Newton, Damien (January 4, 2014). "And the Winners Are". Streetsblog LA. Streetsblog. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ↑ Gesbert, Eve (April 9, 2020). "Profile: Alissa Walker". New Cities. New Cities. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ↑ "Profile: Alissa Walker". Design Observer. Design Observer. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ↑ Anawalt, Sasha. "USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program". USC Annenberg School of Journalism. USC. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
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